Article that explains how EIP Patterns can be realized using a BPEL service engine

Lightweight registry that observes Web Services to insure a healthy SOA. Monitors and logs the availability of services. If a WSDL description of a service has changed the registry will detect the change.

SOA best practices are necessary for IT organizations to maintain the high standards in SOA reliability, cost-effective operations, and customer service necessary to address competitive pressures and internal and external users' needs. As a result, many IT groups responsible for an SOA are turning to IT best practices, such as those specified by the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL). These include, for example, the need for operations and applications groups to provide service-level management and meet specific service level targets—from response time targets for interactive systems to the time it takes to diagnose and resolve problems.

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This Webinar on SOA Optimization presents IDC research into business needs shaping IT initiatives, including the quest for greater alignment between IT and business goals and looks at how organizations can develop and evolve their SOA to meet these needs and deliver better business results. Learn about: * The top demands on IT that are driving SOA adoption —including integrated access to information, real-time business performance monitoring, and other IT improvements that will provide higher business value * Steps that you can take to align your SOA with business goals to ensure and increase SOA business value * SOA metrics that provide insight into business processes, support business goals and help improve customer service—and the wrong and right ways to get them.

SOA and Web services management planning is critical for ensuring these IT initiatives deliver their full business value. SOA and Web services bring new technologies and new dependencies that can be quite challenging to manage. Thus, SOA management solutions form an important part of a strategic SOA platform. In this Webinar, Forrester analyst Randy Heffner reviews the key SOA management capabilities that are required for a successful SOA, including SOA security and SOA governance as well as who needs them and when. Actional vice president Dan Foody discusses how Progress Actional SOA and Web service management products meet these requirements and provides a demo of the power of Actional's end-to-end SOA monitoring, the precondition for reliable SOA and Web services operations.

Learn how Fidelity National Information Services (FIS) is deploying a SOA-based SaaS (software as a service) application for near-real-time risk profiling that will help lower bank account risk and prevent the opening of fraudulent accounts. To be effective, however, this application had to be able to meet high performance SLAs, ensure reliable operations with zero downtime, flexibly execute—on the fly—risk profiling transactions customized to individual bank branches and products, and to protect customer privacy. FIS chose Progress Sonic ESB for its scalability and agile service orchestration and Progress Actional web services and SOA management software for its end-to-end visibility into SOA operations, real-time performance monitoring and alerting, and consistent SOA security enforcement.

If your business has substantial security or regulatory compliance requirements, chances are you have concerns about enforcing appropriate measures, while keeping overhead and costs to a minimum. Ensuring security and compliance won't bring in additional revenue, but failure to enforce such measures can result in substantial risk and cost. Join Progress Actional and Partners HealthCare for this webinar and learn how a decoupled approach to service development and centralized security management can help you manage the risk across your enterprise Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).

Learn the advantages of SAP's enterprise SOA approach, steps to effective SOA adoption, how to quickly integrate with various SOA standards, how to secure, manage, govern and enforce policies around non-SAP applications, and more.

Your organization is committed to Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) - You've put in place procedures to govern your Design-time processes - but do you know what is really happening within your SOA infrastructure – at Runtime? Progress Software's Director of Technology Dr. Giles Nelson discusses the key reasons for implementing SOA Runtime Governance and shows how other organisations have used Actional to strike the balance between encouraging reuse of services at Design-time and ensuring that policies for access, SOA security and performance are enforced at Runtime.

Mike Gero, Director, Product Management, Progress Software and Alex Rosen, SOA Practice Manager, MomentumSI reveal the guidelines for SOA success. Don't fall victim to common SOA mistakes: learn from the dubious design, development and deployment practices of some not-so-fortunate IT organizations. Viewers may also download the SOA Worst Practices white paper.

What is SOA governance? Find out how it relates to policy-setting and compliance in your Web services environment – and how it is essential to the functioning of your network from development through deployment and test – and especially during runtime. Read the SOA Governance Tutorial today.

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is not easy to do right: IT teams must overcome technical, organizational, political and other hurdles on the path to SOA nirvana. Actional and key partners share their real-world experience to help you craft a successful SOA Pilot to avoid the most common pains associated with implementing SOA for the first time.

Find out how Actional breaks down the silos that separate business functions – and knocks down barriers that have hitherto hidden business processes from the underlying IT systems upon which transactions execute. Business Process Visibility from Actional finally makes it possible to align IT goals with those of the business.

Discover how – from design time to runtime – Actional achieves comprehensive SOA governance throught the entire SOA lifecycle This webinar offers an understanding of Actional Web services management, and the Systinet registry, combined with a valuable perspective on the inter-relationships between the various components of a SOA – and how those elements impact each other in the event of change.

Discover how – from design time to runtime – Actional achieves comprehensive SOA runtime governance. This webinar offers an understanding of Actional Web services management, and the Systinet registry, combined with a valuable perspective on the inter-relationships between the various components of a SOA – and how those elements impact each other in the event of change.

How enterprises can leverage SOA to share information securely has been the topic of much debate within IT departments and throughout the information systems industry. This tutorial will examine in detail the topic of securing SOA so that information can be shared safely within the enterprise and amongst authorized consumers of that information such as business partners and customers. The concept of service oriented architecture (SOA) has arrived. Indeed, arguably, SOA is a concept which arrived on the scene years ago. But whatever the case with respect to SOA's beginnings, it seems likely that SOA will have a long and bright future.

While core Web services standards successfully address the mechanics of allowing applications to talk to one another, a successful SOA implementation requires addressing the challenges that lie beyond the pure mechanics of communication -- zeroing in, in addition, on SOA infrastructure. Now, especially, global organizations are implementing enterprise SOA – and are demanding tools and assistance to meet the challenges offered up by this class of applications. This white paper discusses the world-class SOA governance solutions Actional offers to meet these needs and the underlying SOA infrastructure.

By consolidating and reusing common services, service-oriented architectures (SOA) offer many benefits to today's organizations. This introduction to SOA will guide those pursuing SOA towards proven best practices to increase the likelihood of garnering the benefits of an SOA, faster and easier. The white paper will then present Actional's best practices for selecting and implementing a successful SOA pilot and then how to utilize the experience and lessons learned to migrate to an enterprise-class SOA.

Make no mistake: SOA can be tricky. Learn from this compilation of SOA Worst Practices which traps to avoid. Learn the limits of XML firewalls. Find out how not to fall prey to consultants. Make sure you don't hand out your WSDL to passersby... This wisdom and much, much more from the experts at Actional.