Service Oriented Architecture

Web services and Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) have introduced new levels of efficiency and flexibility for sophisticated applications. However, shared services present new challenges when it comes to analyzing and optimizing the user experience. A single service can be used by multiple applications. At the same time, that service touches multiple shared resources including application modules, servers and networks. Performance is unpredictable and users often experience sub-standard "brownout" conditions while each system component appears to be working correctly.

You need to understand how Web services are performing in the context of user transactions. B-hive Conductor™ for SOA automatically maps user transactions and shows you when services are being used and how they are executing on infrastructure components. This visibility enables you to analyze overall application performance and define priorities and baselines for service delivery levels. With Conductor's automated transaction control capabilities, you can optimize resource allocation and define real-time response and recovery procedures when user conditions fall below predefined standards.

B-hive Conductor for SOA features:

• Transaction Dependency Mapping
  Automatically map the transaction path through application modules and infrastructure components.


• Performance Breakdown
  Deconstruct the latency of the end-user experience between application modules, servers and networks for each transaction.


• Usage Monitoring and Control
  Understand how each application module and infrastructure component is utilized by transactions and different user groups. Control and prioritize utilization of components per transaction and user profile.


• Service Level Reporting
  Report back to business units and end-users on the service level of each transaction or end-user group in the organization. Enable billing based on usage.


• Application and Infrastructure Scalability
  Identify the bottleneck components and modules as well as scaling requirements.


• Cost-effective Operations
  Drive operations based on pre-defined service level goals.

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