June 27, 2007 11:49 ET

WebLayers Extends SOA Policy Management Across Oracle SOA Suite

Latest Release of WebLayers Center Helps Oracle Customers Automate SOA Governance to Reduce Cost and Risk

CAMBRIDGE, MA--(Marketwire - June 27, 2007) - WebLayers, the market leader for automated SOA Governance and member of the Oracle PartnerNetwork, today announced the industry's first solution for automated governance across the Oracle® SOA Suite, a complete set of service infrastructure components for building, deploying and managing SOAs.

WebLayers Center 4.0 automates SOA governance with the industry's only independent, cross-platform policy management solution. Based on the largest collection of pre-built policies, WebLayers' architecturally superior solution speeds governance implementation and enforcement from design-time to run-time. With today's announcement, WebLayers Center adds integration with Oracle Application Server, a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware, and Oracle Database. Additionally, new WebLayers Governors™ provide Oracle-specific policy enforcement and interoperability across the SOA lifecycle by directly supporting Oracle's SOA offering. The WebLayers Governors for Oracle SOA Suite announced today include:

--  WebLayers Governor for Oracle JDeveloper
--  WebLayers Governor for Oracle Service Registry
--  WebLayers Governor for Oracle Enterprise Service Bus
--  WebLayers Governor for Oracle Web Services Manager
    

"SOA policy management is a critical component to any SOA governance strategy and must be enforced throughout entire lifecycle," said L. Frank Kenney, research director at Gartner, Inc. "Strong governance, during both design time and runtime cycles, is an essential first step to ensure a successful SOA deployment."

WebLayers Center 4.0 is the only solution in the market that addresses policy management needs across the entire organization. To jumpstart SOA governance, WebLayers provides over 1,000 policies derived from field engagements, industry best practices, and standards bodies. The WebLayers SOA Policy Library covers all of the SOA layers including application code, services, messaging, user interface and business documents.

"With broad support across the Oracle product family, enterprises now have a comprehensive solution to govern and measure service-oriented architecture initiatives," said Gregg Bjork, CEO of WebLayers. "By providing continuous enforcement across the entire lifecycle, WebLayers provides the visibility to identify and resolve issues as they occur. Business and technical policies can be enforced in the design and development phase to provide the necessary guidance to get it right from day one."

Webcast to Highlight SOA Governance Solution

In support of today's announcement, WebLayers and Oracle will deliver a webcast titled "The Five Steps to Succeed with SOA Governance" on Wednesday, June 27th at 2:00 EDT. The Webcast features Dan Hynes, product manager at Oracle, and Guy Loewy, CTO of WebLayers. For registration information, please click on the following link: http://w.on24.com/r.htm?e=60950&s=1&k=F458E02E1D110F97C7FE31D9A474D115&partnerref=WLOR5

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 between its members. Today the Forum includes over 1,300 members representing more than 400 organizations.

A private company founded in 2002, WebLayers is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. For more information please visit http://www.weblayers.com

About the Oracle PartnerNetwork

Oracle PartnerNetwork is a global business network of more than 19,000 companies who deliver innovative software solutions based on Oracle software. Through access to Oracle's premier products, education, technical services, marketing and sales support, the Oracle PartnerNetwork program provides partners with the resources they need to be successful in today's global economy. Oracle partners are able to offer their customers leading-edge solutions backed by Oracle's position as the world's largest enterprise software company. Partners who are able to demonstrate superior product knowledge, technical expertise and a commitment to doing business with Oracle qualify for the Oracle Certified Partner levels. http://oraclepartnernetwork.oracle.com

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