HP industry-standard approach to web services management
Posted: 27 July 2003
Working with partners to help overcome barriers to full-scale Web
services adoption, HP announced its plans to submit its Web Services
Management Framework for industry review to the Organisation for
the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS), a global
consortium driving the development, convergence and adoption of
e-business standards.
With support from industry leaders such as Ascential Software,
BEA Systems, Informatica, IONA, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, TIBCO
Software, Inc., and webMethods, among others, HP will make the framework
specification available for public download and is delivering a
call to action for other Web services-reliant companies to join
the effort to create an industry standards-based solution for the
management of, and through, Web services.
Enterprises demanding reduced information technology (IT) complexity
and increased agility need to control access, track and measure
service levels, collect usage data and, most importantly, ensure
return on their IT investments.
This can be achieved through an intelligently managed adaptive
infrastructure that incorporates “built-in” Web services
management within the design and deployment of their IT infrastructures.
Developed by HP, with significant input from key partners, the Web
Services Management Framework is a logical architecture for the
management of resources, including Web services themselves, through
Web services.
“HP is leading the development of open standards for Web
services management by working with its partners to establish a
management interface that is domain, platform and vendor neutral,”
said Joseph Hanania, Regional General Manager HP Middle East. “We’re
submitting this specification to OASIS to accelerate the adoption
of common standards in Web services management and to simplify Web
services development for our partners and customers today, while
enabling them to plug into the adaptive enterprise of tomorrow.”
The framework defines how all IT resources in an adaptive enterprise
can expose management information about themselves and how they
can be managed.
A management interface communicates immediate knowledge about changes
in business processes and IT infrastructure whenever application
and infrastructure events occur, and it gives companies the choice
and flexibility to adopt future innovations and advance the management
of their adaptive enterprise.
The framework also embraces standardisation — one of the
four design principles in HP’s Darwin Reference Architecture
— to provide customers and partners with a step-by-step approach
to creating a business process-oriented IT environment that dynamically
adjusts to business changes.
The Darwin Reference architecture creates a tighter linkage between
critical business processes and the supporting IT infrastructure
and helps provide built-in manageability.
Model and platform neutral, the Web Services Management Framework
is designed to be applied to many different domains with varying
management requirements and allows for management of J2EE, .NET
and other platforms.
This allows it to better support important IT domains such as enterprise
application integration, enterprise resource planning, software
configuration management and Web services.
“HP is taking a leadership position in driving standards
for Web services management,” said Audrey Rasmussen, vice
president, Enterprise Management Associates. “By offering
a non-proprietary solution jointly developed with industry partners,
HP will help speed the adoption of an open specification for the
end-to-end management of Web services and, at the same time, help
eliminate a key barrier to the development and deployment of Web
services.”
HP is working with leading standards consortia and partners to
meet the emerging needs of IT administrators to monitor and actively
manage Web services.
The company is an active participant in OASIS, W3C, Liberty Alliance,
Global Grid Forum and Web Service-Interoperability Organization.
Industry leaders including Ascential Software, BEA Systems, Informatica,
IONA, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, TIBCO and webMethods support the
Web Services Management Framework.
“Innovative companies that pursue Web services in conjunction
with their enterprise integration initiatives will have a much more
open and flexible platform that delivers better long-term value.
The Ascential Enterprise Integration Suite delivers the benefits
of service-oriented architecture to our customers. We applaud HP’s
efforts and support its submission of the Web Services Management
Framework for industry review to OASIS,” said Bob Zurek, vice
president, Advanced Technology, Ascential Software Corporation,
the enterprise data integration leader.
“BEA recognises the importance of standards to enable adaptive
management in heterogeneous environments, and we will build implementations
together with HP that take advantage of these standards in order
to simplify the real-time adaptive management of our customers’
entire application infrastructures,” said Scott Dietzen, chief
technology officer, BEA Systems, Inc.
“Informatica recognises that a Web services based solution
for exposing management information, developed jointly with industry
partners, is essential not only to monitor and manage key business
operations, but to enable the adaptive enterprise. We are pleased
to support HP’s submission of the Web Services Management
Framework for industry review to the OASIS WSDM technical committee,”
said James Markarian, vice president of product strategy, Informatica
Corporation, a leading provider of data integration and business
intelligence software.
“Since its inception, IONA’s mission has been to provide
software solutions that enable customers to build an adaptive and
collaborative IT infrastructure. We are pleased to be working with
HP on WSMF to formalise a non-proprietary, open solution for the
end-to-end management of Web services. Web services management standardisation
is an important step toward helping customers reduce IT complexity
and increase return on IT investments,” said Eric Newcomer,
chief technology officer, IONA, a leading provider of High Performance
Integration™ software solutions for mission-critical systems.
“Oracle is pleased to work with HP in support of their Web
Services Management Framework — WSMF. The submission of WSMF
to OASIS is an important step toward an open standards-based approach
for Web Services management that is critical to Oracle and HP customers,”
said Donald Deutsch, vice president of standards strategy and architecture,
Oracle Corporation.
“Sun believes that the widespread adoption of Web services
management depends on the development of high-quality standards,
and Sun is committed to participating in the development of these
standards as well as products. Sun has long supported the timely
development of restriction-free specifications at industry-recognised
organisations like OASIS, W3C and Liberty and we support the submission
of WSMF to OASIS,” said John Fowler, chief technology officer,
software, Sun Microsystems, Inc., a leading provider of industrial-strength
hardware, software and services.
“We are working closely with HP to develop standards-based
solutions around HP’s Web Services Management specifications
that will help companies to dynamically adapt their business in
response to changes in their internal and external environments.
Together, TIBCO and HP will deliver a powerful Web services-based
solution that will enable customers to gain immediate insight into
the information flow between business processes across the enterprise,
as well as external events that affect them, allowing them to optimise
their business for greater competitive advantage,” said Tommy
Joseph, chief technology officer, TIBCO Software, Inc., a leading
enabler of real-time business and a leading independent business
integration software company.
“webMethods and HP are building upon their strong history
of standards collaboration to help define the Web services management
standards within the OASIS WSDM technical committee. The resulting
standards will serve as the foundation for our mutual customers’
realisation of a true adaptive enterprise,” said Yale Tankus,
vice president of business development, webMethods, Inc., a leading
independent provider of integration software.
Leveraging its HP OpenView management software portfolio, HP has
introduced for beta customers technologies that use HP’s Web
Services Management Framework for the adaptive enterprise, including
the HP OpenView Web Services Management Engine and new Application
Impact Analysis and Business Impact Analysis technologies.
The Web Services Management Framework 2.0 specification is available
for download, at no cost, at http://devresource.hp.com/wsmf. The
specification will be contributed to the OASIS WSDM technical committee
during the next face-to-face meeting, scheduled for July 28.
More information on HP management software and solutions is available
at www.openview.hp.com.
About HP
HP delivers vital technology for business and life. The company’s
solutions span IT infrastructure, personal computing and access
devices, global services and imaging and printing for consumers,
enterprises and small and medium business. For the last four quarters,
HP revenue totaled $70.4 billion. More information about HP is available
at http://www.hp.com
About HP Middle East
HP is the largest IT company in the Middle East employing about
500 people in the region. HP has been present in the Middle East
since 1968, and opened its first regional office in 1994 and has
offices in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Riyadh, Jeddah and Khobar, Cairo and
Ramallah servicing the GCC, the Levant and Egypt.
For more information see www.hp.com/me.
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