Actional Introduces Free Developer Version of SOAPstation Web Service Broker; New Offering Provides Robust Tools for Managing Project-Level Web Services Applications.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers Gartner Group (company) Gartner Group - One of the biggest IT industry research firms. Address: Connecticut, USA. Application Integration 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. Summit Booth CC LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 17, 2004 Actional Corporation, the Web services management market-share leader, today announced the immediate availability of its free developer version of Actional SOAPstation(TM), providing developers with the complete feature set in a downloadable copy of the award-winning product. Actional SOAPstation Developer Version provides everything a developer needs for project-level Web services management, including the ability to manage service lifecycles, define and monitor service level agreements, define and enforce security policies and re-provision services for new customer requirements. "Actional's approach to Web services management takes into account how companies are actually adopting Web services and building service-oriented architectures (SOAs)," said Jason Bloomberg, Senior Analyst, ZapThink LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control . "Actional enables customers to take a phased approach to building mission-critical Web services that yields positive ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). at every step. Application development groups creating Web services can implement SOAPstation at the project level. Later, the operations team can benefit from the deployment of Actional Looking Glass Looking Glass - A desktop manager for Unix from Visix. by gaining global visibility and control of complex service networks. Actional's products thus lower the risk and increase the value of building SOAs." Actional is introducing this new offering in response to customer demand for more robust tools at the project level. While some organizations are launching strategic, broad-based 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. projects at the enterprise level, others are driving tactical, project-based implementations that may expand over time. With the introduction of its SOAPstation Developer Version, Actional is removing barriers for successful Web services implementation at the project level by providing full-featured Web service management capabilities at an entry-level price. "Never have such robust Web services management tools been available to developers on an immediate and cost-effective basis like they are from Actional," said Frank Bergandi, 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. , Actional. "This program is unique because it provides developers with the ability to accelerate Web services development and management at the project level, and help drive successful Web services adoption across the enterprise." All of the tools available with Actional SOAPstation Developer Version are upwardly compatible with Actional's entire SOA management suite, enabling companies to solve their project level Web services management needs with tools that seamlessly migrate as the SOA grows. Availability and Pricing Actional SOAPstation(TM) Developer Version is available now and immediately downloadable at no cost from www.actional.com/sstdownload. Runtime pricing for Actional SOAPstation starts at $4,995 per CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. . About Actional Web Services Management Solution The Actional Web Services Management Solution -- including Actional SOAPstation Web service brokers, Actional Active Agents, and Actional Looking Glass centralized cen·tral·ize v. cen·tral·ized, cen·tral·iz·ing, cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To draw into or toward a center; consolidate. 2. management and policy server -- provides users with a complete view and active control of the entire enterprise Web services environment. Actional's unique approach is based on Actional's patent-pending active-management technologies and delivered through a powerful, high-performance architecture, which enables users to deploy Web services in an incremental fashion, providing powerful yet cost-effective solutions to today's tactical implementations, while laying the foundation for an overarching o·ver·arch·ing adj. 1. Forming an arch overhead or above: overarching branches. 2. Extending over or throughout: "I am not sure whether the missing ingredient . . . service-oriented architecture (SOA) in the future. About Actional Actional is the Web services management market-share leader, committed to helping organizations avoid the cost and complexity of unmanaged Web services deployments. With proven experience at more than 100 Global 2000 customer sites, the company builds the management foundation required to harness the cost and performance benefits promised by Web services and Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA). Actional's solutions provide unmatched visibility, flexibility and active control across an enterprise Web services network -- ensuring uptime while dramatically reducing the costs of ongoing Web services management. Actional 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. headquartered in Mountain View, California For the census-designated place, see Mountain View, Contra Costa County, California. For other places called "Mountain View", see . Mountain View is a city in Santa Clara County, in the U.S. state of California. The city gets its name from the views of the Santa Cruz Mountains. . Contact Actional at www.actional.com. |
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