SOA Vendor Matrix
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The SeeWhy Software Suite focuses on business integration. The suite comes in two editions: Enterprise and Community. The Community Edition is the frequent-release development version with little support. The Enterprise Edition represents stable snapshots and includes enterprise scalability and paid support. |
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SOAMatrix offers four products: SOALayers, SOAIntegrator, SOADirector and SOAStore. SOALayers is the company's comprehensive SOA platform. As its name implies, , SOAIntegrator is the product for integrating various SOA services. SOAStore handles design-time governance and SOADirector covers runtime governance. SOAMatrix offers its products on a 45-day free-trial basis. |
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SOA Software focuses primarily on SOA governance automation. Its products include Policy Manager, a tool to manage and automate SOA policies; SOA Software's Repository Manager, which complements Policy Manager with application development tools; and Service Manager, which implements and enforces Policy Manager's rules. Finally, SOLA is a gateway between Web services and CICS mainframe applications. |
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SOAInstitute.org is a portal for SOA professionals to exchange ideas and share knowledge. SOAInstitute.org also offers training and workshops on SOA, BPM and other business architecture issues. |
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Solstice Software sells Solstice Integra Suite 6.2, which provides tools for testing SOA governance in a Web services environment. Integra Suite integrates with HP's Quality Center. |
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SOPERA is an open-source SOA platform that includes a suite of development tools, enterprise service bus (ESB) and governance tools. SOPERA is heavily invested in the philosophy of open source, and claims a high degree of reliability due to the principle that "Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow." |
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WSO2 offers a comprehensive set of open-source SOA tools licensed under the Apache license. As such, WSO2 is a contributor to several Apache projects, including Apache Axis2, Apache Rampart, Apache Synapse, Apache Axiom and others. |
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XimpleWare claims to provide next-generation XML processing solutions that increase the performance of your ESB. Its primary product is the open-source VTD-XML, licensed under the GPL. |



