Overview

Introducing a service-oriented architecture (SOA) into your IT environment can greatly boost agility and responsiveness — but at the same time create levels of complexity that may put your business at risk. SOA Governance can reduce the risks of SOA while increasing the productivity of your service consumers and service providers. As a result, a SOA Governance tool should be a key element of any SOA implementation.

HP SOA Systinet, an integral part of HP's BTO for SOA offerings, is an industry-leading platform for automated SOA Governance. With HP SOA Systinet, you can get started quickly using Systinet's built in processes and templates — and modify and extend them to meet your unique needs. HP SOA Systinet is designed to work in your heterogeneous IT infrastructure across all your key SOA technologies. Built on standards and guided by HP's Governance Interoperability Framework, HP SOA Systinet can govern services throughout their lifecycles, regardless of whether they are standard Web services, REST style services, Java, .Net or others. This leading SOA architecture tool provides the level of governance you need, whether you are just starting your first SOA project or deploying SOA across your entire organization.

HP SOA Systinet includes the following key capabilities:

• Registry/Repository- HP SOA Systinet contains a standards-based, scalable and extensible registry and repository that provides a system of record to drive governance and decision making across the application lifecycle. HP SOA Systinet leverages the data in the registry/repository to support its automated application governance capabilities.

• Information Management- Drives visibility and reporting across the application lifecycle by enabling the flow of critical SOA governance information to the key stakeholders and decision makers.

• Policy Management- Provides consistency and control by automating processesfor validating architectural consistency, driving lifecycle decisions and promotion, and establishing and validating run-time policies for interoperability and conformance of services and their associated artifacts throughout the application lifecycle.

• Contract Management- Creates trust for consumer-provider relationshipsthrough processes for service consumers to request service consumption and for service consumers and providers to negotiate and agree upon conditions for service and operation use and service-level expectations, reducing conflicts and misaligned expectations and enabling proactive communications of application changes.