SOA Software Service Manager Wins 2005 Testers Choice Award for Web Services; Software Test and Performance Magazine Subscribers Choose Service Manager as the Best Web Services Test Tool

Business Wire, Nov 21, 2005

SANTA MONICA, Calif. -- SOA Software, the leading provider of comprehensive SOA and Web services management, security and governance solutions, today announced that its flagship Service Manager(TM) product has won the 2005 Web Services Test Tool Testers Choice Award from Software Test and Performance Magazine. The Testers Choice Awards, conducted annually by the magazine, recognizes the best software test and performance tools on the market today within respective categories. Software Test and Performance Magazine subscribers picked Service Manager because of its technical strength and wide deployment.

Lindsey Vereen, editor of Software Test and Performance Magazine, said, "Quality assurance tools and the experts who wield them are key to providing us with the highest-quality software. So when experts select their tools of choice, it is an honor for the tool providers. The Testers Choice Awards represent a significant mark of distinction for tools that help assure software quality."

Service Manager is the only product on the market today that provides comprehensive SOA Infrastructure for Web services management -- including testing, security and governance. The product delivers the capability to secure, monitor and manage XML and Web services applications and components across distributed enterprise and extranet environments. Service Manager has been widely deployed in Fortune 500 and large global organizations to help facilitate the agile enterprise. SOA Software developed the product to deliver an SOA Infrastructure that provides consistent centralized management of distributed architectures.

"This award shows our continued leadership of the SOA Infrastructure marketplace and validates the strength and completeness of our company's solutions," said Roberto Medrano, executive vice president of marketing at SOA Software. "We have built exceptional technology that meets the needs of our discerning enterprise customers and are happy to be recognized by the market for our accomplishments."

About SOA Software

SOA Software is the leading provider of comprehensive enterprise-class SOA security, management and governance solutions. SOA Software's products include the award winning Service Manager(TM), Registry and XML VPN. Service Manager, proven to handle 1,000,000,000 Web service transactions per hour, is the only product on the market that secures, monitors and manages XML and Web services. The XML VPN makes it easy for companies to securely publish Web services for their partners to consume. It ensures the usability, security and reliability of Web services, allowing partners to create new business models. SOA Software's UDDIv3 compliant Registry is the first product to integrate service discovery with policy and performance management. These products combine to create the only complete SOA Infrastructure solution available today. SOA Software is a privately held company backed by leading investors including Redpoint, Mellon Ventures, Palisades Ventures Fund and Paladin Capital Group. For more information, please visit www.soa.com.

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