IBM Introduces SOA Business Catalog

By Niladri Sekhar Nath

TMCnet Contributing Editor

 

IBM introduced a comprehensive resource called IBM SOA Business Catalog to help people find reusable IT services based on IBM (News - Alert) and IBM Business Partner software. With help from the IBM SOA Business Catalog, clients will be able to search for information on service-oriented architecture (SOA) assets or IT "services," combinations of software code, intellectual property etc.

 

According to the press release issued by IBM, the catalog is likely to include over 3,000 SOA assets covering more than 15 industries to find solution to specific business problems. The Catalog helps customers go for the right IBM or qualified IBM Business Partner software including process templates, Web services, tools and adapters. It will help them obtain and integrate these IT services into their existing IT infrastructures as well.

 

"The ability to find and obtain detailed information on specific qualified IBM and IBM Business Partner assets -- and reuse those assets -- will enable customers to use an SOA to cut costs and increase revenue faster that developing individual IT services," sayid Sandy Carter, vice president, WebSphere and SOA, IBM, in the release.

 

IBM SOA Business Catalog comes with the some useful services, such as IBM Information Framework Process Models that helps financial services business users to study business processes from both a technical and business perspective.

 

The IBM Insurance Application Architecture helps insurers create specifications and cross-enterprise architectures for information systems. WebSphere Business Modeler will help business users examine the influence of process modeling on a business. WebSphere DataStage TX Industry Pack proves extremely handy for developers, testers and production staff as well.

 

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