WebMethods is adding Cerebra’s semantic metadata management technology to its business integration suite in order to stand out in the crowded service-oriented architecture (SOA) software market.As more customers look to adopt SOA, an approach to developing and managing IT systems through reusable technologies, vendors are falling over each other to acquire more SOA expertise to enhance the capabilities of their existing offerings. For instance, IBM earlier this month made its third SOA acquisition picking up Webify Solutions, a small SOA development and deployment software vendor focused on the health-care and insurance industries.WebMethods announced Monday that it had purchased the bulk of Cerebra’s assets for an undisclosed sum and plans to embed the privately held vendor’s technology into future versions of Fabric, its SOA suite. The Fabric suite brings together tools to help users improve the management of their business processes within an SOA framework and gain a better understanding of how their existing IT assets, including Web services, function and interoperate. SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER From our editors straight to your inbox Get started by entering your email address below. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe The Cerebra technology will become WebMethods’ metadata repository, a central store of descriptive information that captures, defines and maintains a company’s IT assets. Cerebra’s specific area of expertise is in semantic information. This provides additional context to metadata by documenting the interrelationships between IT assets, helping users more easily assess the likely impact of any changes on those assets. WebMethods expects the Cerebra technology to debut in the next major release of Fabric, version 7.0, which is due to ship in December.WebMethods is also looking to make the Cerebra technology available to third parties via future reselling partnerships in areas including product portfolio management, master data management and financial compliance and assurance. -China Martens, IDG News Service (Boston Bureau)Check out our CIO News Alerts and Tech Informer pages for more updated news coverage. Related content feature Mastercard preps for the post-quantum cybersecurity threat A cryptographically relevant quantum computer will put everyday online transactions at risk. Mastercard is preparing for such an eventuality — today. By Poornima Apte Sep 22, 2023 6 mins CIO 100 CIO 100 CIO 100 feature 9 famous analytics and AI disasters Insights from data and machine learning algorithms can be invaluable, but mistakes can cost you reputation, revenue, or even lives. These high-profile analytics and AI blunders illustrate what can go wrong. By Thor Olavsrud Sep 22, 2023 13 mins Technology Industry Generative AI Machine Learning feature Top 15 data management platforms available today Data management platforms (DMPs) help organizations collect and manage data from a wide array of sources — and are becoming increasingly important for customer-centric sales and marketing campaigns. By Peter Wayner Sep 22, 2023 10 mins Marketing Software Data Management opinion Four questions for a casino InfoSec director By Beth Kormanik Sep 21, 2023 3 mins Media and Entertainment Industry Events Security Podcasts Videos Resources Events SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER From our editors straight to your inbox Get started by entering your email address below. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe