10 tools for managing an enterprise SOA

Building a complex service-oriented architecture is one thing, managing it an entirely other. One tool alone won’t do the job for a complex, enterprise SOA. As Randy Heffner, a Forrester Research analyst, says: “Sooner or later, if you are doing strategic SOA, you will need robust SOA management; and to get comparable functionality, you may have to get a set of products, rather than just one.” Network World assessed the SOA management challenges and came up with 10 tools that are worth checking out for the tough tasks. They are: AmberPoint’s SOA Management System: policy-based run-time governance and more BMC Software’s AppSight: functional load testing of SOA-based applications CA’s Wily SOA Solution: application performance monitoring HP’s SOA Manager: management of loosely coupled application components and Web services IBM’s Tivoli Composite Application Manager for SOA: Web services management iTKO’s LISA Enterprise SOA Testing platform: unit, regression, functional and load testing Mindreef’s SOAPscope Server: automated Web-services governance, testing diagnostics and support OpTier’s CoreFirst: management of transaction workloads Progress Software’s Actional for SOA Operations: SOA mapping Tidal Software’s Intersperse: application management, business process tracing and run-time monitoring Get more details