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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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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