SOA Software is a company that offers a complete Integrated SOA Governance Automation solution addressing SOA security and management together with Legacy and B2B Web services requirements. SOA Software’s Repository Manager, Policy Manager, and Service Manager combine to form a comprehensive Integrated SOA Governance Automation solution, with SOLA providing a governable Mainframe SOA platform.

Value Proposition
Customers use SOA Software products to accelerate their adoption of SOA. The company’s products provide a comprehensive Integrated SOA Governance Automation solution. They offer lifecycle governance, security, management and mediation of SOA, ensuring the security, reliability, performance and ease of development of service-oriented business applications. The company provides a scalable solution for platform-independent Integratd SOA Governance Automation, the critical element enabling large customers to connect and control SOA platform components from multiple vendors. SOA Software’s products allow ESB platforms from other vendors to be “governable.”

SOLA is a complete mainframe Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) solution. SOLA solves today’s most critical problem, making mainframe applications part of an SOA in a cost effective manner. SOLA provides customers with a fast and easy process to expose mainframe applications as secure Web Services, and allows mainframe applications to consume Web Services. Using SOLA, customers can leverage billions of dollars of existing mainframe investments when building an enterprise SOA. The SOLA runtime environment runs entirely on the mainframe, eliminating the need for expensive, unreliable and unnecessary middleware. This, coupled with SOLA’s Development Studio, vastly increases developer productivity, providing faster time to market and lower application development cost.  The combination of a highly optimized runtime, no middleware and improved productivity provide the lowest Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) in the industry.

Service Manager is a SOA management and security product. It follows the SOA Infrastructure Reference Model delivering comprehensive standards-based security, routing, mediation, monitoring, and management for SOA and Web services.

Service Manager is deployed together with Policy Manager providing the industry’s broadest and deepest SOA Management and SOA Security solution. It implements and enforces policies from Policy Manager, and generates usage, performance and policy compliance metrics that it reports to Policy Manager to enable a closed-loop process for auditing that policies are being correctly enforced.

Policy Manager (formerly Workbench) is a comprehensive SOA Policy Governance Automation solution offering governance process and collaboration capabilities to instill consistency and accountability and encourage desired behavior.

Policy Manager can be deployed stand-alone providing powerful SOA Governance Automation capabilities with built-in lifecycle policy enforcement and operational policy management. It integrates seamlessly with SOA Software’s Repository Manager for comprehensive metadata management, and can also be deployed with SOA Software’s Service Manager, or any other standards-based SOA Operational Governance Automation solution, to deliver comprehensive Integrated SOA Governance Automation infrastructure.

SOAWorld Magazine’s “SOA World Magazine Readers’ Choice Awards”
SOA World Magazine announced that nominations are now open for the SOA World Magazine Readers' Choice Awards, which recognize excellence in the software, solutions, or services provided by the industry's top vendors. SYS-CON's Readers' Choice Awards, also known as the "Oscars of the Software Industry," has been one of the most prestigious industry award programs for more than a decade. This year's SOA awards will be given in 19 categories and the award-winning products and services will be selected by SOA World Magazine readers. Winners will be announced at the SOA World Conference & Expo 2008 East, June 23-24 in New York City.

Service-oriented architectures have evolved over the past few years out of the original vision of loosely coupled Web services replacing constrained, stovepiped applications throughout enterprise IT. Every major enterprise technology vendor today has developed its own SOA strategy, supported by innumerable mid-size companies and start-ups offering specific SOA aspects or entire solutions.

Nominated Products and Services by Category: 

• Best App Server
• Best Automation Tool
• Best BPM Engine
• Best Framework
• Best IDE
• Best Integration Tool
• Best Legacy Adapter
• Best Open Source SOA Tool
• Best Portal Platform
• Best Security Solution
• Best SOA or XML Site
• Best SOA or XML Training
• Best SOA Platform
• Best SOA Testing Tool
• Best SOA Tool
• Best SOA/Web Services Book
• Best Web Services Utility
• Best XML Database
• Best XML Parser

SOA World Conference & Expo 2007 Sponsors
In 2007, SOA World Conference & Expo was sponsored by the world’s leading SOA companies including Active Endpoints, BEA Systems, Laszlo Systems, Nexaweb, TIBCO Software, WSO2, IBM, Parasoft, webMethods, Sybase, B-hive, iTKO, Managed Methods, Mellanox Technologies, Nastel, NextAxiom, RingCube, Two Roads Professional Resources, Web Age Solutions, Solstice Software, Fiorano Software, iTKO, Layer 7 Technologies, PushToTest, Ruby on Gears, Farata Systems, Tenfold, Thinstall, Trivera Technologies, BZMedia, Extension Media, GoingToMeet, ITtoolbox, Methods & Tools, SDTimes, Software Test & Performance, TechTracker Media, ZapThink, OASIS, and SOA Consortium.