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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.

Software AG Named "Gold Sponsor" of SOA World Conference & Expo
Software AG is the world's largest independent provider of Business Infrastructure Software. The company's 4,000 global customers achieve measurable business results by modernizing and automating their IT systems and rapidly building new systems and processes to...
Nastel to Sponsor SOA World Conference & Expo
Nastel is a recognized market leader in providing solutions for application performance monitoring and management. Nastel's solutions empower IT teams to consistently assure high performance and availability of business applications. Nastel's AutoPilot Suite of ...
IBM Expands SOA Software Portfolio, Buys AptSoft
'AptSoft complements IBM's SOA strategy and augments our business events capabilities that are designed to help our customers maximize their existing investments in SOA' said Tom Rosamilia, general manager, IBM WebSphere software, as IBM today announced it is expa...
SOA Consortium Releases New Podcast Featuring Sandy Carter, VP, SOA & WebSphere Strategy, Channels and Marketing IBM
SOA Consortium announced that a podcast and slide deck of the presentation by Sandy Carter, VP, SOA & WebSphere Strategy, Channels and Marketing, IBM, on 'IT needs SOA Skills,' at the SOA Consortium meeting in San Francisco in December is now available.
Sony Pictures Entertainment and Tata Consultancy Services Sign Landmark SOA Agreement
Tata Consultancy Services announced that it has signed an agreement with Sony Pictures Entertainment to develop and deploy Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) solutions that allow Sony and its customers to better use all of its IT assets to advance their business goals.
Zolon Tech Solutions Completes Successful Separation From Zolon Tech
Zolon Tech Solutions announced it has successfully completed the spinout of Zolon Tech Solutions from Zolon Tech. Zolon Tech Solutions will continue to provide IT consulting and full-lifecycle application outsourcing services to Global 2000 and high-growth mid-m...
StrikeIron Expands Web Services Marketplace with SOA Offering
StrikeIron announced two new Financial and Business data services from Gale, part of Cengage Learning, have been added to its expanding Web Services Marketplace: Gale Business Intelligence Web Service 1.0.0 and Gale Business Information Web Service 1.0.0.
ILS Technology Accepted into the IBM SOA Specialty
ILS Technology announced its acceptance to the IBM Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Specialty after successfully completing IBM's rigorous SOA technical and business requirements. With this achievement ILS Technology's deviceWISE 2.0 platform integrates with ...
SOA and Web Services Technology Leader Provides Update on Proposed Acquisition of NSB Retail Systems PLC
Epicor Software Corporation announced that its proposed acquisition of NSB Retail Systems PLC, received approval from NSB shareholders at both the UK Court-convened Court Meeting and the General Meeting held on January 16, 2008.
Leading in SOA Technology Leadership Program
TUSC announced its 2008 results in the North America Oracle Partner Leadership Program. Already well recognized for its technical prowess, TUSC unveiled results exceeding the top quartile average of integrators across 12 character-related categories.
Wipro Launches New SOA Release TINA
Wipro Technologies announced the launch of The Intelligent NextGen Associate 'TINA'. A Retail automation platform developed as part of customer experience enrichment program at Wipro's Applied Innovation Lab, TINA is a platform on which customer interaction appl...
Survey Indicates High Levels of Maturity and Success for Deployed SOA Systems
AmberPoint announced the results of its State of SOA Adoption Survey, which the company conducted to gauge the use of SOA in the enterprise. The research revealed a healthy success rate for SOA as well as notable heterogeneity in SOA environments.
Leader in SOA Technology Acquires Q-Soft Systems & Solutions
Cambridge Technology Enterprises announced that it has entered into an acquisition agreement with Q-Soft Systems & Solutions for an undisclosed amount. This is the third consecutive acquisition in this year for Cambridge Technology Enterprises including ComCreatio...
High Tower Software Announces Cinxi SOA
Security solutions developer High Tower Software announced a new generation of high performance security appliances designed to help organizations collect disparate network log data, assess it for potential security and compliance regulations impact, and store it ...
CoroWare Joins Microsoft Partner Solutions Center
CoroWare announced that it has joined the Microsoft Partner Solutions Center (MPSC) as a project level sponsor. The MPSC is a 21,000 square foot facility located on the Microsoft Redmond, Washington campus and features state-of-the-art technology laboratories, d...
SOA Governance Market Recognizing Need to Start With Policy Management in Design-Time
WebLayers announced that the company has just closed out a record year in revenue growth, customer acquisition, customer deployments, partnerships and product leadership. Over the past year, WebLayers experienced tremendous growth as the SOA governance market has ...
HCL Technologies Launches SOA Competency Center for Retailers
HCL Technologies announced the launch of a service-oriented architecture (SOA) Competency Center for Retailers at this week's National Retail Federation Convention. The Competency Center is designed to guide retailers in the areas of SOA tool selection, developm...
IBM Signs Services Deals in Emerging Markets- Bringing SOA to Asia Pacific
IBM announced new services agreements in emerging markets throughout the Asia Pacific region. These announcements indicate IBM's strategic focus on delivering technology and services to emerging markets is gaining momentum. For IBM, key emerging markets are grow...
Bank Negara Indonesia Capitalizes on SOA to Strengthen Market Position
IBM announced that Bank Negara Indonesia has boosted efficiency and productivity with a service oriented architecture (SOA) powered by IBM Software helping it to more quickly meet the demands of its increasingly tech-savvy customers and strengthen its market pos...
The Finish Line Selects Workforce Management SOA Solution From RedPrairie
RedPrairie announced that The Finish Line will implement RedPrairie's Workforce Management application, with future plans to implement RedPrairie?s Execution Management application. The Finish Line looks to improve customer and associate satisfaction while increas...
MuleSource Introduces New Mule ESB Offering to Support Enterprise SOA Infrastructure
MuleSource announced a new subscription-only enterprise packaging of its popular Mule Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) integration platform. With Mule 1.5 Enterprise Edition, enterprise customers now have a fully tested, out-of-the-box SOA infrastructure platform so...
MuleSource Delivers an Open Source SOA Governance Platform with Integrated Registry and Repository
MuleSource announced the community edition release of Mule Galaxy 1.0, an open source SOA governance platform with integrated registry and repository. Customers now have an affordable governance solution for storing and managing an increasing number of SOA artifac...
GT Software Announces New SOA Product
GT Software announced release 3.6 of Ivory Service Architect. Ivory Service Architect consists of Ivory Studio, a graphical modeling environment; Ivory Server, a high-performance SOAP processor with runtime service orchestration; and the recently-introduced Ivory Server for Batch.
Open Source SOA Platforms
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has taken modular programming principals in to the distributed computing environment. But the functionality provided by such modules are much broader and hence, can be considered as services. When applications are deployed in a ...
TIBCO Software Named "Gold Sponsor" of SOA World Conference & Expo
TIBCO Software is a leading business integration and process management software company that enables real-time business. TIBCO has delivered the value of real-time business, what TIBCO calls The Power of Now, to over 3,000 customers around the world and in a wide...
Model-Driven SOA
In traditional application architectures, the design phase in the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) plays a critical role in enabling well-architected solutions. Yet there hasn't been much discussion about the design or the modeling phase of SOA-based app...
Virtualized SOA: Adaptive Infrastructure for Demanding Applications
SOA and Virtualization has existed, in various forms, and have been adopted with varying degrees of success within the modern enterprise. SOA especially has reached the point where it generally is considered to be a good idea! As a result of the wide adoption ap...
Delivering "Big Bank" Solutions with Community Banking Intimacy: Synovus Financial Corp and Active Endpoints
In this joint session, Synovus and Active Endpoints explained how reusing proven code to build new applications, regardless of that code's origin, allowed the community bank to provide customers with Web self-service options and other technology benefits usually c...
A Little SOA Goes A Long Way
Many organizations make the faulty assumption that SOA is a panacea that can and should be applied to every situation. The reality is that service orientation is not the right answer for every scenario. The expense of service orientation cannot always be recouped ...
SOA World Conference & Expo 2008 East Call for Papers Deadline Feb 22, 2008
Every major enterprise technology vendor has developed its own SOA strategy, supported by innumerable mid-size companies and start-ups offering specific SOA aspects or entire solutions. Submit your speaking proposal today to discuss your SOA strategy at SOA World ...
SOA World Magazine 6th Annual "Readers' Choice Awards" Nominations Open
SOA World Magazine announced today that nominations are now open for the SOA World Magazine Readers' Choice Awards, which recognize excellence in the software, solutions, or services provided by the industry's top vendors. SYS-CON's Readers' Choice Awards, also kn...
Significant Enhancements to the SOAPscope Server Product Line
Mindreef today announced significant enhancements to its SOAPscope Server product linewith the introduction of three new products: SOAPscope Architect 6.1, SOAPscope Tester 6.1, and SOAPscope Developer 6.1 : combining best-in-class Mindreef tools and capabilities in...
RedPrairie SOA Announces New Execution Management Features for Retailers
RedPrairie Corporation announced the release of major new enhancements to its Execution Management application. New features of RedPrairie?s software provide task planners, gatekeepers and store managers a comprehensive view of store operations and workloads to enab...
SOA Software Positioned in Leaders Quadrant of 2007 Integrated SOA Governance Magic Quadrant
SOA Software announced that it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the leaders quadrant of the 'Magic Quadrant for Integrated SOA Governance Technology Sets, 2007' report. The Magic Quadrant for Integrated SOA Governance Technology Sets evaluated 18 vendors an...
Misys Signs Global Development Agreement with Symphony Services
Symphony Services announced that Misys selected Symphony as a strategic development partner to strengthen its product development capabilities within the context of Misys' flexible sourcing model for development. The companies will work together to improve flexi...
ClearApp Demonstrates Strong Customer Momentum for SOA Model-Driven Management of Complex Composite Applications
ClearApp announced that its most recent fiscal quarter witnessed numerous deployments of QuickVision with both new and existing customers across a diverse range of vertical markets. In FY Q3 2008, ClearApp added or expanded relationships with a number of companie...
Reflexis Systems Launches its SOA-Based Retail Execution Platform
Reflexis Systems Inc. announced the launch of its SOA-based Retail Execution Platform to synchronize execution support with retail planning systems. Over the years, retailers have deployed planning systems from a variety of software vendors to address the needs of...
SOA Foundation RetailCRM
Epicor CRS, the Retail Solutions Division of Epicor Software Corporation, unveiled CRS RetailCRM(TM) 2.0. The enhanced customer relationship management (CRM) solution gives specialty retailers advanced tools to drive sales, increase loyalty and support the busines...
Sterling Commerce Selects Cognos as BI Standard for New SOA Supply Chain Management Applications Suite
Cognos announced that Sterling Commerce has selected Cognos as the Business Intelligence (BI) standard for its new suite of e-commerce and supply chain management applications. Under terms of the agreement, Sterling Commerce will embed Cognos 8 BI within the Sterl...
IONA Positioned in the Visionaries Quadrant of the Integrated SOA Governance 2007 Magic Quadrant
IONA Technologies announced it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Visionaries quadrant in the 'Integrated SOA Governance Technology Sets, 2007 Magic Quadrant' 1 report.


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