The New Management Challenges of Service-Orientation

SOA provides unprecedented flexibility—breaking ungainly monolithic applications into distributed components and enabling IT to nimbly respond to the needs of the business. Organizations who harness the potential of service orientation will create a sustainable competitive advantage.

However, these gains in architectural and business flexibility can easily be offset by the new risks that accompany service-orientation. Foremost among these new challenges is the spiraling cost of management as complexity outstrips available skills, tools and processes required to do SOA effectively.

AmberPoint products deliver the capabilities necessary to take and maintain control of complex, multi-vendor service networks. By providing comprehensive governance over distributed runtime environments, AmberPoint enables enterprises to turn SOA into a business asset.

AmberPoint SOA Management System™

AmberPoint meets the challenges brought forth by SOA. It transforms services-based systems into enterprise-class business assets by making them easy to monitor and manage, more secure and easy to upgrade.

With AmberPoint, enterprises implementing services-based applications can realize the full potential of their flexible, standards-based systems. They can better understand system behavior and implement policies that automate performance management, remedy exceptional conditions and uphold security. Significantly, they can do all this without special coding to the services or message tags. AmberPoint's non-invasive architecture allows SOA systems to evolve and grow without constant recoding to system components.

AmberPoint SOA Management System is the industry's most comprehensive runtime governance solution. We cover its capabilities, features and benefits in the following sections: