AmberPoint and Reactivity Announce Integration of Leading SOA Solutions; SOA Runtime Governance and XML Appliance Solutions Bring Best-of-Breed Visibility and Policy Enforcement across Heterogeneous SOA Environments.

OAKLAND, Calif. -- AmberPoint, the leading provider of service-oriented architecture (SOA) management software, and Reactivity, the leading XML-enabled networking solutions provider, announced today that they have integrated their solutions to increase the business value and reduce the complexity of distributed, heterogeneous services-based systems.

"Our close partnership with Reactivity will help organizations make better use of SOA," said Paul Butterworth, AmberPoint CTO. "Organizations that are serious about SOA know that they need to both govern the runtime behavior of their services and optimize performance. By integrating our solutions with Reactivity, we're helping organizations to more easily achieve those mandates and thereby reducing the time to ROI with SOA."

Streamlined Management and Optimization

As a result of this integration effort, AmberPoint's management capabilities can now apply to SOA message traffic that flows through Reactivity's XML appliances. Market-leading new capabilities resulting from this integration include:

--Wire-speed policy enforcement integrated with endpoint policy enforcement that spans heterogeneous platforms and infrastructure

--Integrated service auto-discovery, service level management, exception management, security and routing capabilities to govern service networks at runtime

--A multi-tier architecture for SOA policy enforcement, extending management and security capabilities to both the network and service endpoints

"The integration of AmberPoint and Reactivity delivers the most comprehensive and scalable performance, security and management to maximize the benefits of XML messaging, Web services and SOA," said Andrew Nash, CTO at Reactivity. "For example, the new, integrated capabilities simplify provisioning of services, policies, connections and SLAs--no matter the environment's heterogeneity. A best-of-breed SOA stack is the right answer for successful SOA."

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 [e-mail], or visit www.amberpoint.com for a complimentary developer's edition of AmberPoint software.

About Reactivity

Reactivity provides the leading XML appliances used by enterprises to XML enable their networks and realize the promise of XML Web services and application oriented networking. Reactivity's family of products enables businesses to secure, control and accelerate Web services effectively in order to expedite services, time-to-market and gain competitive advantage. Reactivity's XML Security Gateway and Secure XML Router support WS-Security and all associated security standards. These two appliances as well as the Reactivity XML Accelerator deliver 20x performance improvements over application platforms and middleware for XML Schema validation, transformation, and cryptographic operations. Reactivity has unique experience with major Global 2000 enterprises in financial services, publishing, travel and other industries and is an active member of Liberty Alliance, OASIS and WS-I. Reactivity is located in Belmont, California, and can be reached at www.reactivity.com, [phone] or [e-mail].