I am studying WSO2 Governance Registry and I am impressed with all its features. However, I would like to know whether it measures SOA benefits or not.
Some other SOA Governance tools let you inform the amount of hours spent on the development of a specific service and calculate how many hours were then saved every time that service was reused. Along the time, you get the perspective of how many hours were saved by reuse thus it is possible to have an approximate amount of money that was also saved.
In summary, does WSO2 Governance Registry (or other WSO2 product) provide that feature?
Thanks a lot!
Governance registry does not support this out of the box.
However, there are some roadmap items in AppFactory towards this direction.
This feature is available in GReg 5.0.0 onward. Now you can create lifecycle checkpoints according to pre-defined time constrains.
Please find this post.
hope this helps.
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Im currently evaluating different middleware and WSO2 is coming up in the top as it has almost all feature we need to automate and integrate business processes, without need for wiring many different tools together: BPM, IM, Forms creation, API Management, BPMN runtime, etc. However, we are a relatively small company and I cant justify the costs of acquiring a subscription at the moment. Question is, is there anyone using WSO2 without subscription and just doing support/maintenance themselves on a production environment? Any hurdles to be aware of?
is there anyone using WSO2 without subscription
You can use them free as an open-source product without any subscription. There are many companies doing so.
Any hurdles to be aware of?
Part of the subscription service WSO2 issues patches and security updates, you should follow and apply the updates yourself (well, nothing forces you to do so, but I'd recommend to do it)
Looking at the number of questions we can see on Stack Overflow, there seem to be many companies that are using the free and open-source version of WSO2 products.
I am having some trouble with Monitoring System Statistics in WSO2 Identity Server 5.3.3. There is no activity being reported in the Service Summary. We are about to go live with the WSO2 Identity server in a couple weeks, so I really want to keep an eye on the response time and counts.
Our current production system is not heavily used, but currently it shows Total Response Count: 0, when in fact I have tested several logins earlier today.
I know the monitoring was updating a few weeks ago, but something happened. Do I need to enable this via a setting or is it possible it was turned off?
This is the official documentation entry point on setting up and using statistics/analytics for latest WSO2 Identity server version. Please make sure you have followed all the steps accurately. You will have to separately enable it and configure in below files. After enabling you should be able to view stats.
<IS_HOME>/repository/conf/identity/identity.xml
<IS_HOME>/repository/deployment/server/eventpublishers/IsAnalytics-Publisher-wso2event-*
I'm trying to choose one of forgerock identity management solution (openAM, openIDM) and wso2 identity server for implementing Identity and Access Management solution.
I'm interested in using following features:
Single Sign-On (SSO)
Policy based access control
Managing user identities
Connecting to central repository like Active Directory, OpenLdap, Oracle Internet Directory etc.
Etc..
Both open source products looks viable. I'm interested in having all of the above features along with good API to implement these features, along with active community support.
Which one would be the best amongst two ?
Thanks.
I am an architect from WSO2 - mostly leading WSO2 Identity Server. I am trying to be not bias as much as possible :-)
Both products bring you a comprehensive Identity Management platform - having support for SAML2, OpenID, XACML 3.0, OAuth 2.0, SCIM, WS-Security standards.
Few unique features that I would like to highlight on WSO2 Identity Server are...
Decentralized Federated SAML2 IdPs (http://blog.facilelogin.com/2012/08/security-patterns-decentralized.html)
Distributed XACML PDPs
User friendly XACML PAP wizard
High scalability (We have a middle-east customer using WSO2 IS over an user base of 4 million for OpenID support.)
Cassandra based User Store ( To be used over 800 Million user base by one of our production customers)
Light-weight and Very low memory footprint. The stripped down version of WSO2 IS can be started with 64MB Heap Size and the standard versions runs with 96MB Heap.
Highly extensible. The architecture behind WSO2 IS is highly extensible. You can easily plugin your authenticators, user store, etc...
Support for multi-tenancy.
Suport for multiple user stores (AD, LDAP, JDBC)
Interoperability.
Part of a proven SOA product platform provided by WSO2.
Also, we are planning to add support for OpenID Connect this year with a set of improved Identity Management capabilities.
You can also read more about WSO2 Identity Server from http://blog.facilelogin.com/2012/08/wso2-identity-server-flexible.html
You will not get an unbiased answer from me for your question :-) "Which one would be the best amongst two ?". You will aso get answers from Forgerock and other folks here. Best would be to evaluate and decide.
I'm a product manager at ForgeRock, but not for the products you're mentioning (OpenAM, OpenIDM).
ForgeRock Open Identity Stack has complete support for all your requirements, based on existing standards such as the ones mentioned by Prabath. It presents a single, common REST API to interact across the platform.
It's easy to deploy, modular, lightweight and yet highly extensible.
But in my opinion the key point is that it's a proven solution, deployed by hundreds of organizations, with built-in internet scale. The solution has been chosen by telecom service providers, medium and large enterprises for internal or customer facing services.
And I agree with Prabath, now that you've got answers from ForgeRock and WSO2, best would be to evaluate and make your own decision.
Regards.
Ludovic.
I am currently evaluating WSO2. It has a more permissive APACHE LICENSING Model and a more friendly management model from my having met with ForgeRock people.
Abdul, please share your findings as I am looking at both as well. We implemented OpenSSO in production a couple years ago just prior to its transition to OpenAM. It was an excellent product with thought leadership and decent execution. Unfortunately the pending transition to OpenAM was too unnerving for some of us and we switched to another product at great, unnecessary cost and continue to look over our shoulder. Some downsides at the time were ability to migrate policy through lanes from dev-test-stage-prod, keeping configurations in sync, and issue resolution. Also, fine-grained policy was very new. So my info is a bit dated and I know they have matured since then.
Just starting with WSO2. It has strong thought leadership and good execution with several platforms per other reviews. Their base architecture looks solid and it's allowing them to create and consume/improve open source technology very quickly into integrated, commercially supported solutions.
I am working on a civics related project and I need to be able to display all the properties in the City of Philadelphia on a map, so I'll need to get the latitude & longitude for all 580,000 properties. (Only once)
Most APIs like Google/Yahoo have limits of 5,000 per day, and even BatchGeo has a similar limit.
Is there a way I can do a one-time geocoding of all these addresses?
You can find a list of free and paid geocoding services at USC site.
Also check Microsoft's Geocode Dataflow API, it allows up to 200,000 entries / 300 Mb and takes up to 14 days.
Another possibility to combine several services at once: use 4 services that allow 5,000 entries a day and you'll finish your task in a month.
You can use Map Quest of Cloud Made.
I have created a small utility to help compare these API's.
The utility is hosted at below url:
http://ankit-zalani.appspot.com/GeoCode/index.jsp
Tobias, I work for an address verification (and recently, geocoding) company called SmartyStreets.
Many services have usage restrictions based on volume and license agreements which prevent users from storing the results of geocoding queries. There are some vendors, however, which don't have limits or restrictions like that.
I would recommend something like LiveAddress which will not only geocode the addresses but also perform CASS-Certified verification to make sure your addresses are correct before giving you potentially faulty coordinates. You can run 580,000 or even millions at a time in a few minutes, and we allow you to store your results.
Hope this helps. If you have any more questions about addresses, I'll personally assist.
This thread is pretty old by now, but there have been some developments in recent years making bulk geocoding very cheap. My favorite option is to just obtain a geocoding server on AWS ( google: geocoding on aws), many options there, some free some with low hourly rates (total cost depends on the server you choose, of course.)
Currently using SAS as measurement engine and Business Objects as display layer. Looking to develop a new, faster, slicker solution. Has anyone developed or purchased a campaign measurement reporting system? This solution should measure everything from email stats, web stats, customer activity, lift, ROI, etc.
Ok.. I'm researching and finding nada... We are working with a team from India and they want to re-write everything from scratch.. Any solutions out there at all?
If you are already using SAS, have you looked at their Marketing Automation software?
Update:
Just saw a press release from SAS about a new "Software as a Service" Campaign Management solution. Might be worth checking out for this.
When I was a consultant, we either rolled our own or used SAS (or a combination of the two).
Another vote for roll your own, it's mad that this area is so under served. The expense of building your own solution from the ground up, and the hassle of managing a remote team makes me think you may get further by integrating some existing tools.
Google Analytics for web usage has an API, there are many web log tools, you then need to bolt in the customer figures from your end of things.
I really doubt you could do much better than SAS in this area. Especially if you pick up some of thier specialist packages.
You could have a look at R which is a pretty slick open source statistics package. Unfortunately its not used very much for marketing; most of the examples and freely available code is geared towards biochemistry, genetics etc.