Leverage SOA More Effectively
By CXOtoday Staff
Mumbai, May 8, 2008

To make certain that services meet all functional and performance objectives and are ready for production deployment, HP introduced new versions of its SOA testing products, HP Service Test, and HP Service Test Management.

SOA is an approach to delivering IT services in a secure and manageable way that uses loosely connected, reusable, and standards-based technology that can be quickly aligned to changing business needs.

Kamal Dutta, director (HP Software) of HP, India, said, "The new solutions from HP give our customers an opportunity to adopt and leverage SOA as a mainstream initiative and deliver better business outcomes."

HP delivers an integrated solution that includes SOA governance, quality, and management.

In addition, HP announced new SOA management capabilities with HP Business Availability Center for SOA, HP Diagnostics for SOA, and HP SOA Policy Enforcer that together better monitor services in production, resolve operational issues, and deal with changes to services.

These software products accelerate enterprise SOA adoption by providing assurances that services meet or exceed design and operational specifications. By integrating these solutions across the complete service lifecycle of planning, quality and operations, customers have confidence that services can be trusted to support critical business applications without risk of failure or performance degradation.

HP Quality Management for SOA

HP's Quality Management solutions for SOA claim to give enterprises the assurance that services will function reliably in any deployment environment. New capabilities to these solutions include:

* HP Service Test Management enables quality assurance teams to plan, design, and execute quality management activities from a service-oriented perspective. This solution allows teams to instantly report on the pre-production quality of all SOA-based services. It also integrates with HP SOA Systinet to automatically use quality management metrics to alert managers and users that services are ready for consumption.

* HP Service Test enables functional testing of SOA services to reduce the risk of application failures. Testing is fully integrated with HP's extended software portfolio to ensure ongoing quality and management across the service lifecycle.

HP SOA Management

HP's SOA management solutions will work standalone for small SOA projects or large-scale deployments and fully integrate with enterprise IT management capabilities. This flexibility gives SOA architects the confidence that initial SOA project efforts will be embraced by IT operations groups as services adoption increases. New capabilities to HP SOA Management products include:

* HP Business Availability Center (BAC) for SOA
* HP Diagnostics for SOA
* HP SOA Policy Enforcer


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