AmberPoint makes Web services production-ready. Its uniquely non-invasive approach for managing distributed, heterogeneous service-oriented systems has made AmberPoint the leading provider of management software for service-oriented architectures (SOA). AmberPoint has produced iControl-enabled integration with the BIG-IP system.

Integrated Capabilities
As a result of the integration of AmberPoint SOA Management System and F5's BIG-IP product, organizations can achieve the following capabilities:

Comprehensive Policy Enforcement: F5's BIG-IP enforces policies for performance and availability, while AmberPoint focuses on enforcing such things as services level agreements and exception management policies.

Policy Discovery and Visibility: AmberPoint auto-discovers and provides visibility into routing policies that are enforced by F5, thus enabling users to understand the impact these policies have on the SOA system.

Bidirectional Policy Exchange: AmberPoint allows SOA managers to tailor the routing policies executed by F5 so that they best meet SOA performance objectives, based on the real-time behavior of the system. Users have the flexibility of specifying policy changes in either interface, F5 or AmberPoint.

Unified SOA Management: Companies can manage the entirety of their SOA environments with a single set of runtime governance policies, rather than using individualized policies for each component type (application server, router, enterprise service bus, etc.).

The F5-AmberPoint solution provides streamlined management of distributed, heterogeneous SOA systems, greater business agility as a result of creating and maintaining a single set of governance policies, and faster time to ROI for SOA deployments For more information, contact AmberPoint at 510.663.6300 or info@amberpoint.com, or visit www.amberpoint.com for a complimentary developer's edition of AmberPoint software.