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Features

FeatureDescription
Registry and Repository for Anything
  • Store any type of data or metadata as resources including contracts, models, workflows, WSDLs, Word documents, server configurations and more
  • Revisions, versions with checkpointing and rollback for any resource or resource collections
  • Full-text search, metadata search, tagging
  • Register externally stored resources including via Microsoft Sharepoint
  • Define behaviors that trigger automatically based on resource type
SOA Governance
  • Flexible Service Registry for any type of services including REST services, JSON services, SOAP services and Thrift services
  • Govern all aspects of services including service descriptions, service consumption, service usage, service discovery, service lifecycle management and service policies
  • Dependency management and impact analysis
  • Policy management for both design-time and run-time
  • Comprehensive lifecycle management
  • Act as Policy Store for any Policy Enforcement Point (PEP) including WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus and WSO2 Application Server
  • Manage notifications and alerts
  • Role based authentication and authorization with integration to WSO2 Identity Server or LDAP provider including Microsoft ActiveDirectory and IBM Tivoli Access Manager
  • Auditing, logging and reporting
Configuration Governance
  • Govern any kind of server/system configuration
  • Version and revision management with checkpointing and rollback
  • Full lifecycle management spanning across development, testing, staging and production environments
  • Integrates to any 3rd party product via command-line clients
  • Deeply integrated to all WSO2 Carbon middleware products
Development Process Governance
  • Govern all aspects of the develop-build-test-stage-production process
  • Integration with source code control systems such as SVN
  • Integrates with 3rd party continuous integration (CI) systems such as Jenkins or Atlassian Bamboo
  • Integration with popular build systems such as Maven or Ant
  • Comprehensive end-to-end application lifecycle management and governance
Framework for Governing Anything
  • Define any type of governance asset
  • Customize any aspect including UIs, handlers and filters
  • Integrated with 3rd party products and external systems
  • Repository APIs: WebDAV, JCR
  • Registry APIs: UDDIv3, JAXR
  • Governance APIs: Atom/AtomPP, SOAP, S-RAMP
Lifecycle Management
  • Customizable lifecycle management with built-in best practices
  • Content introspection, validation and verification
  • Human interactions, notifications and checklists
  • Extensible with SCXML, WS-BPEL and Java
Design-time Governance
  • Discovery and managed reuse of schemas and other shared metadata supporting contract-first service design
  • Lifecycle management and approval for metadata
  • IDE integration with WSO2 Developer Studio, Eclipse plugin, Microsoft Visual Studio and WebDAV
  • Standards enforcement including all WS-I profiles
  • Built-in best practices for common metadata types
Run-time Governance
  • Act as Policy Store for any type of runtime policies including security policies, API policies, service contracts, SLAs and XACML authorization policies
  • Integrates with WSO2 Business Activity Monitor to provide analytics, monitoring and business intelligence including custom KPIs
  • Service performance metrics management
Change Management
  • Role based separation of actions
  • Approval processes
  • Ability schedule tasks for future execution
Social Collaboration for Enterprise Governance
  • Empower the social enterprise
  • Human interaction with governance via tasks
  • Comments, ratings and tags on any type of resource or artifact
Lightweight, Developer Friendly and Easy to Deploy
  • Server customization via feature provisioning of any WSO2 middleware capability
  • Deployable standalone or as federated set of servers
  • Choice of deployment to on-premise servers, private cloud or public cloud (WSO2 StratosLive Governance-as-a-Service) without configuration changes
  • Integrated with SVN, Maven, Ant and other standard tools for development and deployment
  • Integrated to WSO2 Developer Studio, Eclipse-based IDE for all WSO2 products
Manage and Monitor
  • Comprehensive management and monitoring Web console with enterprise-level security
  • Built-in collection and monitoring of standard access and performance statistics
  • JMX MBeans for key metrics monitoring and management
  • Integrates with WSO2 Business Activity Monitor for operational audit and KPI monitoring and management
  • Flexible logging support with integration to enterprise logging systems
  • Centralized configuration management across different environments with lifecycles and versioning