Provides the lowest TCO in the industry

Los Angeles, Calif. – April 30, 2008 – SOA Software, the leading SOA and Governance vendor, today announced the release of SOLA 6.0 (Service Oriented Legacy Architecture), a major update to its market-leading mainframe SOA Solution.

SOLA is the mainframe Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) solution. SOLA solves one of today’s most pressing problems; making mainframe applications part of an SOA. SOLA provides customers with a fast and easy way to expose mainframe applications as secure Web Services, and allows mainframe applications to consume Web Services. Using SOLA, customers can leverage billions of dollars of existing investments when building an enterprise SOA. The SOLA runtime runs entirely on the mainframe, eliminating the need for expensive and unreliable middleware. SOLA’s Development Studio vastly increases developer productivity, providing faster time to market and lower application development cost. The combination of a highly optimized runtime, no middleware and improved productivity provide the lowest TCO in the industry.

SOLA eliminates the need to integrate multiple products to create an enterprise class SOA. Alternative solutions only offer one or two components of mainframe SOA, such as XML Web Services. Because SOLA offers a complete SOA solution, it offers the industry’s lowest TCO for mainframe SOA.

SOLA’s high performance and low CPU overhead enable customers to run the world’s largest mainframe SOA implementations. SOLA is the only product proven to handle high volume (10 million+) transactions per day in mission critical mainframe SOA environments.

Innovative SOLA features such as One-Click service creation and an easy to use drag-and-drop interface deliver the only secure, standards-based and governable SOA product in the space. SOLA provides end-to-end governance with WS-Security, WS-Policy, mainframe optimized registry, integrated monitoring, logging, auditing and near limitless scalability, all implemented on the mainframe. This makes SOLA the only solution for companies seeking secure, high-volume, mission-critical mainframe SOA.

SOLA Advantages for mainframe SOA

• Complete mainframe SOA product on the market
• Production proven track record in the Fortune 1000
• Lowest TCO (and highest ROI) in the industry
• SOLA is a Governed Service Platform, making it fully governable by SOA Software products like Workbench
• Standards based, enterprise SOA ready
• One Click Web Services
• BPEL support enhances efficiency of complex operations.
• No workstation software to install
• Centralized directory
• Mainframe operates as a server or as a client

“We are very excited to provide a complete mainframe SOA Solution,” said Paul Gigg, CEO of SOA Software. “Our Fortune 1000 customers require inclusion of the mainframe in their SOA and require benefits provided in SOLA 6.0 such as lower total cost of ownership.”

“We have a long established tradition of segment leading technology and innovation,” said Jim Crew, SOLA co-creator and SOA Vice President. “We were the first to offer production mainframe Web Services, the first to implement WS-Security and the first to deliver the only complete mainframe SOA product.”

New features and benefits of SOLA 6.0

• Simplified, more powerful Web 2.0 interface with intuitive drag-and-drop capabilities. Workflow efficiency has been greatly enhanced without sacrificing ease of use.
• BPEL support provides orchestration of services, allowing customers to combine Services into composite Services.
• Enhanced customization (environments, access controls, etc.) allows SOLA to adapt to customer’s environments.
• Dashboard provides a graphical overview with visual alerts and status indicators.
• Improved performance through enhanced database and parser algorithms increase efficiency and boost ROI.
• Improved security such as identity mapping, SAML 2.0 authentication, XACML authorization, multiple certificates and TLS provide improved security to a product that already possesses the segment’s strongest and most efficient security.
• Multiple container and pipeline support boost performance and efficiency by taking advantage of architectural improvements of IBM’s CICS TS.
• Enhanced management and administrative capability provide added flexibility, security and control.

“SOLA has allowed us to simplify and modernize our environment, while allowing us to eliminate complex and expensive gateway servers” said Henry Tsang, Vice President of Merrill Lynch. “What sets SOLA apart is that it offers integrated monitoring, logging, auditing, WS-Security and WS-Policy on the mainframe, all of which benefit from the mainframe’s performance, reliability and scalability while offering end-to-end transaction visibility.”

SOLA can function as a stand-alone solution for mainframe SOA or integrate into SOA Software’s Integrated SOA Governance Automation Solution, comprised of Workbench, and Service Manager.

About SOA Software

SOA Software is the leading provider of comprehensive, enterprise-class SOA Governance and Legacy integration solutions. SOA Software products provide a comprehensive closed-loop SOA Governance solution (Workbench), a high-performance, scalable SOA security, mediation, and management solution (Service Manager), and a mainframe SOA solution (SOLA). SOA Software products process over 500 million mission critical transactions a month and are used by the largest Fortune 1000 corporations, including Merrill Lynch, Verizon, and Pfizer. For more information, please visit http://www.soa.com.

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