Actional 5.1 Selected as a Product of the Year by SearchWebServices.com; Actional Awarded Silver in the Management Category.MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Actional Corporation, a leading provider of service-oriented architecture See SOA. (SOA (1) (Start Of Authority) The first record in a DNS zone file. See DNS records. (2) (Service Oriented Architecture) The modularization of business functions for greater flexibility and reusability. ) enablement solutions, today announced that Actional 5.1 received the Silver award from SearchWebServices.com 2004 "Products of the Year" in the management category. The SearchWebServices.com Products of the Year Awards are judged by the SearchWebServices.com editorial staff, in conjunction with a team of users, industry experts, analysts and consultants who review and select winners based on their innovation, performance, ease of integration into existing environments, ease of use and manageability, functionality and value. "Our judges gave Actional 5.1 the highest marks possible in the functionality and support categories," wrote Michael Mimoso, SearchWebServices.com's senior news editor. "Actional 5.1 monitors not only SOA and Web services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term. , but manages relationships between those and other service endpoints like databases, Web pages, middleware and legacy systems." With its release of Actional 5.1, Actional's unique, patent-pending technology provides the tools for organizations to monitor and address SOA management challenges regardless of service type, stakeholder, or phase of the SOA project lifecycle. The platform deploys in a distributed, multi-tier architecture with products that fall into two separate categories -- in-network components and centralized components -- which can be implemented incrementally, enabling the organization to expand their management capabilities as their needs evolve. "We are honored to be named as one of SearchWebServices.com's 'Products of the Year,'" said Actional CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Tom Ryan
Tom Ryan (born August 3 1986), who plays under the pseudonym Ogre 2, is a professional gamer from Pickerington, Ohio, USA. . "This recognition further confirms that Actional's products are highly regarded within the industry and that our unique approach to SOA management is on target with organizations' needs to secure, deploy and manage Web services applications across the entire SOA lifecycle What is a SOA Lifecycle? The SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) Lifecycle is a model that is intended to illustrate relationships and dependencies between various independent lifecycles that comprise a mature, enterprise SOA program. ." Since Actional's successful merger with Westbridge Technology in October 2004, the platform has expanded to the Actional SOA Command and Control Platform, released in November 2004. This is a new breed of solution that provides a unified command A command with a broad continuing mission under a single commander and composed of significant assigned components of two or more Military Departments that is established and so designated by the President, through the Secretary of Defense with the advice and assistance of the Chairman of and control layer that aligns the SOA business objectives and drives SOA efficiency across the enterprise. The platform offers comprehensive solutions that address the range of challenges organizations encounter, from early Web services projects to strategic SOA implementations, and provides a migration path as companies progress through the SOA lifecycle. The SearchWebServices.com 2004 "Products of the Year" can be found at http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/productsOfTheYear/0,294801,sid 26,00.html. (Due to its length, this URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. may need to be copied/pasted into your Internet browser's address field. Remove the extra space if one exists.) Please click on the "Management" category to view more specific information on Actional's win. About SearchWebServices.com TechTarget's SearchWebServices.com is the leading online resource for more than 200,000 enterprise IT professionals who seek information on the latest Web services technologies and issues so they can make decisions, research products and set strategies. SearchWebServices.com provides original news stories, expert advice and interactive features for the Web services community, and is the largest online source of Web services-related e-newsletters, white papers and Webcasts. More information can be found at www.searchwebservices.com. About Actional Corporation As a leading provider of SOA enablement solutions, Actional Corporation addresses the specific challenges of securing, deploying and managing service-oriented environments, from early Web services projects to enterprisewide SOA initiatives. The company's sole mission is to keep customers' SOAs secure and operational 24/7, making Actional the choice of leading organizations around the world including Danish Immigration Service The Danish Immigration Service (Danish: Udlændingestyrelsen) is a directorate within the Danish Ministry of Refugees, Immigration and Integration Affairs. The service administrates the Danish Aliens Act (Danish: Udlændingeloven , Partners Healthcare Partners HealthCare is a non-profit organization that owns several hospitals in Massachusetts, primarily in the Boston area. Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital founded the organization in 1994. , Thomson Prometric, MCI (1) (Media Control Interface) A high-level programming interface from Microsoft and IBM for controlling multimedia devices. It provides commands and functions to open, play and close the device. (2) (Microwave Communications Inc. , Telstra, Travelers, the U.S. government and others. With Actional's SOA Command and Control Platform, customers can reduce costs and ease the complexity of SOA deployments, thereby increasing the responsiveness of IT, accelerating time-to-market of business-critical applications and capitalizing on the business value of their SOA. Actional, which recently merged with Westbridge Technology, is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. based in Mountain View, Calif. www.actional.com |
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