Actional Corporation Announces the Initial Release of the Actional SOA Command and Control Platform.

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Company Achieves First Integration Milestone 30 Days After Merger with Westbridge Technology

Actional Corporation, a leading provider of service-oriented architecture (SOA) enablement solutions, today announced the initial release of the Actional SOA Command and Control Platform (see related announcement, Actional Corporation and Westbridge Technology Merge, Oct. 18, 2004). The new release, which will be generally available later this week, marks the first integration milestone for the combined companies' technologies. The Actional SOA Command and Control Platform provides organizations with the broadest set of solutions for securing, deploying, monitoring and managing Web services and SOAs, all within a unified, yet open framework. Actional will demonstrate the solution today and tomorrow at the Gartner Application Integration and Web Services Summit in Orlando.

"As the adoption of Web services and SOAs expands, the needs of organizations are evolving and becoming more complex, as are the roles of those responsible for developing and executing a successful SOA strategy," said Sandra Rogers, program director of SOA and Web services for IDC. "With their complementary technologies, the combined offering from the merger of Actional and Westbridge is targeted at simplifying the work needed to deploy an integrated SOA environment, thus driving down total cost of ownership, and by remaining open, leveraging the value of an organization's existing IT investments."

About Actional SOA Command and Control Platform

Actional SOA Command and Control Platform is a new breed of solution that provides a unified command and control layer that aligns the SOA business objectives and drives SOA efficiency across the enterprise. With its multi-tier architecture, Actional SOA Command and Control consists of in-fabric components (service brokers, security gateways and agents) for managing and securing the flow of service traffic, as well as a centralized facility for the end-to-end visibility, security and control of the entire network of interrelated services in an enterprise SOA.

The initial release of the new platform provides the initial integration of the products from Actional and the former Westbridge Technology, streamlining the number of products and consoles required to secure, monitor and manage an organization's service-based applications. With the new release, customers now have:

--Global end-to-end visibility and analytics across all products in the service fabric

--A single point of control for operational policy (e.g. service level agreements or authorization requests) across all products in the fabric

--A single console from which all product functionality can be accessed

The Actional SOA Command and Control 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. More information on Actional SOA Command and Control can be found at http://www.actional.com/products/soa/index.asp.

"Actional continues to be focused on delivering the breakthrough technologies that move the industry forward and drive SOA success for organizations worldwide," said Tom Ryan, Actional CEO. "Our delivery of the initial release of Actional SOA Command and Control not only provides immediate value to our customers, but also demonstrates our ability to execute on that vision."

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, Partners Healthcare, Thomson Prometric, MCI, 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 based in Mountain View, Calif. www.actional.com.