California ISO Has Selected Actional for SOA Management; Extensive Visibility and Control Is Key for Wholesale Energy Management.SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden -- Actional Corporation, the leader in services-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, today announced that the California Independent System Operator has selected Actional's enterprise-class SOA management solutions to help safeguard and manage the reliable delivery of electricity. The California ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. has the responsibility of managing California's wholesale power grid. The operation is extremely dynamic and must respond to the changing needs of open-market trading and energy consumption. As a result, the organization requires a system that is exceptionally agile yet robust and reliable enough to deliver one of the state's most valuable commodities. Dan Yee, California ISO's CIO CIO: see American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations. (Chief Information Officer) The executive officer in charge of information processing in an organization. , is tasked with designing and managing a new multi-vendor Market Redesign and Technology Upgrade (MRTU MRTU Market Redesign and Technology Update MRTU Mini Racing Team Uden (Netherlands) MRTU Multiplexed Remote Terminal Unit ) to address the need. This ongoing project is looking to extract the benefits of a SOA approach and is an excellent architectural model An architectural model is a tangible representation of a structure (typically a scale model) built to communicate design ideas to clients, owners, committees, customers, and the general public. from which other industries and organizations would benefit. "After completing a rigorous proof-of-concept, we chose Actional for its enterprise-class features and functionality," said Yee. "The California ISO is committed to providing the California public with the full value of an open market system and the MRTU project will elicit the most advanced technology available to achieve that goal." California ISO is one of the first customers to take advantage of features delivered in the recent Actional 5.5 release. These features include asynchronous Refers to events that are not synchronized, or coordinated, in time. The following are considered asynchronous operations. The interval between transmitting A and B is not the same as between B and C. The ability to initiate a transmission at either end. alerting and tracking of individual processes which will provide increased visibility as well as auditing and logging capabilities and RSA Security integration for improved authentication and data integrity. "The SOA market is emerging and being driven by the dynamic needs of visionary customers like California ISO," said David Gehringer, VP of Marketing for Actional. "We continue to maintain our leadership role in SOA management by developing solutions that respond to our customer's needs and deliver the full value of SOA." About The California Independent System Operator The California ISO is a not-for-profit public benefit corporation charged with managing the flow of electricity along California's open-market wholesale power grid. The ISO mission is to safeguard the reliable delivery of electricity and ensure equal access to 25,000 circuit miles of the "electron highway." As impartial operator of the wholesale power grid in the state, the California ISO conducts a portion of the bulk power markets. These markets are used to allocate space on transmission lines, maintain operating reserves, and match supply with demand. About Actional Corporation 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, visit www.actional.com. |
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