SOA Software and Solidsoft announced the appointment of Solidsoft as Consulting Partner and Value Added Reseller for SOA Software's suite of products.

SOA Software is recognized by its customers for providing enterprise-class, platform-independent, integrated SOA Governance automation solutions. The company's products provide comprehensive, centralized SOA planning, lifecycle and operational governance automation through a single integrated solution. SOA Software is focused exclusively on enterprise SOA, delivering a fully integrated set of standards-based, high-performance products.

According to Gartner, "Most SOA Governance Technologies are not integrated into one suite but are provided from very different technology code bases. Policy management and enforcement engines seldom share the same integrated code base as registries and repositories."  In addition, the report states that, "Gartner evaluates technology providers on their ability to convincingly articulate their current and future market direction, innovation, customer needs and competitive forces and how well these map to the Gartner position."  

"We are excited to be able to bring SOA Software's products to the UK," comments Solidsoft's CEO, Garth Pickup. "For a long time we have been advocating the need for design time governance to our customers as they seek to maximise the ROI from their SOA investments. With SOA Software's Workbench and Service Manager, our customers get the powerful ability to monitor and enforce in run time the policies and SLAs defined during development."

Paul Gigg, CEO of SOA Software, comments, "Solidsoft is a great addition to our partner community. They not only bring local support and consultancy services to our UK customers but they are already known for excellence in their field."

"At Microsoft we are always pleased to see our partners get together to bring extra value to our mutual customers," says Clive Donaghue, Solution Channel Development Manager for SOA and BPM, Microsoft UK. "It is particularly exciting to see SOA Software and Solidsoft building momentum for the Microsoft BPM Alliance."