SOA Software to Support New BEA Service Infrastructure Product Strategy; Company to Provide Critical Web Services Management Products to BEA Customers.

SANTA MONICA, Calif. -- SOA Software Inc., today announced support for the Service Infrastructure product strategy introduced by BEA Systems. Developed to help increase business agility while reducing IT cost and complexity, BEA's Service Infrastructure product family is designed to help manage the service-oriented architecture (SOA) lifecycle in heterogeneous environments while making the transition from pilot to enterprise-wide production easier to implement. SOA Software Inc.'s leading solution is designed to enhance the enterprise-class Web services management capabilities of BEA's Service Infrastructure product family.

SOA Software Inc.'s award-winning Service Manager(TM) is designed to provide BEA customers with comprehensive Web services management across their SOA environment. Service Manager is designed to help to provide in-depth SLA management capabilities enabled by a customizable dashboard for performance monitoring and auditing of transactions, events, warnings and alerts. This product is designed to enhance the value of the BEA Service Infrastructure products to heterogeneous environments both within the enterprise and between business partners.

"Many of the world's largest companies are moving down the path to SOA to take advantage of its enormous potential for cost saving and new business opportunities," said Eric Pulier, chairman and founder of SOA Software Inc. "As these companies move from pilot to production environments, they need to secure, manage and govern their SOA with a comprehensive Services Infrastructure. We share BEA's vision for enterprise SOA, and are excited to be able to offer our products as important components of the Service Infrastructure."

SOA is a software design approach that takes the discrete business functions contained in enterprise applications and organizes them into interoperable, standards-based services. These services are designed to be combined and reused in composite applications and processes to meet business needs. Service infrastructure is a new category of enterprise software designed to help enable the successful deployment of SOA in business environments by allowing services to be discovered, secured, managed and assembled into composite applications and processes -- regardless of the underlying technology.

"Our alliance with SOA Software is part of BEA's initiative designed to continually help customers manage SOA-based environments and improve business agility and efficiency," said Gail Ennis, vice president of Worldwide Alliances. "As a leading provider of Web services management solutions, SOA Software can add considerable value to customers implementing BEA Service Infrastructure products."

Service Infrastructure Helps Move SOA from Pilot to Production

Customers gravitate to SOA's modularity and flexibility, which is designed to help them to mix and match IT resources in a "virtual" infrastructure that is integrated while not being locked into a single vendor's IT stack. SOA also reflects a move from thinking about IT in an "application" context to thinking about IT as a "services" delivery business -- helping to enable IT departments to create, assemble and deliver new services more quickly for use by employees, customers, partners and suppliers. As a new approach to enterprise IT implementation and application development, SOA can break down business applications and features into "services" -- specific pieces of functionality -- which can be efficiently built, combined, adapted and reused.

Most customers to date are using their application infrastructure software (application servers, integration servers, development tools and portal software) to build and deploy their early SOA projects. As SOA moves from pilot to production, companies have found that they need new infrastructure that is designed to help them to quickly compose, deliver, configure and manage these services. Customers typically encounter this once they have built and deployed more than 50 services, which can result in a "services sprawl" that requires constant integration and can be difficult to scale. They also need new composition tools that work like an "assembly line" for building cars, in addition to traditional coding tools they used for "building car parts." Service infrastructure is a new category of enterprise software designed to help enable businesses compose, configure and reuse technology assets to meet business needs in a more assembly line model.

Building on Success -- SOA Software and BEA

SOA Software Inc. and BEA have worked together for several years to provide customers with an integration of infrastructure software solutions designed to help customers to run their businesses more efficiently.

About SOA Software

SOA Software, formerly Digital Evolution, is the leading provider of comprehensive enterprise-class SOA security, management and governance solutions. SOA Software's products include the award-winning Service Manager(TM), Registry and XML VPN. The Service Manager secures, monitors and manages XML and Web services, and was awarded the 2004 Gold Product of the Year Award for Web Services Management from SearchWebServices.com. The XML VPN makes it easy for companies to securely publish Web services for their partners to consume. It ensures the usability, security and reliability of Web services allowing partners to create new business models. SOA Software's UDDIv3 compliant Registry is the first product to integrate service discovery with policy and performance management. These products combine to create the only complete SOA Fabric solution available today. SOA Software is a privately held company backed by leading investors including Redpoint, Mellon Ventures, Palisades Ventures Fund and Paladin Capital Group. For more information, please visit www.soa.com.