What is Web Services Management?
Web Services Management is a title used by the Gartner group to describe a market for solutions that facilitate the deployment of Web services. The term has become very broad and encompasses a wide range of different capabilities, implemented to varying degrees by a number of vendors. At a minimum, Web Services Management solutions provide service performance and availability monitoring, often extending to provide service level agreement (SLA) monitoring. Some solutions build on monitoring to provide management and enforcement of service level agreements. While others focus on Web Services Security management and enforcement. SOA Software offers comprehensive monitoring and management (including very advanced identity-based SLA contracts, the strongest Web Services Security solution on the market, and extends the concept of Web Services Management with a powerful SOA Enablement solution.
