Overview of Web Services Security

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Overview of Web Services Management

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Blue Titan Vies For Niche In Web Services Management

Blue Titan is far from the only ISV trying to tackle Web services management ahead of the demand for the technology. Jason Bloomberg, an analyst with Waltham, Mass.-based research firm ZapThink, estimates there are at least 10 startups focused on some aspect of Web services management.

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Service-Oriented Management Technology Landscape

Web Services management applications provide software that helps companies manage the systems and applications that underlie their Web Services implementations. The Web Services management products on the market today offer functionality in five basic categories: system management, lifecycle management, business management, security management, and the most important, Service-Oriented Architecture enablement.

The latter category is especially important because many Web Services management products provide the critical infrastructure necessary for companies to take their fine-grained, atomic Web Services and other data sources and encapsulate and compose them into coarse-grained business Services that make up a Service-Oriented Architecture. Such architectures offer far more long-term business value than the point-to-point applications of Web Services common today.

Service-Oriented Management

Web Services management applications provide software that helps companies manage the systems and applications that underlie their Web Services implementations. The Web Services management products on the market today offer functionality in five basic categories: system management, lifecycle management, business management, security management, and the most important, Service-Oriented Architecture enablement.

The latter category is especially important because many Web Services management products provide the critical infrastructure necessary for companies to take their fine-grained, atomic Web Services and other data sources and encapsulate and compose them into coarse-grained business Services that make up a Service-Oriented Architecture. Such architectures offer far more long-term business value than the point-to-point applications of Web Services common today.

Web Services Security Technologies & Markets

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Web Services Management

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Web Services Security

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What You Need to Know About Web Services Security

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Actional, AmberPoint eye Web services management

“It’s clear that things are exploding in this space, but what’s happening now is that every company has a different marketing message and it’s confusing,” said Jason Bloomberg, principal analyst at ZapThink.

Bloomberg said that management really involves four distinct areas: traditional systems management for availability and performance, life cycle management for rolling out new Web services and versioning, business management to give a dashboard view of criteria such as how many orders processed, and services-oriented architecture support to piece together many fine-grained Web services into one coarse-grained component.

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