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Systinet and Partners Deliver SOA Policy Interoperability; Governance Interoperability Framework Provides New, Standards-based Support for Multi-vendor Service Policy Creation, Discovery and Reporting.

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BURLINGTON, Mass. -- Systinet, the leading software provider of the foundation for SOA governance and lifecycle management, today announced the delivery of SOA policy interoperability using the Governance Interoperability Framework (GIF), with Systinet's Registry acting as the SOA system-of-record. GIF is the only collaborative, standards-based approach for governing consistency of SOA metadata across multiple vendors and technologies, facilitating the free exchange of SOA business service information. Extending support to include policy makes it possible for the first time to consistently create, discover, and manage policies at design-time and runtime, helping ensure service quality and conformance to business and IT governance rules.

"Companies should start to consider the use of service-oriented architecture registries, both stand-alone and embedded, to reference resources and policies," wrote Frank Kenney, Principal Research Analyst at Gartner, in a recent industry report. "However, companies need to recognize that, today, they will have to integrate and federate these new and established policies with the technologies to enforce them. The ultimate goal of an SOA is to make businesses more flexible. Those IT managers seeking closer alignment with business goals must combine the ideas of...