Network World recently devoted a New Data Center issue to the topic of SOA in the enterprise and offered articles on putting SOA best practices in place as well as managing the loosely-coupled applications across distributed environments. And I trolled the vendor landscape to find 10 tools to address SOA governance, quality and management.
And Network World isn't the only industry watcher with SOA management on its radar. Separately, Forrester Research vice president and principal analyst Randy Heffner recently put out a series of reports on stand-alone tools to manage SOA and Web services. Forrester looked at products during July and August of this year and interviewed vendor and user companies to determine what tools are available today. Vendors included Amber Point, BEA Systems, CA, HP, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Progress Software, SAP and more. The research firm also defines what it sees as SOA and Web services management, something the analyst group considers critical for any SOA implementation.
