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BEA AquaLogic™ Product Family
Service Infrastructure for managing the SOA lifecycle
Business agility depends on the free flow of information, services, and business processes across the organization. However, this flow is stymied by the heterogeneous nature of the typical large enterprise. Multiple platforms (IBM, BEA, Microsoft, SAP, Oracle, etc.) and technologies (J2EE, .NET, Legacy, etc.) require IT to hard code the point-to-point connections, hampering the swift flow of information and slowing the delivery of new business services.
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) has emerged as the leading IT strategy for streamlining service delivery. SOA takes the discrete business functions contained in enterprise applications and organizes them into interoperable, standards-based services that can quickly be combined and reused in composite applications and processes. But existing infrastructure solutions were not designed for managing SOAs in environments where divergent technologies are still an issue.
Achieving the full benefits of SOA requires a new category of enterprise software—one built specifically for managing the SOA lifecycle in heterogeneous environments. This category, Service Infrastructure, adheres to the SOA principles of coarse-grained, loosely coupled, and standards-based services to deliver a neutral container for business logic that isolates the complexities of underlying technologies.
BEA AquaLogic is the first family of Service Infrastructure products built from the ground up for managing SOAs. It enables services built on virtually any platform—J2EE, .NET, SAP, Oracle, IBM, etc.—to be discovered, secured, managed, and assembled into composite applications and processes. For enterprises seeking to successfully deploy SOA across the enterprise, BEA AquaLogic is the most comprehensive product suite available for achieving the SOA benefits of better business agility and efficiency
By providing the most comprehensive product family for managing SOAs in heterogeneous environments, BEA AquaLogic delivers the on-ramp for enterprises to reach the full benefits of production scale SOA deployment.
The BEA AquaLogic family provides an interoperable infrastructure and set of reusable infrastructure services for managing SOAs and assembling composite applications, regardless of the underlying technology to:
- Improve business responsiveness, efficiency, and agility
- Reduce the complexity of IT environments
- Increase reuse of business services
- Lower lifecycle costs for applications
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The BEA AquaLogic family delivers the broadest line of Service Infrastructure products for successful SOA deployment. The first product suite built from the ground up for SOA, it gives IT a set of unified products for handling messaging, service management, data unification, and security needs. It consists of:
BEA AquaLogic Service Bus™
The first product to unify Enterprise Service Bus and Web services management capabilities, it speeds services deployment and simplifies SOA management in heterogeneous environments—so IT can deliver business services faster.
BEA AquaLogic Data Services Platform™
(formerly BEA Liquid Data) It provides a single unified view of data from any source across the enterprise. It enables data services to function as single access points for unified and consistent information, so data services can be easily built, changed, and reused.
BEA AquaLogic Enterprise Security™
It is a unified and adaptable security infrastructure that enables a service-oriented approach to securing distributed applications. It allows shared security infrastructure and services to be leveraged and re-used across the heterogeneous enterprise—improving security and increasing IT efficiency.
BEA AquaLogic Service Registry™
It is the most complete and proven business service registry providing a foundation for SOA governance and lifecycle management. The only registry to fully support the latest UDDI V3 specification, BEA AquaLogic Service Registry also offers the broadest range of features of any SOA registry available today.
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