TIBCO SOA Governance Offering With AmberPoint

TIBCO Software unveiled a standards-based policy solution for service-oriented architecture (SOA), TIBCO ActiveMatrix Policy Manager. TIBCO leveraged AmberPoint’s SOA runtime governance technology to deliver optimized policy-based capabilities.

TIBCO ActiveMatrix Policy Manager is one of several products under the TIBCO ActiveMatrix platform, which is designed to help companies quickly create and deploy new applications and business processes leveraging reusable “services” in a heterogeneous environment.

The TIBCO ActiveMatrix platform is fully modular, allowing organizations to select any of the core products such as policy management to address requirements including governance as they arise throughout the SOA lifecycle.

“Without proper governance, the delivery of software runs the risk of being hampered by issues such as compliance, security risks and poor quality of service,” said Ed Horst, vice president of Marketing, AmberPoint. “We are excited about our work with TIBCO to eradicate these concerns businesses face today. TIBCO ActiveMatrix Policy Manager is a solution that was designed to address every type of development approach.”

TIBCO ActiveMatrix Policy Manager provides users the ability to manage and enforce declarative policies across services hosted or mediated by the TIBCO ActiveMatrix platform. The product helps meet compliance challenges, improves agility, and simplifies service-based development.

TIBCO ActiveMatrix Policy Manager allows companies to manage such things as authentication and authorization, encryption, logging, auditing and service versioning in a centralized and configuration-driven approach and subsequently updating-governance logic into all the services.

The Policy Manager is made up of three components:

• Policy Management Console: An AJAX-based interface that lets appropriate personnel first define and administer policies, then monitor their enforcement and results.

• Policy Enforcement: A set of management services that provide the underlying infrastructure for policy management, including repository, validation, distribution, and monitoring.

• Policy Execution: Intercepts and analyzes message traffic to and from managed services and processes those messages in accordance with applied policies.

“TIBCO recognizes the distributed nature of SOA and the importance of managing security and compliance across that environment” said Ram Menon, executive vice president, Worldwide Marketing, TIBCO. “Our strategic decision to work with AmberPoint, the proven leader in SOA runtime governance, is just another demonstration of our continued commitment to providing organizations with world-class products.”

TIBCO and AmberPoint will continue to work closely to drive an open approach for the future adoption of policy interoperability, giving businesses greater flexibility and choice during the SOA deployment lifecycle.