The new and enhanced IBM products and services listed below provide organizations with the tools and expertise needed to ensure successful SOA implementations.
- New! IBM Rational Tester for SOA Quality is a functional and regression testing tool that enables the creation, comprehension, modification and execution of testing GUI-less Web services. IBM Rational Tester for SOA Quality:
- Simplifies testing of GUI-less services and ensure interoperability
- Allows you to create, comprehend, modify and execute a functional test
- Simplifies service integration testing
- Eliminates the need for manual coding
- New! IBM Rational Performance Tester Extension for SOA Quality is a load and performance testing and problem analysis tool that extends performance and scalability testing to SOA applications. IBM Rational Performance Tester for SOA Quality offers all the capabilities of Rational Tester for SOA Quality and enables you to:
- Validate system scalability
- Find performance bottlenecks and enable problem determination for SOA efficiency
- Perform advanced data analysis and parsing
- IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for SOA monitors, manages and controls the Web services layer of IT architectures. IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for SOA:
- Recognizes and quickly isolates Web service performance problems, alerts you when Web service performance is degraded and reports results against committed service levels
- Provides an integrated, easy-to-use console that helps you visualize the flows of Web services in their entirety
- Helps maintain service performance without operator intervention
IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager automates manual tasks of provisioning, configuration and maintenance of servers and virtual servers, operating systems, middleware, applications, storage and network devices acting as routers, switches, firewalls and load balancers. IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager offers:
- Improved discovery and reporting of datacenter resources
- Operating system imaging and bare metal provisioning
- Software distribution and patch management over a scalable secure infrastructure
In addition to the new and enhanced products, beginning in 2Q 2007 IBM will offer IBM Infrastructure Optimization services for SOA, which offer assessment, planning, design and implementation guidance for IBM clients.
Additionally, IBM Global Technology Services' Testing Center of Excellence service product offers a combination of skills, methods and technology to provide a reliable test environment for SOA implementations. IBM testing specialists develop comprehensive test plans for SOA architectures, manage the testing process and perform integration, performance and scalability testing.
See IBM Global Services for more information on these and a wide range of additional IBM services.
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