The spread of Web services has forced IT managers to seek out new tools to ease the cumbersome process of managing policies like security and performance.
"There are some policies that we think are best practices that we want to adhere to," said Chris Brown, senior IT architect at Charlotte, N.C.-based Wachovia Corp. "To date, adherence has been done manually, by review, [and] has been haphazard. We want to automate that."
A pair of vendors this week will be unveiling tools that promise to automate the process of managing Web services.
