Systinet to Participate in Service-Oriented Architecture Executive Forum Panel; InfoWorld Attendees to Benefit from Multiple Perspectives on Successful Large-Scale Web Services Deployments

Business Wire, May 4, 2005

BURLINGTON, Mass. -- Systinet, the leading software provider of the foundation for SOA governance and lifecycle management, today announced that its vice president of business development, Wendell Lansford is participating in a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Executive Forum Panel at this year's InfoWorld event in San Jose, Calif., on Thursday, May 5. Additionally, the company's founder and CSO, Roman Stanek, will be presenting at InfoWorld's New York event on Tuesday, May 17. Forum participants will discuss SOAs and their role in large-scale Web services deployment. Moderated by Phillip J. Windley, Associate Professor of Computer Science at Brigham Young University, the forums will explore how SOAs can help organizations take a unified approach to managing contracts from a business and technical perspective.

Each of the participants will bring their own insights and experience to the problem of how to offer Web services at scale. The forums will identify common roadblocks to a successful Web services rollout, and how automation and self-service can reduce the burden on IT resources. Additionally, the panelists will discuss the role of authentication and various methods to provisioning at scale. Panelists will also address anticipated changes in automated policy negotiation; XACML and other standards being developed in the federated identity space; and networked models.

Who: Company vice president of business development, Wendell Lansford, and Company founder and CSO, Roman Stanek

What: Will each participate in SOA Executive Forums entitled "Services and Contracts." Senior technologists and business decision-makers attending the forum will benefit from interactive panel discussions, presentations, expert advice, and hard-won lessons from customers currently using a service-oriented architecture. The Services and Contracts event is a business track that will provide attendees with valuable insights into successful large-scale Web service deployments, as well as future considerations, such as account provisioning, automation and self-service, partner and supplier relationships, and emerging standards.

When: Thursday, May 5 at 11:00-11:50 a.m. PST in San Jose, CA; Wednesday, May 17, at 11:00-11:50 a.m. EST in New York.

Where: Fairmont Hotel, San Jose, Calif.; Le Parker Meridien, New York.

About Systinet

Systinet provides the leading foundation for SOA governance and lifecycle management. Global 2000 companies in Financial Services, Pharmaceutical, Telecommunications, and Government markets are in a continual state of business change involving people, processes, and technologies. As a result, their IT organizations are challenged to enable a standards-based service oriented architecture (SOA) that can rapidly manage change and scale IT with the demands of the business. Systinet leads the market in providing the core foundation for a standards-based SOA. Systinet customers receive the benefits of a simpler, faster, standards-based way to achieve dynamic business interoperability that dramatically improvements IT responsiveness, technology asset reuse, and lowers the risks of "un-realized" SOA ROI. Over 100 global 2000 clients rely on Systinet, include Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN), BMC Software (NYSE: BMC), Interwoven (Nasdaq: IWOV), JP Morgan (NYSE: JPM), Motorola (NYSE: MOT), Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), and SAIC. Headquartered in Cambridge, MA, Systinet is a privately held company with over 100 employees.