AmberPoint Named Leading SOA and Web Services Management Company by Independent Research Firm; AmberPoint Leads with Strong Customer Adoption for SOA and Web Services Management.OAKLAND, Calif. -- AmberPoint is pleased to announce that it has been named a "Leader" among eleven 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. 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. management vendors in a recent Forrester Research Forrester Research is an independent technology and market research company that provides its clients with advice about technology's impact on business and consumers. Corporate facts
"AmberPoint SOA Management System provides a broad, integrated solution for service-oriented architecture See SOA. (SOA) management that can either operate as a standalone stand·a·lone adj. Self-contained and usually independently operating: a standalone computer terminal. or integrate with other SOA and enterprise IT management infrastructures. The product has at least basic functionality for almost all of Forrester's evaluation criteria, making it a clean unified package for addressing a wide range of SOA management issues." (Forrester Research, "AmberPoint Leads with Strong Customer Adoption for SOA and Web Services Management," February 10, 2006.) According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the report, "Overall, the product scores consistently well across a number of criteria categories and is especially strong in IT-level management, product architecture, administrative tooling and alert management." Forrester cited AmberPoint as an "especially good fit" for buyers that: --Take a broad view of integrated SOA management --See SOA management fitting into a broader SOA platform picture --Want a single package for SOA management The report highlighted several strong features of AmberPoint's platform, awarding the company perfect 5 out of 5 scores for Service Level Management; Exception Management Tools; Deployment Styles and Requirements; Management Administration; Management Console A terminal or workstation used to monitor and control a network. See Microsoft Management Console. ; Administrative Integration; and Autoresponse. "It's gratifying grat·i·fy tr.v. grat·i·fied, grat·i·fy·ing, grat·i·fies 1. To please or satisfy: His achievement gratified his father. See Synonyms at please. 2. to see such thorough independent research validate what our customers have been experiencing," said Ed Horst, vice president of Marketing at AmberPoint. "We work closely with our customers to make sure our product roadmap is in sync with their growing requirements for SOA governance Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) governance is a concept used for activities related to exercising control over services in a SOA. SOA governance can be seen as an overlay on IT governance, but its focus is more organizational, since services are closely related to business activities. . Our responsiveness to the market has paid off in evaluations by leading organizations, industry partners and analyst firms alike." More information about Forrester, an independent technology research company that focuses on technology's impact on business, is available at http://www.forrester.com. About AmberPoint AmberPoint is the industry's leading provider of SOA visibility, management and security solutions. Customers such as British Telecommunications, H&R Block, Motorola and the U.S. Department of Defense have chosen AmberPoint for its comprehensive capabilities, its non-invasive approach and its native support for Java and .NET. For more information, contact AmberPoint at 510.663.6300 or info@amberpoint.com, or visit www.amberpoint.com for a complimentary developer's edition of AmberPoint software. |
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