SOA Management and Security

Extend IT management, security and infrastructure for SOA services to allow a flexible business to fully capitalize on SOA

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) promises to help companies respond to today’s challenging market by transforming them into flexible, on demand businesses. As organizations progress with their SOA initiatives they realize implementing SOA based applications is not without its IT management challenges:

• How would an administrator effectively troubleshoot SOA-based composite application performance when services are virtualized and distributed across multiple hardware resources?
• How would an application architect gain an end-to-end understanding of their services-oriented environment?
• How does a company manage identities and enforce security for SOA application users who span organizational boundaries?

IBM® can help administrators and architects monitor, manage, secure, and control end-to-end implementations of SOA-based services and applications. By providing solutions based on modular, integrated products with experienced professional services IBM can help streamline the IT processes necessary to support the increased change introduced by SOA.