Blue Titan Attains ''Powered by SAP NetWeaver®'' Certification; Blue Titan Network Director™ is One of the First SOA Infrastructure Software Solutions to Achieve this Certification

Business Wire, Jan 23, 2006

SAN FRANCISCO -- Blue Titan Software(R): The Services Networking Company(TM), today announced it has attained "Powered by SAP NetWeaver(R)" certification for its Blue Titan Network Director(TM) 3.5 product. Network Director support for the SAP NetWeaver Application Server (SAP NetWeaver AS) Release 6.40 and SAP NetWeaver Portal components are enabled with the certification. Network Director and SAP NetWeaver enable organizations to accelerate their adoption of SAP's Enterprise Services Architecture (ESA) by providing complementary functionality in the form of intelligent routing of XML/SOAP messages and mitigation of incompatibilities within and across service-oriented architectures (SOA). Companies can now more easily mediate, virtualize, and enforce policy in their SAP NetWeaver-based SOAs in an environment that encourages service sharing by being tolerant of change and embracing diversity.

Service sharing, enabled through loose coupling, is the foundation for SOA-related benefits -- operational agility, lower IT costs, and reduced time-to-market for new applications. Creation and use of a network of services effectively moves application functionality onto the services network and facilitates widespread service sharing. This makes it possible to align IT according to changing business needs.

Blue Titan Network Director is infrastructure software that enables the construction of services networks. A services network is a loosely coupled network of service providers, service consumers, and Network Director Control Points -- Blue Titan's implementation of network intermediaries. Network Director Control Points intelligently route XML/SOAP traffic, enforce policy, and mediate run-time concerns across heterogeneous environments. This decoupling of business logic from the underlying infrastructure creates SOA-based solutions that are tolerant and inclusive, and amplify the sharing and consumption of services.

"The adoption of industry-accepted standards and assurances regarding discrete cross-product interoperability are critical to most enterprises evaluating technologies to incorporate into an SOA," said Sandra Rogers, IDC Program Director of SOA, Web services, and Integration research. "Efforts such as those undertaken by Blue Titan and SAP to build, test, and certify specific interoperability should help organizations address some of the technical challenges of bringing together a multi-vendor SOA environment."

Blue Titan customer, British American Tobacco, has ambitious plans for SAP NetWeaver components as part of its worldwide SOA-based procurement solution. SAP NetWeaver AS has become the standard application server, and SAP NetWeaver Portal will be implemented as a portal throughout the enterprise.

"With Network Director becoming 'Powered by SAP NetWeaver', we are now able to more effectively govern run-time infrastructure concerns of our Enterprise Services Architecture deployment," said Gavin Targonski, Technical Architect with British American Tobacco. "Blue Titan's services networking approach, with its powerful mediation capabilities, policy enforcement, and intelligent routing of messages, makes it possible for us to maximize service sharing and improve the economics of our global-scale SOA deployment."

"As SAP customers like British American Tobacco begin deploying ESA enterprise-wide, they will need a flexible SOA environment that embraces a diversity of IT products and technologies and tolerates frequent business change," said Blue Titan CEO Frank Martinez. "Network Director's unique capabilities provide customers with the ability to achieve optimal levels of services sharing and quickly amplify the value of their ESA deployment."

About Blue Titan Software, Inc.

Blue Titan Software -- The Services Networking Company -- helps enterprises deploy and manage their service-oriented architectures by enabling IT to control, share and scale services and applications. Business innovation can therefore be driven across the distributed enterprise in a timely, manageable, and future-ready manner. Founded in 2001 by enterprise software veterans, renowned business technologists and leading investors, Blue Titan Software is headquartered in San Francisco, CA. Global 1000 customers include British American Tobacco, Pfizer, and Yahoo!. For more information, please visit www.bluetitan.com.

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