Application Description Actional Web services
management platform is a collection of products that cooperate to
provide the most complete end-to-end management and security of
enterprise Web services.
Actional SOAPstation
Actional Looking Glass
Actional Active Agents
Actional SOA Planner
Leveraging on successful deployments Actional has worked closely
with customers to create products, which not only provide
in-network brokering and management of Web services but also the
ability to centrally "command and control" a network infrastructure
of Web services implementations. Actional's ability to provide
additional capabilities such as centralized service network
visualization, configurable operational dashboards, monitoring of
service network performance, alert analyzer and forward looking
performance and scalability planning and analysis is unique within
the industry. As a result our customers have benefited from
accelerated speed-to-market, control and management of planned and
unplanned Web services network demands within a secured environment
for internal deployment or to external business partners.
Integration with Java System Application Server (formerly Sun
ONE Application Server)
Sun Java System (formerly Sun ONE) provides a completely open
environment to develop and deploy Services on Demand. The open
architecture of the Sun Java System provides great flexibility and
freedom, while also preserving IT investments by offering a smooth,
incremental migration to future technologies.
Actional's web services management solutions compliments the Java
System Application Server by provide the operational controls and
management necessary to deploy and scale web services applications
built using the Sun Java System environment. Actional SOAPstation
also executes on the Java System Application Server.
Benefit to customers
For customers developing web services applications on Java System
Application Server, Actional ability to provide in-network and
centralized operation command and control is the only solution
which:
Provides uniform active control of a service-oriented
application environment - not just monitoring, but the ability to
react to and correct Web service problems and proactively adjust
network behavior to avoid impending Web service problems
Delivers end-to-end visualization and management of complex Web
service deployments including root-cause failure analysis even when
multiple intermediaries are present
Actional's Web services management capacity planning features
enable customers to see, predict and plan for changes in demand on
deployed web services.
Actional's products are built using pure Java technology.
Actional Web services management products not only showcase Sun
Java System performance and scalability features but enable
customers to build larger scale enterprise application
Delivers a complete product line optimized for deployment on
Sun Java System offerings
