Policy Manager is used by developers in building services within an SOA, a form of distributed computing used to link internal business applications and connect them to systems of suppliers and partners. The Systinet tool gives developers easy access to the corporate policies they need to follow in order to meet regulatory compliance, corporate rules or technical mandates.
In addition, the product is also able to exchange data and notifications with run-time tools for operational policy enforcement.
"It's a very powerful design-time tool," Ian Bruce, director of marketing for Systinet, said. "It gives the quality and consistency required for SOAs to be successful."
Among the new features in Policy Manager 2.0 is the ability to test services for conformance. If the service passes, then it can be deployed. If it fails, then the product's diagnostic tools can tell the developer why.
Other features include wizards for automating the deployment of common policies found across many businesses, and pre-packaged policies designed by Systinet and partners, such as SOA consulting firm MomentumSI.
Policy Manager 2.0 is currently available as a standalone product, or as an integrated component of Systinet 2, a SOA governance and lifecycle management platform. The latter product is used to ensure consistent access, management and governance of reusable services, associated artifacts and information that enable SOAs.
Systinet, based in Burlington, Mass., is a division of Mercury Interactive Corp.,
