Active policy and IT governance solutions
Automated Governance Through Active Policy Management
WebLayers recognizes the role of IT governance throughout the entire software development life cycle -- from design time through run time -- and takes it beyond traditional manual approaches with an automated governance platform.
Automated governance allows IT developers and architects to significantly reduce the time previously allocated to manual code reviews while providing the flexibility to override exceptions and improve the overall quality of software code whether it's developed on site or offshore.
Since WebLayers Center is standards based, enterprises can more easily govern the integration of applications and accelerate development efforts with greater assurance in the quality of the software code.
Understanding Automated Governance
The WebLayers Center family of products provides a policy-based approach to automate what has traditionally been a manual, labor intensive process of defining and enforcing governance. Based on hundreds of deployments at leading enterprises in the financial services, healthcare and insurance industries as well as government agencies, following is a step-by-step process to understanding how WebLayers helps ensure the maximum value from governance.
- Start by defining policies: WebLayers automates policy definition, association and management so that all touch points in the infrastructure can be properly governed.
- Leverage proven best practices: WebLayers has created the industry's most comprehensive policy library that is based on industry expertise, proven best practices derived from hundreds of successful deployments, and recommendations from industry consortia and standards bodies.
- Enforce policies early and often: the earlier you identify and address issues in the software development life cycle, the more time and money you’ll save. WebLayers can govern artifacts from design specifications to source code to service artifacts so that customers are assured of quality control throughout the entire development cycle.
- Start small and scale over time: start governing one project and one part of the infrastructure (like a source control system or registry/repository) and expand over time.
- Establish a baseline for existing services: run existing services against the WebLayers Policy Libraries to get a baseline that details the quality of existing assets and highlights the areas that need to be reviewed.
- Certify and score your services: as artifacts are reviewed and scored, the information is added to the service metadata in your registry/repository so that developers and architects are aware of the value and reliability of existing services.
- Quantify your efforts and measure your results: WebLayers provides the hard evidence about a project, service, artifact, project team, or individual. All governance activities and enforcement data are made available through a Center of Excellence dashboard to provide enterprise-wide visibility.
WebLayers Addresses Critical Governance Concerns
The WebLayers Center was designed to address the top IT concerns of line of business managers, architects and developers as software is developed and deployed throughout the infrastructure such as:
- How can we deliver more services to the business more quickly?
- How can we identify best practices and patterns for better services?
- How can best practices be enforced?
- Which services already follow those best practices?
- How can we increase reuse so that costs and the time required to get applications running can be reduced?
- How can we get a handle on the quality of services being deployed and which services are easy to reuse? And how can we identify and improve those hard-to-integrate services?
- How can we ensure that good services are not changed to deviate from these best practices?
- How to I get my project teams, most of which have little expertise in SOA, up to speed quickly?
- How can I overcome the internal barriers to implementing governance?
