SOA Management

IBM is developing new offerings, based on technology by IBM Research and collaboration between its Tivoli and Rational product groups, for Web Services relationship discovery, visualization, monitoring and management.

IBM Web Services Navigator is an Eclipse based visualization technology for Web services. It provides Web Services navigation and monitoring capabilities with visual feedback to quickly identify relationships, extract patterns and highlight problems. Based initially on the Eclipse platform, it is targeted at services architects and operations managers who need to understand Web services relationships, flows and message content. Customers can obtain this solution free of charge by downloading from the IBM alphaWorks Web site.

IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Web Services: Alternatively, a fully-supported version of IBM Web Services Navigator can be purchased, pre-packaged with Eclipse and incorporating additional Tivoli technology. This tool is designed for helping architects that are working on web services-based applications, and IT operations managers understand web services relationships, flows and message content (see Figure 2).

Figure 2 IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Web Services shows Web services as first class objects

IBM Global Services practices are able to this and other Tivoli tools in their SOA offerings which include:

• Accelerators for Service Management for orchestration and provisioning Accelerate implementation of IBM Tivoli orchestration and provisioning software.
• Application Value Optimization Services IBM Application Value Optimization Services offers you an end-to-end integrated solution designed to assess, transform and manage your company's application portfolio on a continual basis.
• Business Enablement Services for Service-Oriented Architecture Business enablement services for service-oriented architecture including assessment, plan vision and transition plan.
• Design Services for Service-Oriented Architecture Design services for service-oriented architecture including code development, support materials and deployment.
• IBM Component Business Modeling Services (SM) IBM Component Business Modeling Services help you gain significant new insights into the strategy, technology, operations and investment alignment of your organization.
• Implementation Services for Service-Oriented Architecture Implementation services for service-oriented architecture including code development, support materials and deployment.
• IT Infrastructure Planning and Design for On Demand Business - infrastructure architecture and design Create a vision and architecture blueprint to enable an on demand operating environment
• IT Infrastructure Planning and Design for On Demand Business - infrastructure services readiness engagements Comprehensive assessment of preparedness for an on demand implementation and recommendations to improve infrastructure readiness.
• IT Infrastructure Planning and Design for On Demand Business - IT service management design Help to plan and execute a transition to a demand-driven service management strategy.
• Management Services for Service-Oriented Architecture Management services for service-oriented architecture including comprehensive monitoring and management applications and services.