"There are some policies that we think are best practices that we want to adhere to," said Chris Brown, senior IT architect at Charlotte, N.C.-based Wachovia Corp. "To date, adherence has been done manually, by review, [and] has been haphazard. We want to automate that."
A pair of vendors this week will be unveiling tools that promise to automate the process of managing Web services.
AmberPoint Inc. is releasing AmberPoint 5.0, a new version of its runtime services governance tools. And Mindreef Inc. is rolling out new services life-cycle management tools.
Security functions
The MedicAlert Foundation plans to install the new AmberPoint tools over the next few months to better manage the various security credentials -- user IDs and passwords or digital certificates -- that its customers use to enter new health information into their MedicAlert records, according to SOA architect Jorge Mercado.