Systinet Awarded $1.15M Five Year Enterprise Software License Agreement for DISA's Net-Centric Enterprise Services Program; Leading Software Supplier of SOA Foundation Wins Critical Net-Centric Procurement.BURLINGTON, Mass. -- Systinet, the leading software provider of the foundation for SOA governance and lifecycle management, and Merlin Technical Solutions, an 8(a) disadvantaged small business software reseller and services provider, today announced that they have secured a $1.15M award with five additional $200,000 maintenance options over a period of five years to provide the Enterprise COTS 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. Registry technology to the Defense Information Systems Agency(DISA 1. (body) DISA - Defense Information Systems Agency. 2. (standard) DISA - Data Interchange Standards Association. ) Net-Centric Enterprise Services Net-Centric Enterprise Services (NCES) is a Department of Defense program, managed by the Defense Information Systems Agency, to develop information technology infrastructure services for future systems used by the United States military. Program (NCES). DISA will deliver its pilot Service Discovery Core Enterprise Service (CES), built upon Systinet's UDDI-based Systinet Registry, in the Spring of 2005 as a transition path to achieving global interoperability within the United States Department of Defense (DoD) through the NCES. NCES is considered one of the major components of the Global Information Grid The globally interconnected, end-to-end set of information capabilities, associated processes and personnel for collecting,processing, storing, disseminating and managing information on demand to warfighters, policy makers, and support personnel. , DoD's global network for both classified and non-classified data. GIG ES will provide complete, real-time access to reliable and critical, quality information through the use of cutting-edge, Web-based, networked services. GIG ES will improve the decision-making ability of military services and business information owners by transforming the way they receive and access information. Systinet provides enterprise and government organizations worldwide with the technology necessary to implement a successful SOA and realize its benefits including leveraging existing IT systems and to better align business processes with IT. The company has also seen a growing demand in the Federal sector for its Systinet Registry, which provides customers with a simpler, faster and easier way to establish a Net-Centric Service Discovery mechanism, govern services and gain control of an SOA. Adding the NCES Program to its already strong Federal customer and partner network which includes industry leading companies such as EDS (Electronic Data Systems, Plano, TX, www.eds.com) Founded in 1962 by H. Ross Perot (independent candidate for the President of the U.S. in 1992), EDS is the largest outsourcing and data processing services organization in the country. , Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Boeing, the NAVY and the USAF, Systinet is demonstrating the sizeable demand for SOA in the government sector and its leadership in this space. "We are excited about the momentum in the Federal sector around service-oriented architectures and that our SOA Foundation is helping mission critical Defense programs such as NCES to better disseminate information to the warfighter," said Tom Erickson, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. at Systinet. "We look forward to helping the NCES Program to realize their aggressive vision and are proud to be a part of their Core Enterprise Service strategy." About Systinet Systinet is the leading software provider of the foundation for SOA governance and business service lifecycle management. Founded in 2000, Systinet's award-winning, proven, and standards-based products enable IT organizations to rapidly leverage existing technology investments, provide interoperability between heterogeneous systems, and better align business processes with IT. Customers receive the benefits of a simpler, faster, standards-based way to dramatically improve IT responsiveness and technology asset reuse, while maximizing the ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). for SOA. Systinet's customer base of over 150 Global 2000 clients includes Amazon.com, BMC Software, Interwoven in·ter·weave v. in·ter·wove , in·ter·wo·ven , inter·weav·ing, inter·weaves v.tr. 1. To weave together. 2. To blend together; intermix. v.intr. , JP Morgan, Motorola, Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), and SAIC. Headquartered in Burlington, Mass., Systinet 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. with over 100 employees. www.systinet.com |
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