“Governance” is a dominant topic in today’s discussions about SOA. Governance involves all aspects of IT, and defines how authority can be exercised within existing IT processes by introducing systems and methodologies for managing IT most effectively.
The governance topic can be best approached by addressing two major considerations:
• Organizational Implications
• Technical Mechanisms
The Fujitsu Enterprise Software and Solution Group is perfectly positioned to address the technical mechanisms with its SOA Management and Governance solution: CentraSite.
CentraSite is the foundation of the open, standards-based SOA coalition “CentraSite Community”, which consists of leading SOA vendors. To quote from the CentraSite website, “As the central ‘SOA Store’ for the enterprise, CentraSite offers greater visibility and control of information, supports better decision-making, and increases productivity. It serves as a Web services and SOA asset management platform, holding all your enterprise’s metadata assets, and offering reports on usage.”
Seagull Software becomes strategic sponsor of CentraSite
In related CentraSite news, Seagull Software, a leading provider of high-performance software solutions that transform legacy business applications into service-oriented architecture (SOA) assets, announced itself as a strategic sponsor of the CentraSite™ Community. The CentraSite Community was formed to help enterprises successfully design, implement, manage, govern and optimize a SOA.
At the foundation of the community is the CentraSite SOA registry and repository, which stores the different SOA artifacts being created by architects, process modelers and developers. Seagull Software is integrating LegaSuite with CentraSite, and the Community portal provides customers with a single destination for an integrated platform of tools and middleware for SOA. CentraSite is built on the fundamental SOA principles of interoperability and reuse. The coalition of sponsoring partners in the CentraSite Community provides enterprise customers with CentraSite-enabled SOA tools. With each member that joins, CentraSite gets enhanced to support more reusable SOA components. The Community, which was founded by Fujitsu and Software AG has 20 sponsors to date.
For more information on the CentraSite Community visit the CentraSite Community website.