Actuate accepted into IBM SOA specialty program.Actuate Corporation and an 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) Premier Partner, recently announced its acceptance to the IBM 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. Specialty after successfully completing IBM's rigorous SOA technical and business requirements. With this achievement, the Actuate platform integrates with the IBM SOA Foundation, a single, integrated platform that combines the industry's top application server and integration capabilities. Customers of IBM and Actuate can now take advantage of a common approach to Service-Oriented Architecture See SOA. to rapidly integrate business intelligence and performance management capabilities into applications to support the complete spectrum of business processes. Acceptance into the IBM SOA Specialty is for Business Partners that have demonstrated compatibility with IBM SOA Foundation products, endorse To sign a paper or document, thereby making it possible for the rights represented therein to pass to another individual. Also spelled indorse. endorse (indorse) v. the IBM SOA strategy, and whose go-to-market activities IBM determines to be in agreement with its own. Actuate has been working closely with IBM to achieve a high level of business and technical alignment and as a result, has become the first partner to achieve all levels of SOA Specialty certification--Connect, Extend, and Exploit. This means that Actuate is certified See certification. by IBM to be able to connect, extend, and exploit the IBM SOA Foundation products including the WebSphere Business Modeler, WebSphere Integration Developer, and WebSphere Process Server. Specifically, Actuate exploits the SOA Foundation by building reusable re·use tr.v. re·used, re·us·ing, re·us·es To use again, especially after salvaging or special treatment or processing. re·us components within the WebSphere Integration Developer, deployed on the WebSphere Process Server to communicate with applications using the WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus. The IBM SOA Specialty in the PartnerWorld for Industry Networks provides technical enablement and skills-building roadmap for partners who want to access the growing SOA market opportunity. The Specialty will also provide SOA-specific marketing and sales benefits for those who achieve key milestones such as SOA Connection Events to meet directly with IBM SOA Sales specialists and discounted print advertising and telemarketing telemarketing, the practice of selling goods or services to customers by means of the telephone or of surveying consumer preferences in telephone conversations. . IBM Sales Connections, a consultative service in the PartnerWorld Industry Networks, helps business partners close SOA deals quickly by connecting them with the relevant IBM SOA and local field sales team. www.actuate.com |
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