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SOA Software Execs Explain How to Tame the API Frenzy

2013-06-19T10:30:11+00:00

SOA Software Execs Explain How to Tame the API Frenzy

Los Angeles, CA - June 19, 2013 � Two executives from SOA Software, a leading provider of API Management solutions, will discuss how to tame the current API �frenzy� in two featured presentations at this week�s GigaOM Structure and API Days conferences in San Francisco, the company announced today. Roberto Medrano, Executive Vice President, and Sachin Agarwal, Vice President of Product Marketing, will deliver the session API frenzy: the implications and planning for a successful API strategy. The content is increasingly relevant as enterprises make their applications available as application programmer interfaces (APIs) in order to drive business growth and expose new revenue and partnership opportunities. Businesses deploying APIs are experiencing the potential gains but also exposing themselves to challenges inherent in such an open approach to computing. The booming mobile application and Internet of Things market rely on APIs for access to back-end services, information and systems.

�API adoption is exploding, but not every API deployment is successful,� said Roberto Medrano. �As business escalate the priority of their API projects, they need to think about a long term API management strategy. Businesses are unearthing issues such as inefficient scaling, compromised security, long development cycles and an uncontrolled sprawl of multiple versions. IT managers need best practices for managing API development from securing to monitoring APIs and managing the entire life cycle of API development. That�s the goal of the presentation.�

Powering the API Economy
SOA Software�s API Management Solution is the most comprehensive on the market today. It is a secure, robust platform that companies can use to share and manage their APIs with the growing app developer community, their partners, and customers. The platform manages, monitors and secures APIs, ensuring that these APIs deliver the level of service customers and partners require; that corporate and customer information and assets are secure; and that the integrity of the corporate brand is protected.

About the Conferences
GigaOm Structure 2013 (June 19th & 20th) will focus on how real-time business needs are shaping IT architectures, hyper-distributed infrastructure and creating a cloud that will look completely different from everything that�s come before.
APIdays San Francisco (June 21st & 22nd) will gather thought and business leaders from the API community for a dialogue on the future of the programmable web, with the goal of understanding why APIs are growing from a multi-million to a multi-billion dollar market opportunity, and how we can take advantage of this movement.

About the Presenters
Roberto Medrano, Executive Vice President of SOA Software is a recognized executive in the information technology fields of SOA, internet security, governance, and compliance, with extensive experience with both start-ups and large companies, having been involved at the beginning of four IT industries: EDA, Open Systems, Computer Security and now SOA. Prior to joining SOA Software, he was CEO of PoliVec, a leader in security policy. Before joining PoliVec, he was one of the top 100 Sr. Executives at Hewlett Packard. At HP, Medrano served as the General Manager of the E-Services and Internet Security Divisions.
Sachin Agarwal, Vice President of Product Marketing at SOA Software has more than 15 years of experience in the management of complex enterprise software products, including stints at Infosys, Oblix, Softlabs, and Oracle, where he took a mature $50M Web Infrastructure, Portal and Social business and grew to it over $300M over 5 years. An accomplished engineer, Mr. Agarwal has numerous patents related to the management of data storage.

Schedule for presentations of API frenzy: the implications and planning for a successful API strategy

GigaOm Structure
- Date and Time: Thursday, June 20th, 10:20 AM
- Location: Conference Room 2, Mission Bay Conference Center at UCSF - 1675 Owens St. San Francisco, CA 94158
API Days
- Date and Time: Saturday, June 22nd, 9.25AM
- Location: PARISOMA, 169 11th Street, San Francisco, CA 94103

About SOA Software

SOA Software is a leading provider of API Management and SOA governance products that enable customers to plan, build, run and share enterprise services and APIs. The world�s largest companies including Bank of America, Pfizer, and Verizon use SOA Software products to harness the power of their technology and transform their businesses. Gartner placed SOA Software in the Leaders Quadrant for the 2011 �Magic Quadrant for SOA Governance Technologies.� The company is also recognized as a �Leader� by the Forrester Research Waves for Integrated SOA Governance , SOA Management, and SOA Life Cycle Management. For more information, please visit http://www.soa.com.

SOA Software�s CTO to Address API Economy at Cloud Expo

2013-06-10T14:15:30+00:00

Discussion to Include Role of APIs in Business Partnerships and API Security

Los Angeles, CA - June 10, 2013 � Alistair Farquharson, CTO of SOA Software, a leading provider of API Management solutions, will address the audience at this week�s Cloud Expo in four sessions that discuss the emerging API economy. As enterprises increasingly make their applications available as application programmer interfaces (APIs) in order to drive business growth and expose new revenue and partnership opportunities, they are experiencing the potential gains but also exposing themselves to challenges inherent in such an open approach to computing. This is particularly salient for the booming mobile app market, which relies on APIs for access to back-end systems. Mr. Farquharson�s presentations will discuss best practices for achieving the upside of the API economy while managing the business and technology risks that emerge in the process.

�APIs are powering new channels for conducting business, increasingly supporting the growth of mobile, web and partner channels� said Alistair Farquharson, CTO of SOA Software. �APIs and cloud have broken down the barriers to access data and services. By providing a platform to secure, monitor and manage the entire lifecycle of APIs, SOA Software�s API Management solution empowers the developers to concentrate on the core user experience and capability of the app, rather than getting bogged down by the complexities of managing these APIs.�

SOA Software�s approach to API management is to emphasize management across the full lifecycle. The company also announced today the availability of its new API Lifecycle Manager. In SOA Software�s experience working with large corporate clients on SOA governance, the best practice is to involve stakeholders and processes fully through the plan/build/run/share phases of an API�s life.

CloudExpo

The 12th Cloud Expo is being held June 10-13, 2013, at the Javits Center in New York, NY. As in earlier years, the conference is offering audiences a wide selection of technical and strategic breakout sessions, general sessions, industry keynotes, and discussion “Power Panels”

Alistair Farquharson Speaking Sessions

Monday, June 10, 6:00 - 6:30 pm - Room 1A25: General Session - Using APIs for Better Business Partnerships
Tuesday, June 11, 5:20 - 6:05 pm - Room 1A08: Technical Brief - APIs and Services � One Platform or Two?
Wednesday, June 12, 6:10 - 6:55 pm - Room 1A08: Technical Brief - API Security, Does My Business Need an OAuth Server?
Wednesday, June 12, 7:00 - 7:30 pm - Room 1A25: CTO Power Panel: Has Cloud Computing Changed IT for the Better

SOA Software will be at Booth # 318.

Powering the API Economy

Enterprises are increasingly making business applications available as APIs in order to drive business growth and expose new revenue and partnership opportunities, and ultimately to improve business effectiveness. IDC research supports this idea, indicating that that worldwide spending on cloud services will grow to $44.2 billion. APIs allow both external and internal developers to build applications that leverage core business capabilities.

SOA Software�s API Management Solution is the most comprehensive on the market today. It is a secure, robust platform that companies can use to share and manage their APIs with the growing app developer community, their partners, and customers. The platform manages, monitors and secures APIs, ensuring that these APIs deliver the level of service customers and partners require; that corporate and customer information and assets are secure; and that the integrity of the corporate brand is protected.

About SOA Software
SOA Software is a leading provider of API Management and SOA governance products that enable customers to plan, build, run and share enterprise services and APIs. The world�s largest companies including Bank of America, Pfizer, and Verizon use SOA Software products to harness the power of their technology and transform their businesses. Gartner placed SOA Software in the Leaders Quadrant for the 2011 �Magic Quadrant for SOA Governance Technologies.� The company is also recognized as a �Leader� by the Forrester Research Waves for Integrated SOA Governance , SOA Management, and SOA Life Cycle Management. For more information, please visit http://www.soa.com.

SOA Software Announces Lifecycle Manager for APIs

2013-06-06T23:10:05+00:00

New offering delivers API Lifecycle management for Cloud and Mobile Applications

Los Angeles, CA (June 10, 2013) � SOA Software, a leading provider of API Management solutions, today announced Lifecycle Manager for APIs, the industry’s most robust and scalable end-to-end API development and lifecycle management solution.

Lifecycle Manager governs the development and use of APIs, services and other software assets across an enterprise�s IT environments, providing a clear view into how each fits into that enterprise�s business and technical landscape. By establishing a comprehensive context for assessing existing software assets and guiding the development of new ones, Lifecycle Manager serves to extend an enterprise�s IT capabilities to Web APIs so they’re accessible and usable to an enterprise’s customers and partners. Leveraging a built-in repository, SOA Software Lifecycle Manager for APIs enables management across all the life stages of an API, i.e. from planning and designing to developing, operating, maintaining and retiring the APIs. As organizations move beyond deploying their first APIs, they are realizing that managing this entire API Lifecycle is one of the most important aspects of rolling out a long-term API strategy, whereas some of the existing API management solutions in the market today only focus on the operating and running aspects of an API Lifecycle.

With the addition of Lifecycle Manager for APIs, SOA Software now offers the most comprehensive API Management solution. A complete API Management solution must provide a Developer Portal, API Gateway for security and transformation, Monitoring and Lifecycle Management. SOA Software now provides all these capabilities through a combination of Community Manager, API Gateway and Lifecycle Manager, becoming the first vendor in the industry to provide a complete API Management solution. All components are available in the cloud or on-premise.

“Lifecycle Manager will make management and deployment of Web-based APIs dramatically easier and more consistent,” said Brent Carlson, SVP of SOA Software. “Enterprises are increasingly seeing demands to extend the functionality of their services to mobile devices and through cloud-based offerings. Lifecycle Manager offers a foundation on which an organization can ensure that their entire set of API offerings is truly enterprise-class.”

Lifecycle Manager has prebuilt integration with SOA Software’s API Gateway and Community Manager, thereby supporting both internal and external development communities. In addition, it offers a variety of new features that make identification, management and oversight of APIs and other software assets easier. These include:

REST API Support: Full SDLC support for REST APIs is incorporated into Lifecycle Manager, giving customers a single place to establish end-to-end governance over REST-based services and APIs.
Graphical Template Modeler: In addition to its easy-to-use drag-and-drop governance process editor, Lifecycle Manager now provides graphical editing support for asset content modeling, giving administrators the ability to define and edit asset types via an easy-to-use form-based editor which presents all information relevant to the type under edit within a composite view.
Subsidiary Asset Types: Lifecycle Manager supports true containment of subsidiary information, ensuring proper information modeling for complex types. For example, an API may contain configuration information defining both sandbox and production proxies as subsidiary types, thereby providing a clearly understandable composite API definition that is in turn propagated to Community Manager for deployment and exposure to external business partners and other potential consumers.
Graphical Impact Analysis support for IDEs: Browser-based Asset Relationship Visualization (ARV) is now fully integrated into Lifecycle Manager�s Eclipse-based plug-in and Visual Studio add-in.

Powering the API Economy
Enterprises are increasingly making business applications available as APIs in order to drive business growth and expose new revenue and partnership opportunities, and ultimately to improve business effectiveness. APIs allow both external and internal developers to build applications that leverage core business capabilities.

For more information on Lifecycle Manager, see http://www.soa.com/products/lifecycle_manager

Availability

SOA Software Lifecycle Manager� is available now.

About SOA Software
SOA Software�s mission is to power the API Economy with products that enable our customers to plan, build, run and share APIs through comprehensive cloud and on-premise solutions for API lifecycle, security, management and developer engagement. The world�s largest companies including Bank of America, Pfizer, and Verizon use SOA Software products to harness the power of their technology and transform their businesses. Gartner placed SOA Software in the Leaders Quadrant for the 2011 �Magic Quadrant for SOA Governance Technologies.� The company is also recognized as a �Leader� by the Forrester Research Waves for Integrated SOA Governance , SOA Management, and SOA Life Cycle Management. For more information, please visit http://www.soa.com.

SOA Software Announces API Management on Windows Azure Cloud

2013-06-04T10:00:22+00:00

Solution Provides API Platform for Mobile Apps

MICROSOFT TECHED � NEW ORLEANS, LA � June 4, 2013 � SOA Software, a leading provider of API Management that helps businesses plan, build, secure, monitor and share APIs, announced today API Management for Microsoft environments. Microsoft enterprise users executing API programs can look to SOA Software�s API Management solution for targeted management of their Microsoft-based APIs and services environment, including APIs deployed on the Windows Azure cloud.

�SOA Software is working with Microsoft, making it easy for customers to execute their API initiatives in Microsoft environments� said Alistair Farquharson, CTO of SOA Software. �Our strategy with Microsoft is centered around making it easy for developers to securely expose and manage APIs. We extend the Microsoft platform with our API Gateway and Developer Community solutions that have already helped many organizations launch their API initiatives.�

SOA Software, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, now offers API support for Windows Azure cloud platform, Windows Azure Mobile Services, Windows Azure Service Bus and WebAPI. The solution empowers Microsoft shops to build large developer portals and communities and provides a single place to manage and secure APIs by using security features such as OAuth, OpenID and integration with enterprise security systems. It reaches deep into the enterprise to ensure that APIs can securely connect with Microsoft resources and uses Windows Azure Service Bus to securely manage interactions between APIs and critical business data stored in on-premise systems.

Microsoft BizTalk applications, Microsoft SQL Server data, and core internal application services built on Microsoft infrastructure can all securely and seamlessly participate in an API program, ensuring a functionally rich mobile app experience for end users. SOA Software�s API Management provides native integration with enterprise Microsoft technology, ensuring API-to-enterprise interactions work out of box the first time without the expense, risk and time investment of complex integration efforts.

SOA Software API Management for Microsoft offers a comprehensive developer portal for API and mobile app developers, a lifecycle management solution fully integrated with Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server, and an API gateway to secure and mediate Microsoft-based API interactions with backend services. Windows Phone, iOS, and Android developers can use the developer portal to browse and negotiate consumption of APIs for use within mobile apps. Enterprise Microsoft IT organizations can use the solution to plan, build and run APIs integrated with their enterprise services environment. The result is an approach to API management for Microsoft users that is fast and easy, offering all the benefits of APIs on the Microsoft platform in a single solution.

For more information on SOA Software�s API Platform, see http://www.soa.com/solutions/microsoft/microsoft_and_soa_software

API days San Francisco

2013-05-30T17:02:49+00:00

PARISOMA
San Francisco, CA

Join SOA Software as we sponsor the upcoming APIdays in San Francisco from June 21-22 at the PARISOMA space in San Francisco. API community discussions will focus on the future of the programmable web. The goal will be to understand why APIs are growing from a multi-million to a multi-billion dollar market opportunity, and how the developer community can take advantage of this movement. Click here for the details.

DIA 2013

2013-05-16T16:57:08+00:00

Boston Convention and Exhibition Center
Boston

Join Bronze sponsor SOA Software executives and staff for the DIA 49th Annual Meeting at the Boston Convention Center and Exhibition Center from June 23-29. The DIA 2013 49th Annual Meeting is the largest multidisciplinary event that brings together a community of professionals at all levels and across all disciplines in the discovery, development, and life cycle management of medical products. This meeting is designed for individuals involved in the discovery, development, and life cycle management of pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical devices, and related medical products. The Annual Meeting is intended to strengthen professionals� understanding of the value of cross-discipline integration and to foster innovation for better health outcomes.Click here for ther details.

SOA Software Announces Industry�s First Integrated API Gateway Solution

2013-05-06T10:00:57+00:00

The Flexible Virtual and Cloud Appliance Combines Security, Integration, Developer Community and Mediation Capabilities to Minimize Risk and Cost

Los Angeles, CA. � May 6, 2013 � SOA Software � a leading provider of Enterprise API Management and SOA Governance solutions � announced today the industry�s first unified API Gateway establishing a new standard for an integrated solution that combines security, developer community, integration and mediation capabilities delivered both in the cloud and on-premise It offers policy-based enforcement mechanisms, mediation of security and identity services across technology domains, and management capabilities that simply and securely converge connectivity of APIs across mobile, web and cloud platforms. The API Gateway also enables enterprises to rapidly publish their internal services and APIs to a cloud hosted developer community, significantly reducing time and cost.

The SOA Software API Gateway is a virtual appliance that streamlines management, deployment, development and operation of APIs, enhancing security and regulatory compliance through authentication, authorization and audit capabilities. It provides central definition and management of security, routing, reliability, mediation, auditing and other operational governance policies across multiple instances. The API Gateway enables the fastest time to market for a comprehensive API solution that can be deployed as a single unit, on-premise, in-cloud or as a hybrid solution. Moreover, the same solution can be used to manage and secure SOA based services, minimizing the risk and cost for our enterprise customers.

The API Gateway transforms and mediates between XML and SOAP based services and JSON and REST without writing code. It also offers integrated process activity and scripting capabilities for sophisticated content mediation and orchestration, including the ability to execute JavaScript and other scripting languages natively within the gateway for message enrichment (such as call-outs and transformations) and mashups (new applications combining multiple backend services).

�The API Gateway allows organizations to quickly and cost-effectively develop, secure, manage and monitor their APIs in an increasingly connected world,� said Alistair Farquharson, chief technology officer at SOA Software. �Customers are now able to extend their business processes and data for consumption as APIs by leveraging our unified API Gateway�s unique ability to centrally secure and rapidly connect applications across platforms, devices and channels.�

Reliable Security, Threat Prevention and Centralized Policy Management
The API Gateway provides a lightweight platform for securing and managing APIs. It supports a wide array of authentication and authorization schemes to secure access and provides a variety of transport and message level security options to prevent inflight tampering of valuable data. An integrated OAuth Server enables use of existing enterprise security systems to manage access rights to APIs and data. The API Gateway also includes threat protection features to detect and prevent denial of service (DoS) attacks, malformed messages or excessive XML/JSON depth and breadth. The API Gateway�s architecture leverages a centralized Policy Manager to ensure uniform administration and management across the unified gateway fabric.

Accelerates Integration between Applications and Business Processes
Brokering authorized web services and applying security policies are key functions of the API Gateway. The API Gateway supports dynamic routing based on incoming messages or tagged metadata, transforms non-XML messages into formats more readily consumed by back-end services or applications and mediates security tokens between mobile, enterprise, web and partner applications based on policy. It also supports code-free virtualization and aggregation of multiple backend API�s or services.

Developer Community Platform
The API Gateway provides a developer community platform as a connecting point to manage, share, and promote APIs and services in a secure, scalable environment to help enterprises drive developer adoption, reach new channels and gain business advantage, addressing all stages of the API lifecycle. It also provides an extensive set of social capabilities to promote the creation of a community of developers either inside or outside the enterprise, or a combination of both. It enables organizations to publish their internal services to a cloud hosted developer community, significantly reducing the time and cost to rollout an API solution.

For more information about the API Gateway, see http://www.soa.com/solutions/api-gateway.
For more information about Enterprise API Management, see http://www.soa.com/solutions/enterprise-api-management

About SOA Software
SOA Software is a leading provider of Enterprise API Management and SOA governance products that enable customers to plan, build, run and share enterprise services and APIs. The world�s largest companies including Bank of America, Pfizer, and Verizon use SOA Software products to harness the power of their technology and transform their businesses. Gartner placed SOA Software in the Leaders Quadrant for the 2011 �Magic Quadrant for SOA Governance Technologies.� The company is also recognized as a �Leader� by the Forrester Research Waves for Integrated SOA Governance , SOA Management, and SOA Life Cycle Management. For more information, please visit http://www.soa.com.

SOA Software Enables REST Services on IBM DataPower To Help Customers Extend Reach Enterprise Data

2013-04-29T10:00:40+00:00

New Policy Manager Product Enhances DataPower for APIs, Mobile Devices, and Web 2.0

Las Vegas, CA. � April 29, 2012 � SOA Software, a leading provider of Enterprise API Management and SOA Governance solutions, today announced support for REST services in its latest release of Policy Manager for IBM WebSphere DataPower. REST technology is transforming enterprise IT by providing easy access to backend data. Customers can now extend DataPower�s ability to work with mainframes and other backend systems to APIs, mobile apps, and Web 2.0 application functionality.

SOA Software has long helped customers leverage IBM WebSphere DataPower as the foundation of their enterprise services infrastructure. Policy Manager for DataPower brings monitoring, security, clustering and a host of SOA governance features to the DataPower product line. Support for REST services is the latest addition to the set of Policy Manager for DataPower features that makes enterprise SOA easily available and cost effective for DataPower users. Policy Manager for DataPower helps customers to model, secure, monitor, cluster, and automate REST services on DataPower in a fraction of the time they spend today.

�For companies who need to extend the reach of their enterprise data to mobile users and Web 2.0 applications, this new REST capability is essential,� said Alistair Farquharson, chief technology officer at SOA Software. �Our enablement of the DataPower appliance has resulted in large gains for customers inside the enterprise. Now we are adding to those gains by securely and efficiently enabling an even larger audience of Web and mobile users through REST services. This will surely be a positive change in how our customers use DataPower to operate, manage and integrate their IT services in an SOA environment.�

Feedback from IBM WebSphere DataPower customers made it clear to SOA Software that demand for REST-based access to their DataPower services is growing. Whether the backend system is WebSphere, mainframe, WebSphere MQ, or other technologies, the ability to use DataPower to secure and expose backend data using REST is becoming a standard requirement. The ability to monitor, cluster, and add valuable SOA governance functionality to these REST services is a persistent theme among customers who have mobile users that demand highly available, fast and secure access, and that feature rich mobile apps.

Policy Manager for DataPower provides a �ready-to-use� SOA governance solution for REST services that builds on the company�s extensive experience enabling SOA on DataPower. It centralizes and automates the management of DataPower services, reduces administrative overhead, and ensures consistent policy and service definition. Coupled with the ease of use and growing adoption of REST services, Policy Manager for DataPower offers DataPower customers the ability to quickly realize powerful API, mobile, and Web 2.0 solutions for their user communities. For more information on this product, see http://www.soa.com/solutions/ibm/ibm_datapower_governance/ or www.soa.com/ibm

SOA Software Attains Microsoft Gold ISV Certification

2013-04-24T10:00:24+00:00

Microsoft and SOA Software Strategy provides Full SOA and API Lifecycle Governance

Los Angeles, CA � Apr 24, 2013 � SOA Software, a leading provider of Enterprise API Management and SOA Governance solutions, today announced that it has been recertified with Gold Independent Software Vendor (ISV)/Software Competency in the Microsoft Partner Network. As the technologies and strategies of the two companies evolve, SOA Software�s full lifecycle governance of service-oriented architecture (SOA) and APIs is proving to be an excellent fit for Microsoft�s cloud/on-premise hybrid strategy.

�Microsoft�s emphasis on cloud/on-premise hybrids intensifies the need for governance of Web services at every phase of the SOA/API lifecycle,� said Roberto Medrano, Executive VP of SOA Software. �Organizations that are extending their on-premise Microsoft-based SOA solution into the cloud invariably find that the openness of the cloud creates pressure to control Web services without reducing the agility of the overall system. That�s where we can help.�

Microsoft�s concerted push into the cloud, which stresses the advantages of creating hybrid cloud/on-premise solutions, has gained momentum in the last year. New offerings such as Office 365 and Windows Server 2012 leverage a combination of cloud and on-premise IT resources for enterprise benefit. Microsoft stalwarts such as Dynamics CRM are showcasing customer success with cloud/on-premise hybrids that offer unique return on investment by stretching existing infrastructure into new, flexible configurations.

The expansion of connectivity and points of origin for APIs and Web services in the Microsoft cloud/on-premise model creates fresh governance challenges, however. More points of policy definition and enforcement result in more opportunities for governance policies to fall apart, raising risk across SOA and API programs. SOA Software�s API & SOA governance suite for Microsoft offers a solution, enabling enterprises to manage all services, regardless of whether they are Microsoft-based or not, cloud-based or on-premise, across the complete service lifecycle. SOA Software�s Portfolio Manager enables governance of public cloud/private cloud/on-premise Microsoft Web services at the architecture planning stage. SOA Software Lifecycle Manager provides governance and policy definition for the development stage of the lifecycle, integrating with Microsoft Visual Studio, and Team Foundation Server. At runtime, SOA Software Service Manager and Policy Manager provide monitoring, management and policy enforcement for services running on Microsoft IIS & BizTalk Server as well as on Windows Communication Foundation (WCF). For more information about SOA Software�s solutions for Microsoft, please visit www.soa.com/microsoft.

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 receives enhanced support from Microsoft and has access to a multitude of partner-exclusive resources. To earn a Microsoft Gold Competency, organizations must complete a rigorous set of tests to prove their level of technology expertise, have the right number of Microsoft Certified Professionals, submit customer references and demonstrate their commitment to customer satisfaction by participating in an annual survey. 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 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 consistently successful outcomes. Through the Microsoft Independent Software Vendor (ISV)/Software competency, a firm 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.

GigaOM Structure

2013-04-04T20:28:08+00:00

San Francisco

Join SOA Software executives and staff at the GigaOM Structure conference. GigaOM�s flagship program examines the future of cloud computing and internet infrastructure. This year, Structure will focus on how real-time business needs are shaping IT architectures, how hyper-distributed infrastructure will take you beyond the four walls of your traditional data center, and how your cloud tomorrow will look completely different from everything that�s come before. For the detail, click here.

SOA Software OAuth Server Simplifies Secure Sharing of Private Data with Cloud Applications

2013-02-25T12:00:09+00:00

New product extends enterprise identity and access management systems to enterprise and partner mobile, web and desktop applications

Los Angeles, CA � Feb 25, 2013� SOA Software, a leading provider of Enterprise API Management and SOA Governance solutions, today announced SOA Software OAuth ServerTM, the industry�s first comprehensive OAuth solution for the enterprise. SOA Software OAuth Server extends existing enterprise identity and access management systems, allowing users to use their enterprise credentials to login and control access to their data from partner and cloud applications.

SOA Software�s OAuth Server is an enterprise authentication and authorization product. It provides a comprehensive security token server that integrates with enterprise identity and access management systems providing the latest Web and API security standards including OpenId and OAuth. With the OAuth Server, businesses can publish and interact with secure data; provide a way for users to share private data between different applications, and allow users to approve applications to act on their behalf without sharing passwords.

The OAuth Server offers:

Enterprise to cloud single-sign-on � customers, employees and partners can use their existing enterprise managed user information for single-sign-on with cloud applications
Centrally managed access control � users can centrally manage the applications they choose share their private data with
Secure Mobile Identity � a way for mobile device users to securely access enterprise and cloud applications without having to share their passwords

�By bringing OAuth to enterprise identity and access management systems, we are revolutionizing the way that businesses secure the integration of enterprise, partner and external applications,� said Alistair Farquharson, chief technology officer at SOA Software. �Enterprises can use the SOA Software OAuth Server to allow their users to approve mobile, web, and desktop applications to act on their behalf and securely share private data, without the need for legally complex, risky and heavyweight mechanisms.�

SOA Software�s OAuth Server is the first product to offer comprehensive, standards-based authentication and authorization capabilities to the enterprise. The product offers:

Integration with most common enterprise identity systems including LDAP, Active Directory, CA SiteMinder, Oracle Access Manager, IBM TAM, RSA ClearTrust and more
Comprehensive support for the OpenID, OAuth 1.0a and OAuth 2.0 specifications along with a wide array of other authentication and authorization specifications
A fully brandable user experience allowing users to confidently make and manage their authorization decisions
Built-in grant management so that users can control their own permissions
Support for multiple providers each with its own set of resource and grant definitions, allowing the enterprise to offer a range of different OAuth services for different applications and purposes
Guaranteed interoperability with most common systems, based on extensive lab and field interoperability testing.

Pricing and Availability
SOA Software OAuth Server� is available now as on-premise software and as part of our Enterprise API Platform-as-a-Service solution. The OAuth Server starts at $50k.

SOA Software CTO to Keynote API Strategy & Practice Conference

2013-02-21T10:00:43+00:00

Recognized Technology Expert Alistair Farquharson to Speak on Enterprise API Platforms

New York City (February 21, 2013) � Alistair Farquharson, CTO of SOA Software, a leading provider of API management, and SOA governance products, will be delivering the keynote address at the API Strategy & Practice Conference this week in New York. The keynote, titled How Does My Enterprise API Platform Differ from Facebook, Twitter and Netflix?, focuses on how enterprises can take full advantage of application programming interfaces (APIs) to extend their business operations to customers and partners, and recognize increased volume in transactions.

The API Strategy & Practice Conference aims to provide smart insights from many of the world�s leading API and technology providers. The event is held in New York on Thursday, February 21 and Friday, February 22. The conference is intended to be a one-stop event to help technologists bootstrap their API strategies, discover usable and relevant APIs for their use, and to encourage community among API developers. Speakers include API luminaries from such organizations as AT&T, Twilio, Tumbler, Cisco, Singly, Walgreens, and others.

Alistair Farquharson will have three speaker sessions:

Thursday, Feb. 21 � 4:40 PM-5:00 PM: Panel � API Infrastructure Providers
Friday, Feb. 22 � 10:30 AM-10:50 AM: KEYNOTE � How does My Enterprise API Platform Differ From Facebook, Twitter and Netflix?
Friday, Feb. 22 - 1:35 PM � 3:00 PM: 15 MIN. SLOT: Best Practices of API Management

Enabling the API Economy
Enterprises are increasingly making business applications available as APIs in order to drive business growth and expose new revenue and partnership opportunities, and ultimately to improve business effectiveness. Open APIs allow external developers to build applications that leverage core business capabilities. Enterprise APIs are offered to a more limited group to enable more sensitive B2B or B2E applications. Both enterprise and open APIs are typically built on a foundation of enterprise SOA services. As such, they require robust governance.

SOA Software�s Enterprise API Platform is the highest performing, most comprehensive API management solution on the market today. It is a secure, robust platform that companies can use to share their APIs with the growing app developer community, their partners, and customers. The platform manages, monitors and secures companies� APIs, ensuring that these APIs deliver the level of service customers and partners require; that corporate and customer information and assets are secure; and that the integrity of the corporate brand is protected. For more details, please see http://www.soa.com/products/api-platform-as-a-service.

The SOA Software Open platform brings API providers and App developers together, offering easy access to powerful API Management capabilities combined with a social community in which developers collaborate to build dynamic, engaging apps with scalable APIs. The free SOA Software Open service allows users to manage up to 10 million API transactions per month, far higher than other solutions, and offers a powerful developer community platform unlike anything else in the industry. Developers can easily upgrade to SOA Software�s Enterprise API Platform either on-premise or as-a-Service if they want additional capacity, their own brand for their APIs, or a guaranteed SLA. To sign up, please see http://open.soa.com.

SOA Software Expands into Denmark, Sweden and Norway

2013-02-12T09:00:44+00:00

Danish Home Base to Serve Nordic Region; Key Executives Hired

LOS ANGELES � February 11, 2013 � SOA Software, a leading provider of Enterprise API Management and SOA Governance solutions, today announced that it has established a base of operations in Copenhagen, Denmark to serve its growing roster of clients in the Nordic countries. SOA Software has hired two experienced enterprise technologists to lead SOA Software efforts in the region, which includes Denmark, Sweden and Norway.

�API management and enterprise connectivity are thriving in the Nordic countries, which are home to some of the world�s most respected brands,� said Paul Gigg, CEO SOA Software. �We are investing to ensure customer success by engaging locally to meet the growing opportunity for global service orientation.�

The company has recruited Peter Lau Hansen and Mads Vanggaard to manage SOA Software�s business operations in the region. The executives have over two decades of enterprise software sales engineering and business development experience between them. Mr. Hansen joined BEA (now Oracle) in 2004, working with such clients as A.P. M�ller Maersk on integration, portal and SOA projects. Mr. Vanggaard is an enterprise architect whose primary skillset is with the Oracle SOA stack. He has worked with such clients as PFA Pension and the Copenhagen Airport.

Making APIs Work in the Enterprise
Enterprises are increasingly making business applications available as APIs in order to drive business growth, expose new revenue and partnership opportunities, and ultimately to improve business effectiveness. Open APIs allow external developers to build applications that leverage core business capabilities. Enterprise APIs are offered to a more limited group to enable more demanding and subtle B2B or B2E (employee) applications. Both enterprise and open APIs are typically built on a foundation of enterprise SOA services. As such, they require robust governance.

The SOA Software Enterprise API Platform� is the first solution to address enterprise requirements across the entire API lifecycle, with planning, development, runtime and community management capabilities. The Enterprise API Platform� provides a rich set of API Management capabilities to ensure the security, performance and availability of APIs, together with a social developer community solution for promoting and supporting the APIs and driving developer adoption. It provides end-to-end management of the API lifecycle, helping you make sure that you build the right APIs, build them the right way, and make sure that they are behaving correctly. The Enterprise API Platform� is available as an on-premise software solution, as-a-service, via an Open developer community as-a-service, or using a combination of any of these options. For example, a customer could choose to run the lifecycle management components of the solution as on-premises software, use the commercial PaaS offering to host and manage their APIs, and federate with the Open developer community to publish their public APIs to an established group of App developers.

SOA Software CTO to Address Apps World 2013

2013-02-11T21:56:20+00:00

Alistair Farquharson Will Stress the Importance of Enterprise API Management Practices in Two Sessions

LOS ANGELES � February 7, 2013 � Alistair Farquharson, CTO of SOA Software, a leading provider of Enterprise API Management and SOA Governance solutions, will address the audience of Apps World 2013 on February 7th and 8th in San Francisco. Mr. Farquharson�s sessions offer insight and best practices into enterprise APIs, the critical backend interfaces that power many of today�s most popular mobile apps. With over 5,000 attendees anticipated, Apps World 2013 is one of the world�s largest conferences dedicated to the growing mobile app market segment.

�Mobile apps are exploding as a category, driving us quickly to the future of all computing,� said Mr. Farquharson. �With bring-your-own-device policies proliferating and a vast increase in the scope of mobile platforms available, we are seeing a more urgent need for API management than ever before. Enterprise mobile apps hit back-end systems. Those systems need to have their APIs well governed. That�s where we come in.�

In his session, How Does My Enterprise API Platform Differ From Facebook, Twitter and Netflix? Mr. Farquharson will discuss the impact of the new API economy and how enterprises are making business applications available through APIs to drive business growth and expose new opportunities. He will explore �appification� and the innovation model of the open API, including the issue of why community is essential for success with enterprise-grade APIs. With Best Practices of API Management, Mr. Farquharson will review proven practices that ensure optimal business outcomes through APIs without inadvertently creating security and system management problems or running up unsustainable costs. In particular, this session will focus on how effective management of enterprise APIs actually begins at the planning and design stages of the API lifecycle and evolves through sharing and production.

Alistair Farquharson is a visionary industry veteran focused on using disruptive technologies to drive business growth and improve efficiency and agility within organizations. As the CTO of SOA Software, Alistair is helping to shape and mature the enterprise API and SOA industry. Alistair is responsible for product strategy and development for this leading Enterprise API and SOA Governance company. He spends a great deal of time and energy shaping customer and industry direction with regular conference keynote appearances, discussions with customers, and even the occasional foray into writing code. Alistair has been at the forefront of many technology waves from enterprise web architecture, through web services and SOA, and now into APIs. His expertise spans a wide range of technologies and businesses, and he brings a unique global focus to everything he does.

Apps World is returning to North America in 2013 for two days of engagement and high level insight and discussion around one of the largest growing industries - mobile apps. The conference will be taking place in San Francisco on February 7th-8th 2013 at the Moscone Center. Over 5,000 developers, mobile marketers, mobile operators, device manufacturers, platform owners and industry professionals are expected to attend.

Dates and Times for Alistair Farquharson�s Sessions

How Does My Enterprise API Platform Differ From Facebook, Twitter and Netflix?
- Thursday, Feb. 7, 12:00 � 12:30 PM - Enterprise Zone
Best Practices of API Management
- Friday, Feb. 8 - 12:10-12:40 PM - Technical Briefing Room

Enabling the API Economy
The SOA Software Enterprise API Platform� is the first solution to address enterprise requirements across the entire API lifecycle, with planning, development, runtime and community management capabilities. The Enterprise API Platform� provides a rich set of API Management capabilities to ensure the security, performance and availability of APIs, together with a social developer community solution for promoting and supporting the APIs and driving developer adoption. It provides end-to-end management of the API lifecycle, helping you make sure that you build the right APIs, build them the right way, and make sure that they are behaving correctly. The Enterprise API Platform� is available as an on-premise software solution, as-a-service, via an Open developer community as-a-service, or using a combination of any of these options. For example, a customer could choose to run the lifecycle management components of the solution as on-premises software, use the commercial PaaS offering to host and manage their APIs, and federate with the Open developer community to publish their public APIs to an established group of App developers.

SOA Software Announces 52% Revenue Growth

2013-02-04T10:00:31+00:00

New Enterprise API Management Products, Partnerships and International Expansion Fuel Growth

LOS ANGELES � February 4, 2013 � SOA Software, a leading provider of Enterprise API Management and SOA Governance solutions, today announced a 52% increase in its 2012 revenues versus the prior year. With expansion into new international markets, the development of an enterprise API management solution, and deeper engagement with developers and strategic partners, the company realized a very successful year.

�This past year was one of incredible growth for us, in several ways,� said Paul Gigg, President and CEO of SOA Software. �We expanded into Europe, the Middle East and Africa, delivered the industry�s most reliable and usable enterprise API management product, and continued to serve customers with our leading API and SOA platform solutions. We are uniquely well-positioned to continue to deliver on the incredible demand for merged SOA and API solutions, that are highly functional, easy to use and enterprise ready.�

SOA Software�s impressive growth in 2012 reflects an increasing demand by enterprises to use Web services to connect with customers, recognize productivity gains and increase cost efficiencies. As the idea of the API Economy continues to be embraced in the market, SOA Software developed solutions that provide organizations with effective ways to plan, build, run and share enterprise services and APIs across their own and partners� systems. The company announced earlier in the year that more than 50 billion transactions were enabled by SOA Software solutions in 2012. �Clearly, the API Economy is the environment in which smart organizations are working,� said Gigg. �We�ve been the prime enabler of this new way of conducting business.�

Among the areas in which the company saw massive growth and change were the following:

Customers
As part of the outstanding year, SOA Software established relationships and deepened ties with many Fortune 1000 companies. The company now names among its customers, the following organizations:

3 of the 5 largest global pharmaceutical companies
1 of the 2 largest international BioPharma companies
2 of the 5 largest global insurance companies
The top retail drug/pharmaceutical company in the world
The world�s largest shipping company
The top 2 banks in the United States
The top title insurance company in the United States
3 of the top 5 airline companies in the United States
1 of the top 2 United States railroads
The largest private pension plan in the United States

Product Innovation
As has been standard for the company, SOA Software stayed on top of customer demand and delivered new and innovative products in 2012. In November, the company launched two important solutions to help enterprises deliver API solutions. The Enterprise API Platform addresses enterprise requirements across the entire API lifecycle and helps organizations reach new channels and gain a significant business advantage. Also delivered by the company was SOA Software Open, the industry�s most scalable and capable API developer platform. This free developer community offers users a real-world, viable solution for their API Management needs without the kind of unrealistic functional and capacity limits imposed by other solutions.

Partnerships
The company received Microsoft Gold ISV certification and launched a new product specifically designed for Microsoft’s Windows Communication Foundation (WCF). SOA Software�s long-standing relationship with IBM was solidified with the release of Policy Manager for DataPower. The new �ready-to-use� SOA governance solution builds on the company�s extensive experience integrating SOA run time components, reduction of administrative overhead, and ensures consistent policy and service definition. The company also continued their Advanced Partner status with strategic partner RedHat and also established a new partner relationship with VMware .

Awards
SOA Software was recognized in 2012 for product and corporate leadership. The company was recognized as a �Leader� in two Forrester Research Waves �reports on Integrated SOA Governance and SOA Life Cycle Management. SOA Software was named as a key vendor dominating the Global SOA Governance market 2011-2014 and was honored as one of the most innovative companies of 2012. As a result of positive reviews of their SOA Software Enterprise API Platform, SOA Software received Gold status by Golden Bridge Awards for API Management. The USCA awarded the company the top recognition in the Unified SOA Governance and API Management category. At the executive level, Executive Vice President and General Manager Roberto Medrano was honored by the Hispanic IT Executive Council as one of the Top 100 Influential people in Information Technology.

Leadership
SOA Software wrote and published the eBook, Building Successful APIs, based on its experience working with global corporations that are facing a transformation of IT requirements due to rapidly evolving business alliances and mobile device proliferation. SOA Software published several articles about APIs in prestigious publications including Forbes, Cloud Computing, and others (these included, Welcome to the API Economy and SOA and the Cloud: Why your Cloud Applications need SOA .The SOA Software blog became an industry-leading resource for information about APIs and SOA Governance with the publication, in 2012, of 36 blogs. SOA Software CTO Alistair Farquharson and SOA Software executives were keynote presenters at a variety of leading industry conferences. SOA Software is the first to converge API and SOA with Application Services Governance. Application Services Governance leverage SOA as the foundation for APIs to build better business applications.

International and US Expansion
Adding to SOA Software�s improved bottom line was a major expansion into new markets. In addition to an established presence in the UK and Africa, the company opened new offices and added new sales, marketing and development teams in a variety of global locations. In Australia and New Zealand, a new team is addressing the needs of large banking, telecommunications and government customers. SOA Software improved its footprint in EMEA with a new base of European operations in France. With inroads in so many parts of the globe, SOA Software is well prepared to continue growth in the coming years.