Software AG enhances XML Business Integration products to support process-driven integration, SOA management

Software AG has enhanced four of its XML Business Integration products to better support process-driven integration, Software AG's approach to help customers derive business value through implementing service-oriented architectures (SOAs).

The four products are:

* Enterprise Business Process Manager (EBPM)
* Enterprise Information Integrator (EII)
* Enterprise Service Integrator (ESI)
* Enterprise Legacy Integrator (ELI)

According to Software AG South Africa's sales director, Devon Dalbock, using these products in the context of process-driven integration and SOA will equip organisations to respond more quickly and securely to customer requirements and changes in the business landscape.

This is achieved, in part, he said, by the fact that the four XML Business Integration products are now being shipped with an embedded version of the recently-announced CentraSite SOA Repository, jointly developed by Fujitsu and Software AG (www.soaworks.com).

"CentraSite manages SOA metadata assets and enables maximum visibility and re-use of Web services components within and across organisations. CentraSite also provides reporting on those metadata assets and supports the sharing of the assets in the context of an SOA.

"Through process-driven integration, our XML Business Integration products enable customers to use their entire SOA infrastructure to support their business processes, and to manage and change business processes quickly and safely," Dalbock said.

The enhancements include the following:

With further enhancements to its process modelling and analytics capabilities, Enterprise Process Manager has expanded support for the whole lifecycle of processes in an enterprise. The newest version provides business users with the option of reusing existing Visio diagrams and includes support for the Business Process Modelling Notations (BPMN) standard. Enterprise Process Manager has an intuitive graphical interface and supports both the human and application-level interactions that drive companies' business operations. Business process models can be stored and managed in CentraSite.

EII now supports UDDI registration of the Web services generated by the product, as well as WS-I compliance, improved Web service and Adabas data source support. Software AG's EII delivers unified business views from disparate systems tailored to users' context and process requirements. Business views can be stored and managed in CentraSite.

Software AG's Enterprise Service Bus now includes BPEL support (to orchestrate business processes exposed as Web services), as well as improved support for SOAP and UDDI, and an automated schema/instance generator. Web services orchestrations can be stored and managed in CentraSite.

ELI can now register Web services in CentraSite. Software AG's ELI accesses valuable legacy assets at the data, transaction or session level, so that these legacy resources can be exposed as Web services and extended into SOA in support of improved business processes. In addition, ELI now includes an Eclipse plug-in. This allows wrapping of Natural applications that can be used by Java applications directly from an Eclipse environment.