You can't just buy SOA management in a box.
The SOA management market is much too complex for that, said Randy Heffner, vice president at Forrester Research Inc. and author of "The Forrester Wave Standalone SOA and Web Services Management Solutions, Q4 2007" published this week.
While his report offers enterprise architects evaluations of SOA and Web services management products currently available in the marketplace, he recommends first looking at the management technology they may already have. First, take notice of SOA management tools that may be embedded in software products in the existing infrastructure, he said.
