Fujitsu and Software AG Deliver Mature SOA Management and Governance with CentraSite™
Second Generation of Joint SOA Solution Offers Greater Visibility and Control, More Efficient Reuse of SOA Services
Darmstadt, Germany and Sunnyvale, CA, July 11, 2006- Fujitsu Computer Systems Corporation and Software AG today announced the release of the latest version of CentraSite™, an award-winning joint solution that offers greater visibility across a service-oriented architecture (SOA) and provides improved analysis and control of SOA resources and activities. The CentraSite Enterprise Edition is now available as a standalone product offering a UDDI v3.0 search using predefined metadata models, a JAXR interface with subscribe and notification capabilities, WebDAV access to the SOA repository, predefined reporting modules, and both an AJAX interface and the Eclipse Registry Browser. The Enterprise Edition also provides an extensible metadata model for the definition of customer-specific SOA artifacts.
In addition to the Enterprise Edition, the CentraSite Community Edition offers a UDDI v3.0 search using predefined metadata models and predefined reporting modules, and both an AJAX-based interface and the Eclipse Registry Browser and is available free of charge.
CentraSite offers maximum management and governance of an organization's SOA by providing a central repository of SOA metadata, along with analysis of this data and the ability to incorporate centralized policies. This level of visibility and analysis enables organizations to minimize the risk of business disruption associated with transitioning their infrastructures to an SOA. It creates an environment for improved governance by enabling organizations to store, track, and analyze processes and their underlying services, including interdependencies, resulting in greater business agility and cost effectiveness. CentraSite has been openly designed for complete loosely coupled integration with Fujitsu Interstage Suite, Software AG's crossvision SOA suite, and solutions from other top-tier SOA solution providers. In a separate release, Fujitsu and Software AG also announced today the launch of the CentraSite Community, the first standards-based SOA forum.
"Successfully managing and governing SOA assets is a critical step in the maturation of an SOA portfolio," said Daryl Plummer, managing vice president and Gartner fellow. "Organizations that are going through the SOA maturity cycle will use governance as a critical success factor."
CentraSite is designed for both developers and business analysts. CentraSite's new AJAX-based user interface, powered by Software AG's crossvision Application Composer, makes it easier for business users to implement the services required to solve their specific issues. Also new is an Eclipse-based CentraSite plug-in that helps developers to easily integrate with existing Eclipse-based development environments.
"Organizations are now beginning to move from enabling their SOA infrastructures to fully deploying and controlling them," said Dr. Peter Kuerpick, member of the board at Software AG and responsible for the development of crossvision. "CentraSite offers the safest, most efficient path to gaining the necessary visibility to minimize risk and derive the maximum benefit from the shared services environment. Our work with Fujitsu has enabled us to bring this solution to market far more quickly, giving our customers a competitive edge."
"The ultimate goal of an SOA is greater competitiveness through improvements such as increasingly efficient business processes and a superior customer experience," said Robert Sepanloo, senior vice president of the Enterprise Software Group at Fujitsu Computer Systems. "CentraSite enables enterprises to achieve these goals by promoting greater collaboration between business goals and IT, and allowing companies to more effectively reuse their business processes and other SOA assets to increase overall agility. Together with Software AG, Fujitsu will continue to enable the delivery of flexible SOA solutions."
About Fujitsu Computer Systems Corporation
Headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., Fujitsu Computer Systems is a wholly owned subsidiary of Fujitsu Limited (TSE: 6702) committed to the design, development and delivery of advanced computer systems, application infrastructure software products, and managed services for the business enterprise. Through its TRIOLE(TM) strategy, the company offers a complete line of scalable and reliable servers, storage and middleware solutions, high-performance mobile and client computers, as well as professional services. Fujitsu Computer Systems has established itself as a strategic solutions provider to the world's leading organizations by offering technology innovation, customer choice, exceptional product quality and reliability, as well as outstanding customer service. See http://us.fujitsu.com/computers for further information.
About Fujitsu
Fujitsu is a leading provider of customer-focused IT and communications solutions for the global marketplace. Pace-setting device technologies, highly reliable computing and communications products, and a worldwide corps of systems and services experts uniquely position Fujitsu to deliver comprehensive solutions that open up infinite possibilities for its customers' success. Headquartered in Tokyo, Fujitsu Limited (TSE:6702) reported consolidated revenues of 5.1 trillion yen (US$43.2 billion) for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2007. See http://www.fujitsu.com for further information.
About Software AG
Headquartered in Darmstadt, Germany, Software AG provides a full range of products and services to deliver a service-oriented architecture (SOA) IT infrastructure, based on over thirty-five years experience in high-performance databases, application development tools and integration technologies. Its technology offers process driven integration through legacy modernization and SOA based integration. Software AG helps its customers to achieve a competitive advantage through flexible and adaptive business processes based on fast and easy integration of existing IT assets. It supports the mission-critical systems of over 3,000 customers globally. Software AG is represented in around 70 countries with more than 2,700 employees. It is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (TecDAX, ISIN DE 0003304002 / SOW). In 2005 Software AG posted €438 million in total revenue. www.softwareag.com.
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