http://www.soa.com/news SOA Software published news and events. en info@soa.com Copyright 2012 2012-01-30T18:48:18+00:00 http://www.soa.com/news/press_detail/soa_software_receives_2011_marketing_award/ http://www.soa.com/news/press_detail/soa_software_receives_2011_marketing_award/#When:17:48:18Z U.S. Commerce Association Honors the Achievement NEW YORK, NY,  January 30, 2012—SOA Software has been selected for the 2011 Los Angeles Award in the Merchandising & Marketing category by the U.S. Commerce Association (USCA). The USCA Award Program recognizes outstanding enterprises throughout the country. Each year, the USCA identifies companies that they believe have achieved exceptional marketing success in their enterprise category. These companies enhance the positive image of business through service to their customers and region. “Receiving the 2011 Marketing Award is an honor and very special,” said Roberto Medrano, executive vice president of marketing. “It builds on our recognition from top analysts for our innovative products and from tier one industry organizations for our forward thinking marketing management.” Various sources of information were gathered and analyzed to choose the winners in each category. The 2011 USCA Award Program focuses on quality, not quantity. Winners are determined based on the information gathered both internally by the USCA and data provided by third parties. About U.S. Commerce Association (USCA) U.S. Commerce Association (USCA) is a New York City based organization funded by local businesses operating in towns, large and small, across America. The purpose of USCA is to promote local business through public relations, marketing and advertising. The USCA was established to recognize the best of local businesses in their community. Our organization works exclusively with local business owners, trade groups, professional associations, chambers of commerce and other business advertising and marketing groups. Our mission is to be an advocate for small and medium size businesses and business entrepreneurs across America. URL: http://www.uscaaward.com About SOA Software SOA Software is a leading provider of unified SOA governance, cloud and enterprise API Management products that enable organizations to plan, build, and run enterprise services and open APIs.  The world’s largest companies including Bank of America, Pfizer, and Verizon use SOA Software solutions to transform their business. http://www.soa.com Press Releases 2012-01-30T17:48:18+00:00 http://www.soa.com/news/press_detail/soa_software_expands_into_middle_east_market/ http://www.soa.com/news/press_detail/soa_software_expands_into_middle_east_market/#When:17:48:43Z Strategic Move Driven by Global SOA Governance Paradigm Los Angeles, CA. – January 17, 2012 – SOA Software, a leading provider of SOA governance, cloud and enterprise API Management products, is extending its presence to the Middle East region, the company announced today.  The strategic move serves a growing demand for SOA governance automation solutions that span global trade networks.  Tony Rolston, Managing Director, MEA, will manage the Middle East operations. “We’re experiencing a remarkable evolution in cloud-based computing,” said Paul Gigg, President and CEO, SOA Software.  “As companies stretch service-oriented architectures across the globe, we are increasingly called upon to provide governance automation with trading partners and international business units.  The Middle East, including such countries as Egypt, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, is a natural extension of this trend for us.” “The Middle East is an area of tremendous potential for SOA Software,” said Rolston.  “Economies are growing as businesses become more and more connected globally. We’re seeing many opportunities to help corporations effect automated SOA governance. Our newly expanded management team includes seasoned professionals with over 10 years experience working in this field in the Middle East so we are fully conversant with the business challenges and customers are already requesting SOA Software as their Governance platform of choice.”  About SOA Software SOA Software is a leading provider of unified SOA governance, cloud and enterprise API Management products that enable organizations to plan, build, and run enterprise services and open APIs.  The world’s largest companies including Bank of America, Pfizer, and Verizon use SOA Software solutions to transform their business.  For more information, please visit http://www.soa.com. Press Releases 2012-01-17T17:48:43+00:00 http://www.soa.com/news/press_detail/soa_software_delivers_business_impact_analysis/ http://www.soa.com/news/press_detail/soa_software_delivers_business_impact_analysis/#When:02:00:33Z Repository Manager Automatically Detects, Enforces and Informs SOA community of dependencies between on-premise and cloud processes, services and schemas LOS ANGELES, CA. – November 29, 2011 – SOA Software, a leading provider of SOA governance, cloud and enterprise API Management products, today announced Repository Manager Version 6.4 which provides crucial support to enterprise SOA governance efforts by automatically discovering dependencies across processes, services and schemas, ensuring the discovered dependencies conform to organizational standards and notifying key stakeholders when change occurs.  Combining these advanced capabilities with Repository Manager’s leading support for service and operation-level consumption governance enables organizations to establish an effective ongoing change management discipline for their SOA, giving both business stakeholders and architects clear and detailed visibility over how businesses processes connect via services to underlying data within the enterprise. Repository Manager is SOA Software’s industry leading development governance platform that simplifies the creation, integration, management and promotion of enterprise assets and services throughout the complete development lifecycle.  Repository Manager serves to automate the path to SOA and Cloud, enabling customers to rapidly develop, govern and deploy services within the SOA service lifecycle. With its strong integration with leading application development environments such as Eclipse and Microsoft Visual Studio, federation with all major run-time registries including IBM WSRR, HP SOA Systinet and UDDI registries, and its extensive integration with SOA Software’s Policy Manager, Repository Manager enables customers to rapidly govern and deploy services and other software assets from a single point of control within the SOA enterprise lifecycle. Repository Manager is used by Fortune 500 customers to drive application agility and reduce cost and risk in their SOA deployment. “Companies are embracing SOA Development Governance to become more agile and to prepare them for cloud and mobile initiatives” said Brent Carlson, senior vice president of technology at SOA Software.  “Repository Manager 6.4 gives customers deep insight into their SOA as it matures and evolves, and ensures that changes are well managed, proactively dealt with, and remain aligned with core SOA architectural principles.” Key features of Repository Manager 6.4 include: Impact Analysis for more Key SOA Standards - By automatically discovering dependencies across all primary SOA XML filetypes (XPDL, BPEL, WSDL and XSD), enforcing that standards such as namespace uniqueness, use of only governed (i.e. canonical) schemas, and attribute and element naming conventions are complied with, and building subscription-based dependency relationships across and within types, Repository Manager ensures that the enterprise’s SOA efforts remain aligned with architecture decisions and also provides architects and other stakeholders with a deep view into the world of loosely coupled SOA dependencies. Expanded Search Options - Organizations can create tailored search types as desired, hiding the complexity of search rules under a clear and simple to use user interface. Repository Manager 6.4’s automated indexing of all XML-based content including Microsoft Office 2007 and 2010 documents, combined with its support for configurable multi-field search forms whose fields are tied to strongly-typed XPath-based search criteria gives IT organizations an extremely powerful search environment coupled with superior ease of use. Intuitive User Experience – Repository Manager 6.4 introduces a fully redesigned asset layout leveraging the latest AJAX technology. Creating and understanding services, schemas, processes, applications and other development assets flows naturally from intuitive AJAX-based forms with seamless navigation across dependencies, giving Repository Manager users an efficient, concise and easy to use asset governance working environment. Automation for IBM Rational Team Concert - IBM Rational Team Concert is now added to the extensive list of AnySource Asset Adapter automations alongside Microsoft Team Foundation Server, IBM Rational ClearCase, Serena PVCS and Dimensions, Perforce, CVS, Subversion and any WebDAV-enabled repository.  AnySource automatically navigates through repository contents, discovering relevant files and metadata through customer-configured rules and creating and updating development assets in Repository Manager on an event-triggered or periodic batch basis, thereby alleviating much of the manual effort commonly associated with asset governance, simplifying developers’ lives and improving content accuracy. Repository Manager’s Existing Capabilities include: Development Governance – manage heterogeneous asset types from a single source.  These assets can include services, components (e.g., .NET, J2EE), legacy systems, and/or knowledge assets, such as patterns and best practices, used by development teams.  Repository Manager provides seamless integration with Microsoft, SAP, IBM, and other development platforms. Federation with Service Registries – discover and publish services from and to runtime service registries including HP SOA Systinet, IBM WSRR, Software AG CentraSite and any UDDI registry to ensure consistency of service definitions through the enterprise. Integration with Leading Software Development Platforms – reference and replicate assets and artifacts from common SCM solutions.  Provide seamless governance processes across all enterprise software development platforms including Microsoft, SAP, IBM, Eclipse and others. Service Operation-Level Governance – Enables fine-grained service governance by allowing companies to define and automate policies around the consumption of service operations as well as services. Impact analysis at an operation level – Enterprises can get a more detailed view of their SOA implementation with operation-level impact analysis. Automated Virtual Policy Assignment – Repository Manager and Policy Manager combine to automatically assign provider-side operational policies to one or more virtual services.  This automated approach abstracts operational service policy concepts at development time and greatly reduces the potential for human error in the virtual service generation process. Graphical Configuration Designer – Customers can efficiently control their enterprise SOA governance process via Repository Manager’s sophisticated Eclipse-based Configuration Designer to support graphical support type/template mapping, configuration of email notifications and custom validation as well as automation task management. Fine-Grained Asset Editing and Presentation Control – Administrators have full control over which users/roles can create what asset types. For example, customers can configure a “Service Developer” role to allow creation and editing of Service and Schema assets only, while an “Enterprise Architect” role could create only Best Practice and Design Pattern assets.  Repository Manager also associates icons with asset types presenting a distinctive visual indication on a per-type basis allowing for fine-grained control over presentation. Effective Asset and Service Management and Deployment – deep integration with SOA Software’s Policy Manager provides compliance policy validation to ensure cross-enterprise compatibility of services and other software assets. Repository Manager processes can automatically provision service and schema definitions under development to Policy Manager which in turn automatically applies the correct compliance policies for those definitions. Strong integration with development tools ensures efficient operation of the development process. Discover Assets and Services Collaboratively – comprehensive technical and business search capabilities to ensure that created applications meet business needs. About SOA Software SOA Software is a leading provider of unified SOA governance, cloud and enterprise API Management products that enable organizations to plan, build, and run enterprise services and open APIs.  The world’s largest companies including Bank of America, Pfizer, and Verizon use SOA Software solutions to transform their business. http://www.soa.com Press Releases 2011-11-29T02:00:33+00:00 http://www.soa.com/news/press_detail/soa_software_announces_availability_of_atmosphere_cloud/ http://www.soa.com/news/press_detail/soa_software_announces_availability_of_atmosphere_cloud/#When:02:00:47Z Free Cloud Service Complements Existing On-Premise Enterprise API Management Solution Cloud Computing Expo, Santa Clara, CA. – November 7, 2011 – SOA Software announced today the availability of Atmosphere Cloud, the cloud-based version of its award winning Enterprise API Management solution. Combined with the on-premises ‘behind the firewall’ deployment option that was announced in June, Atmosphere customers can now choose how they want to configure and deploy their API Management environment. Atmosphere brings together API providers and Application developers in an integrated Enterprise API Management Community. It is a connecting point where APIs can be published, promoted, and managed in a secure, scalable environment. API providers can create and manage their own developer community, or just plug into the existing community. Creative people can discover and harness enterprise APIs blending them with complementary APIs from partner companies. Atmosphere provides a social environment where developers can work together, share ideas, and support each other in new and productive ways. “Enterprises now have a choice in how they provide APIs. They can use Atmosphere Cloud to manage their developer community, and process messages on-premise.” said Alistair Farquharson, Chief Technology Officer, SOA Software. “This provides companies with complete control over their API traffic without requiring a large internal infrastructure to support their developer community.” Atmosphere Cloud was created in order to offer a massive cloud-based API management community. It is free to all app developers and API providers, and provides the essential elements that make up today’s API management environment: API registration, developer onboarding, API and app monitoring, quota management and security. “SOA software has carefully assessed the current API landscape and applied their enterprise expertise to the business of managing APIs.” said Kin Lane, author of the popular blog The API Evangelist and the book The Business of APIs. “Whether it is your first API initiative or you are a global company looking to extend your existing services investment, Atmosphere should be on your short list.” Atmosphere provides the same set of social features within both public and private communities, for both on-premise and cloud deployments. This allows for discovery and dialog between app developers and their peers, and the API providers. The result is a rich flow of information with collaboration and developer support that promotes faster innovation for businesses to grow and proliferate in ways that they never thought possible. For more information on Atmosphere Cloud, please visit http://atmos.phe.re About SOA Software SOA Software is a leading provider of unified SOA governance, cloud and enterprise API Management products that enable organizations to plan, build, and run enterprise services and open APIs.  The world’s largest companies including Bank of America, Pfizer, and Verizon use SOA Software solutions to transform their business. Press Releases 2011-11-07T02:00:47+00:00 http://www.soa.com/news/press_detail/soa_software_expands_into_south_africa/ http://www.soa.com/news/press_detail/soa_software_expands_into_south_africa/#When:02:00:47Z Accelerating Market Demand Drives Expansion Los Angeles, CA. – October 31, 2011 – SOA Software, a leading provider of SOA governance, cloud and enterprise API Management products, is expanding its international operations to include a presence in South Africa, the company announced today.  The move is in response to accelerating demand for SOA governance automation solutions in the region.  Tony Rolston, a veteran IT executive, will be responsible for the operation in his role as the Managing Director, MEA, to be based in Johannesburg. “The need for SOA governance automation follows the pathways of global business. As supply chains connect global systems, companies need strong SOA governance,” said Paul Gigg, President and CEO, SOA Software.  “It’s natural that we should be a part of this trend and expand into these vital, growing economies.” Tony Rolston, the new Managing Director, has more than 25 years of experience as an executive in the information technology industry.  Mr Rolston is a proven leader with both entrepreneurial and operational skills and has a solid understanding of the local issues, processes and methodologies required to build successful businesses in the region.  Prior to basing his operations in South Africa Tony was a founding member of DBMX in the UK, a company that developed the Tivoli database monitoring family of products. Subsequent to the company being acquired by IBM, he became Country Manager for IBM Tivoli in South Africa. “The South African economy is vibrant and has a large number of enterprises that need to compete on the world stage,” said Rolston.  “We are excited to be able to help them deliver reliable business solutions with strong SOA governance in place.”  About SOA Software SOA Software is a leading provider of unified SOA governance, cloud and enterprise API Management products that enable organizations to plan, build, and run enterprise services and open APIs.  The world’s largest companies including Bank of America, Pfizer, and Verizon use SOA Software solutions to transform their business.  For more information, please visit http://www.soa.com. Press Releases 2011-10-31T02:00:47+00:00 http://www.soa.com/news/press_detail/soa_software_positioned_in_the_leaders_quadrant_of_the_magic_quadrant_for_s/ http://www.soa.com/news/press_detail/soa_software_positioned_in_the_leaders_quadrant_of_the_magic_quadrant_for_s/#When:03:00:07Z Evaluation Based on Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute Los Angeles, CA. – October 24, 2011 – SOA Software, a leading provider of SOA governance, cloud and enterprise API Management products, today announced it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the “Leaders” Quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for SOA Governance Technologies.* According to the Gartner report, “SOA governance technology is about tracking and monitoring the artifacts in an SOA, enforcing and ensuring compliance with the policies associated with the artifacts and measuring the outcomes related to their use.”  SOA Software excels in enabling large enterprises to succeed in these endeavors. “We consider our position in the ‘Leaders’ quadrant by Gartner to be recognition of the number of enterprise customers with SOA Software governance solutions in production,” said Paul Gigg, President and CEO, SOA Software. “We continue to execute on our product strategy, aligning SOA governance needs across multiple stakeholders and delivering end-to-end governance in complex organizations.” According to the report, “…the vast majority of clients approaching this market today are not looking just for a repository for designing services or a few security policies to make sure some services are consumed only by the right entities. They are also looking for a comprehensive technology partner to cover SOA artifacts from planning to retirement and to assign a changing set of policies throughout their life cycle.” SOA Software’s products combine to provide a unified SOA governance solution that is platform-independent, integrating seamlessly with SOA products from Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, SAP, JBoss, and Tibco.  The company provides a single enterprise-class integrated solution that delivers centralized SOA planning, lifecycle and operational governance automation, and API and developer community management.  SOA Software’s Portfolio Manager™ is a Planning Governance product that helps ensure the alignment of SOA Programs with strategic IT investment and business objectives and makes sure that enterprises build the right services at the right time.  Repository Manager™ provides a software development asset (SDA) repository, lifecycle management, and metadata federation solution.  Service Manager™ automatically implements and enforces policies from Policy Manager™.  SOLA™ provides mainframe programmers with a portal for readily exposing and consuming Web services from IMS and CICS applications.  SOA Software’s Atmosphere provides a secure, robust platform that companies can use to share their APIs with the growing developer community. Atmosphere manages, monitors and secures companies’ APIs ensuring that they deliver the level of service customers and partners require; the security of corporate and customer information and assets; and the integrity of the corporate brand. *Gartner, Inc., Magic Quadrant for Integrated SOA Governance Technologies, 2011, Paolo Malinverno, Daryl C. Plummer, October 17, 2011. The complete report is available here, compliments of SOA Software. About SOA Software SOA Software is a leading provider of unified SOA governance, cloud and enterprise API Management products that enable organizations to plan, build, and run enterprise services and open APIs.  The world’s largest companies including Bank of America, Pfizer, and Verizon use SOA Software solutions to transform their business.  For more information, please visit http://www.soa.com Press Releases 2011-10-24T03:00:07+00:00 http://www.soa.com/news/press_detail/soa_software_announces_european_expansion/ http://www.soa.com/news/press_detail/soa_software_announces_european_expansion/#When:02:00:57Z International Business Executive to Drive Growth in Strategic Market Los Angeles, CA. – October 19, 2011 – SOA Software, a leading provider of SOA governance, cloud and enterprise API Management products, announced today that Mathew Matthews has joined the company as Vice President, EMEA.  SOA Software is experiencing an acceleration of business in Europe driven by large enterprises and partnerships with leading system integrators. The appointment of Matthews, who will be based in SOA Software’s London office, heralds a strategic focus on the region. “We are thrilled that Mathew has decided to join our team,” said Paul Gigg, CEO SOA Software.  “As our installed base in Europe has grown, our customers require a local presence and strong local leadership.  Mathew has a track record of delivering growth through proven leadership that suits the needs of this role very well.” Matthews has over fourteen years of experience of senior management in technology businesses, including serving as CEO of Stable-net Group, which has offices in South Africa, Latin America, Australia and the Middle East. Prior to Stable-net, Matthews held senior international business positions at Nortel and Cisco Systems. “The requirement for enterprise ready SOA governance automation in Europe is exploding,” said Matthews. “The region is embracing the SOA Software solution set and I am looking forward to helping our customers achieve successful SOA deployments.” About SOA Software SOA Software is a leading provider of unified SOA governance, cloud and enterprise API Management products that enable organizations to plan, build, and run enterprise services and open APIs.  The world’s largest companies including Bank of America, Pfizer, and Verizon use SOA Software solutions to transform their business.  For more information, please visit http://www.soa.com. Press Releases 2011-10-19T02:00:57+00:00 http://www.soa.com/news/press_detail/soa_software_appoints_former_ibm_chief_strategist_as_vp_technology/ http://www.soa.com/news/press_detail/soa_software_appoints_former_ibm_chief_strategist_as_vp_technology/#When:16:13:05Z Brings Deep Background in SOA Architecture and Enterprise Solutions Los Angeles, CA. – September 20, 2011 –  SOA Software, a leading provider of SOA governance, cloud and API Management products, has appointed Corey Scobie to the position of Vice President Technology, the company announced today.  Scobie, who has been a leader in the IT industry with roles ranging from software development to SOA portfolio strategy, will become part of SOA Software’s senior technology development group.  At SOA Software, Scobie will be involved in SOA Governance, partner activities and the company’s growing API management product line. “We seek talented leaders as we complement our portfolio of SOA governance technologies,” said Alistair Farquharson, CTO, SOA Software. “We are looking forward to Corey’s contributions to our efforts, especially in partner integration and SOA architecture.” Mr. Scobie was most recently Chief Strategist for IBM’s Appliance and Application Optimization businesses. Prior to that, Mr. Scobie held the role of Technical Executive for the WebSphere DataPower Appliances business at IBM. He was one of the original members of the DataPower team that joined IBM through acquisition in 2005.  Prior to joining IBM/DataPower, Mr. Scobie held key technical and strategic positions with several software startups in both North America and Europe in the areas of business software, integration and mobile application development. “This is a very exciting time to be joining SOA Software,” said Scobie. “The company is building on its established leadership position in SOA Governance to address new markets and opportunities, and I look forward to contributing to the company’s continuing success.” About SOA Software SOA Software is a leading provider of unified SOA governance, cloud and API Management products that enable organizations to plan, build, and run enterprise services and open APIs.  The world’s largest companies including Bank of America, Pfizer, and Verizon use SOA Software solutions to transform their business.  For more information, please visit http://www.soa.com. Press Releases 2011-09-20T16:13:05+00:00 http://www.soa.com/news/press_detail/soa_software_announces_soa_management_for_microsoft_wcf_biztalk_and_asp.net/ http://www.soa.com/news/press_detail/soa_software_announces_soa_management_for_microsoft_wcf_biztalk_and_asp.net/#When:02:00:53Z Service Manager Provides Unified, Automated SOA Governance for Microsoft LOS ANGELES, CA – September 12, 2011 – SOA Software, a leading SOA and Cloud Services Governance provider, announced today new releases of its popular Service Manager providing unified SOA governance automation for Microsoft’s Enterprise SOA platform.  The new products manage Web services on Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), BizTalk Server, and ASP.NET, offer greater automation of deployment, expanded auto-discovery of Web services, and improved governance of Web services across a heterogeneous SOA environment.  “Our goal is to help customers manage Web services that originate from, or interact with the Microsoft stack throughout the enterprise, whether deployed on premise or in the cloud, and wherever they may be in the service lifecycle,” said Alistair Farquharson, CTO of SOA Software.  “We help our customers ensure that Web services on the Microsoft platform are efficiently governed by flexible policies, regardless of how diverse the enterprise platform ecosystem they may be operating in.” SOA Software’s Service Manager makes services exposed from applications running on WCF, BizTalk Server, ASP.NET and Azure visible to and compliant with enterprise policies defined, enforced and audited across other platforms.  Services from IBM, Oracle, Red Hat, SAP, and others become visible to and compliant with enterprise policies defined and enforced across your WCF, BizTalk, ASP.NET and Azure applications. Unified governance automation from SOA Software spans the full enterprise service lifecycle.  SOA Software’s Portfolio Manager enables governance of services at the architecture planning stage.  Repository Manager provides governance and policy definition for the development stage of the lifecycle, while Service Manager and Policy Manager provide monitoring, management and policy enforcement at runtime. Whether customer applications run on-premise or in Microsoft’s Windows Azure cloud platform, SOA Software is committed to high quality governance solutions. SOA Software’s solutions offer deep integration with Microsoft’s SOA and business process management solutions. SOA Software Service Manager enables automatic discovery of WCF and ASP.NET Web services wherever they are in the enterprise.  Such Web services typically have varying levels of governance with respect to security, usage contracts, usage monitoring, clustering, and service level agreements.  Service Manager gives clients the ability to govern some or all of their services using SOA Software’s native Windows agents. These agents enforce policy, monitor Web service activity, enforce service level agreements and usage contracts, and perform authentication and authorization. SOA Software Service Manager Agents for Microsoft: SOA Software Service Manager for Microsoft WCF – Replaces potentially complex and labor-intensive WCF policy binding with automated, centralized policy definition and enforcement for WCF Web services. Read more. SOA Software Service Manager for Microsoft BizTalk – Governs BizTalk applications that interact with Web services and other modes of messaging, as well as messaging that interfaces with the BizTalk Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). Read more. SOA Software Service Manager for Microsoft ASP.NET – Runs on Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) and automatically discovers ASP.NET Web services, enabling selective governance of individual services. Read more. Unified SOA Governance For Microsoft SOA Software’s Microsoft-based SOA governance products are Windows native deploying easily using Microsoft Installer (MSI) files.  They run alongside Microsoft-based applications in Windows Server. Governance features for Web services on the Microsoft platform include: Portfolio management of enterprise services regardless of delivery platform Uniform lifecycle and policy governance across existing platform investments Lifecycle Management workflow to implement building permit process Assurance of interoperability with other platforms Seamless, heterogeneous SOA Governance, Security and Management integration with major middleware platforms including IBM, Oracle, Red Hat, SAP and others Performance and reliability management SOA Management, SOA security, SLA, SOA monitoring, routing, mediation, and policy management Integrated provisioning and lifecycle management Inter-departmental consumer contract provisioning and negotiation Standards support for Governance automation (UDDIv3, WS-MEX) Trust enablement and trust mediation Cloud Governance and Microsoft Windows Azure As IT organizations reap the benefits of cloud based computing using Microsoft Windows Azure, the need for SOA governance increases. Whether deploying services and applications through pure cloud architectures or utilizing hybrid approaches using a combination of on premise and cloud based resources, SOA governance is critical to the scaling and automation of a growing cloud infrastructure. Read more. For more information on SOA Software’s Microsoft solutions, please visit http://www.soa.com/solutions/microsoft/microsoft_and_soa_software/ About SOA Software SOA Software is a leading provider of unified SOA governance, cloud and API Management products that enable organizations to plan, build, and run enterprise services and open APIs.  The world’s largest companies including Bank of America, Pfizer, and Verizon use SOA Software solutions to transform their business.  For more information, please visit http://www.soa.com. Press Releases 2011-09-12T02:00:53+00:00 http://www.soa.com/news/press_detail/soa_software_atmosphere_wins_2011_golden_bridge_award_for_application_devel/ http://www.soa.com/news/press_detail/soa_software_atmosphere_wins_2011_golden_bridge_award_for_application_devel/#When:02:00:25Z Atmosphere API Management a Mobile Innovative Product award finalist Los Angeles, CA – September 7, 2011 –SOA Software’s Atmosphere product has earned the prestigious Golden Bridge Award in the Application Development category.  Atmosphere was also honored as a Finalist in the Mobile Innovative Products category.  The coveted annual Golden Bridge Awards program encompasses the world’s best in organizational performance, products and services, executives and management teams, innovations, case studies, product management, public relations, marketing campaigns and customer satisfaction programs from every major industry in the world. SOA Software’s Atmosphere provides a secure, robust platform that companies can use to share their application programming interfaces (APIs) with the application developer community.  Enterprises are making business applications available as APIs to drive business growth and expose new channel opportunities. As a result APIs are reshaping the business landscape as dramatically as the rush to create an Internet presence with a web site did in the late 90s.  APIs are becoming the primary way that businesses interact with their customers, reach new markets, and provide the global app development community with the tools to deliver business capabilities to customers. Atmosphere manages, monitors and secures companies’ APIs ensuring that they deliver the level of service customers and partners require; the security of corporate and customer information and assets; and the integrity of the corporate brand. API providers and application developers interact and collaborate in a truly social online environment that encourages innovation and streamlines interaction. More than 40 judges from a broad spectrum of industry voices from around the world participated and their average scores determined the 2011 Golden Bridge Business Awards winners. The winners were honored during the awards dinner and presentation held last month in New York attended by the finalists, industry leaders, and judges. “This award is a testament to SOA Software’s continued innovation,” said Alistair Farquharson, CTO SOA Software.  “Atmosphere is the first truly enterprise-ready API Management solution, offering customers the robust, flexible capabilities they require for large-scale use. The community features are the first of their kind in the industry, bringing together a unique federation of API providers and developer communities.” Click Here to watch an informative video about API best practices. About the Golden Bridge Awards Golden Bridge Awards are an annual industry and peers recognition program honoring Best Companies in every major industry from large to small and new start-ups in North America, Europe, Middle-East, Africa, Asia-Pacific, and Latin-America, Best New Products and Services, Best Innovations, Management and Teams, Women in Business and the Professions, Case Studies, Customer Satisfaction, and PR and Marketing Campaigns from all over the world. Learn more about The Golden Bridge Awards at http://www.goldenbridgeawards.com About SOA Software SOA Software is a leading provider of unified SOA governance, cloud and API Management products that enable organizations to plan, build, and run enterprise services and open APIs.  The world’s largest companies including Bank of America, Pfizer, and Verizon use SOA Software solutions to transform their business.  For more information, please visit http://www.soa.com. Press Releases 2011-09-07T02:00:25+00:00 http://www.soa.com/news/press_detail/soa_software_achieves_a_gold_independent_software_vendor_isv_competency/ http://www.soa.com/news/press_detail/soa_software_achieves_a_gold_independent_software_vendor_isv_competency/#When:02:00:21Z Earns Distinction through Demonstrated Success and Customer Commitment for SOA Governance Los Angeles, CA – June 27, 2011 – SOA Software, a leading SOA and Cloud Services Governance provider, today announced it has achieved a Gold Independent Software Vendor (ISV)/Software Competency in the Microsoft Partner Network. To earn a Microsoft Gold Competency, organizations must complete a rigorous set of tests to prove their level of technology integration, have the right number of Microsoft Certified Professionals, submit customer references and demonstrate their commitment to customer satisfaction by participating in an annual survey. Organizations accredited with the Gold Partner status are among an elite group of companies that have proven to be experts in providing customers with quality solutions. As a trusted Microsoft Gold Partner, SOA Software will receive enhanced support from Microsoft and gain access to a multitude of partner-exclusive resources. “We are thrilled to have achieved this level in the Microsoft Partner Network,” said Roberto Medrano, Executive VP SOA Software. “Our commitment to helping our clients find success with SOA Governance on the Microsoft platform is well matched by Microsoft’s drive to make their solutions connected and interoperable. It’s a partnership for mutual success.” SOA Software’s products, including Service Manager for Microsoft BizTalk, provide Unified SOA Governance Automation for Microsoft’s Enterprise SOA technologies. This allows customers to use Microsoft products with confidence as part of a heterogeneous enterprise SOA environment, ensuring that services they identify, design and build using .NET and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) are relevant to and consumable by applications they design, build and deploy using other platforms. SOA Software products make services exposed on applications running on .NET and WCF visible to and compliant with enterprise policies defined, enforced and audited across other platforms. Alternatively, they make services from other platforms, such as SAP and open source environments visible to and compliant with enterprise policies defined, enforced and audited across .NET and WCF applications. For more information about SOA Software integration with Microsoft Products, see http://www.soa.com/microsoft The Microsoft Gold Competency signifies to the market that a company has demonstrated the highest level of skill and achievement within a given technology specialization. All 28 Microsoft competencies are designed to help differentiate a partner’s specific technology capabilities, helping customers find solution providers quickly and easily. Each competency has a unique set of requirements and benefits, formulated to accurately represent the specific skills and services that partners bring to the industry. “The Microsoft Partner Network is designed to empower solution providers to succeed in today’s business environment. By achieving the prestigious Gold competency, participating companies are provided with a rich set of benefits, including increased customer visibility through branding and accessibility, training and support,” said Jon Roskill, Corporate Vice President, Worldwide Partner Group at Microsoft Corp. “We are proud to put forth a program that provides the right resources to help a company develop the expertise customers demand in today’s competitive market and also provides the community and infrastructure that can connect them to one another, lowering costs for all parties.” The Microsoft Partner Network is designed to equip organizations that deliver products and services based on the Microsoft platform with the training, resources and support they need to provide their customers a superior experience and outcomes. Through the Microsoft Independent Software Vendor (ISV)/Software competency, SOA Software can gain access to the latest technology, market opportunities, and sales and marketing resources that have been specifically created with ISVs in mind. From planning the development cycle to supporting customers, firms will have the tools and resources they need to build innovative solutions and bring them to market. About SOA Software SOA Software is a leading provider of unified SOA and Cloud Services Governance automation products that enable organizations to successfully plan, build, and run enterprise services and PaaS applications. The world’s largest companies including Bank of America, Verizon, and Pfizer use SOA Software solutions to transform their business. For more information, please visit http://www.soa.com. Press Releases 2011-06-27T02:00:21+00:00 http://www.soa.com/news/press_detail/soa_software_announces_industrys_first_enterprise-ready_api_management/ http://www.soa.com/news/press_detail/soa_software_announces_industrys_first_enterprise-ready_api_management/#When:02:00:01Z Company’s Atmosphere Products Enable Customers to Expose Business Capabilities Los Angeles, CA - June 13, 2011 – SOA Software, a leading Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and cloud services Governance provider, announced today the availability of Atmosphere, the industry’s first true enterprise-ready API Management solution. Enterprises are making business applications available as APIs to drive business growth and expose new opportunities. As a result APIs are reshaping the business landscape as dramatically as the rush to create an Internet presence with a web site did in the late 90s.  APIs are becoming the primary way that businesses interact with their customers, reach new markets, and provide the global app development community with the tools to deliver business capabilities to customers.  Atmosphere provides a secure, robust platform that companies can use to share their APIs with the growing developer community. Atmosphere manages, monitors and secures APIs ensuring that companies’ APIs deliver the level of service customers and partners require; the security of corporate and customer information and assets; and the integrity of the corporate brand.  “Finally, the growing maturity of enterprise service-oriented architecture (SOA) initiatives makes public API projects more likely,” said Eric Knipp, Gartner Research Director. Atmosphere is the industry’s first true enterprise-ready API Management solution.  Atmosphere is: Production-proven – Atmosphere leverages SOA Software’s experience in meeting the needs of demanding production environments in many US Fortune 1000 companies Hybrid deployment capable – Atmosphere API Management solutions can be deployed on-premise or in the cloud  to meet business requirements or regulations that mandate businesses guarantee the security and privacy of customer data Atmosphere provides sophisticated yet simple security capabilities that allow API providers to control and monitor app’s usage of their APIs Policy-driven – Atmosphere defines all security and quality-of-service through centrally managed policies, ensuring consistency between multiple API implementations and versions Flexible – Atmosphere allows customers to define and manage their APIs using a wide range of messaging types and formats including REST/XML, REST/JSON and SOAP.  It allows customers to create an API with multiple interfaces using different standards with no extra development effort SOA enabled - In addition to exposing new capabilities, customers can leverage Atmosphere to harness existing investments in web services and enterprise SOA, presenting these capabilities in new ways “Atmosphere represents an important breakthrough in the way that enterprises leverage APIs to create new business opportunities by reaching a growing developer community,” said Alistair Farquharson, SOA Software chief technology officer. “It is the first truly enterprise-ready solution, offering customers the robust, flexible capabilities they require for large-scale use.” The Atmosphere product capabilities include: API definition, content, policy and lifecycle management to ensure that APIs are correctly structured and well documented with integration with internal design and development processes Intermediation to simplify the creation of RESTful APIs with both XML and JSON content from various internal service types with powerful paging and caching to improve app performance Sophisticated security capabilities to help protect the APIs from abuse and ensure the privacy of customer data Comprehensive QoS management (SLAs and quotas) to protect internal applications from overload at the API and to provide customers with service-level guarantee Extensive consumer contract monitoring and management of traffic from individual apps Integrated sandbox, testing and debugging capabilities to simplify the delivery of high-quality APIs For more information please visit us at http://atmosphere.soa.com. About SOA Software SOA Software is a leading provider of unified SOA and cloud services governance products that enable organizations to plan, build, and run cloud and enterprise services and PaaS applications.  The world’s largest companies including Bank of America, Pfizer, and Verizon use SOA Software solutions to transform their business.  For more information, please visit http://www.soa.com.   Press Releases 2011-06-13T02:00:01+00:00 http://www.soa.com/news/press_detail/soa_software_extends_rsa_access_manager_into_soa_and_cloud_services/ http://www.soa.com/news/press_detail/soa_software_extends_rsa_access_manager_into_soa_and_cloud_services/#When:02:00:44Z Integration enables RSA Access Manager customers to authenticate and authorize web and cloud services transactions Los Angeles, CA – May 31, 2011 – SOA Software, a leading Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and cloud services governance services provider, announced today that it has integrated its Policy Manager and Service Manager products with RSA, The Security Division of EMC (NYSE:EMC), Access Manager version 6.1.  This integration enables customers to leverage their existing investment in RSA Access Manager to authenticate and authorize web and cloud services transactions. SOA Software’s integration of Policy Manager and Service Manager with RSA Access Manager allows customers to ensure consistent authentication and authorization policy enforcement across web-based and Web services applications and systems.  The benefits of the resulting identity-based SOA Infrastructure include: End-to-end single-sign-on     between web and Web services environments Comprehensive end-to-end, user-based transaction auditing Dynamic, user and role-based service-level management allowing customers to commit to and deliver on different service levels for different user communities Federated identity integration – facilitates business-to-business Web services security “We are pleased to offer comprehensive operational governance capabilities to RSA Access Manager customers,” said Roberto Medrano, Executive Vice President, SOA Software.  “With this solution RSA Access Manager customers can leverage their existing user and group definitions to authenticate and authorize both SOA governance user activities, web and cloud services transactions.” RSA Access Manager enables organizations to centrally manage authentication and authorization policies for a large number of users, online web portals and application resources. This is designed to empower enterprises to deploy applications faster, protecting the most granular resource in the application infrastructure while at the same time providing seamless user portal access with single sign-on (SSO) and preserving identity context for greater security. “The combination of SOA Software’s integration with RSA Access Manager is designed to allow customers to benefit from an innovative and secure enterprise single-sign-on approach throughout their web, SOA and cloud services transactions,” said Ted Kamionek, Vice President, Corporate Development, RSA, The Security Division of EMC. “The combination of these products allows customers to realize the benefits of enterprise single-sign-on throughout their web, SOA and cloud services transactions.” SOA Software’s Policy Manager and Service Manager combine to provide an industry-leading operational governance solution for SOA and cloud services.  Policy Manager™ provides an SOA Registry/Repository and comprehensive SOA Policy Governance solution, that minimizes the overhead associated with governance processes, and turns governance from a painful workload, into a productivity tool.  Policy Manager supports enterprise and SOA architecture functions, ensuring consistent application of policies throughout an enterprise SOA program.  Service Manager™ automatically implements and enforces policies from Policy Manager.  It generates usage, performance and policy compliance metrics that it reports to Policy Manager to audit that policies are being enforced in a closed-loop process.  Service Manager supports SOA and enterprise operational management functions, ensuring that services are secure, reliable, and meet individual performance goals for each consumer. About SOA SOA Software is a leading provider of unified SOA and Cloud Services Governance products that enable organizations to successfully plan, build, and run cloud and enterprise services.  The world’s largest companies including Bank of America, Pfizer, and Verizon use SOA Software solutions to transform their business.  For more information, please visit http://www.soa.com Press Releases 2011-05-31T02:00:44+00:00 http://www.soa.com/news/press_detail/network_products_guide_names_soa_software_winner_of_the_2011_hot_companies/ http://www.soa.com/news/press_detail/network_products_guide_names_soa_software_winner_of_the_2011_hot_companies/#When:02:00:25Z Recognized for “Best Deployment” for California Department of Water Resources Project Los Angeles, CA -  May 16, 2011 - SOA Software, a leading SOA and Cloud Services Governance provider, announced today that Network Products Guide, the industry’s leading technology research and advisory guide, has named SOA Software a winner of the Hot Companies and Best Products Awards in the Best Deployments category for it work with the State of California Department of Water Resources (DWR). These industry and peer awards from Network Products Guide are the world’s premier information technology awards honoring achievements in every facet of the IT industry. Winners from all over the world were honored in Las Vegas on Tuesday, May 10 at the 6th annual dinner and presentations. The State of California Department of Water Resources (DWR) is the operator of the State Water Project, the largest State-built multipurpose project in the United States. The goal was to convert a silo-based organization into a multi-platform entity where IT functionality could be accessed through the entire organization. By incorporating SOA and streamlining the infrastructure, DWR met new State and Federal requirements. The upside was the creation of an agile entity that delivered new applications quickly and cost effectively. An annual achievements and recognition awards program with active participation from a broad spectrum of industry voices, the coveted annual Hot Companies and Best Products recognition program encompasses the world’s best in organizational performance, products and services, executives and management teams, successful deployments, product management and engineering, support and customer satisfaction, and public relations in every area of information technology. “This esteemed industry and peer award recognition of SOA Software by Network Products Guide is one of IT industry’s greatest honors,” said Roberto Medrano, Executive Vice President, SOA Software. “This further validates our position as a category leader who successfully partners with customers. We pride ourselves on our proven ability to efficiently solve IT and business problems with cutting edge software and services. ” About Network Products Guide Awards As industry’s leading technology research and advisory publication, Network Products Guide plays a vital role in keeping decision makers and end-users informed of the choices they can make in all areas of information technology. You will discover a wealth of information and tools in this guide including the best products and services, roadmaps, industry directions, technology advancements and independent product evaluations that facilitate in making the most pertinent technology decisions impacting business and personal goals. The guide follows conscientious research methodologies developed and enhanced by industry experts. To learn more, visit http://www.networkproductsguide.com About SOA Software SOA Software is a leading provider of unified SOA and Cloud Services Governance products that enable organizations to successfully plan, build, and run cloud and enterprise services. The world’s largest companies including Bank of America, Pfizer, and Verizon use SOA Software solutions to transform their business. For more information, please visit http://www.soa.com Press Releases 2011-05-16T02:00:25+00:00 http://www.soa.com/news/press_detail/soa_software_repository_manager_in_2011_best_product_awards/ http://www.soa.com/news/press_detail/soa_software_repository_manager_in_2011_best_product_awards/#When:02:13:45Z Repository Manager a finalist in the IT Software and Services category Los Angeles, CA - May 9, 2011 - SOA Software, a leading SOA and Cloud Services Governance provider, announced today that Repository Manager has been recognized as a Best Product Awards finalist by Network Products Guide in the IT Software and Services category. These industry and peer awards are the world’s premier information technology awards honoring achievements and recognitions in every facet of the IT industry. Repository Manager is SOA Software’s industry leading development governance platform that simplifies the creation, integration, management and promotion of enterprise assets and services throughout the complete development lifecycle. Repository Manager serves to automate the path to SOA and Cloud, enabling customers to rapidly develop, govern and deploy services within the SOA service lifecycle. With its strong integration with leading application development environments such as Eclipse and Microsoft Visual Studio, federation with all major run-time registries like including IBM WSRR, HP SOA Systinet and UDDI registries, and its extensive integration with SOA Software’s Policy Manager, Repository Manager enables customers to rapidly govern and deploy services and other software assets from a single point of control within the SOA enterprise lifecycle. Repository Manager is used by Fortune 500 customers to drive application agility and reduce cost and risk in their SOA deployment. “We are pleased Repository Manager is recognized” said Roberto Medrano, Executive VP of SOA Software. “It is a testament to the capabilities of repository manager to meet the needs of large enterprises to effectively govern their SOA”. Repository Manager’s capabilities include: Development Governance - manage heterogeneous asset types from a single source. These assets can include services, components (e.g., .NET, J2EE), legacy systems, and/or knowledge assets, such as patterns and best practices, used by development teams. Repository Manager provides seamless integration with Microsoft, SAP, IBM, and other development platforms. Federation with Service Registries - discover and publish services from and to runtime service registries including HP SOA Systinet, IBM WSRR, Software AG CentraSite and any UDDI registry to ensure consistency of service definitions through the enterprise. Asset Import Center - Repository Manager Import Center supports discovery and synchronization from IBM WSRR and UDDI registries. Integration with Leading Software Development Platforms - reference and replicate assets and artifacts from common SCM solutions.  Provide seamless governance processes across all enterprise software development platforms including Microsoft, SAP, IBM, Eclipse and others. Configuration Designer Plug-In - This Eclipse plug-in enables users to graphically design governance processes for deployment to their Repository Manager installations. Effective Asset and Service Management and Deployment - deep integration with SOA Software’s Policy Manager provides compliance policy validation to ensure cross-enterprise compatibility of services and other software assets. Repository Manager can automatically provision service and schema definitions under development to Policy Manager which in turn automatically applies the correct compliance policies for those definitions. Strong integration with development tools ensures efficient operation of the development process. Discover Assets and Services Collaboratively - comprehensive technical and business search capabilities to ensure that created applications meet business needs. About Network Products Guide Awards As industry’s leading technology research and advisory publication, Network Products Guide plays a vital role in keeping decision makers and end-users informed of the choices they can make in all areas of information technology. You will discover a wealth of information and tools in this guide including the best products and services, roadmaps, industry directions, technology advancements and independent product evaluations that facilitate in making the most pertinent technology decisions impacting business and personal goals. The guide follows conscientious research methodologies developed and enhanced by industry experts. The Hot Companies and Best Product awards were created to honor and generate industry wide recognition of the achievements and positive contributions of organizations and IT professionals worldwide in every area.  The awards are administered by Network Products Guide, the industry’s leading technology research and advisory guide. To learn more, visit http://www.networkproductsguide.com. About SOA Software SOA Software is a leading provider of unified SOA and Cloud Services Governance automation products that enable organizations to successfully plan, build, and run enterprise services and PaaS applications. The world’s largest companies including Bank of America, Verizon, and Pfizer use SOA Software solutions to transform their business. For more information, please visit http://www.soa.com. Press Releases 2011-05-09T02:13:45+00:00