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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.

Phoenix Assurance Company Adopts BluePhoenix Solution That Sets Foundation for SOA Environment
BluePhoenix Solutions announced that it has successfully completed a legacy modernization and SOA pilot project at Israel Phoenix Assurance Company. The project modernized existing applications to provide Web services, and included a successful pilot program that ...
Alphalogix Creates SOA Workflow Solution - IBM Agrees
Alphalogix, a long time IBM Business Partner, announced its validation for the IBM SOA Specialty for its electronic workflow solution, Tasica Forms Director 3.1. With several other validations under its belt, including technical validations for IBM WebSphere and IBM...
Parasoft's SOA Quality Solution
Parasoft announced native support for multiple commercial registries with Parasoft's SOA Quality Solution. This integration enables teams to automatically execute quality a workflow and correlate quality data in context of a SOA Governance initiative. Parasoft's S...
Leading XML Security and Networking Vendor Adds Support for SPARC Platforms to Family of Products to Help Secure, Simplify and Scale XML and SOA Deployments
Layer 7 Technologies announced its XML Firewall and XML Networking Gateway software products support the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS) running on SPARC platforms from Sun Microsystems. Layer 7 is the only XML security and networking vendor to offer server softw...
New Open Source WSO2 Registry Brings Web 2.0 Collaboration to SOA Governance
WSO2 announced the debut of the WSO2 Registry, the industry's first registry to combine service-oriented architecture (SOA) governance with Web 2.0 collaboration. The open source WSO2 Registry features a structured registry and repository; Web-based interface; and...
"Microsoft's Proposal Substantially Undervalues Yahoo!" Says Yahoo! Board
'The Yahoo! Board of Directors has carefully reviewed Microsoft's unsolicited proposal with Yahoo!'s management team and financial and legal advisors and has unanimously concluded that the proposal is not in the best interests of Yahoo! and our stockholders.' With...
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...
Data Integration Software comes with SOA architecture
Oracle announced the immediate availability of Oracle Data Integration Suite. Oracle Data Integration Suite provides a comprehensive end-to-end data integration platform that connects heterogeneous data sources and applications and delivers clean, accurate, and ...
HCL 's SOA Security Book
HCL announced two of its executives, Ramarao Kanneganti and Prasad A. Chodavarapu, have authored the book, SOA Security. Published by Manning Publications and immediately available in major bookstores and online retailers, or via the Manning Web site (htt p://www.m...
Software AG Ranked as a "Market Leader" in Application Infrastructure and SOA by Current Analysis
Software AG announced that it was recently recognized as a 'Market Leader' for the Application Infrastructure market by Current Analysis, a leading independent research firm. Software AG was also ranked as a 'Market Leader' in the research firm's accompanying an...
Google, IBM, Microsoft, VeriSign, and Yahoo! Join OpenID
The OpenID Foundation (OIDF), formed in 2006 'to help promote, protect and enable the OpenID technologies and community,' yesterday announced that Google, IBM, Microsoft, VeriSign, and Yahoo! have joined its board. Today there are over a quarter of a billion OpenI...
Crosscheck Networks Introduces SOAPSonar v3.5 for SOA Testing
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.
Move Over SOA
Mobility Data Systems (MDS) announced that its Agile Data Integration Framework has been implemented by the Mobile Advertising Alliance. The data integration framework that underpins the new MAA platform has been provided by MDS. MDS is one of a new breed of syste...
Sun Joins SOA Consortium; Executive Director To Keynote SOA World 2008
The SOA Consortium announced that Sun Microsystems has joined as a Sponsor. The SOA Consortium is an advocacy group of end users, service providers and technology vendors committed to helping the Global 1000, major government agencies, and mid-market businesses ...
IBM, Mitsubishi Electric and ILS Technology Delivering a SOA Solution Designed for the Automotive Manufacturing Industry
Mitsubishi Electric Corp., IBM and ILS Technology LLC announced they are delivering a service oriented architecture (SOA) solution that is specifically designed for the automotive manufacturing industry. The three companies have developed a reference architectur...
Software AG Strengthens SOA Security with Layer 7 Partnership
Software AG announced the availability of additional security enhancements for the service-oriented architectures (SOA) created or managed with the webMethods product suite. Under the terms of a new license agreement with Layer 7 Technologies (Layer 7), Software A...
Burntsand Delivers High Value Custom SOA Solution
Burntsand announced the completion of a custom application built using a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) for a wireless communications operator. The contract, previously announced on April 16, 2007, was completed on-time and on-budget for the customer. The eig...
Rogue Wave Ships New HydraSDO Data Components to Accelerate Creation of SOA Data Services in C++
Rogue Wave Software announced the release of Rogue Wave HydraSDO for XML 2.2 and the next edition of HydraSDO for Databases. Rogue Wave HydraSDO data components automate the creation of high performance, service-oriented data services in Java and C++. The componen...
SOA Platform Supports Oracle Enterprise Linux
Oracle announced the general availability of Oracle's JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tools 8.97. This latest release provides an open platform for customers to choose hardware, operating systems and database technologies based on their unique IT strategies and business ...
iTKO LISA Combines SOA Monitoring with Advanced Test Execution Capabilities
iTKO announced enhanced native support for enterprise IT monitoring frameworks within the latest release of their LISA 4 Testing & Validation solution. The new Advanced Test Execution capabilities of LISA allow IT teams to quickly generate events and transactions ...
Optaros Assembles New Online Shopping Concept for Wonderbox Built On SOA
Optaros announced its design and assembly of a new online shopping concept for Wonderbox, a leading international Internet and retail company that sells the 'Wonderbox', which is a themed gift box containing vouchers for 6000 experiences from which the recipient c...
iTKO Nominated for SYS-CON's "SOAWorld Magazine Readers' Choices Awards"
iTKO exists to mitigate the business risks of increasing IT change and complexity. iTKO's LISA SOA Testing and Validation solution provides Complete, Collaborative, and Continuous software quality for the entire development and delivery team. In a single test en...
Fiorano Software Nominated for SYS-CON's "SOAWorld Magazine Readers' Choice Awards"
Fiorano SOA is a SOA platform for real-time business built on a standards-based Enterprise Service Bus, enabling the effective coordination and interaction of software assets across the extended enterprise. Fiorano SOA allows companies to draw on existing busine...
Intel Nominated for SYS-CON's "SOAWorld Magazine Readers' Choice Awards"
IntelR XML Software Suite is a comprehensive suite of high-performance C++ and Java software-based runtime libraries for Linux and Windows operating systems. It is standards compliant, to allow for easy integration into existing XML environments and is optimized t...
DataDirect Nominated for SYS-CON's "SOAWorld Magazine Readers' Choice Awards"
DataDirect Shadow is a mainframe middleware software to provide a single unified, foundation architecture to simplify and accelerate the integration of mainframe data, business logic and screens with new Java, .NET and Web applications. From a single platform, S...
HP Nominated for SYS-CON's "SOAWorld Magazine Readers' Choice Awards"
HP SOA Systinet is a complete solution for SOA governance and service lifecycle management, providing the visibility, trust and control necessary to ensure successful business outcomes for enterprise SOA initiatives. HP SOA Systinet accelerates SOA adoption and se...
WSO2 Nominated for SYS-CON's "SOAWorld Magazine Readers' Choice Awards"
The WSO2 WSAS 2.0 features data services to tap relational databases for mashups, Eclipse integration to let developers work directly in the IDE, and clustering available on a Web services server. WSAS 2.0 also allows Enterprise Java Beans (EJBs) to be exposed as ...
MomentumSI Nominated for SYS-CON's "SOAWorld Magazine Readers' Choice Awards"
MomentumSI offers comprehensive training programs and workshops designed to meet the needs of enterprise IT organizations. Our curriculum focuses on Web services and Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) and spans a broad spectrum of roles within the IT organizatio...
Mindreef Nominated for SYS-CON's "SOAWorld Magazine Readers' Choices Awards"
Mindreef provides integrated software solutions that help organizations ensure trust, confidence and agility in their quality-driven SOA deployments. Mindreef SOAPscope Server is a solution for testing and verifying the quality, performance and policy compliance...
Arcturus Releases Applicare 3.5
Arcturus released Applicare 3.5, a significant upgrade to its powerful artificial intelligence based Application Performance Management suite. Applicare 3.5 adds many exciting new features including user extendable knowledge base, pluggable knowledge modules 'Knom...
New Report Examines SOA and the Network
A new report attempts to add clarity to a fundamental problem confronting the industry: how does deployment of distributed composite applications and services affect the network, and what can we do to ensure adequate performance? The report, published by Research ...
Mindreef Nominated for Best SOA Tool By SOAWorld Magazine's "Readers' Choices Awards"
Mindreef provides integrated software solutions that help organizations ensure trust, confidence and agility in their quality-driven SOA deployments. SOAPscope Developer helps developers successfully build, test, and deliver services and SOAs by reducing the com...
Mindreef Nominated for Best Testing Tool By SOAWorld Magazine's "Readers' Choices Awards"
Mindreef provides integrated software solutions that help organizations ensure trust, confidence and agility in their quality-driven SOA deployments. SOAPscope Tester combines a Web services testing and SOA Quality Management platform with powerful load testing ...
OpenLink Unleashes Latest Edition of Virtuoso
OpenLink announced the availability of the latest edition of OpenLink Virtuoso. This release introduces a new approach to enterprise information and data-integration, leveraging recent advances in Semantic Web technology such as SPARQL and the best practices of ...
Nexaweb Expands its Enterprise Web 2.0 and SOA Leadership with HP Governance Interoperability Framework Membership
Nexaweb announced its membership to the HP Governance Interoperability Framework (GIF). GIF provides a collaborative, standards-based approach for publishing, associating, accessing and managing service-oriented architecture (SOA) metadata and business service...
IBM Completes Acquisition of Arsenal Digital Solutions
IBM announced it has completed its acquisition of Arsenal Digital Solutions. Arsenal is a privately held company based in Cary, North Carolina, with a comprehensive suite of on-demand data protection solutions. IBM had announced an agreement to acquire Arsenal on ...
Active Endpoints to Drive Mass Adoption of Services-Oriented Applications
Active Endpoints announced new funding, additions to its management team and an expanded go-to-market strategy, all of which are designed to implement the company's new mission to make it easier for line of business project teams to modernize their applications, a...
UC4 Software Unveils SOA-Based Workload Automation Suite
UC4 Software unveiled the architecture for its next generation IT process automation and optimization solutions which will enable organizations to accelerate enterprise workload across their existing IT landscape. UC4 Workload Automation Suite bridges the gap be...
Leading Provider of Advanced SOA Solutions for Enterprise PLM Achieves Certification
Aras announced that the Aras Innovator suite of advanced service-oriented architecture [SOA] solutions for enterprise Product Lifecycle Management [PLM] is one of the first ten systems worldwide that has Certified for Windows Server 2008. Aras is the first enterpr...
IBM Releases Master Data Management Software
IBM announced the availability of the IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management (MDM) Server, new software that allows businesses to centrally manage customer, product, and account data for use enterprise-wide. Master data is the information upon which organizations' ...


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