Mindreef

The emphasis on total quality becomes absolutely critical as SOA reshapes how IT works.

By Dana Gardner
Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine
November 2006

.... SOA success derives not just from technology and process, but from managing how people behave across disparate groups and even across companies. The good news is that SOA can transform how businesses build and adapt business processes using both old and new IT applications, data and infrastructure.... SOA is still in its formative stages. Yet two vendors are already providing product suites and tools to help developers manage such change, for helping groups embrace SOA, and for injecting quality into the entire process of application and services development.

SOAPScope Server 5.2 works to connect teams of developers to foster workflow collaboration among people affected by SOA principles. The scope goes beyond developers to include line-of-business planners and analysts within their own process types (i.e., supply chain managers). Also affected are the newer groups that handle policy-based management and governance.

Mindreef aims to usher in process collaboration and methodologies for SOA development and refinement by speeding process lifecycle productivity. Mindreef is setting the stage for a governance dashboard on SOA lifecycle creation and management. The nice thing about it: It doesn't force the variables into a central repository (remember knowledge management?). Instead, it recognizes the virtues of metadata. Users can use SOAPScope Server as a centralized repository for SOA development management or as a distributed hub for federated management -- take your pick...

 

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