webMethods Mediator

FEAR NO CHANGEBRING IT ON INSTEAD WITH MEDIATOR

Changes in your business will happento-

With Mediator, you can easily grow and

servicesmeaning no impact on users. Virtual

day, tomorrow, next week. Thats why you

evolve shared services, service consumers

services are loosely coupled between

adopted an SOA. Now make those changes

and providers. You can change protocols,

consumers and service providersmaking

easier to manage with

message formats or service locationswith-

changes easier.

webMethods Mediator. A smart approach

out impacting consumer-provider relation-

to service mediation and run-time

shipsto adapt rapidly to changes.

governance, Mediator lets you manage

your service consumers and providers
without worry.

Protocol switching
Service consumers and providers are often

You can even make the same service available

unable to support the same protocol for

to new applications over a different protocol or

exchanging messages. This can result in

security standardwithout costly recoding.

creation of redundant services to support

webMethods Mediator is a service intermedi-

multiple protocols. Mediator alleviates this

Service VirtualizationMake
changes easily

switching between service consumers and

webMethods Mediator creates virtual services

shared services and protects consumers and

provides end-to-end governance of all your

from actual services. This service virtualization

providers from underlying inconsistencies in

services from development to run-time.

shields consumers from changes to underlying

protocol implementations.

ary that enforces the run-time policies you

create in CentraSite. Mediator also virtualizes
shared services, making it easy to change
your SOA. Combined with CentraSite, Mediator

problem by supporting seamless HTTP/JMS

providers. Thus, Mediator improves re-use of

Message transformation
Service interfaces are designed to meet the
requirements of current set of consumers.
Provisioning a new consumer with a slightly

Fact Sheet

different message format requires conversion

With Mediator, you can
make a change to a
shared service interface
at any time and easily
re-use existing services.
Mediator enforces the
run-time policies you
create and manage in
CentraSite to ensure
quality of service.

of the input format to the correct output

format. Mediator enhances the re-use of
shared services by providing XLST-based
message transformation capabilities that can
be used to match messages flowing between
service consumers and providers.

Standards SupportKeep your

SOA flexible

Routing

Message validation

Optimize service performance with Mediator.

Mediator supports policy-driven XML schema

The software efficiently routes consumer

validation using pre-defined schema during

Mediator supports the latest Web service,

requests to the right service or set of services.

run-time processing.

security and enterprise infrastructure standards.

Smart policy provisioning

Web services supported include: SOAP 1.1, 1.2;

For example, Mediator can route the correct

consumer to the correct version of the downstream service. Mediator handles a variety of

One-to-one policy provisioning works for a

WSDL 1.1, 1.2; WS-I Basic Profile; and WS-

routing methods based on pay-load content and

small number of services but can quickly

Addressing 1.0.

context, straight-through routing and load-bal-

become unwieldy as your SOA grows. It simply

ancing among multiple service providers.

takes too much time to manually apply policies

Security standards supported include: WS-Secu-

to services. Together with CentraSite, Mediator

rity 1.1; XML Signature; XML Encryption; and

SAML 1.1.

Working with the webMethods ESB

automatically enforces policies on all assets

Sometimes XSLT is just not enough. In addition

that meet specific criteria you define. You can

to the XSLT transformation, Mediator can

change the policys scope simply by making

transform a message by calling a webMethods

the change in CentraSiteand Mediator will

Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) service. This gives

handle the rest.

you full access to sophisticated message

mapping and processing capabilities, including

Security

providing access to third-party applications

Uniformly secure your SOA applications by

using webMethods Adapters.

applying policy-driven security. Mediator

Consumer ProvisioningSpeed up
and secure on-boarding

all services in your SOA regardless of the

provides a central point for controlling access to

platform that hosts the services. This makes life
easier for everyone. Service providers can focus
Reduce manual steps to provision a service

on service functionality and not worry about

consumer and increase the security of the

security issues. Service consumers are relieved

consumer on-boarding process.

from complying with disparate security

mechanisms. And, administrators and manage-

Traditional authorization approaches use manual

ment can rest assured that services are being

requests for access and provisioning of each

access only by authorized applications.

consumer account by a security administrator.

CentraSite and Mediator provide a self-service

Mediator supports both transports and message

and automated approach that avoids manual

layer security, including authentication, authori-

and error-prone tasks. Consumers can request

zation, digital encryption and digital signatures.

KEY BENEFITS
Shield consumers from disruptive
changes to services
Protect consumers from underlying
inconsistencies in protocol implementations
Ensure service access to authorized and
authenticated consumers
Enforce policies uniformly for services
hosted on heterogeneous platforms

access to services in CentraSite. Once approved,

registered consumer applications at run-time.

ScalabilityMediate any number

of services

Run-time Policy Enforcement

Enforce run-time policies written
and managed in CentraSite

webMethods Integration Server, a proven

Mediator operates in conjunction with

sands of enterprises. Mediator is ready to grow

CentraSite, providing policy-driven run-time

right along with your expanding SOA by

governance of services. Policies are centrally

offering support for clustering, optimized policy

managed in CentraSite but enforced in

enforcement, out-of-band processing for

Mediator. Run-time policies range from

metrics and events, and optional logging of

Software AG Government Solutions provides bestin-class software solutions for integration, serviceoriented architecture, big data and business process
management. Our core products are webMethods,
ARIS and Terracotta. The companys highly trained
team takes a special forces approach to solving
complex IT challenges quickly and efficiently for
the federal government and its supplier communities. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary
of Software AG USA with more than 30 years of
experience with the federal government.

authentication and authorization to those

request and response payload.

Learn more at www.softwareag-gov.com.

Mediator is based on the highly scalable

platform for integrating virtually all your
applications and services and used by thou-

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