iWay Software to Unveil SOA Suite in 2006

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I know what you're thinking: iWay is an adapter company. Right? Wrong. That would be like describing AT&T as a company that puts wires in people's homes.

iWay Software has worked with many customers since its inception in 2001, to build process-enabling functionality on top of its well known adapter layer. In 2006, iWay will formally release its SOA suite of integration and interoperability software, which its customers have come to rely on. Now iWay will place a new emphasis on providing a complete offering for creating an agile, flexible, adaptive IT infrastructure that not only automates business activities, but also enables IT to respond faster to changes in the business landscape. Included in the offering will be GUI tools for:

	Service enablement and composite application development
	Enterprise service management
	Filtering and aggregating device and RFID events
	Provisioning and policy administration
	Business process orchestration (BPO)

Enterprise Service Bus

The iWay Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) provides interoperability among the different technologies that exist in any enterprise. The underlying philosophy behind the bus is, technical heterogeneity is a given and change in the business landscape is a constant. Companies that standardize on one integration platform will see new platforms introduced through mergers and acquisitions and evolving application stacks, like SAP's NetWeaver. The iWay ESB is a high-performance, scalable messaging platform that supports 26 interoperable message transports, which incorporate design-time GUI tools for reusable-service composition, loosely coupled service deployment, content-based routing, XML and non-XML message transformation, and technical process orchestration.

Service Monitor

The Service Monitor is for the operational side of SOA, allowing organizations to effectively manage, monitor and secure the SOA environment. This technology enables setting and enforcing policies and service-level agreements – facilitating governance terms that IT and the organization negotiate.

Trading Partner Management

Trading Manager facilitates the automation of collaborations among supply chains. It is a cost-effective alternative to EDI VAN's and translators. Trading Manager tracks and manages messages that flow between the organizations, providing an interface for managers to visualize the inter-company interactions that facilitate transactions. It enables timely exception handling and the fast creation and modification of partner interactions, regardless of message format or transport protocol. In tandem with the ESB, it provides a loosely coupled integration between external business constituents and internal processes.

Business Process Orchestration (BPO)

iWay BPO orchestrates services to automate long-running business processes that span multiple organizational and system silos. Using BPO on top of the ESB enables IT to create a virtual business-process platform that allows for flexible, agile processes that can easily be modified to accommodate changing business requirements. Because it leverages iWay reusable and interoperable services, business process application developers are shielded from the complexities of existing underlying systems.

Powered by Google – Enterprise Index

The iWay Enterprise Index taps into the many messages that flow throughout your organization in large volumes every day, and indexes them for searching by end users. Previously, no market solution allowed users to query information whose location and structure were unknown. Powered by Google, the Enterprise Index allows users to query unstructured data that exists in messages that flow through the ESB, regardless of the enterprise system(s) in which they ultimately reside.

RFID and Edge Event Middleware

iWay's Edge Event platform captures events that are triggered by physical world devices such as RFID readers, factory automation systems and others. The RFID Exchange product provides a common GUI tool for configuring and generating events from all major RFID readers. All Edge Events are trapped and filtered by software at the edges, and then routed into the iWay ESB for integration into existing systems and processes.

iWay Universal Adapter Framework

Of course, any mature business has already put in place systems that automate a large portion of its business process functionality. In cases where this functionality will not be replaced, the Universal Adapter Framework, which has been the foundation of iWay Software's early success, will be the foundation of an organization's SOA.