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SOA World Magazine News Desk
SOA World Magazine News Desk (formerly Web Services Journal) trawls the world of distributed computing and SOA-related developments for the latest word on technologies, standards, products, and services and brings key information to you in a timely and convenient summary form.

VeN4 Enables SOA Business ServiceWare Automation Integrated with Software AG CentraSite Registry and Repository
VeNotion Technologies announced that Software AG and VeNotion Technologies signed an agreement to integrate Software AG's SOA technology with VeNotion's SOA Business ServiceWare. VeNotion provides a Business ServiceWare software solution which consists of an aut...
Layer 7 Technologies Introduces Drop-in Solution for Mainframe SOA Enablement, Interoperability and Governance
Layer 7 Technologies announced the availability of its SecureSpan Mainframe SOA Gateway. The appliance is used to expose mission-critical mainframe applications, business logic and data as a composite business service without costly coding or porting efforts. Th...
IBM Announces SOA Solution for the Healthcare Industry
IBM announced that it is collaborating with nine business partners to help healthcare providers, clinics and hospitals improve productivity, increase quality and reduce costs through the use of service oriented architecture (SOA). These partners are all working to...
OASIS CEO Quits Just Like That
OASIS president and CEO Patrick Gannon suddenly and precipitously up and resigned last Wednesday after six years on the job and nobody will say why - which suggests, as all conspiracy theorists know, that there must be something interesting under all that silence. ...
IBM Takes #1 Position in Worldwide Server Revenue in '07
IBM captured 34.2% revenue share in the fourth quarter of 2007, and 31.1% revenue share for the full year of 2007. The report by Gartner Dataquest, 'Servers Quarterly Statistics Worldwide,' for Q4, 2007, found that IBM was also the fastest growing UNIX vendor in ...
MES Software Supports SOA
Citect announced the release of version 3.2 of its Manufacturing Execution System (MES), Ampla; a scalable MES solution that drives the effective planning, operation and improvement of production operations. Ampla V3.2 provides new features to support Service Orie...
Oracle Nominated for SOA World Magazine's "Readers' Choice Awards"
Oracle holds the gold standard for database technology and applications in enterprises throughout the world: The company is the world's leading supplier of software for information management, and the world's second largest independent software company. Oracle t...
Progress Upgrades SOA-Based Semantic Integrator
Progress Software has upgraded its SOA-based semantic integrator for communications service providers. Progress said DataXtend Semantic Integrator 8.3 will enable service providers to synchronize distributed data with change data capture (CDC) functionality to d...
SOA Software Certifies JBoss as a Governed Service Platform
SOA Software announced that it has certified the JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform as a Governed Service Platform. Certified Governed Service Platform status means that customers can be confident that their platforms won't compromise the fidelity of the governance sys...
SeeWhy and JBoss Expand Relationship to Tighten Integration in SOA Environments
SeeWhy Software announced an expansion of its relationship with JBoss through tighter integration of SeeWhy with the JBoss service-oriented architecture (SOA) platform. In addition, SeeWhy has become a JBoss Advanced Partner. Following demand from the JBoss comm...
TIBCO Expands ActiveMatrix Platform to Further Simplify SOA
TIBCO announced the general availability of TIBCO ActiveMatrix 2.0 featuring expanded capabilities for integration, composite application development and governance under a single platform to better manage heterogeneous service oriented architectures (SOAs). Thi...
Sun Microsystems' GlassFish Nominated for SOA World Magazine's "Readers' Choice Awards"
Sun Microsystems develops the technologies that power the global marketplace. Guided by a singular vision -- 'The Network is the Computer' -- Sun drives network participation through shared innovation, community development and open source leadership.
SOA and Virtualization: Friend or Foe?
Depending on your perspective, SOA and virtualization are either synergistic or threaten increased complexity. This session will explain how implementing the right network architecture can make the most of both, promoting agility and reducing complexity. 'Service ...
Alcatel-Lucent teams with HP to Secure SOAs
Alcatel-Lucent announced a product integration that brings together the HP SOA Systinet governance software with Alcatel-Lucent's OmniAccess 8550 Web Services Gateway. The solution provides the ability for enterprises to ensure that information access policy des...
Microsoft Announces a Technology Sea-Change, Embraces Openness
'By increasing the openness of our products, we will provide developers additional opportunity to innovate and deliver value for customers,' said Ray Ozzie, Microsoft chief software architect, as Microsoft this morning announced the implementation of four new in...
Progress Software Releases New Version of SOA-Based DataXtend Semantic Integrator
Progress Software announced the availability of Progress DataXtend Semantic Integrator (SI) 8.3. This release enables Communication Service Providers to more effectively synchronize their disparate and distributed data with new change data capture (CDC) function...
PushToTest Introduces Composition Approach to Enterprise-Scale SOA
PushToTest announced the results of a research paper, entitled 'The Composition Approach for Large-Scale SOA,' which analyzes approaches to service oriented architecture (SOA) and evaluates SOA development and deployment solutions from leading vendors, including O...
Study Shows TIBCO's SOA Approach Can Reduce Total Cost of Ownership Through Greater Productivity
TIBCO Software announced that a study conducted by PushToTest, the open-source test automation company, identified TIBCO ActiveMatrix as the most productive platform for implementing a service-oriented architecture (SOA). The study, entitled 'The Composition App...
Provider of SOA Development Solutions, GT Software, Adds Treehouse Software To Growing List of Resellers
GT Software announced a distribution agreement for the company's mainframe data access product with Treehouse Software. Under the licensing agreement, Treehouse will now offer industry leading mainframe data integration capabilities, globally for users of IBM ma...
Symphoniq's TrueView for SOA Offers Real User Monitoring Solution for Service Oriented Architecture
Symphoniq announced the release of TrueView for SOA (service oriented architecture). Designed to manage distributed environments by monitoring from the browser through every backend application server and service, TrueView for SOA offers the first truly end-to-e...
SOA Success Will Continue with Epicor Software Naming Thomas Kelly President and CEO
Epicor Software announced that its board of directors has named software and technology industry leader Thomas Kelly as the Company's President and Chief Executive Officer. The appointment is the result of Epicor's on-going succession planning process and is effec...
ILOG: New Cobol Add-On For Jrules Simplifies Legacy Modernization, SOA Implementations
ILOG announced ILOG Rules for COBOL , a new add-on module for ILOG JRules , a key offering in ILOG's business rule management system (BRMS) product line, that helps organizations with significant IBM mainframe investments simplify their legacy modernization effort...
Unify Speeds SOA Application Development With NXJ 12
Unify announced the next generation of the Company's product, NXJ 12. The new features and enhancements in NXJ 12 speed development and testing, and offer more AJAX functionality for the creation of SOA-based Rich Internet Applications (RIA). NXJ 12 is designed to...
Italy's National Institute of Design and Mint Chooses JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform
Red Hat announced that the National Institute of Design and Mint in Italy (Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, IPZS) has selected the JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform to develop and implement software services in a SOA environment. With JBoss solutions, IPZS has ...
SAP Business Objects Is Born, Led By Former Business Objects CEO John Schwarz
As a result of its majority acquisition of Business Objects, SAP has now created a new line of business called SAP Business Objects, under the leadership of former Business Objects CEO John Schwarz, who also named officially as the seventh member of the SAP Execut...
Vordel Positioned as Visionary for SOA Governance by Leading Independent Research Firm
Vordel announced that the company has been positioned in the Visionaries Quadrant of the recent inaugural Gartner's Magic Quadrant report on SOA Governance, 'Magic Quadrant for Integrated SOA Governance Technology Sets, 2007'. Vordel?s XML network management produ...
CA Rolls Out CA IAM r12 for SOA Market
CA has introduced a new version of its identity and access management solution. CA IAM r12 provides the identity lifecycle management, access management, workflow automation, delegated administration, reporting, federation and other capabilities IT organizations r...
JBoss and iWay Software to Deliver Powerful SOA Solutions
JBoss and iWay Software announced an agreement designed to bring a full range of information management capabilities to global organizations. The combined power of iWay Software's pre-built data and application connectors and JBoss' enterprise application platform...
Parasoft SOA Quality Solution Supports Multiple Registries to Meet Quality Standards
Parasoft announced native support for multiple commercial registries with Parasoft's SOA Quality Solution. This integration enables teams to automatically execute a quality workflow and correlate quality data in context of a SOA Governance initiative. Parasoft's S...
SOA Consortium Releases New SOA Hot Topics Roundtable Podcast on CIO SOA Concerns
The SOA Consortium announced that a podcast and transcript of the SOA Hot Topics Roundtable: CIO SOA Concerns, recorded at the SOA Consortium meeting in San Francisco in December is now available. The objective of the CIO SOA Concerns Roundtable was to generate a ...
SOA for MES
Citect announced the release of version 3.2 of its Manufacturing Execution System (MES), Ampla; a MES solution that drives the effective planning, operation and improvement of production operations. Ampla V3.2 provides new features to support Service Oriented Arch...
Provider of Rapid SOA Development Solutions Adds Treehouse Software to Growing List of Resellers
GT Software, a provider of rapid SOA development solutions, announced a distribution agreement for the company's mainframe data access product with Treehouse Software. Under the licensing agreement, Treehouse will now offer industry leading mainframe data integr...
Irish SOA Company, the Nephew of IONA "Cape Clear" Acquired
Workday is delivering Integration On Demand, making it simple for Workday customers to link technology solutions to meet business requirements. Workday has reached a definitive agreement to purchase Cape Clear. The Cape Clear ESB, already a component of every Wo...
MIB is Building a SOA Using IBM Technology
IBM announced that MIB is building a service oriented architecture (SOA) using IBM technology to better serve its clients. MIB is moving towards an SOA so its members can more easily integrate the services they need from MIB with their own business systems. At the...
Software AG Named a "Leader" in SOA Service Life-Cycle Management by Independent Research Firm
Software AG announced that it was recognized as a 'Leader' in the recently published The Forrester Wave: SOA Service Life-Cycle Management, Q1 2008 [by Larry Fulton with Randy Heffner and David D'Silva (January 28, 2008)]. According to Forrester Research, a leadi...
SOA Testing Software Supports Complex WSDLs and Schemas
Crosscheck Networks announced the availability of SOAPSonar v.3.5. This release enables QA and Development teams to test and validate the most complex data structures that are being generated in the most demanding of the SOA deployments. 'Enterprise customers are ...
Presens Technologies Recognized as JBoss Advanced Business Partner
Presens Technologies announced it's recognition as a JBoss Advanced Business Partner. As an Advanced Business Partner in the Red Hat partner program, Presens has made an investment in certified personnel and in development and support of JBoss solutions. Becomin...
Web Enablement Today - SOA Tomorrow
The Websydian WebClient developed for CA Plex in a partnership between ADC Austin and Websydian A/S is now available to all customers. The WebClient was available to partners since September, 2007. This new tool enables CA Plex development shops to generate rich HTM...
Document Management: Perceptive Software Introduces New SOA Solution
Perceptive Software announced its latest Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) solution, ImageNow Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). Perceptive Software has a history of developing products and initiatives that complement Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) environment...
Enterprise Content Management Ill-Suited to Service Oriented Architectures
CMS Watch released research that finds Enterprise Content Management (ECM) products ill-equipped to meet the security requirements of Service Oriented Architectures (SOA). In its most recent research, CMS Watch looked at 30 leading ECM vendors around the globe and...

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