Companies Demonstrate Interoperability of WSDM OASIS Standard

["Carol Geyer" <carol.geyer@oasis-open.org>]

Companies Demonstrate Interoperability of Web Services Distributed Management (WSDM) OASIS Standard 

DataPower, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi, and TIBCO Collaborate on WSDM OASIS InterOp at Enterprise Management World

Bethesda, Maryland, USA; 14 September 2005-- Five organizations joined together for the first time to demonstrate interoperability
of the Web Services Distributed Management (WSDM) OASIS Standard at the Enterprise Management World conference in Bethesda, Maryland
today. Developed by the OASIS WSDM Technical Committee, the standard enables management applications to be built using Web services,
allowing resources to be controlled by many managers, as well as giving managers access to more resources across and between
enterprises.

"Web services and service oriented architectures are being adopted by companies who view technology as a competitive advantage to
drive business revenues. Standards such as WSDM will further drive this opportunity and make it easier for IT professionals to
integrate technologies and align with business objectives," stated Stephen Elliot, Research Manager Enterprise Systems Management,
IDC.

Employing a weather station scenario, the WSDM OASIS InterOp demonstrates how management applications can go beyond centralized
monitoring in an agent-based environment to achieve truly distributed, collaborative management in a world composed of both smart
and simple resources. In the demonstration, the client depended on weather station services to send reports. By using WSDM, the
manager was able to dynamically discover available weather stations, receive notification when a station was taken down for
maintenance, and automatically redirect the client application to the next best weather station available, based entirely on a
response time performance policy, without the client ever experiencing slowdowns or failures.   

"This InterOp clearly illustrates WSDM's ability to enable client applications to remain unaffected by changes in the status of
services they invoke-all within a heterogeneous environment," said Heather Kreger of IBM, co-chair of the OASIS WSDM Technical
Committee and participant in the InterOp. "WSDM can also be used to enrich business processes with management information and
action, and to manage across organizational boundaries."

WSDM was developed by members of the OASIS WSDM Technical Committee, which includes representatives of Actional, Amberpoint, BEA
Systems, BMC Software, Computer Associates, Dell, Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi, IBM, Novell, Oracle, SAP, SOA Software, TIBCO,
and others. Participation remains open to all, and suppliers, end-users and system integrators are invited to join OASIS to advance
the continued development and adoption of WSDM. OASIS hosts an open mail list for public comment and the wsdm-dev mailing list for
exchanging information on implementing the standard.


Companies Collaborate on WSDM Interoperability

DataPower
"Real-world Web services deployments in large organizations demand the ability to scale operational complexity in a cost-effective
and reliable manner. DataPower's SOA security, routing and service-assurance network devices are purposely designed to help our
customers reduce that complexity, following our long-standing Integration for Management strategy," said Eugene Kuznetsov, Chairman
and CTO at DataPower Technology Inc. "Ensuring interop-validated support for open standards like WSDM is a key factor for successful
large-scale XML Web services deployments with the level of manageability, security, and performance required by our Global 1000
customers."

Hewlett-Packard 
"HP is excited about the progress that this represents in the features that a standardized management protocol provides. In
particular, WSDM provides management features that are critical for the management of SOAs," said Judi Cowell, director of software
standards at Hewlett-Packard Company.

Hitachi 
"Hitachi believes that the WSDM OASIS Standard is the most promising solution for taming the growing complexity of enterprise IT
environments. The WSDM OASIS InterOp at this year's EMW is an unprecedented opportunity for all of us to share a new vision of Web
services-based management across the industry. We are confident that WSDM standardization and implementation will be beneficial for
IT users and vendors alike," said Takao Nakamura, Executive General Manager, Software Division, Hitachi, Ltd.

IBM
"Managing business systems in a cost effective fashion requires effectively dealing with the task of integrating multiple management
technologies," said Karla Norsworthy, vice president of standards, IBM Software. "The WSDM InterOp shows how companies can come
together to collaboratively leverage open standards to address the management challenges our customers face."

TIBCO
"As a leading SOA and web services platform provider, our vision is to help customers leverage web services to improve operational
performance management," said Matt Quinn, vice president, product strategy, TIBCO Software Inc. "With the acceptance of the WSDM
OASIS Standard, our customers now have a bridge for IT and business managers to take advantage of web services for improved
management and visibility.  We are now delivering on our vision with Enterprise Management Advisor, a commercially available
software implementation of WSDM that gives organizations a bi-directional view of the processes and technology investments that run
their business."

About OASIS
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drives the development, convergence, and adoption of e-business standards. Members themselves set the OASIS technical agenda, using
a lightweight, open process expressly designed to promote industry consensus and unite disparate efforts. The consortium produces
open standards for Web services, security, e-business, and standardization efforts in the public sector and for application-specific
markets. Founded in 1993, OASIS has more than 4,000 participants representing over 600 organizations and individual members in 100
countries. Approved OASIS Standards include AVDL, CAP, DITA, DocBook, DSML, ebXML CPPA, ebXML Messaging, ebXML Registry,
OpenDocument, SAML, SPML, UBL, UDDI, WSDM, WS-Reliability, WSRP, WS-Security, XACML, and XCBF. http://www.oasis-open.org

Additional information:

OASIS Web Services Distributed Management (WSDM) Committee 
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/wsdm

WSDM FAQ
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/wsdm/faq.php

Enterprise Management World
http://www.emwusa.com/index.html


Press contact:
Carol Geyer
Director of Communications
OASIS
carol.geyer@oasis-open.org
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