Actional and IBM Partner to Accelerate SOA Adoption; New IBM Initiative Brings Best-of-Breed SOA Management Vendor Into Alliance.MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Actional Corporation, the leading provider of service-oriented architecture (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. ) management solutions, announced that it was invited and has now completed a partnership agreement with IBM Global Services IBM Global Services is the world's largest business and technology services provider. It is the fastest growing part of IBM, with over 190,000 professionals serving customers in more than 160 countries. for their global SOA Management Practice initiative. Actional was selected to join the practice in order to fulfill IBM's legendary commitment to customer success and best-of-breed solutions. With years of implementation experience and leadership in the emerging SOA space, Actional will work closely with IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) to further accelerate the adoption of SOA. "The use of Service Oriented Architectures among customers is evolving rapidly from technology evaluation into production deployment," said Michael Liebow, vice president, SOA and Web Services, IBM Global Services. "Expanding the IBM SOA Management Practice to include partners like Actional will benefit customers by speeding SOA deployments and give assurance that they are working with trusted partners and proven technology." IGS IGS - Internet Go Server. will incorporate and resell Actional's Looking Glass and SOAPstation products. These proven, enterprise-class solutions offer unprecedented visibility and performance along with the unique capability of managing of a heterogeneous environment and services beyond SOAP and XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. . Customers realize real business value as they migrate from pilot projects to production SOA. "As the recognized leader in SOA management solutions, we are excited by both the SOA Management Practice initiative and extension of that initiative to include Actional as their best of breed SOA management vendor," said Tom Ryan, 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. of Actional. "Actional's solutions have been proven in vertical markets around the world including government, hospitality, energy, banking and more. This partnership will allow Actional to grow its capabilities and enable organizations to quickly realize the full promise of SOA." About Actional Actional's enterprise-class solutions address the critical challenges of securing, monitoring and managing SOA environments. Leveraging leading technology and services, customers achieve the end-to-end transaction visibility required for performance, web services management and SLA (1) (StereoLithography Apparatus) See 3D printing. (2) (Service Level Agreement) A contract between the provider and the user that specifies the level of service expected during its term. adherence. Actional's proven solutions are designed for each stage of migration from Web services pilots to production SOA. 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. based in Mountain View, Calif. For more information, please visit www.actional.com. |
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