The Forrester Wave™: SOA And Web Services Management, Q1 2006

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) and Web services management applies enterprise management concepts to SOA's service interface layer, implementing key aspects of SOA-based flexibility by enforcing policy and monitoring activity for service requests before they are delivered to the business logic of the service. Viewed from a solution perspective, buyers may obtain SOA management capabilities from dedicated products and from features embedded in other products. To assess the state of the SOA management market and see how the solutions stack up against one another, Forrester evaluated the strengths and weaknesses of top SOA management vendors across 106 criteria. The result: Two pure-play SOA vendors, AmberPoint and Actional (recently acquired by Sonic Software) lead the pack, but platform vendors like CA, HP, IBM, Oracle, and TIBCO Software have much to offer. Included in this report is an interactive vendor comparison tool that provides detailed product evaluations and customizable rankings.