Systinet Delivers Interoperability Framework

12/07/2005

Systinet, a software provider for the foundation for SOA governance and lifecycle management, today announced the delivery of SOA policy interoperability using the Governance Interoperability Framework (GIF), with Systinet’s Registry acting as the SOA system-of-record.

ebizQ was provided the following:

GIF is the only collaborative, standards-based approach for governing consistency of SOA metadata across multiple vendors and technologies, facilitating the free exchange of SOA business service information. Extending support to include policy makes it possible for the first time to consistently create, discover, and manage policies at design-time and runtime, helping ensure service quality and conformance to business and IT governance rules.

“Companies should start to consider the use of service-oriented architecture registries, both stand-alone and embedded, to reference resources and policies,” wrote Frank Kenney, Principal Research Analyst at Gartner, in a recent industry report. “However, companies need to recognize that, today, they will have to integrate and federate these new and established policies with the technologies to enforce them. The ultimate goal of an SOA is to make businesses more flexible. Those IT managers seeking closer alignment with business goals must combine the ideas of registries, policy and business services to increase the chances of success.”

Flexibility and interoperability are key goals of a service-oriented architecture, but these objectives require a rigorous and standards-based approach to IT governance if SOA initiatives are to scale, remain manageable, and be trustworthy. The creation and enforcement of policies that establish quality and consistency of services is critical at design-time, as is the ability to validate and report on conformance with policies, and the ability to obtain assurance through runtime enforcement. GIF provides enterprises a standard approach for publishing, associating, accessing, and managing business service information including design and runtime policies. Leveraging the WS-Policy, WS-PolicyAttachment and UDDI standards, GIF makes it possible to share reusable policies between design-time enforcement points, such as a UDDI-compliant registry, and runtime enforcement points, such as a Web services management platform or security enforcement product.

“Our conglomerate must reuse business processes and services inside our department, lines of business, divisions, and throughout the enterprise,” said Skip Snow, enterprise architect and senior vice president of a global financial services firm. “Each of these business services has a major automation component and they rely on each other in a web of inter-dependencies. This approach allows us to view our business platform as a set of modular components, making it possible for our business to respond to market conditions considerably faster. Without a comprehensive governance framework supported by the tools GIF promises to deliver, we will not be capable of realizing our goals. In fact, without a framework like GIF it would be impossible for us to achieve our goals because the complexity caused by the intricate set of dependencies could not be managed. With a GIF like framework, we can use the governance model as a model of our business policies and adapt to the rapidly evolving business environment.”

The GIF brings together SOA management, security, integration, enterprise information integration, composite applications and business intelligence vendors for the first time. GIF participants include – Above All Software, Actional, AmberPoint, Composite Software, HP, Layer 7 Technologies, MetaMatrix, Reactivity, and Service Integrity. GIF participants benefit by having the ability to publish services and associated policy to a system of reference, Systinet Registry, in a standardized way, and to be alerted to changes within the registry when they happen. Essentially, the GIF fosters the creation of an integrated solution for SOA governance and control.

“At its core, SOA governance is the creation, management and enforcement of policies,” said Roman Stanek, founder, Systinet. “Because all SOAs are heterogeneous in nature, there will always be a variety of ways to create and enforce policies, some at design-time and some at runtime. This complexity demands a trusted system-of-record for business services and associated information, including policies, as well as a standards-based approach to sharing policies between different SOA components. GIF uniquely delivers this capability.”

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