CAMBRIDGE, MA -- 01/04/08 --
WebLayers(TM) Inc., the market leader
for
automated Service
Oriented Architecture (SOA) governance, announced today that it has
been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the visionaries quadrant in the "Magic
Quadrant for Integrated SOA Governance Technology Sets, 2007" report(1).
According to the Gartner report, "Good governance of an SOA is now becoming
a critical core competency... The market for SOA governance is a varied
one, with many different types of products providing support for governing
the behavior of an SOA. In short, SOA governance is about ensuring and
validating that assets and artifacts within the architecture are operating
as expected and maintaining a certain level of quality. This Magic Quadrant
reduces the market to one set of technologies with strong architectural
cohesion (integration) promoting ease of use and interoperability of
products."
Gregg Bjork, CEO of WebLayers, believes that WebLayers' singular focus on
automating SOA Governance through Policy Management has provided a
significant advantage to its customers.
"We are proud to be recognized in the visionaries quadrant in the Gartner
Magic Quadrant on SOA Governance Technology Sets," said Bjork. "2008 is the
year of Policy Management as the mainstream market begins to understand the
critical importance of a vendor-neutral, independent Policy Management
solution that starts in design-time and is enforced consistently throughout
the entire lifecycle."
In an earlier Gartner report(2), Gartner stated, "Governance is a larger
issue than just operational management through registries or policy or
quality assurance. However, the market growth has most often occurred
around these specific technology capabilities. Customers seeking to start
an SOA project should demand that potential vendors demonstrate support for
registry/repository and policy management, at a minimum, to ensure
proactive governance of service can begin at project inception."
About WebLayers
WebLayers is the market leader for automated SOA governance. WebLayers
Center, the company's flagship product, is a policy management solution
that automates what has traditionally been a manual, labor-intensive
process of enforcing governance policies. In use today at many of the
world's largest companies and government agencies, WebLayers Center is the
only solution to ensure compliance throughout the lifecycle which provides
the necessary visibility and guidance to govern effectively. WebLayers is
also the founder and coordinator of The SOA Forum, an industry roundtable
of executives who are mandated with the challenging mission of driving a
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) within their organizations. The SOA
Forum is celebrating over three years of successful and interactive
collaboration among its members. Today the Forum includes over 1,500
members representing more than 450 organizations. A private company founded
in 2002, WebLayers is headquartered in Cambridge, Mass. For more
information please visit http://www.weblayers.com
About the Magic Quadrant
The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2007 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with
permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a
marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's
analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that
marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor,
product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise
technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders"
quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is
not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all
warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including
any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
WebLayers and WebLayers Center are trademarks of WebLayers Inc. in the
United States and other countries. All other trademarks contained herein
are the property of their respective owners.
(1) Gartner Research "Magic Quadrant For Integrated SOA Governance
Technology Sets, 2007" by F. Kenney and D. Plummer, Dec. 31, 2007.
(2) Gartner Research "Evaluating IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and SAP Commitment
to SOA Governance" by F. Kenney and D. Plummer, Oct. 4, 2007.
For information, contact:
Michelle G. Faulkner
Big Swing Communications
michelle@bigswingcomm.com
1-617-510-6998
