AmberPoint Introduces Agentless SOA Runtime Governance

By Anuradha Shukla

TMCnet Contributing Editor

 

AmberPoint has introduced an agentless system for SOA runtime governance. The new architecture has enabled AmberPoint to decouple the enforcement of SOA runtime governance policies from the execution of those policies.

By delegating policy execution to existing SOA infrastructure, AmberPoint can now enable organizations to better leverage the intrinsic and sophisticated capabilities of XML appliances, Enterprise Service Buses, application servers, operating systems and other SOA infrastructure.

In addition to the existing agent-based mechanisms, AmberPoint’s new architecture now offers agentless policy enforcement options. The company delegates runtime policy execution to the SOA infrastructure whenever policy-capable infrastructure is in place.


This capability allows enterprises to realize greater returns on their investments in SOA platforms and runtime frameworks, while fully utilizing their SOA infrastructure.

In the coming months, the new enhancement will enable AmberPoint to release expanded functionality and support for many additional application servers, appliances, ESBs, and other SOA infrastructure.

Agentless Policy Enforcement includes Capability-based Delegation of Runtime Policies, Fire-and-Forget Policy Rollout and Transparent Support across Platforms.

With Capability-based Delegation of Runtime Policies, AmberPoint is offering flexibility to easily adapt to the different types of capabilities across varying components.

Fire-and-Forget Policy Rollout guarantees the delivery of each policy in an automated fashion. This is ensured as a result of tracking the runtime infrastructure and facilitating management of the SOA system as a whole.

Transparent Support across Platforms will enable AmberPoint to transparently map runtime policies onto both platform-specific and standards-based interfaces and protocols.

AmberPoint expects the new enhancements to offer several benefits such as greater ROI from SOA Infrastructure, streamlined administration of runtime policies, visibility of all policies system-wide, uninterrupted runtime governance, and business-centric policy decisions.

“Our agentless enforcement is an outgrowth of our close relationship with the leading SOA infrastructure vendors, and reflects our commitment to helping our customers reduce the time-to-ROI with SOA,” said Sean Fitts, chief architect at AmberPoint in a press release.

“We’re pleased to introduce agentless enforcement and its many benefits to the market,” he added.

Founded in 2001 AmberPoint provides SOA runtime governance solutions. AmberPoint software is reportedly used in 63 countries spanning six continents around the globe.

More information is available at AmberPoint.

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Anuradha Shukla is a contributing writer for TMCnet covering call centers, CRM and information technology.