IBM expands its SOA management practice
September 30, 2005 The Global Services division at IBM announces it has expanded its SOA Management Practice, with the introduction of two new business partners. IBM says that it's two new partners, Actional and DataPower have joined the IBM Global Services SOA Management Practice. The practice is designed to expand the SOA Management ecosystem with a selected set of vendor software products that provide a broad range of SOA management capabilities that complement existing IBM solutions. The practice has worked with dozens of customers to bridge the gap from SOA architecture and design into production implementation and operational management. The first partners in the practice included SOA Software and Amberpoint, who worked closely with IBM Tivoli Software to deliver comprehensive SOA management solutions. The expanded SOA Management Practice will complement the recently announced IBM Global Services SOA Governance capability. SOA Governance will help clients extend the planned SOA across the enterprise in a controlled manner.  This new SOA Governance capability will help customers set a baseline for measuring improvements, tracking SOA projects, building a pool of skilled resources and establishing the structure for making decisions about SOA initiatives. Additionally, this services capability will help keep all SOA initiatives, architectures and investments aligned to their business goals as clients become complete on demand businesses. Another element of the IBM Global Services SOA Management Practice is the development of SOA management assets, a combination of software code, best practices and intellectual property used to supplement traditional purely manual, labor-based IT services. These assets will be delivered through the Common Services Delivery Platform which is based on the WebSphere based SOA Foundation. The CSDP targets a business processes that may not be considered core or strategic to a particular business. The CSDP can offload IT resources previously needed to execute these non-core business processes and redeploy the newly freed IT resources to areas of the business that can generate business value. "We see the use of Service Oriented Architectures among customers is evolving rapidly from technology evaluation into production deployment," said Michael Liebow, vice president, SOA and Web services for IBM Global Services. "Customers' greatest concern now as they expand from pilot projects to enterprise wide SOA deployment is management and governance. Customers need assurance that they are working with trusted partners and proven technology, which can be found in the IBM Global Services SOA Management Practice." Source: Web Services.org USA & Canada, call toll free today at 1-800-547-4149 or just send us an email for additional information on any Web Services offered on this website. Have your website professionally optimized by the search engine positioning experts at Rank for $ales. If your site has dropped in rankings since November 16, 2003, contact the search engine positioning experts at Rank for Sales. Get your business or company listed in the Global Business Listing directory and increase your business. It takes less then 24 hours to get a premium listing in the most powerful business search engine there is. Click here to find out all about it. For the best technical information on hardware, software, Internet applications, e-Commerce, B2B, Web services or IT-related industry news, visit Tech Blog. Reciprocal Link Exchange Program: If your company is engaged in the business of Web Services, the development of related Internet application, ecommerce or B2B development, Internet security services, Web hosting services or is involved in professional Search Engine Optimization, My Web Services is seriously interested in a worthwhile Reciprocal Link Exchange Trading Program with your company. Click here to get all the details.
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