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Fujitsu Computer Systems Corporation and Software AG announced on July 11th the release of the latest version of CentraSite™, an award-winning joint solution that offers greater visibility across a service-oriented architecture (SOA) and provides improved analysis and control of SOA resources and activities. ebizQ received the following details:
The CentraSite Enterprise Edition is now available as a standalone product offering a UDDI v3.0 search using predefined metadata models, a JAXR interface with subscribe and notification capabilities, WebDAV access to the SOA repository, predefined reporting modules, and both an AJAX interface and the Eclipse Registry Browser. The Enterprise Edition also provides an extensible metadata model for the definition of customer-specific SOA artifacts.
In addition to the Enterprise Edition, the CentraSite Community Edition offers a UDDI v3.0 search using predefined metadata models and predefined reporting modules, and both an AJAX-based interface and the Eclipse Registry Browser and is available free of charge.
CentraSite offers maximum management and governance of an organization’s SOA by providing a central repository of SOA metadata, along with analysis of this data and the ability to incorporate centralized policies. This level of visibility and analysis enables organizations to minimize the risk of business disruption associated with transitioning their infrastructures to an SOA. It creates an environment for improved governance by enabling organizations to store, track, and analyze processes and their underlying services, including interdependencies, resulting in greater business agility and cost effectiveness. CentraSite has been openly designed for complete loosely coupled integration with Fujitsu Interstage Suite, Software AG’s crossvision SOA suite, and solutions from other top-tier SOA solution providers. In a separate release, Fujitsu and Software AG also announced today the launch of the CentraSite Community, the first standards-based SOA forum.
“Successfully managing and governing SOA assets is a critical step in the maturation of an SOA portfolio,” said Daryl Plummer, managing vice president and Gartner fellow. “Organizations that are going through the SOA maturity cycle will use governance as a critical success factor.”
CentraSite is designed for both developers and business analysts. CentraSite’s new AJAX-based user interface, powered by Software AG’s crossvision Application Composer, makes it easier for business users to implement the services required to solve their specific issues. Also new is an Eclipse-based CentraSite plug-in that helps developers to easily integrate with existing Eclipse-based development environments.
“Organizations are now beginning to move from enabling their SOA infrastructures to fully deploying and controlling them,” said Dr. Peter Kuerpick, member of the board at Software AG and responsible for the development of crossvision. “CentraSite offers the safest, most efficient path to gaining the necessary visibility to minimize risk and derive the maximum benefit from the shared services environment. Our work with Fujitsu has enabled us to bring this solution to market far more quickly, giving our customers a competitive edge.”
“The ultimate goal of an SOA is greater competitiveness through improvements such as increasingly efficient business processes and a superior customer experience,” said Robert Sepanloo, senior vice president of the Enterprise Software Group at Fujitsu Computer Systems. “CentraSite enables enterprises to achieve these goals by promoting greater collaboration between business goals and IT, and allowing companies to more effectively reuse their business processes and other SOA assets to increase overall agility. Together with Software AG, Fujitsu will continue to enable the delivery of flexible SOA solutions.”
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