Analyst Coverage
Gartner Group
February 2008
“As the deployments of service-oriented architecture (SOA) continue to mature, so do the technologies used to enforce SOA Governance strategies. It is no longer prudent to consider SOA Governance a runtime or design-time activity; instead, SOA governance happens all the time. One of the key issues for SOA Governance technologies in 2008 is: How do IT and SOA Governance organizations leverage SOA governance technologies to enforce policies?"
Key Issues for SOA Governance Technologies, 2008
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Gartner Group
January 2008
“Policy Management is the heart of SOA governance, because policy creation, administration, management and enforcement are critical to the ability to ensure service operation and design...”
Gartner examines the market for SOA governance through a set of integrated technologies, such as WebLayers. Outlines the criteria for good governance of a service-oriented architecture and how it is becoming a critical core competency.
Criteria for Integrated SOA Governance Technology Sets
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Gartner Group
December 2007
“WebLayers has developed an innovative architecture to automate and enforce policies consistently through all stages of the life cycle on an SOA infrastructure. WebLayers has been a visionary in policy management and offers libraries of 2,000 pre-built policies, providing a foundation to establish an SOA center of excellence or competency center...”
SOA governance is about ensuring and validating that assets and artifacts within the architecture are operating as expected and maintaining a certain level of quality. Good governance of a service-oriented architecture is becoming a core competency. Gartner examines the market for SOA governance through a set of integrated technologies.
Magic Quadrant for Integrated SOA Governance Technology Sets, 2007
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Gartner Group
October 2007
“Customers seeking to start an SOA project should demand that potential vendors demonstrate support for registry/repository and policy management, at a minimum, to ensure proactive
governance of service can begin at project inception..”
Gartner examines how four major vendors — IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and SAP — partner with vendors such as WebLayers to address policy management and other key SOA governance requirements .
Evaluating IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and SAP Commitment to SOA Governance
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Burton Group
July 2007
“A pure-play policy management solution, such as WebLayers Center, offers the most comprehensive and flexible policy management capabilities of all policy management options.”
The Burton Group provides a comprehensive report on the products and technologies organizations should use to implement SOA governance.
“A pure-play policy management solution, such as WebLayers Center, offers the most comprehensive and flexible policy management capabilities of all policy management options. It supports both development-time and runtime policy management, and it integrates well with most SOA infrastructure products, as well as most traditional SDLC and IT management products.”
SOA Governance Infrastructure - Technical Position
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Gartner Group
May 2007
“Just having a registry/repository doesn't constitute having an SOA governance strategy.”
Gartner Group outlines the criteria for evaluating a vendor’s SOA governance strategy and highlights the need for policy management as key criteria… “The key to successful SOA projects is to understand and control your SOA artifacts, which can include services, SOA policies, processes and profiles. The key to understanding and controlling these artifacts is SOA governance.
Criteria for Evaluating a Vendor's SOA Governance Strategy
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Gartner Group
April 2007
Policy Management Essential to Successful Governance
“The integration and monitoring of the three discrete SOA governance technologies (policy management, registry and testing) are essential to successful governance…. It’s still a best-of-breed world”
No 'Leader' Exists in SOA Governance ... At Least Not Yet
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Forrester Research
December 2006
Strong Interest in Policy Management from Users and Vendors
Forrester surveyed both vendors and users on their plans to use and support emerging SOA standards. The results indicate an active interest in WS-Policy…. “This speaks to the importance of policy management as an emerging architectural focus within the world of SOA”
Web Services Specifications: Registry and Metadata
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ZapThink
May 2005
“WebLayers offers essential tools for ensuring the necessary governance best practices in the organization”
ZapThink put the spotlight on WebLayers…“WebLayers stands out as the only vendor who offers a product built from the ground up to address the governance and compliance issues companies face as they build and implement Services within their SOA initiatives.”
“WebLayers Center enables developers, architects, and managers to align their work with enterprise policies in a transparent and cost-effective manner. It’s highly unlikely that an SOA initiative will be successful without the proper governance, and WebLayers offers essential tools for ensuring the necessary governance best practices in the organization.”
ZapNote on WebLayers: Achieving the Benefits of SOA through Governance
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Gartner Group
March 2005
WebLayers’ Recognized as a “Cool Vendor” for Innovation in SOA Governance
Gartner recognizes companies that “offer fresh, radical and powerful technologies aimed at meeting the needs of highly demanding business problems.” WebLayers was honored to receive this distinction.
“WebLayers understands the importance of enforcing governance policies, and measuring their impact on the success of application integration initiatives in general and in service-oriented architectures (SOA) overall. …midsize to large end users starting centralized architectural initiatives like SOA should consider WebLayers Center to enforce their architectural decisions and keep control of their development efforts.”
Cool Vendors in Application Platforms and Service-oriented Architecture, 2005
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