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SOA vendors partner with LogicLibrary to create integrated governance platform
- By ADT Staff
- March 14, 2006
Service-oriented architecture vendors Blue Titan Software, TopCoder and Metallect
have joined forces with LogicLibrary to support an end-to-end approach to SOA
governance, from development through deployment.
Enhanced integration among Blue Titan Network Director, TopCoder's software
component catalogs, Metallect IQ Server and LogicLibrary’s repository/registry
Logidex is designed to allow app developers to make informed decisions about
service usage in the app dev lifecycle. These integration points make performance,
routing and policy information about a deployed service available to architects,
designers and developers so services can be managed, maintained and versioned
more effectively.
The Logidex repository allows orgs to manage governance processes in services
production, applying not only to deployed services but also services under development
or architectural review. For asset consumption, developers need an easy way
to access artifacts, which are usually stored in other systems of record, such
as source change management or document management systems. In this case, for
asset and artifact consumption, Logidex acts as a registry because it points
to the artifacts in its own local repository and other externally integrated
repositories.
"The primary benefits of SOA are service integration and reuse. Industry
standards and partnerships are the key enablers for these benefits," says
Julie Craig, analyst at Enterprise Management Associates. "The integrated
platform created by LogicLibrary, Blue Titan, TopCoder and Metallect is significant
because it gives customers a registry/repository combination that facilitates
requirement-to-retirement governance of software development assets. Logidex
provides the registry/repository, TopCoder contributes software component catalogs,
Metallect adds discovery and dependency mapping, and Blue Titan supplies the
SOA fabric. Together, they yield a low-risk SOA solution that provides substantial
value to customers."
For more information, visit LogicLibrary.