Computer Associates Releases WSDM r3.1 for Web Services Reporting

CA Extends Web Services Management Leadership With New Software and Hosted Service

WSDM r3.1 Delivers Management and Security of Service-Oriented Architectures

Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. May 24, 2004. CAWORLD.

Computer Associates International, Inc. today unveiled Web Services Distributed Management (WSDM) r3.1, the first comprehensive solution for gaining visibility into and control of individual Web services and the overall service-oriented architecture (SOA)-based environment.

CA's WSDM r3.1 is available as a product and a hosted service from CA. Customers can register their Web services online to be monitored and managed by WSDM, which reports events and performance results back to the customers.

By integrating the capabilities of its industry-leading Unicenter and eTrust technology, CA's WSDM provides a uniquely powerful solution for managing SOA and on-demand computing environments — enabling IT organizations to meet business requirements with greater adaptability and cost-efficiency than ever. It further supports SOA implementations by extending these management capabilities to free-form XML, CORBA, EDI and other technologies.

"Ultimately, our migration from Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) to Web services as the basis for our SOA is less likely to be hampered by limitations in development tools than by an inability to manage these next-generation services in the manner necessary to support critical eGovernment functions," said Sam Higgins, application architect for Queensland Transport, which is responsible for developing and managing the land, air and sea transport regulatory environment in the third largest state in Australia. "By delivering standards-based solutions that address these existing management gaps, CA continues to be a vital partner in the evolution of our SOA strategy."

Businesses are increasingly migrating to SOA to leverage infrastructure investments and deliver high-value information services to end-users within and beyond the enterprise. These loosely coupled services are creating new management challenges, since they are not "hard-wired" to specific enterprise infrastructure elements as are client/server applications.

WSDM r3.1 addresses these challenges by automatically discovering services and their dynamic dependencies — while providing the reporting and alerting functions to ensure best-practices monitoring and troubleshooting. Key features include:

Support for a broad range of platforms and protocols
Centralized management with advanced reporting and predictive analysis capabilities that reduce cost and complexity
Rapid time-to-benefit via automatic service detection, discovery and cataloging
A new, comprehensive Observer Development Kit that eases integration with third-party solutions.

"The ability of IT organizations to successfully implement on-demand computing is largely contingent upon their ability to effectively manage and secure service-oriented architectures," said Yogesh Gupta, chief technology officer for CA. "Today's new products and partnerships enable CA customers to meet these service-centric management and security challenges regardless of the complexity and heterogeneity of their underlying IT infrastructures."

Widespread Industry Support

CA also unveiled initiatives with a wide range of business partners — including Cape Clear, DataPower, Forum Systems, IONA, Reactivity, Sarvega and Systient — that are complementing CA WSDM r3.1 and eTrust Identity and Access Management to simplify management of Web services in the enterprise.

CA Web Services Performance Index

CA also launched the CA Web Services Performance Index (http://www.ca.com/webservices/perfindex), powered by WSDM, to report on the performance of more than 60 public Web services pre-registered by CA. The CA Web Services Performance Index will provide companies offering public Web services with performance data to ensure they are meeting their customers' requirements. It will also enable companies to have their private Web services monitored.

"Companies today have limited visibility into the runtime performance of their increasingly critical Web services," said Ronald Schmelzer, senior analyst with ZapThink. "CA's Web Services Performance Index will enable these companies to better monitor and enforce service level agreements with their business partners — thereby ensuring performance and uptime accountability."

About CA

Computer Associates International, Inc., the world's largest management software company, delivers software and services across operations, security, storage, life cycle and service management to optimize the performance, reliability and efficiency of enterprise IT environments. Founded in 1976, CA is headquartered in Islandia, N.Y., and operates in more than 100 countries. For more information, please visit http://ca.com

Prepared by Robin Cover for The XML Cover Pages archive.

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CA's WSDM r3.1 is available as a product and a hosted service from CA. Customers can register their Web services online to be monitored and managed by WSDM, which reports events and performance results back to the customers. By integrating the capabilities of its industry-leading Unicenter and eTrust technology, CA's WSDM provides a uniquely powerful solution for managing SOA and on-demand computing environments — enabling IT organizations to meet business requirements with greater adaptability and cost-efficiency than ever. It further supports SOA implementations by extending these management capabilities to free-form XML, CORBA, EDI and other technologies. "Ultimately, our migration from Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) to Web services as the basis for our SOA is less likely to be hampered by limitations in development tools than by an inability to manage these next-generation services in the manner necessary to support critical eGovernment functions," said Sam Higgins, application architect for Queensland Transport, which is responsible for developing and managing the land, air and sea transport regulatory environment in the third largest state in Australia. "By delivering standards-based solutions that address these existing management gaps, CA continues to be a vital partner in the evolution of our SOA strategy." Businesses are increasingly migrating to SOA to leverage infrastructure investments and deliver high-value information services to end-users within and beyond the enterprise. These loosely coupled services are creating new management challenges, since they are not "hard-wired" to specific enterprise infrastructure elements as are client/server applications. WSDM r3.1 addresses these challenges by automatically discovering services and their dynamic dependencies — while providing the reporting and alerting functions to ensure best-practices monitoring and troubleshooting. Key features include: Support for a broad range of platforms and protocols Centralized management with advanced reporting and predictive analysis capabilities that reduce cost and complexity Rapid time-to-benefit via automatic service detection, discovery and cataloging A new, comprehensive Observer Development Kit that eases integration with third-party solutions. "The ability of IT organizations to successfully implement on-demand computing is largely contingent upon their ability to effectively manage and secure service-oriented architectures," said Yogesh Gupta, chief technology officer for CA. "Today's new products and partnerships enable CA customers to meet these service-centric management and security challenges regardless of the complexity and heterogeneity of their underlying IT infrastructures." Widespread Industry Support CA also unveiled initiatives with a wide range of business partners — including Cape Clear, DataPower, Forum Systems, IONA, Reactivity, Sarvega and Systient — that are complementing CA WSDM r3.1 and eTrust Identity and Access Management to simplify management of Web services in the enterprise. CA Web Services Performance Index CA also launched the CA Web Services Performance Index (http://www.ca.com/webservices/perfindex), powered by WSDM, to report on the performance of more than 60 public Web services pre-registered by CA. The CA Web Services Performance Index will provide companies offering public Web services with performance data to ensure they are meeting their customers' requirements. It will also enable companies to have their private Web services monitored. "Companies today have limited visibility into the runtime performance of their increasingly critical Web services," said Ronald Schmelzer, senior analyst with ZapThink. "CA's Web Services Performance Index will enable these companies to better monitor and enforce service level agreements with their business partners — thereby ensuring performance and uptime accountability." About CA Computer Associates International, Inc., the world's largest management software company, delivers software and services across operations, security, storage, life cycle and service management to optimize the performance, reliability and efficiency of enterprise IT environments. Founded in 1976, CA is headquartered in Islandia, N.Y., and operates in more than 100 countries. For more information, please visit http://ca.com Prepared by Robin Cover for The XML Cover Pages archive.