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Portfolio Manager for WSRR helps to maximize the efficiency of investment in SOA initiatives by automatically provisioning into IBM WSRR services that have been planned and prioritized according to strategic business and IT objectives. It helps management identify candidate services and build an SOA roadmap through SOA Modeling, Asset Identification, and a Portfolio Management process. To achieve these goals Portfolio Manager functions as part of a unified SOA Governance automation product family for IBM WSRR with seamless integration with IBM WSRR and SOA Software’s Policy Manager for IBM WSRR.

Business/IT Alignment and Collaboration is paramount to achieve the benefits of SOA such as Agility and increased ROI. Planning Governance involves the appropriate stakeholders in business and IT to prioritize and approve new service and service enablement requests. Furthermore, Portfolio Manager for IBM WSRR, with its tight integration with IBM WSRR and Policy Manager for IBM WSRR, will provide enhanced visibility of where services are in their service lifecycle to all practitioners including business stakeholders. By using Portfolio manager for IBM WSRR(TM), customers can trace services in any part of the service lifecycle in IBM WSRR(TM) back to the business capabilities that they sustain. Portfolio Manager for IBM WSRR(TM) provides unprecedented visibility and traceability supporting Business/IT Alignment and collaboration.

Portfolio Manager for WSRR will help existing IBM WSRR users better understand the current state of the portfolio of services, identify the gaps, plan and prioritize services to maximize return on investment and reduce risk to their SOA initiatives by aligning them with their business goals.

Key capabilities for Portfolio Manager for WSRR include:

Delivers packaged SOA planning governance methods and governance automation meta-models Dynamically represents current and future architecture models based on industry standards and internal definitions

Leverages APQC business process frameworks to promote compliance with industry best practices Provides existing system capability discovery and candidate service identification Provisions planned and prioritized services into IBM WSRR Changes in service state in IBM WSRR are automatically propagated back to Portfolio Manager for IBM WSRR providing unprecedented visibility

Ensures that SOA portfolio management remains a continuous dynamic process

– Pricing and Availability

Available in Q2 2010, Portfolio Manager for IBM WSRR starts at $50k USD.