CentraSite Community
AccelerAting your SoA implementAtion, extending your poSSibilitieS
A registry/repository such as the market-
leading centraSite should sit at the heart
of your SoA governance plans. However,
to enable end-to-end SoA governance
requires a combination of a registry/
repository and a range of best-of-breed
solutions. that’s why we created the
centraSite community1 – an SoA ecosystem
that brings together leading vendors and
consultancies who leverage the openness
and flexibility of centraSite.
the centraSite community:
an award-winning* SoA ecosystem
The CentraSite Community is an SOA ecosys-
tem comprising software vendors and
consultancies whose technologies and
methodologies complement and integrate
with the CentraSite registry/repository to
deliver a comprehensive end-to-end SOA
Governance solution, from conceptual
modeling through to resulting service
deployment and monitoring. There are a
number of ways in which the Community can
help your SOA Governance initiatives.
pre-built integrations
Wouldn’t it be great if instead of asking two
vendors if they could create an integration
between their technologies, they already had
one? What’s more, one that was well-docu-
mented, repeatable, based on leading
standards, with a readily available introductory
demo that shows you exactly how it works?
The CentraSite Community has created a
range of pre-built integrations that you can
take advantage of, saving you time, and
keeping your project on schedule.
over 50 partners in more than 11 countries
The membership of the CentraSite Community
includes market-leading names in areas as
diverse as Enterprise Governance, Business
Rules, Grid Computing, Business Intelligence,
SOA Testing, SOA Management, CMDB and
many more. These member partners are
located in many locations around the world.
What does that mean for you? If you work
with a vendor whose technology can
complement and interact with CentraSite, why
not suggest that they join Community, and
partner with Software AG for your benefit?
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the centraSite community encompasses all key SoA areas, with vendors from many sectors participating
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enable legacy systems, build and test applications
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the centraSite community encompasses all key SoA areas, with vendors from many sections participating.
* SYS-CON Media 2007 SOA World Reader’s Choice Awards Best Web Services or XML Site: CentraSite Community Portal, CentraSite Community
1 CentraSite and the CentraSite Community have been been jointly developed by Software AG and Fujitsu Computer Systems Corporation.
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A standards-based approach
In the past, many of the integrations between
vendors featured a “black box” approach – they
were one-offs, designed for a particular
customer requirement with little documenta-
tion available. Equally, details of exactly how
the integration was achieved would remain in
the heads of the few technical people who
built it.
CentraSite Community partners take an entirely
different perspective, with an open standards-
based architecture philosophy that delivers
proven integrations with best-of-breed
solutions that are repeatable, transparent and
robust.
All integrations developed between Software
AG and Community partners are based upon
commonly-accepted industry standards such as
the ones below:
AXR L0 and L1: Java API for XML Registries•UDDI v2 and v3: Universal Description, •Discovery and Integration
SOAP 1.1 and 1.2: Simple Object Access •Protocol
ebXML: Electronic Business using eXtensible •Markup Language
WebDAV: Web-based Distributed Authoring •and Versioning
WSDL: Web Services Description Language•WS-Basic Profile 1.0 and 1.1•WS-Policy 1.5 and WS-Policy 1.5 Attachment: •Web Services Policy Framework
SNMP v2 and v3: Simple Network Manage-•ment Protocol
Just as no single vendor can offer a total
solution in the area of SOA governance, there is
no single standard to meet all requirements.
You may wish to use a simple UDDI import/
export approach for publishing a service, or
JAXR for some richer functionality. It all
depends on the use case for each project – for
example you may be looking at attaching
policies related to who can consume a service,
or search for an existing service within your
enterprise architecture tool.
end-to-end SoA governance
The combination of best-of-breed solutions
with CentraSite delivers benefits across the
whole SOA spectrum, including:
enterprise Architecture• – bringing the
conceptual planning worlds and the concrete
executional worlds together
enterprise governance• – ensuring your
organizational policies and practices are
reflected in the SOA services you develop
SoA testing• – building quality into every
stage of your SOA service development
cmdb• – mapping stages of an SOA service to
the IT infrastructure
SoA management• – understanding how
services perform once they are deployed
Stay on top of SoA governance
developments
The CentraSite Community has its own news
and information portal at www.centrasite.org,
where you can find all the latest product news,
new partner member profiles, and “plug-ins” to
CentraSite that allow you leverage your
investment even further. You can also register
for the bi-monthly SOA Governance newsletter,
or take advantage of Community partner offers,
such as information-packed “e-kits”.
Want to know more?
Visit www.centrasite.org or go to the
CentraSite Developer Community at
http://communities.softwareag.com/centrasite
to download “The CentraSite Community:
Fast-tracking SOA Governance using best-of-
breed solutions”, a white paper that explains
the CentraSite Community and its many
benefits in more detail, with examples of
completed partner integrations.
Key beneFitS
Accelerate your SOA implementation •with a wide range of integrations of CentraSite with market leading community partner products
Leverage the openness and standards-•based approach of CentraSite to integrate with any tool required to com-plete “your” SOA Ecosystem
Gain from the know-how of over 50 •community members to speed your SOA success
Challenge us and your other vendors to •work together for YOUR benefit!
Take the next step to get there - faster.
To learn more, please visit
http://communities.softwareag.com/centrasite
To find the Software AG office nearest you,
please visit www.SoftwareAG.com
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