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Permalink Reply by Michael Levin on July 9, 2009 at 2:40pm

Sunny,

How are you going about doing this trade study? Many of us do trade studies from time to time and would like to know an tips ou have to pass along. Also, more info on managing 1000's of services would be very interesting. Thanks in advance!

Best,

Mike

Permalink Reply by Sunny Wear on July 10, 2009 at 7:21am

Hi Mike,
Thank you for your reply. Basically, I have a list of requirements and I am doing POCs on each product. We will need to manage a couple of hundred services, so a robust governance package is necessary. Here are my requirements of must-haves and importants:

Must Haves
1. Reliability/High Availability
2. Development Integration
3. Security
4. Scalability
5. Accountability
6. Ease-of-use
7. Runtime updates and debugging
8. SOA Platform Compatibility
9. Vendor support
10. Vendor Viability
11. Product Viability
12. Service Discovery Process
13. Certification workflow
14. Runtime Engine Integration
15. Mediation/Management Capability
16. Business Service Asset Management
17. Business Service Cataloging and Taxonomy
18. API Ease and Interoperability


1.2 Important
1. Monitoring capabilities
2. Metrics
3. Web-based UI

--Sunny