IBM® Business Services Repository is a platform-independent enterprise SOA metadata repository and service
registry designed for use within an enterprise or between trusted parties.
The IBM Business Services Repository enables discovery and lifecycle management
of ontology based meta-information which is stored in a relational database.
It contains meta-data about business process models, service descriptions,
service providers and their capabilities, and their contracts that are used
as building blocks for enterprise SOA.
IBM Business Services Repository includes powerful discovery, search, and
management capabilities for analysis and discovery of service interfaces and
behavioral constraints from legacy systems, packaged applications, and outsourced
service providers.
Major Capabilities
- Central repository for industry-specific service metadata, domain ontologies,
service descriptions, policies, and technical binding information
- Pre-packaged industry specific vocabularies expressed as an extensible
ontology — e.g. ACORD, HIPAA, and HL-7
- Powerful free-form search and browse capabilities combined with integrated
security and access controls
- Comprehensive versioning, change tracking and collaborative governance
of service metadata
- Federated metadata management framework and registry support including uddi inquiry APIs
- Highly-scalable, fault-tolerant, relational database backed implementation
- Role-based, context and namespace level security that leverages existing
access control systems
- Extensible design for use within an enterprise, or secure publishing to
a broader partner ecosystem