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Service-oriented architectures (SOAs) have become mainstream in the past year due to their ability to provide business agility and flexibility through integration, productivity and software reuse. Everyone agrees that reuse of software development assets (SDAs) is a “good thing” and that service-oriented architectures (SOAs) require organizations to institutionalize services as reusable assets. Nonetheless, there is considerable debate within IT organizations as to how to “get from here to there.” Moving from the current state of IT project development, with its emphasis on immediate, time-driven project objectives, to “SOA nirvana,” with flexible, loosely-coupled services that are produced from requirements driven by core business processes, is not an easy task. With Logidex, however, enterprises can move towards this goal incrementally by securing and managing development processes for SDA production, distribution and consumption.
What is Logidex?
LogicLibrary Logidex is a “best of breed” service development-lifecycle governance platform that enables customers to integrate SDA processes within the SOA service lifecycle in conjunction with related SOA governance product categories. Logidex is a software development asset (SDA) mapping and discovery engine that manages and represents inherently complex, enterprise application environments in a graphical, intuitive way. Software development assets can include: executables (e.g., components, services, frameworks) and their associated software development lifecycle artifacts (e.g., requirements documentation, UML models, test plans), as well as knowledge assets, such as best practices and design patterns. The Logidex SDA Library is an inventory of a company’s SDAs and their relationships to each other, business processes and the technical infrastructure. A consumable library of SDAs, coupled with strong process control, is the basis for enabling and managing enterprise SOA initiatives.
Logidex Capabilities
Your SDA Library
- Asset types can include components (.NET, J2EE), legacy systems, Web services and/or knowledge assets, such as patterns and best practices, used by development teams.
- Using patented processes, SDAs are mapped to imported business and technical architectures.
- Preloaded library content includes Sun’s Core J2EE Patterns, the Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA) and – direct from Microsoft’s patterns & practices Group –Enterprise Solution Patterns and reference applications and architectures.
Discover SDAs Collaboratively
- The Logidex discovery engine offers capabilities ranging from simple keyword searches to sophisticated, model-based searches.
- Active Design™ allows business analysts to create a persistent search specification from a business process model. Developers can then add technical criteria to this specification. This ability to easily define joint requirements also ensures that created applications meet the business’ needs.
- When a search is run, if an SDA doesn’t exist that meets the search criteria an Asset Discovery Alert can be set that notifies the user via e-mail when a new or modified SDA meeting the search criteria becomes available.
- Collaboration tools include discussion threads, project work areas and persistent queries that can be accessed by any member of the project team.
Employ and Govern SDAs Effectively
- With SmartControls™ organizations can easily control the SDA production process from requirements to design and, finally, deployment. Companies can use LogicLibrary’s “out-of-the-box” process or customize it to fit their enterprise’s requirements.
- Support for federated repositories allows organizations to share assets around the world, while tightly controlling how SDAs are created, viewed and consumed. With distributed development, off-shoring and outsourcing, these capabilities are a requirement for most enterprises.
- From Logidex, users can launch SDA artifacts, such as source code, models and documentation, into the appropriate development tool.
- Asset relationship information is also available, making it easier to understand how assets can be used effectively together.
- Integration with leading modeling tools and integrated development environments (IDEs) facilitates easy access to SDAs stored in Logidex and ensures that use of an SDA library fits seamlessly into the application development process.
Why Logidex?
Modernize Your Existing Applications
Logidex is the only solution that enables enterprises to understand what assets exist, where they’re located and how each fits into a company’s business and technical landscape. By providing a context for understanding and assessing existing SDAs, Logidex acts as the first step for SOAs and other initiatives focused on modernizing existing applications.
Service Lifecycle Governance Starting at SOA Development
Logidex’s core SDA governance and management capabilities ensure that service provider development and architecture teams produce services in accordance with the organization’s business and technical architectures, best practices and SOA policies. These capabilities are extended across the service lifecycle by integrations with key partners that allow organizations to manage their services and assets from a single hub ranging from development-time through deployment.