SOA Software, a leading provider of unified governance automation products, announced today the availability of Service Manager for IBM WebSphere DataPower. This product provides centralized policy definition and service monitoring for DataPower appliances, allowing customers to easily use their existing DataPower deployments to virtualize enterprise services for high-availability, load-balancing, and offloading of costly XML and security processing.

"SOA Software's Service Manager for IBM WebSphere DataPower helps our clients to better use their existing investment in DataPower appliances," said Ben Wen, product manager for IBM WebSphere DataPower. "Centralized policy definition and monitoring, combined with the ability to easily virtualize enterprise services into a cluster of DataPower appliances will help customers ensure the fidelity of their governance models, processes and structures from the edge of their network all the way to the application."

Service Manager for IBM WebSphere DataPower

SOA Software's deep integration with IBM WebSphere DataPower appliances provides customers with the ability to control the DataPower Appliance directly from the Policy Manager console, without the need to duplicate configuration manually. This provides customers with a 'one-click' management strategy leveraging DataPower as the runtime and SOA Software's Policy Manager as the source of service and policy information as well as the reporting console for the monitoring data. SOA Software's Policy Manager is unique in its ability to manage the catalog of services, drive policy definition and distribution, and collect and display monitoring data for the DataPower devices. It allows customers to implement and enforce consistent, uniform policies throughout their infrastructure, and provides visibility into enterprise service usage, performance, and availability from network edge to application.

Service Manager for IBM WebSphere DataPower can provide operational governance capabilities supporting SOA Software's Portfolio Manager and Repository Manager solutions for planning and development governance. This helps ensure the fidelity of governance models, processes and structures throughout the enterprise service lifeycle.

Service Manager for IBM WebSphere DataPower allows customers to:

--  Utilize DataPower as part of a unified governance automation solution
--  Centrally define policies and apply them to services distributed
    across multiple DataPower appliances
--  Manage a cluster of DataPower appliances as a single entity
--  Gain visibility into service and appliance performance, individual
    messages, and business transactions from a single administration console
--  Monitor and enforce SLAs for services distributed across a cluster of
    appliances generating alerts for faults, performance issues, and security
    violations
--  Easily publish virtual services into DataPower appliances leveraging
    the performance and security capabilities of the appliance for enterprise
    service federation

"This new product offers a perfect marriage of DataPower's performance with SOA Software's ease-of-use," said Alistair Farquharson, chief technology officer at SOA Software. "Service Manager for IBM WebSphere DataPower allows our customers to make better use of their DataPower investments, extending their governance infrastructure into their network."