SOA Technology Solves Business and IT Problems

Let us turn now to some of the actual SOA technology in question -- and see how it solves both business and IT challenges even as it optimizes the SOA environment.

The Registry - A Key Piece of SOA Technology

The registry makes it possible to:

• Find everything about service-related policies
• Who owns a service
• What kind of contracts are associated with it
• When it was published
• When it ought to be versioned
• Who ought to be consumers
• Who ought not to be consumers
• Is there customer data associated with the service?

So there's quite a wealth of design-time data potentially available in the registry.

On the runtime side the technology allows IT to auto-discover which services are in production, who is using them, and what the dependencies are. Here we see not only the dependency map, but the green lines represent actual processes. In addition, IT users can drill down to understand how each of these services work together.

Advanced SOA Technology Facilitates Understanding, Quick Triage

So users are not limited to "I see this service made such-and-such a call." The IT user's experience becomes, "Who made what call exactly?" This functionality helps IT to understand not only which services are calling other services in a consumer/provider relationship, but to fully grasp the nature of these relationships. This capability furthermore permits quick triage in addition to auto-discovery. What's more, this discovered information flows both ways -- between registry and runtime SOA management solution -- in the form of metadata.

For More Information

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