The integration between Software AG’s crossvision and AmberPoint provides a continuous bridge between human-to-human business processes, the design and construction of service-based applications and the enforcement of governance policies at service run-time. Organizations are thereby better able to combine human and information resources to solve business problems – and at the same effectively address compliance mandates.
"In order to face the demands of an increasingly globalized competitive landscape, companies must be able to maximize the effectiveness of people, processes and information while insuring compliance with differing international regulations," said Dr. Peter Kuerpick, Member of the Board, Software AG and responsible for the development of crossvision. "The integration of AmberPoint’s SOA management software and Software AG’s crossvision gives organizations a competitive advantage in this evolving and highly challenging environment."
Through Software AG’s crossvision Service Orchestrator, AmberPoint will automatically discover services recorded in CentraSite, an SOA registry and repository jointly developed by Software AG and Fujitsu. This enables the comprehensive management of all enterprise services.
In addition, CentraSite will automatically receive updates with changes of services and the corresponding endpoints in any SOA landscape – such as new virtual services, policies and services discovered during runtime – thus eliminating manual changes of service meta-data and descriptions in order to reflect the actual state of the SOA landscape.
AmberPoint and CentraSite will also exchange policy information. This allows policies referenced in CentraSite to be enforced at run-time and new policies and policy changes made by Amberpoint to be posted to CentraSite. This process ensures effective end-to-end policy-management capabilities all the way from development and deployment to run-time enforcement.
The crossvision suite provides for a complete lifecycle of SOA applications and includes application composition, business process management, legacy system integration and service orchestration. By integrating AmberPoint, run-time management is seamlessly provided with the rest of the crossvision SOA lifecycle.
"The integration of AmberPoint with Software AG’s crossvision provides a unique combination of elements to bring both services and business processes together under the umbrella of a strong approach to SOA governance," said Paul Butterworth, AmberPoint CTO. "We look forward to working together for the long-term benefit of our mutual enterprise customers around the world."
Software AG, headquartered in Darmstadt, Germany, provides a full range of products and services to deliver a service-oriented architecture (SOA) IT infrastructure, based on over thirty-five years experience in high-performance databases, application development tools and integration technologies. Its technology offers process driven integration through legacy modernization and SOA based integration. Software AG helps its customers to achieve a competitive advantage through flexible and adaptive business processes based on fast and easy integration of existing IT assets. It supports the mission-critical systems of over 3,000 customers globally. Software AG is represented in around 70 countries with more than 2,700 employees. It is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (TecDAX, ISIN DE 0003304002 / SOW). In 2005 Software AG posted €438 million in total revenue. www.softwareag.com
AmberPoint is the industry’s leading provider of SOA visibility, management and security solutions. Customers such as British Telecommunications, H&R Block, Motorola and the U.S. Department of Defense have chosen AmberPoint for its comprehensive capabilities, its non-invasive approach and its native support for Java and .NET. For more information, contact AmberPoint at 510.663.6300 or info@amberpoint.com.
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