"One of the challenges that has slowed the adoption of SOA and Web services is enterprises' concerns over performance," said Eric Pulier (pictured), chairman and founder, SOA Software, as the Santa Monica, CA-based company - formerly known as Digital Evolution - today announced Service Manager version 3.0, a major new release of its award-winning Web Services Management product.

Service Manager version 3.0 has been proven to scale to more than one billion messages per hour in a simulated customer deployment, Pulier said.

"As enterprises migrate toward a service-oriented approach to IT, they must ensure that the underlying SOA infrastructure is capable of handling potentially very significant numbers of critical business transactions per minute," said Neil Macehiter, principal and cofounder, Macehiter Ward-Dutton. "This demands comprehensive security and management capabilities combined with enterprise-class scalability and performance." SOA Software designed and built Service Manager to ensure that it could scale to meet the most extreme demands placed on it in enterprise deployments.

Built around an enterprise-class UDDIv3 registry, Service Manager version 3.0 adds comprehensive registry-based dashboard functionality, service endpoint discovery, auto-management, extensive real-time charting and a JSR168 portal framework for the user interface.

"Enterprises now implementing service-oriented architectures face the challenge of building scalable, loosely-coupled and reusable services that can be securely deployed and managed," said Jason Bloomberg, senior analyst with ZapThink. "Service Manager is designed to secure and manage enterprise-class SOA implementations today, while being able to scale to meet the complex corporate IT environment of tomorrow."