SOA Software has announced that its SOA Software Policy Manager 6.0 and SOA Software Service Manager 6.0 solutions have achieved SAP certification as powered by the SAP NetWeaver® technology platform.

"The certification of our products is an important step in our support of SAP solutions," said Paul Gigg, President and CEO, SOA Software. "Our solutions provide the governance capabilities -- for use in SAP solution-based environments -- that our customers are demanding."

Through these certifications, these solutions have been proven to integrate with SAP solutions, allowing customers to confidently deploy SOA Software's products alongside SAP NetWeaver in the following ways:

• To help ensure that services identified, designed and built using SAP solutions are relevant and consumable to applications designed, built and deployed using other platforms, technologies and products.
• To make services exposed from applications running on SAP solutions visible to and compliant with enterprise policies defined, enforced and audited across other platforms; and make services designed and built using other platforms like Microsoft .NET, WCF and Oslo and open source environments visible to and compliant with enterprise policies defined, enforced and audited across by their SAP NetWeaver-based applications.
• To promote, ensure and formalize consistent alignment between demand from service consumers and the supply of services through Consumer Contract Provisioning.

SOA Software's platform-independent Unified SOA Governance Automation solution promotes the use of best practices across all platforms throughout an enterprise SOA program. SOA Software Policy Manager and SOA Software Service Manager integrate with development and runtime products from most commercial platforms from vendors including SAP, Microsoft, IBM and Oracle, as well as RedHat and other open source providers. These certified solutions from SOA Software offer integration with the SAP NetWeaver technology platform, including the SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment (SAP NetWeaver CE), Enterprise Services Repository (ES Repository) and the SAP NetWeaver Application Server (SAP NetWeaver AS).

The SAP Integration and Certification Center has certified that SOA Software Policy Manager 6.0 and SOA Software Service Manager 6.0 are certified for integration via the JAVA-EE-STD (Java certification) scenario based on a 64-bit Java EE 5 Edition-based deployment of SAP NetWeaver CE 7.1. In addition, both solutions have achieved "SAP Solution Manager Ready" status. Solutions that qualify as SAP Solution Manager ready are made visible to the customer's SAP system landscape directory, displayed within the SAP Solution Manager application management solution at the customer site.