Department of Defense Selects WebLayers to Provide Governance of Net-Centric Enterprise Services Initiative; WebLayers Center to provide Governance for XML, Web Services and SOA

Business Wire, April 12, 2005

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- WebLayers, Inc., the leading provider of policy-driven Governance solutions for XML, Web Services and Service Oriented Architecture, today announced that the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) has selected WebLayers Center(TM) to provide Governance and Compliance for the Net-Centric Enterprise Services (NCES) initiative. WebLayers' advanced Governance technologies will be the cornerstone in establishing a strong Governance program to assist DISA in ensuring that all of the Net-Centric program initiatives adhere to the policies that will be established by DISA and many other agencies for the DoD development community.

WebLayers Center will enable DISA to dramatically cut integration costs and project timelines, ensure that all integration efforts are aligned around DISA's operational requirements, and support the DoD's mission of net-centric operations. This will also enable DISA for the first time to automate and distribute policies to other agencies for consideration and implementation in order to increase inter-agency interoperability and data access. WebLayers will also be used to specifically govern distributed UDDI registries to ensure that all XML artifacts published, consumed and operated are in full compliance with the DoD's enterprise policies.

Prior to selecting WebLayers, DISA conducted detailed market and technology reviews and evaluation. The extensive review process and evaluation covered key areas including policy management, conformance automation, SOA integration, registry (UDDI) governance, enforcement, and administrative reporting and control. WebLayers delivers all of these capabilities with its WebLayers Center platform, a patent-pending enterprise system optimized to provide Governance of XML, Web Services, and SOA.

"The DoD's selection of WebLayers is a testament to the capabilities and benefits of our unique technology as well as a significant business milestone," said Motti Vaknin, President and Chief Executive Officer of WebLayers. "It is also a strong indication of the critical need for policy-driven Governance as a means of mitigating the complexities and risks associated with XML, Web Services and Service Oriented Architecture."

About WebLayers, Inc.

WebLayers is pioneering the market for Governance of XML, Web Services, and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). A private company founded in 2002 with venture capital backing, WebLayers is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

WebLayers Center, the company's flagship product, is deployed with Fortune 500 companies and Government Agencies who are using it to define their enterprise polices, detect, analyze, and ensure conformance and to govern their SOA implementation. WebLayers Center's design is based on WebLayers' patent-pending technology for Governance and Conformance of XML and Web Services in Service Oriented Architecture.

WebLayers is the founder and coordinator of The SOA Forum, an exclusive roundtable for Fortune 500 and Government enterprise architects and IT executives. Current members include over 280 senior IT executives and enterprise architects from companies including Merrill Lynch, GE, Procter & Gamble, AT&T, Morgan Stanley, Fidelity Investments, Credit Suisse First Boston, Motorola, Staples, Bank of America, Wachovia Corporation, DISA, OSD/NII, SAIC, BAE Systems and others. For more information about the SOA Forum, see www.weblayers.com/theSOAforum.> WebLayers is also a member of AFEI (Association for Enterprise Integration), WS-I (Web Services Interoperability Organization), and OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards).

For more information about WebLayers, please visit www.weblayers.com