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Software AG has just announced enhancements to four different integration offerings. In the past, Software AG has had difficultly getting a lot of traction with their integration offerings. They focused on XML early on, a bit too early. It was hard to sell an XML repository when few companies at the time had much XML data.

Their EII offering released last spring for semantic integration is also a bit ahead of its time. While semantic integration will offer the next wave of agility and productivity, not too many people know what it is yet.

Recently Software AG has partnered with Fujitsu to jointly develop the CentraSite SOA repository. CentraSite manages SOA metadata assets. CentraSite is now shipping with Software AG’s new offerings. Software AG is also reselling Fujitsu’s BPM tool, the Enterprise Business Process Manager (EBPM).

New enhancements to EBPM include support for importing Visio diagrams as well as BPMN. EBPM supports both automated processes and human workflow. Process models can be stored in the CentraSite Repository.

Enterprise Information Integrator (EII) now supports UDDI registration of the Web services generated by EII. This means that creating a single view of the customer from multiple data sources can be wrapped as a Web service and registered in a UDDI compliant registry. The services are WS-I compliant. EII now supports importing Adabase databases. These Web services representing business views can be stored and managed in CentraSite.

Software AG’s ESB - Enterprise Service Integrator (ESI) - now includes BPEL, improved support for SOAP and UDDI and an automated schema/instance generator. Web service orchestrations can also be stored and managed in CentraSite.

The fourth part of the announcement is that Enterprise Legacy Integrator (ELI) can now expose legacy resources as Web services, register and manage them in CentraSite.

This set of announcements is laying a foundation for an SOA platform with CentraSite providing the SOA governance and management infrastructure.

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