Oracle has released the Oracle SOA Suite 10g Release 3 and outlined its governance capabilities and methodology. Oracle SOA Suite 10g Release 3, a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware, is said to offer enhancements that simplify critical aspects of SOA deployment and installation, including a one-click install; an enhanced Enterprise Service Bus (ESB); expanded human workflow capabilities; Web Services Security and Interoperability facilities; and broad capabilities for SOA Governance, including a Web Services Registry and Web Services Manager.
"SOA is rapidly becoming the standard way for customers to derive added business value from their current IT investments and to integrate disparate applications and services," said Amlan Debnath, vice president, Server Technologies, Oracle.
"As adoption of SOA moves out of the early adopter stage and into the mainstream market, customers are asking for SOA infrastructure components that are easy to install, implement, and manage," said Brian Erickson, managing vice president of Strategic Technology Solutions, Hitachi Consulting.
According to Oracle, Oracle Fusion Middleware's SOA Suite provides a single, integrated, browser-based console to administer policies across multiple, distributed enforcement points in both Oracle and non-Oracle middleware and heterogeneous enterprise applications. Oracle Fusion Middleware's SOA Suite provides:
- Facilities to identify, categorise, version, and publish services to an Enterprise Service Registry and provide service change notifications to developers and applications
- Facilities to securely view services within the Enterprise and to govern the provisioning of new services
- Facilities to centralise the management of security polices and service-level agreements, including authentication, authorisation and encryption policies
- Facilities to centralise the management of service-level agreements for performance, guaranteed response time, and high availability and failover on services
- Out-of-the-box functionality to implement common governance requirements for business process auditing and canonical data models
- Metadata repository services to capture and track service interactions and store SOA artifacts and metadata for Web services, service orchestrations and policies
Additionally, Oracle is said to offer a SOA Design and Implementation Methodology that enables organisations to understand the business drivers that necessitate their use of an SOA; best-practice methodologies to design, implement, and manage an SOA; and a standardised process to measure the benefits and ROI from the use of an SOA to align business executives with the information technology organisation, Oracle concluded.
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