Open source data management specialist Talend has announced the release of what it calls "the industry's first platform for data services". Known as Talend ESB Standard Edition, the open source enterprise service bus (ESB) is to be a key component in the company's unified platform for data services. The company offers, as examples of applications of ESB, customers using it to connect back-end financial applications to a sales front end in the finance sector and the use of ESB to connect legacy systems to a BPM system in an insurance company...The Security Token Service (STS) framework supports SAML 2.0 in order to federate security credentials and Service Activity Monitoring enables the capture and analysis of service activity – this includes service response times, traffic patterns and auditing...

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