Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., one of the world’s leading financial management and advisory firms, announced a partnership with SOA Software and IBM Global Services on Tuesday to build a service-oriented architecture, which promises a way for different services to better communicate with each other.
Merrill Lynch is currently rolling out SOA Software's Service Manager, which will serve as the software infrastructure for all Web services applications that the company will build internally. Service Manager will provide Merrill Lynch with security, monitoring, management, and governance of its Web services. Additionally, IBM Global Services' SOA Management Practice is helping Merrill Lynch deploy the SOA infrastructure.
