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| BEA Systems Announces AquaLogic Data Services Platform 2.1 BEA Systems, Inc. has announced that the company has extended its vision of an integrated suite for service-oriented architecture (SOA) with its new AquaLogic Data Services Platform 2.1 (ALDSP). ALDSP 2.1 is designed to help application developers and SOA architects automate the process of service-enabling their data to build composite applications such as Web applications and portals. The product now features support for Microsoft ADO.NET, providing tooling and runtime support designed for transparent interoperability with .NET applications. This new feature gives users the ability to access (read) and update data through the ADO.NET standard to multiple back-end data sources. With .NET support now built into ALDSP, BEA can help increase an enterprise's ability to enable data access across its heterogeneous IT infrastructure. The ability to access data from a centralized service layer has become an important driver in the adoption of SOA. According to a recent International Data Group (IDG) survey, nearly half of those deploying SOA (49 percent) named data access as a key driver in their company's decision to adopt SOA. Another important feature is the ALDSP 2.1 Audit Framework, which is designed to support flexible auditing of events across all heterogeneous sources for greater compliance and control for user-access. Also, the product's new operational monitoring support can capture metrics associated with execution of data services and can allow them to be used for computing and tracking service level agreements (SLA). ALDSP is a platform to service-enable enterprise data. The software is designed to automate the process of creating and maintaining services, adding better performance, uniform management and control across all heterogeneous data sources. In addition to helping increase an enterprise's ability to enable data access across its IT infrastructure, ALDSP is also designed to provide greater business agility, while helping to reduce total cost of ownership and to enable faster time to market as it provides a common data layer across all corporate systems. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Networking News :: home page |