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A pure-play policy management solution, such as WebLayers Center, offers the most comprehensive and flexible policy management capabilities of all policy management options.

Burton Group

SOA Governance
from BEA and WebLayers

The WebLayers Center family of products provides a policy-based approach to automate what has traditionally been a manual, labor intensive process of defining and enforcing governance. Through a close relationship with BEA, we extend these capabilities in a seamless manner across the various BEA products to ensure a successful transition to SOA.

Key Capabilities from WebLayers and BEA:

  • JumpStart your SOA Initiative with Policy Libraries - Build a solid governance foundation from day one by leveraging the vast collection of policies derived from field engagements, industry best practices, and standards bodies such as W3C and WS-I. The WebLayers Policy Libraries cover all of the SOA layers including application code, services, messaging, user interface and business documents.
  • Define and Manage Policies - Extend the pre-built policies with custom policies to address your specific business, technical, or architectural requirements. A collaborative policy platform enables the creation, configuration and management of policies throughout the enterprise with strong support for federation.
  • Continuous Governance - Policies are automatically enforced against any new artifacts being published into the AquaLogic Enterprise Repository to ensure continuous governance. The metadata of these new services also contain information gathered from the compliance check including service quality, performance, availability and security.
  • Search, Find and Use Services with Confidence - AquaLogic Enterprise Registry becomes the system of record for all deployed services within the enterprise. Because the registry is governed by an active policy management system from WebLayers, you can be confident that all services are in compliance and have the necessary insight into the additional metadata necessary to make an informed decision. This capability helps make your SOA deployment more dynamic and more adaptable to changing business conditions.
  • Visibility and Compliance - With AquaLogic Enterprise Repository, you have clear visibility across the SOA lifecycle with services metadata information such as description of a service, the associated lifecycle state, centralized policy documents, service associations and relationships, allowing you to better align IT to meet business needs. WebLayers Center further provides Business and IT stakeholders with real-time visibility into their enterprise SOA deployment, compliance status, and business impact. Management dashboards along with a comprehensive set of drill-down reports provide the appropriate level of detail to all users.
  • Governance Throughout the SOA Lifecycle - With BEA and WebLayers, policies can be enforced across multiple systems to support the full lifecycle of SOA – design, develop, deploy and manage. Policies can be shared and enforced across the BEA family of products including: WebLogic Workshop, WebLogic Server, AquaLogic Enterprise Repository, AquaLogic Service Registry, and AquaLogic SOA Management.

 

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Partner Certifications:

WebLayers is a member of the BEA Partner Program with the "Select Partner" designation.