WebLayers to Sponsor InfoWorld SOA Executive Forum, Nov. 7-8 in New York City

Market Wire, November, 2007

WebLayers (TM) Inc., the market leader for automated Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) governance , announced today that it is sponsoring the InfoWorld SOA Executive Forum , taking place Nov. 7-8 in New York City. InfoWorld's ninth SOA Executive Forum is expected to provide fresh insight into best practices to build Service Oriented Architectures that scale to meet the needs of dynamic enterprises. Interactive sessions will highlight key planning and implementation issues, while real-world case studies reveal proven solutions for the most challenging aspect of SOA implementations: Governance.

WebLayers' customer to present

Leading industry experts and Fortune 500 end users will share their experiences from best-laid SOA plans to successful implementation and governance, with all of the detours, challenges and lessons learned in the process. One of those speakers is a WebLayers customer, a financial services firm whose Global CTO will present a keynote session titled, "A Strategic Approach to Ensuring SOA Delivers," which will highlight the firm's use of WebLayers Center for automation of its SOA Governance initiative.

"Achieving return on SOA investments is top-of-mind for senior technology strategists," said Gregg Bjork, CEO of WebLayers. "As we have seen with our growing customer base, automating SOA Governance is viewed as the most critical piece needed to deliver that return."

About WebLayers

WebLayers is the market leader for automated SOA governance. WebLayers Center, the company's flagship product, is a policy management solution that automates what has traditionally been a manual, labor-intensive process of enforcing governance policies. In use today at many of the world's largest companies and government agencies, WebLayers Center is the only solution to ensure compliance throughout the lifecycle which provides the necessary visibility and guidance to govern effectively. WebLayers is also the founder and coordinator of The SOA Forum, an industry roundtable of executives who are mandated with the challenging mission of driving a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) within their organizations. The SOA Forum is celebrating over three years of successful and interactive collaboration among its members. Today the Forum includes over 1,500 members representing more than 450 organizations. A private company founded in 2002, WebLayers is headquartered in Cambridge, Mass. For more information please visit http://www.weblayers.com

WebLayers and WebLayers Center are trademarks of WebLayers Inc. in the United States and other countries. All other trademarks contained herein are the property of their respective owners.

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