With so many vendors and little time to figure out how they all fit together, increasingly customers are demanding that vendors provide a clearer view of how various SOA management, policy and security products will work together.
"The gun at our head from the customer's point of view is how do we hold this whole SOA 'marketecture' together," said Ed Horst, marketing vice president for AmberPoint Inc., a provider of SOA management software.
In an attempt to get the customer guns pointed in another direction, AmberPoint and Reactivity Inc., the XML acceleration, security and firewall appliance provider, announced today that they are integrating their products. The goal is to give network managers working in an SOA environment a single view for what is going on with their systems.
