Sensedia Repository / Product Features
Promote Available Assets:
- Full text search and indexation, flexible search system with powerful auto-suggest mechanisms
- Collaboration mechanisms: RSS, e-mail alerts, discussion forums, feedback and assessment tools
- Remote search in component repositories such as SourceFORGE, Google and ComponentSource
- Graphical representations of asset browsing (relationships, dependencies, similarities, etc.)
- Quick search done directly through the Windows toolbar using the Trayicon Application, Eclipse or Visual Studio
- Search through all metadata models and use of a dynamic filter in the results
- Workflow and lifecycle management for assets and related documents
Services and Components Management:
- Flexible metamodel classification (attributes and relationships between assets)
- Mapping of the dependencies, utilization and relationships
- Documentation and related artifacts management
- Governance of assets with customized lifecycle
- Assurance that an asset is endorsed for reuse only if has been approved
- Full integration with embedded UDDI services enabling asset search and publication
- Maintenance of the policies related to services
- Embedded UDDI
Measure Results and ROI:
- Extensible reports and ROI metrics
- Reports on Reuse Cost Avoidance and Return on Assets
- Identification of the most searched for, visualized and downloaded assets
- Results and statistical data about each uploaded asset
- Metrics to measure usage such as graphical accesses, RAS download visualization
- Export of reports in standard formats such as PDF, Word and Excel
Accelerate Reuse Practices and SOA Governance:
- Starting library with established open-source components to stimulate reuse initiatives
- Integration with source-code version control such as CVS, Subversion and IBM Rational ClearCase
- P2P federation (asset sharing and searches in distributed repositories)
- Pre-configured metadata models
- Categorization, workflows and other functions readily available aiming to reduce implementation efforts
- Exporting and importing in the RAS standard (Reusable Asset Specification), Excel and XML
- Integration with development environments such as Eclipse, JDeveloper and VisualStudio

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