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February 06, 2006
iWay Announces Comprehensive SOA Integration Suite
iWay Software announced iWay SOA Middleware, a comprehensive enterprise
integration product suite that enables customers to make their entire
IT infrastructure more open, more flexible and more easily aligned
with business requirements. iWay Software is in a unique position to
address the fundamental problem of integration -- creating and
maintaining service interfaces to disparate systems in technical
environments. iWay SOA Middleware will help organizations eliminate the
complexity associated with service-oriented architecture deployments
and leverage existing IT investments to create powerful, reusable
business services through the market's most economical integration
offering. Forward-thinking organizations, including Coty Inc.,
Novelis and S. Abraham & Sons Inc., are unlocking the potential
of SOA for business intelligence, supply-chain management, procurement,
compliance and more, while fulfilling integration's promise to drive
corporate performance to the next level.
"iWay Software has been an integral part of our business for nearly
five years, providing our organization with cost-effective integration
solutions designed to address our specific business and IT
infrastructure needs," commented Bo Foster, director of corporate IT
and eCommerce of Novelis. "iWay's ability to combine systems and
critical business data without the distraction of proprietary
technology concerns eliminates any administrative burden, saving
valuable time and resources. With iWay Software as a key application
integration partner, we are confident any integration challenge can be
handled with their commitment to making integration simple and
painless."
iWay SOA
Middleware will help organizations adopt standards without being
limited to them. iWay SOA Middleware will, for example, enables
organizations to use the same service as a Web service and through
proprietary middleware offerings. iWay Software's emphasis on
interoperability will also avoid the need for additional proprietary
infrastructure frequently required by other vendor offerings. By
exploiting existing infrastructure and providing reusable business
services, enterprises can immediately improve business processes,
enabling more streamlined and more intelligent processes as well as the
ability to scale to more users. The new integration suite addresses the
entire application life cycle for packaged, custom and composite
applications, offering a single integration platform that combines
business process, user interaction, application integration and data
integration services. The product will be further developed by iWay's
new SOA solutions division.
"iWay Software has been an innovator in the integration market for quite a while," said Michael Kuhbock, chairman of the Integration Consortium. "They understand something the Integration Consortium has been emphasizing -- that technology has to serve the business to deliver real value and be effective for enterprises. They have helped many organizations around the world impact business processes and save money by linking existing data, applications, and environments with new systems and applications. With the launch of iWay SOA Middleware, iWay is committed to help organizations understand how SOA can build long-term sustainable business benefits, deliver a strategic integration infrastructure for their customers, and leverage their integration expertise to simplify SOA for resource constrained organizations."
Specific product components include:
- iWay Service Manager -- a highly scalable enterprise service bus, with fully integrated service design-time workbench and Web services creation/deployment capabilities.
- iWay Service Monitor -- provides service monitoring capabilities for business services implemented using iWay Service Manager.
- iWay Service Policy Manager -- implements usage and security policy management for business services implemented using iWay Service Manager.
- iWay Process Manager -- BPEL-based business process management tool designed to streamline workflows created using iWay business services.
- iWay Trading Manager -- lightweight partner agreement manager, fully integrated with iWay Service Manager.
- iWay Enterprise Index -- extends the easy-to-use keyword search capability of the Google Search Appliance to ERP systems, databases, messages, business processes, middleware and B2B interactions.
"We are excited about the new product developments happening at iWay
Software," said David Berry, global CIO of Coty Inc. "The company's
commitment to aggressively addressing our most complex integration
challenges has made all the difference in how we have shaped our IT and
business processes for organizational growth."
According to a recent report by Aberdeen Group, over the next five
years, SOA will enable $53 billion in savings for large companies. iWay
Software's commitment to helping organizations realize such savings is
demonstrated through the company's recent admission to the Eclipse
Foundation, an open source community dedicated to the implementation of
a universal development platform.
"Integration is always the biggest headache for customers as they
build and maintain complex IT systems that impact critical business
operations," said John Senor, president of iWay Software. "iWay
Software has approached integration in the same way since the company
was founded five years ago, addressing the most complex nuances of
enterprise integration while other vendors shy away from the heavy
lifting. With the launch of iWay SOA Middleware, we are extending our
commitment to making integration simple, pain-free and low cost."
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