IBM simplifies adoption of SOA
ConvergenceAsia staff
04/10/2007

IBM has announced new and enhanced services and software that are designed to further simplify the adoption of service oriented architecture (SOA) while also supporting advanced information technology environments.

The new and enhanced products include tools and software to help companies get started with SOA; middleware designed to execute and synchronise business processes; SOA configurations to help customers more easily and securely integrate legacy applications; and professional services to help develop an SOA infrastructure that will support high volume, synchronised business processes.

Steve Mills, senior vice president, IBM Software Group, said as more businesses across industries rely on high volume and complex business transactions, customers are linking together hundreds and even thousands of business applications, platforms and data sources across their enterprises.

"The resulting surge in business transactions requires proven software and services to ensure the integrity of these complex business processes and deliver on the promise of SOA,” he said.

Highlights of the new and enhanced IBM software designed to support end-to-end process integrity include an updated version of IBM WebSphere Process Server, which includes a robust set of features for supporting both long and short-running processes. The product has extensive support for compensation, which helps enable processes to recover reliably when the target applications or services are unavailable.

Other enhanced products designed to support process integrity are WebSphere Message Broker and MQ, which feature enhanced Web services support; Tivoli Composite Application Manager for SOA, which provides detailed information on service flows across the SOA environment; WebSphere DataPower XML Security Gateway, which provides hardware-based security for XML and Web services; and IBM Information Server, which is designed to enable information to be provided as reusable services.

IBM also offers a variety of professional services supporting process integrity, including SOA Design, Development and Integration Services.

For more information, visit www.ibm.com/soa.

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