Actional Joins Web Services Interoperability -- WS-I -- Organization.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers Microsoft Tech-Ed 2002 NEW ORLEANS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 9, 2002 Actional (www.actional.com), a leading provider of Web services infrastructure solutions, has joined the Web Services Interoperability The Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) is an industry consortium chartered to promote interoperability amongst the stack of web services specifications. Organization, (WS-I (Web Services Interoperability Organization, www.ws-i.org) A consortium founded by Microsoft, IBM, BEA Systems and Intel that is dedicated to the development of Web services. Its goals are to provide guidance and education, to promote interoperability and to ensure that Web services ) today, furthering Actional's leadership role in developing software that facilitates the delivery, security, and management of Web services. The WS-I Organization is an open industry effort to promote Web Services interoperability across platforms, applications, and programming languages. Actional's membership in the WS-I demonstrates the company's position in the Web services market and continued commitment to creating open, standards based products like SOAPswitch(TM), its flagship Web services gateway. SOAPswitch enables Web service connectivity to enterprise applications as well as centralized management, monitoring and control over all Web services traffic regardless of where the services are developed or hosted. With SOAPswitch, companies gain flexibility and choice over how they implement their integration and Web services strategies. SOAPswitch complies with the latest Web Services standards, including SOAP 1.1, WSDL (Web Services Description Language) An XML-based language for defining Web services. Developed by Microsoft and IBM, WSDL describes the protocols and formats used by the service. 1.1, and UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery and Integration) An industry initiative for a universal business registry (catalog) of Web services turned over to the stewardship of OASIS in 2002 as the version 3 specification of UDDI was released. 1.0 and 2.0. It is also compatible with emerging SOAP security standards, including WS-Security and SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) An XML-based format from OASIS for exchanging security information for single sign-on. The "assertions" are statements from a SAML authority that authenticate a user, confirm some attribute about the individual and grant or . "Web services technologies hold the potential to dramatically simplify the task of connecting disparate software systems and components both within and between enterprises. But key to turning this potential into reality is broad-based vendor commitment to standards-based interoperability," said Tanya Johnson, Senior Vice President, Products, Actional Corporation. "Actional believes the WS-I, working across standards bodies and vendors, represents the best forum for ensuring these interoperability objectives are met." About Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) WS-I is an open, industry organization chartered to promote Web Services interoperability across platforms, operating systems, and programming languages. The organization works across the industry and with standards organizations to respond to customer needs by providing guidance, best practices, and resources for developing Web Services solutions. For more information please visit the WS-I Web Site, http://www.ws-i.org. About Actional Actional Corporation is a leading provider of Web services infrastructure solutions. Actional's SOAPswitch -- the industry's first comprehensive Web services gateway, is a critical infrastructure requirement for successful enterprise adoption of Web services. SOAPswitch delivers unified security, monitoring, message transformation, API mapping and transaction management of all Web services traffic. Over 100 of the Global 2000 including Dresdner Bank, Sabre, Reliant Energy and Swisscom use Actional's products in their mission-critical infrastructure. Based 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. , Actional is backed by ArrowPath Venture Capital, Government of Singapore Investment Corporation The Government of Singapore Investment Corporation Private Limited (GIC) is a global investment management company established by the Government of Singapore in 1981 to manage Singapore's foreign reserves. -- Special Investments (GIC GIC See: Guaranteed Investment Contract GIC See guaranteed investment contract (GIC). SI), International Capital Partners, NeoCarta Ventures, New Enterprise Associates and SAIC SAIC - http://saic.com. Venture Capital Corporation. More information about the company can be found at www.actional.com. |
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