Merrill Lynch partners with SOA Software Service Manager to Build Service Oriented Architecture

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

Merrill Lynch partners with IBM Global Services and SOA Software Service
Manager to Build Service Oriented Architecture

SANTA MONICA, Calif.-November 8, 2005-SOA Software and IBM today
announced that Merrill Lynch is standardizing on SOA Software Service
Manager to secure and manage Web services.  This large scale engagement,
which leverages SOA Software's uniquely scalable Web service management
software, was entered into jointly with SOA Software's services partner,
IBM Global Services.

"The partnership of IBM Global Services and SOA Software will allow us
to scale out use of SOA and Web services--technologies that are a
strategic cornerstone of our process re-engineering initiatives," said
Andy Brown, chief technology architect of Merrill Lynch.  "We decided to
standardize on SOA Software because of the feature richness, scalability
and high performance." 

As part of this announcement Merrill Lynch is standardizing on the
Service Manager(tm) from SOA Software to secure and manage its Web
services.  This large-scale engagement leverages SOA Software's uniquely
scalable Web Services Management software together with the strength and
deep industry expertise of the IBM Global Services' SOA Management
Practice to deliver a comprehensive SOA infrastructure. SOA Software's
Service Manager provides comprehensive security, monitoring, management
and governance of Web services and Service-Oriented Architecture. This
award-winning product offers production proven scalability and
performance ensuring the reliability and security of the Web services
and application in an SOA. 

"This is a great validation of our technology and thought leadership,"
said Eric Pulier, founder and chairman of SOA Software.  "I am very
proud of what our team has been able to accomplish working with Merrill
Lynch to set a course for leadership in SOA management and find the
solutions that will take them there. SOA Software is now consistently
winning the larger engagements worldwide where scalability is a factor.
" 

About SOA Software 

SOA Software 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 Service
Manager, which in its recent 3.0 release is proven to handle
1,000,000,000 Web service transactions per hour.  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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