SOA Software Announces General Availability of SOLA Mainframe Web Service Product; Announces First Commercially Available Release of Its High-Performance, Secure, Standards-Based Platform for CICS Web Services.LOS ANGELES Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. -- SOA Software SOA Software is a provider of enterprise class SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) security, management, and governance solutions. The company was originally called Digital Evolution, and has taken over a number of specialist SOA vendors. , the leading provider of comprehensive 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 management, security and run-time governance solutions, today announced that its Service Oriented Legacy Architecture (SOLA(TM)) product, the industry's first high-performance, secure, standards-based platform for CICS (Customer Information Control System) A TP monitor from IBM that was originally developed to provide transaction processing for IBM mainframes. It controls the interaction between applications and users and lets programmers develop screen displays without Web services, is now shipping. Already deployed in production at Merrill Lynch for more than three years, the first commercially available release of SOLA, version 5.0, adds comprehensive support for key messaging and infrastructure standards including WS-Security, WS-Policy, XML-Signature and XML-Encryption. SOLA can be deployed standalone, or with the SOA Software Service Manager(TM) product as part of a comprehensive SOA Infrastructure. SOA Software's SOLA solves one of today's most pressing problems -- integrating new distributed applications with legacy mainframe applications. It provides customers with a fast, easy, reliable and secure way to expose mainframe applications as Web services, and allows mainframe applications to consume Web services. SOLA runs as a set of mainframe applications to capitalize on the reliability and performance offered by this platform to deliver Web services with minimal overhead and low, fixed costs fixed costs, n.pl the costs that do not change to meet fluctuations in enrollment or in use of services (e.g., salaries, rent, business license fees, and depreciation). . "The commercial availability of SOLA ensures that every company with a large CICS environment can now realize the same benefits that Merrill Lynch has seen since we created this platform," said Jim Crew, vice president of SOLA at SOA Software. "SOLA is the only CICS product proven to handle the scale, performance and functionality requirements of Merrill Lynch's demanding environment." SOLA enables mainframes to expose and consume Web services. It is a unique single solution that bridges the gap between databases and applications on the mainframe and the distributed world, leveraging decades of investment. SOLA accomplishes this without any additional hardware, software, middleware, coding or cross-platform skills training. SOLA's toolset reduces application development cost and time to market. Most importantly, this is a proven product, as it is used successfully in extensive production roll out today at Merrill Lynch processing more than 2,000,000 transactions daily. SOLA offers unique value to SOA Software's customer for many reasons, including: --An enterprise ready, standards-based, mainframe Web services platform with performance and scalability proven in production at Merrill Lynch --Easy to use, fully integrated, user centric mainframe Web services development environment --Cost effective platform requires no additional hardware or software for Web services run-time SOLA key features include: --Services are published by the service owner (usually the mainframe programmer) --Standards based solution, including Web Services standards WS-Security and WS-Policy --Services are automatically documented in a centralized UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery and Integration) An industry initiative for a universal business registry (catalog) of Web services turned over to the stewardship of OASIS in 2002 as the version 3 specification of UDDI was released. repository --Browser-based Development Environment doesn't require a high-end workstation to create services --Production proven, high performance --No middleware required -- services are hosted on the mainframe Pricing and availability Starting at $75,000, SOLA is commercially available as of March 31, 2006. About SOA Software SOA Software is the leading provider of comprehensive enterprise-class SOA management, security, and governance solutions. SOA Software's products include the award winning Service Manager(TM), Registry(TM), 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. VPN (Virtual Private Network) A private network that is configured within a public network (a carrier's network or the Internet) in order to take advantage of the economies of scale and management facilities of large networks. (TM), and SOLA(TM). Service Manager provides a high-performance, scalable SOA Management solution. XML VPN makes it easy for companies to securely publish B2B (Business to Business) Refers to one business communicating with or selling to another. See B2B e-commerce, B2C and B2G. B2B - business to business Web services for their partners to consume. And SOLA is the only production proven mainframe Web services solution for CICS programmers. These enterprise-class products combine to create the only complete SOA Infrastructure solution available today. SOA Software 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. backed by leading investors including Redpoint, Mellon Ventures, Palisades Palisades, cliffs along the west bank of the Hudson River, NE N.J. and SE N.Y., extending from N of Jersey City, N.J., to the vicinity of Piermont, N.Y., with a general altitude of from 350 ft to 550 ft (107–168 m). Ventures Fund and Paladin Paladin archetypal gunman who leaves a calling card. [TV: Have Gun, Will Travel in Terrace, I, 341] See : Wild West Capital Group. For more information, please visit http://www.soa.com SOA Software and Service Manager are trademarks of SOA Software, Inc. All other names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective owners. |
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