Ivory Service Architect provides comprehensive support for XML standards.   Combined with the flexibility to detach the service interface definition from the orchestrated mainframe artifacts that will be leveraged to implement that service, leads to the fastest return on your SOA investments, in terms of cost savings, operational efficiencies, reduced overhead and strategic advantage.

Ivory Service Architect supports the import of industry standard reference XML Schemas, like ACORD, IFX, and HR-XML.  This is unique to Ivory, and very important in terms of standardizing on the data types leveraged within mainframe web services.  It also ensures consistency, as the developers do not need to hand build complex data types for each and every service (ACORD data types can contain 1000’s of elements).

Some XML and Web standards supported include:

XML 1.0, SOAP 1.1, REST, AJAX, XPath 1.0, XSLT 1.0, WSDL 1.1, XML Schema & DTD, LDAP 3.0, SAML 1.1/2.0, PKCS #10, X.509 v3 Certificates, Kerberos, W3C XML Signature 1.0, W3C XML Encryption 1.0, FIPS 140.2, SSL/TLS 2.0 / 3.0, SNMP, SMTP, FTP, HTTP/HTTPS, JMS 1.0, MQ Series, Tibco EMS 4.0, WS-Security 1.0, WS-Trust 1.0, WS-SecureConversation, WS-Addressing, WS-Federation, WS-MetadataExchange, WS-Policy, WS-SecurityPolicy, WS-PolicyAttachment, WS-SecureExchange, WSIL, WS-I, WS-I BSP, UDDI 3.0

It is this comprehensive support for XML standards, combined with the flexibility to detach the service interface definition from the orchestrated mainframe artifacts leveraged to implement that service, which leads to the fastest returns on your SOA investments, in terms of cost savings, operational efficiencies, reduced overhead and strategic advantage.