IONA Revolutionizes SOA Registry/Repository

Newest Artix Product Family Member Delivers Active SOA Governance Capabilities

DUBLIN, Ireland & WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--IONA® Technologies (NASDAQ: IONA), a world leader in distributed service-oriented architecture (SOA) infrastructure solutions for performance-demanding IT environments, today announced availability of IONA Artix™ Registry/Repository, the latest product in IONA Artix, the company’s advanced SOA infrastructure suite. Artix Registry/Repository enables customers to design, build, deploy and manage a network of business services by providing a complete system of record of services in a distributed SOA environment, including the policies, contracts, implementation artifacts and dependencies that control their usage. The ability to drive, and validate, the deployment of services and policies into a distributed SOA network redefines the state of the art and starkly differentiates Artix Registry/Repository from all other available governance solutions that only serve as a static archive.

“Enterprise SOA deployments are becoming more complex and incorporating a significantly greater number of services. Only those organizations that employ an effective governance strategy; one that incorporates the entire service usage cycle, will be in a position to take full advantage of the expected business benefits of SOA.”

“Artix Registry/Repository gives customers a powerful command and control center to define, promote and measure the reuse of services, which is ultimately where the core value of SOA lies. This cannot be accomplished with more traditional ‘passive’ registry/repository products,” said Stephanos Bacon, vice president, Product Development, IONA. “Artix Registry/Repository is a critical component of IONA Artix, which enables our customers to deploy dynamic and adaptable SOA in an incremental manner.”

Artix Registry/Repository delivers the fundamental requirements for applying SOA governance and effectively addresses the challenges of deploying and managing a truly distributed SOA. The product makes it significantly easier for Global 2000 customers to govern the proper use of services and validate service deployments against architectural design and service policies. By capturing and storing the metadata associated with deployed services, Artix Registry/Repository provides customers with important visibility into the return on investment of their SOA implementation.

“With SOA moving from the cutting edge to the mainstream, governance is not optional, it is an imperative,” said Massimo Pezzini, Vice President and Distinguished Analyst at Gartner, Inc. “Enterprise SOA deployments are becoming more complex and incorporating a significantly greater number of services. Only those organizations that employ an effective governance strategy; one that incorporates the entire service usage cycle, will be in a position to take full advantage of the expected business benefits of SOA.”

Artix Registry/Repository is designed to meet the requirements of customers across all stages of the SOA lifecycle, which takes an organization from design and development, through deployment and management, and even revision of existing services. Because Artix Registry/Repository simplifies the process of packaging and provisioning services, organizations are better prepared to revise and refine services in the face of changing business requirements. Validating deployed services against the stored “view” of the SOA network also helps eliminate errors that can occur when updating services. As importantly, the capability of Artix Registry/Repository to encapsulate and store all relevant information about a customer’s SOA network means the entire network of services can be redeployed if necessary.

As with all products in IONA Artix, Artix Registry/Repository is designed for use in performance-demanding, heterogeneous IT environments and can be deployed in an incremental manner. The product delivers the following capabilities to Global 2000 customers deploying distributed SOA in the enterprise:

• Capture and Discovery – Artix Registry/Repository enables customers to store all of the critical information about their network of services including contracts, policies, configuration details and enterprise Qualities of Service (QoS).
• Service Network Provisioning – Artix Registry/Repository simplifies the configuration and deployment of new services based on corporate policies to eliminate manual provisioning, which is time consuming and error prone.
• SOA Validation – Artix Registry/Repository conducts compliance checks for architectural consistency, schema usage and policy application for driving enterprise-wide service governance and enforcement.
• Visual Service Management – Artix Registry/Repository provides an Eclipse-based tooling console that includes a policy editor and illustrates service-consumer/service-provider relationships to help architects visualize their SOA networks and manage toward that vision.

About IONA Artix

IONA Artix is a suite of advanced SOA infrastructure products that enables customers to deploy SOA in a truly distributed manner. Featuring componentized, technology-neutral SOA infrastructure products that work together or independently, IONA Artix allows customers unprecedented flexibility in SOA adoption. These products include Artix ESB, Artix Orchestration, SOA Data Services, Artix SOA Works (tooling) and technology from our partners such as SOA Management from AmberPoint. IONA Artix is based on a lightweight, microkernel architecture that provides organizations with the ability to incrementally adopt SOA on their own terms, one step at a time.

About IONA

For more than a decade, IONA® Technologies (NASDAQ: IONA) has been a world leader in delivering high-performance integration solutions for Global 2000 IT environments. IONA pioneered standards-based integration with its CORBA-based Orbix® products. IONA’s Artix™, an advanced SOA infrastructure suite enables customers to leverage service-oriented architecture to streamline and modernize IT environments. The Celtix™ family of open source distributed SOA infrastructure products allows customers to take advantage of the economic benefits associated with the use of open source software.

IONA is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, with U.S. headquarters in Waltham, Massachusetts and offices worldwide. For additional information about IONA, visit our Web site at http://www.iona.com.

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