Business ServiceWare

VeN4 ServiceWare™

VeN4 ServiceWare™ - is all about maximizing reuse, agility, and return on accumulated IT and software investments enabled by the Automated Business ServiceWare.

VeN4 ServiceWare™ enables acceleration of the SOA initiative. Whether you’re taking a “top down” or “bottom up” SOA implementation approach, VeN4 ServiceWare™ provides an automated SOA foundation, maintaining alignment with corporate software assets and applications within related business context.

VeN4 ServiceWare™ takes an automated and incremental approach to an SOA repository and registry population, playing a critical role in the SOA implementation process. It enables the industry-leading ISV’s standards-based UDDI service repository to become the Business ServiceWare that spans the organization’s business services and related IT processes, that consist of software components.

Key features

Visibility into Business, SOA and IT assets for reuse and traceability

Business architecture visibility: Automated business architecture modeling - discovers the business architecture (business services and products offered by the company to it’s customers) as reflected on the enterprise User Interface (Web, Windows, 3270 screens) and populates the Business ServiceWare with the related metadata and models.

IT process visibility: IT assets and process modeling by business context - discovers automatically IT assets (programs, classes, SOA and business services, IT processes flow etc.) that are used as part of the activation of any business service through a User Interface such as a Web site.

Business ServiceWare - search by business context engine: Enables visibility, use and reuse of the enterprise business logic and software assets by context.

Enterprise IT visibility: Business ServiceWare provides a central point of management visualizing all heterogeneous IT and SOA assets, including business and IT processes, services, applications, components, models, frameworks etc., regardless of their origin or source. Teams can view assets under development to avoid a redundant effort and encourage collaboration and reuse. Role-based access controls make sure that the right people see the right assets within the Business context.

End-to-end traceability: Graphical mapping and navigation abilities of business architecture to business services, business service to IT and SOA assets and asset-to-asset within a business context relationships and interdependencies, simplify business impact analysis and promote ever evolving business changes.

Flexible categorizations and relationships enable users to organize IT and SOA assets and link them to the business domain or IT processes and objectives they support, providing visibility into business and IT alignment.