SOA Software to Support New BEA Service Infrastructure Product Strategy

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

 SOA Software to Support New BEA Service Infrastructure Product Strategy

Company to Provide Critical Web Services Management Products to BEA
Customers 

SANTA MONICA, Calif., June 9, 2005- SOA Software Inc., today announced
support for the Service Infrastructure product strategy introduced by
BEA Systems.  Developed to help increase business agility while reducing
IT cost and complexity, BEA's Service Infrastructure product family is
designed to help manage the service-oriented architecture (SOA)
lifecycle in heterogeneous environments while making the transition from
pilot to enterprise-wide production easier to implement.  SOA Software
Inc.'s leading solution is designed to enhance the enterprise-class Web
services management capabilities of BEA's Service Infrastructure product
family.  
SOA Software Inc.'s award-winning Service Manager(tm) is designed to
provide BEA customers with comprehensive Web services management across
their SOA environment. Service Manager(tm) is designed to help to
provide in-depth SLA management capabilities enabled by a customizable
dashboard for performance monitoring and auditing of transactions,
events, warnings and alerts.  This product is designed to enhance the
value of the BEA Service Infrastructure products to heterogeneous
environments both within the enterprise and between business partners.  

"Many of the world's largest companies are moving down the path to SOA
to take advantage of its enormous potential for cost saving and new
business opportunities," said Eric Pulier, SOA Software Inc. Chairman
and Founder.  "As these companies move from pilot to production
environments, they need to secure, manage and govern their SOA with a
comprehensive Services Infrastructure.  We share BEA's vision for
enterprise SOA, and are excited to be able to offer our products as
important components of the Service Infrastructure."

SOA is a software design approach that takes the discrete business
functions contained in enterprise applications and organizes them into
interoperable, standards-based services.  These services are designed to
be combined and reused in composite applications and processes to meet
business needs.  Service infrastructure is a new category of enterprise
software designed to help enable the successful deployment of SOA in
business environments by allowing services to be discovered, secured,
managed and assembled into composite applications and processes -
regardless of the underlying technology.  
 "Our alliance with SOA Software is part of BEA's initiative designed to
continually help customers manage SOA based environments and improve
business agility and efficiency," said Gail Ennis, vice president of
Worldwide Alliances. "As a leading provider of Web services management
solutions, SOA Software can add considerable value to customers
implementing BEA Service Infrastructure products."

Service Infrastructure Helps Move SOA from Pilot to Production
Customers gravitate to SOA's modularity and flexibility, which is
designed to help them to mix and match IT resources in a "virtual"
infrastructure that is integrated while not being locked into a single
vendor's IT stack. SOA also reflects a move from thinking about IT in an
"application" context to thinking about IT as a "services" delivery
business - helping to enable IT departments to create, assemble and
deliver new services more quickly for use by employees, customers,
partners and suppliers. As a new approach to enterprise IT
implementation and application development, SOA can break down business
applications and features into "services" - specific pieces of
functionality - which can be efficiently built, combined, adapted and
reused.

Most customers to date are using their application infrastructure
software (application servers, integration servers, development tools
and portal software) to build and deploy their early SOA projects. As
SOA moves from pilot to production, companies have found that they need
new infrastructure that is designed to help them to quickly compose,
deliver, configure and manage these services. Customers typically
encounter this once they have built and deployed more than 50 services,
which can result in a "services sprawl" that requires constant
integration and can be difficult to scale. They also need new
composition tools that work like an "assembly line" for building cars,
in addition to traditional coding tools they used for "building car
parts."  Service infrastructure is a new category of enterprise software
designed to help enable businesses compose, configure and reuse
technology assets to meet business needs in a more assembly line model. 

Building on Success - SOA Software and BEA
SOA Software Inc. and BEA have worked together for several years to
provide customers with an integration of infrastructure software
solutions designed to help customers to run their businesses more
efficiently.

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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