Organizations adopting SOA face a number of challenges. Due to the distributed, heterogeneous nature of these evolutionary systems, services-based applications raise governance issues at every phase of the SOA lifecycle—development, staging and operational deployment. These requirements must be met in order to gain the full benefits of SOA:

• Service discovery
• Managing service delivery and lifecycle
• Addressing heightened security concerns
• Insight into services as well as business transactions and processes
• Setting and maintaining appropriate service levels
• Managing errors and exceptions
• Enabling online upgrades and versioning
• Validate updated services before re-deploying them into production
• Auditing, logging and diagnosing systems in production

AmberPoint provides comprehensive runtime governance solutions to address these requirements across the SOA lifecycle.

AMBERPOINT SOA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM™

AmberPoint’s SOA Management System is a comprehensive platform for runtime governance of SOA applications throughout the lifecycle. It enables policy-based management of your service network, providing unprecedented visibility into and control of your services-based environment. AmberPoint manages not only the services layer of your SOA, but also the supporting components such as EJBs, databases, third-party appliances, etc.

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AMBERPOINT SOA VALIDATION SYSTEM™

AmberPoint SOA Validation System enables developers and operations teams to verify the functionality and performance of new or modified SOA artifacts using real-world service interactions. It captures messages from live environments to create realistic "dry runs" in the staging environment. The use of real traffic eliminates guesswork and brings legitimacy to your testing and validation scenarios.

• Validates services against entire set of dependent applications
• Uses message capture across diverse environments to create realistic “dry runs” in the staging environment
• Uses actual responses to verify functionality

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AmberPoint Express™

AmberPoint Express is complementary tool for use by Web service developers. It enables developers to incrementally measure, debug and fine-tune the performance and functionality of their Web services by providing real-time easy-to-digest performance charts, searchable message logs, and tools for WSDL-based generation of test messages. By not having to build custom tools and scripts for these incremental development activities, development teams save time and gain productivity.

• Web service performance monitoring
• Analysis of performance bottlenecks and errors
• Inspect SOAP messages for content, faults and errors
• Resubmit messages from history or auto-generate new SOAP messages to fine-tune Web services

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