What is CentraSite?
CentraSite is the only standards-based SOA registry and repository jointly developed by Fujitsu and Software AG. As the central "SOA Store" for the enterprise, CentraSite offers greater visibility and control of integrated SOA based applications, supports better decision-making, and increases productivity. It serves as a Web services and SOA asset management platform, holding all an enterprise's metadata assets (DNA of enterprise applications), and offering reports on usage.
The end result? SOA governance achieved through:
- Complete SOA lifecycle management
- Better reliability - understanding impact of changes in your SOA before they are made
- Improved transparency and enhanced collaboration across the organization
CentraSite forms the foundation of the CentraSite Community.
Product Information
CentraSite is available in two editions:
- CentraSite Community Edition
This is a great way to begin using an SOA registry and repository. It is available FREE OF CHARGE upon request to anyone with an interest in SOA governance, such as organisations with SOA initiatives, consultants, system integrators and software companies. The Community Edition offers UDDI v3 search using predefined metadata models, a JAXR interface to stored instances of artifacts, WebDAV access to the SOA repository, predefined reporting modules, and both a Web-based interface as well as an Eclipse Registry Browser.
Click here to download the CentraSite Community Edition. - CentraSite Enterprise Edition
This is a stand-alone product that addresses SOA management and governance in an open, standards-based environment. The CentraSite Enterprise Edition offers all the capabilities of the Community Edition along with an extensible data model, additional user interfaces and access methods, and customizable reporting.
If you would like more details, click to request more information when downloading the Community edition. We will be in touch as soon as possible.
Please note:
It is not permitted to use plug-ins with the free of charge CentraSite Community Edition that make use of CentraSite Enterprise Edition-only features.
A summary of the differences between the two editions is shown below.
| Feature | Community Edition | Enterprise Edition |
|---|---|---|
| Registry Capabilities | ||
| UDDI v3 Registry access | X | X |
| JAXR Registry Access for object type creation | X | |
| Service Change Notification | X | |
| Governance Process support | X | |
| UDDI Search | X | X |
| Extended Data Model Search | X | |
| Repository Capabilities | ||
| WebDAV Repository Access | X | X |
| XQuery-based Registry and Repository Access | X | |
| UI and Management | ||
| AJAX Web Front-End | X | X |
| Eclipse Registry Browser | X | X |
| Registry/Repository Federation (native CentraSite & UDDI) | X | |
| SOA Lifecycle Management API | X | X |
| SOA Lifecycle Management workflow UI | X | |
| Data Model | ||
| Pre-Defined Data-Models | X | X |
| Pre-Defined Reports | X | X |
| Custom Data-Models (for end-user) | X | |
| Custom Reports (for end-user) | X | |
| Security | ||
| User Role Management | X | X |
| Instance-based Security | X | |
| Type-based Security | X | X |
| Basic OS and LDAP Authentication | X | X |
| Extended Authentication Capability | X | |
CentraSite Key Benefits
CentraSite helps your SOA projects in a number of ways. These include:
Leveraging Open Standards to Facilitate Reuse
CentraSite supports the complete lifecycle of your SOA based on open standards. Your organization profits from improved transparency, enhanced collaboration, efficient service utilization, smoother change management and optimized governance. A SOA cannot scale without a solid infrastructure that helps you build standards-based, interoperable solutions that maximize the reuse of your existing services. CentraSite helps you reach this goal.
Creating a Flexible, Collaborative SOA Environment
CentraSite builds an open foundation for management and governance of SOA projects. It gives you unparalleled flexibility, visibility and control over your SOA and creates a richer collaboration environment across organizational teams. Business analysts, for example, can manage relevant information around business processes in CentraSiteTM and their IT counterparts can easily access these processes and services to enhance them. IT developers and architects, in turn, can create and store all kinds of SOA assets - policies, application integration models, business process descriptions, information models and Web service descriptions - that can be leveraged across departments. This accelerates time-to-market for new products and services and makes your enterprise more agile.
Facilitating Safe Change Management
As the number and usage of SOA assets continue to grow in your enterprise, it becomes imperative for you to have the right controls in place. How do you know who is using what services? How frequently are they being used? What happens if you were to change a service? How does that impact other services? Being able to visualize all of your reusable assets and their interdependencies is critical so that you are aware of the impact of any changes. CentraSite provides you with the visibility in to your SOA to help you mitigate risks to your integration projects.