SOA Infrastructure Selection Criteria, 2009

ID Number: G00170722

9 September 2009

Jess Thompson

It is important to use a systematic approach when selecting an infrastructure to support the deployment of service-oriented architecture. We list an updated set of features you should consider when establishing requirements for the evaluation of a service-oriented architecture infrastructure.

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Table of Contents

Analysis

1.0

Introduction

2.0

Criteria for Mandatory Requirements

2.1		Company Ownership and History
2.2		Vendor Response to RFP
2.3		General/Showstoppers

3.0

Criteria for Functional requirements

3.1

SOA Governance Features

3.1.1

Life Cycle Management

3.1.2

Policy Management and Enforcement

3.1.2.1		Discovery
3.1.2.2		Definition
3.1.2.3		Enforcement

3.1.3

SOA Metadata Management (e.g., Registry)

3.2

SOA Backplane Features

3.2.1

ESB Suite

3.2.1.1		Communications
3.2.1.2		Adapters
3.2.1.3		Packaged Integrating Processes and Packaged Composite Applications
3.2.1.4		Advanced Semantic Transformation
3.2.1.5		Mediation
3.2.1.6		Quality of Service
3.2.1.7		Orchestration
3.2.1.8		Activity Monitoring
3.2.1.9		Security
3.2.1.10		Administration and Management

3.2.2

Data Integration

3.2.2.1		Data Manipulation Services
3.2.2.2		Semantic/Logical Tooling
3.2.2.3		Optimization
3.2.2.4		Data Stewardship and Governance Services

3.2.3

Community Management (Low-Level)

3.2.3.1		Trading Partner Management
3.2.3.2		B2B Security
3.2.3.3		Network Connectivity/Communications
3.2.3.4		End-to-End Tracking and Management

3.3

SOA Development and Testing Tooling

3.3.1

Design

3.3.1.1		Integration of External IDE
3.3.1.2		Works With heterogeneous, Standards-Based Application Servers

3.3.2

Testing

3.3.2.1		Functional Testing
3.3.2.2		Regression Testing
3.3.2.3		Load and Performance Testing

3.3.3

SOA Deployment

3.3.3.1

Support of Multiple Deployment Strategies

3.3.4

Support for Service Component Architecture

3.4

SOA Containers

3.4.1		User Experience
3.4.2		Application Server
3.4.3		Process Execution Engine
3.4.4		Rule Execution Engine
3.4.5		Complex-Event Processing Engine

3.5

SOA-Related Capabilities

3.5.1

Community Management (High-Level)

3.5.2

MDM

3.5.3

Managed File Transfer

3.5.4

Near-Neighbor Metadata Management and Federation

3.5.5

BPM Support

3.5.5.1		Model-Driven Composition Environment
3.5.5.2		Document and Content Interaction
3.5.5.3		User and Group Interaction
3.5.5.4		Basic Connectivity
3.5.5.5		BAM and Business Event Support
3.5.5.6		Simulation and Optimization
3.5.5.7		Management and Administration
3.5.5.8		Analytical Tooling
3.5.5.9		Standards Support
3.5.5.10		Monitoring and Management
3.5.5.11		Optimization
3.5.5.12		Workflow
3.5.5.13		Process Component Registry/Repository

3.5.6

Business Rule Management Support

3.5.7

Context Broker

3.5.8

BAM

List of Figures

	Figure 1.	Gartner's Reference Architecture for Application Infrastructure

IT Asset Evaluation and Selection
Application Integration and Middleware Software
Platform Middleware
Service-Oriented Architecture

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