Infravio X-Registry Ranked #1 in SOA Governance

Business Wire, Jan 30, 2006

CUPERTINO, Calif. -- Infravio, Inc., the SOA Governance Company, today announced that Infravio X-Registry Platform(TM), the company's award-winning Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Governance solution, has received the highest rating of any SOA Governance solution reviewed by InfoWorld Labs. According to the reviewing analyst, "X-Registry performs yeoman service as a registry and gets high marks for being tailored to tasks of SOA governance. ...More importantly, the product shows the maturity one would expect in a UDDI-compliant registry that's been through several iterations."

Published on January 19, 2006, and entitled "Exclusive: Infravio Brings Structure to Unwieldy SOA," the InfoWorld review notes that X-Registry "equips users with an impressive level of control." The review spotlights X-Registry's use of contracts, stating "X-Registry stands out in its use of contracts to codify the run-time relationship between the service provider and consumer." InfoWorld also cites the value of the X-Registry UI, which "allows business-line users to manage (contracts) and thus govern the usage of services for the business. These capabilities will prove crucial to organizations that want to do more than play around with Web services."

X-Registry received an overall score of "Very Good" and is summarized in the review as "a solid platform for publishing, finding, and controlling availability of Web services. The coupling of a sophisticated access control system and a rules engine give organizations the flexibility they need to automate SOA governance."

Srinivas Balasubramanian, founder and CEO of Infravio, said, "SOA represents the greatest transformation in enterprise IT in recent years. Delivering software and applications as services lets IT externalize fast-changing business requirements as metadata policies and contracts, while insulating its core IT services. We've invested X-Registry with over 150 person-years of real-world experience in advanced SOA projects, and the InfoWorld review is a welcome confirmation of X-Registry's superiority as an SOA Governance solution."

For the complete review, please visit http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/01/19/73914_04TCinfravio_1.html.> For 25 years, InfoWorld Media Group has provided cutting-edge coverage and evaluation of IT products and services for technology experts in senior management. Through integrated channels including print, online, events, and demand generation, InfoWorld reaches the most influential senior-level information technologists -- those who drive their enterprises' strategies and technology purchases. Powered by a continued investment in an independent Test Center, InfoWorld analysts and editors provide both hands-on analysis and evaluation, as well as expert commentary on issues surrounding emerging technologies and products. Visit InfoWorld at http://www.infoworld.com.

About Infravio, Inc.

Infravio, Inc. is a leading provider of SOA Governance solutions, based on open software and standards. Founded in 1999, Infravio has deep expertise through award-winning Fortune 1000 customer projects. Infravio X-Registry Platform(TM) provides SOA builders with visualization, design time, run time, and change governance across the lifecycle. It features the patent pending Service Delivery Contracts(TM) to improve the configurability and agility of services. Headquartered in Cupertino, California, Infravio is backed by venture capital firms, Walden International and Crystal Ventures, as well as NetIQ Corp. (Nasdaq:NTIQ). For more information, please call 1-408-861-3000, email info@infravio.com, or visit http://www.infravio.com.

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