SOA Software Announces Web Services Management Support for Oracle BPEL Process Manager Customers

["Roberto Medrano" <roberto.medrano@soa.com>]

SOA Software Announces Web Services Management Support for Oracle BPEL
Process Manager Customers

SOA Software Service Manager Enables Oracle Integration Customers to
Fulfill their SOA Strategies 

SANTA MONICA, Calif., May 2, 2005 - SOA Software(tm), (formerly Digital
Evolution) the leading provider of comprehensive SOA security,
management, governance and provisioning solutions today announced the
integration of SOA Software's Service Manager(tm) with Oracle(r) BPEL
Process Manager and related products. The integration of Service Manager
with Oracle BPEL Process Manager provides Oracle customers with the
benefits of an SOA by abstracting all the complexity of consuming Web
services away from process tools while making it easier to implement
end-to-end security, location transparency and SLAs (Service Level
Agreements). SOA Software is also a Certified Advantage Partner in the
Oracle(r) PartnerNetwork.

"The SOA Software Service Manager provides an SOA extension of the
Oracle BPEL products," said Amlan Debnath, vice president of server
technologies for Oracle.  "Integrating with the SOA Software Service
Manager will allow our joint customers to easily move into Web services
and SOA."

BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) is quickly emerging as the
standard for assembling a set of disparate services into a complete
process flow, radically reducing the cost and complexity of process
integration initiatives. SOA Software's Service Manager, an SOA security
and management solution, complements the functionality of Oracle BPEL
Process Manager by providing visibility into its Web services,
transparency of Web service locations, security, load-balancing,
routing, protocol transformation and version control which enable
end-to-end security and management.  

Oracle BPEL Process Manager allows for better integration with external
applications, as well as monitoring of business processes within the
enterprise. By utilizing the SOA Software Service Manager, Oracle
customers will have access to a solution that provides a
highly-scalable, flexible and standards-compliant platform for securing,
monitoring and management of the Oracle BPEL Process Manager Web
services.  

The SOA Software Service Manager provides a standards-based alternative
to hard-coding these features into each individual Web service used by
Oracle BPEL Process Manager. In business activity monitoring, the SOA
Software Service Manager extends the functionality of Oracle BPEL
Process Manager by enabling its users to easily monitor activity at each
Web service that supports a particular business process.   

"By exposing hundreds of Web services to its broad customer base, Oracle
has become a leading driver in the large-scale adoption of Web
services-delivering the potential for dramatic cost and time savings to
their user base," says Roberto Medrano, executive vice president of
marketing for SOA Software.  "Integrating the SOA Software Service
Manager with Oracle BPEL Process Manager demonstrates SOA Software's
commitment to helping major enterprises leverage their investment in
Oracle technology as they fulfill their SOA strategies."
  
About Service Manager
The SOA Software Service Manager delivers security and management for
XML and Web services. The SOA Software Service Manager delivers the
capability to secure, monitor and manage XML and Web services
applications and components across distributed enterprise and extranet
environments.  It has been widely deployed in Fortune 500 and large
global organizations to help facilitate the agile enterprise. SOA
Software developed Service Manager to deliver the Web services and XML
management and security fabric to provide consistent centralized
management of distributed architectures. 

About SOA Software
SOA Software, formerly Digital Evolution, is the leading provider of
comprehensive enterprise-class SOA security, management and governance
solutions.  SOA Software's products include the award winning Service
Manager, Registry and XML VPN.  The Service Manager(tm) secures,
monitors and manages XML and Web services, and was awarded the 2004 Gold
Product of the Year Award for Web Services Management from
SearchWebServices.com.  The XML VPN makes it easy for companies to
securely publish Web services for their partners to consume.  It ensures
the usability, security and reliability of Web services allowing
partners to create new business models.  SOA Software's UDDIv3 compliant
Registry is the first product to integrate service discovery with policy
and performance management.  These products combine to create the only
complete SOA Fabric solution available today.  SOA Software is a
privately held company backed by leading investors including Redpoint,
Mellon Ventures, Palisades Ventures Fund and Paladin Capital Group. For
more information, please visit www.soa.com.

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