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WebLayers Introduces Industry’s First Enterprise-Class Platform for Policy-Based Governance

WebLayers Center Delivers Unprecedented Flexibility and Scalability for Enterprise IT Initiatives for Service Oriented Architecture, Outsourcing and Enterprise Systems Integration

Cambridge, MA, February 6, 2006 – WebLayers, the leading provider of policy-based governance solutions for strategic IT initiatives, today introduced WebLayers CenterTM, the industry’s first enterprise- class platform for policy-based governance that delivers unprecedented extensibility and scalability required for any strategic IT initiative such as Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), outsourcing/off- shoring and enterprise systems integration. WebLayers Center’s breakthrough, policy governance platform fully automates the creation, deployment, enforcement, and verification of policies for IT initiatives of any size for their entire life cycle and easily scales from individual projects to enterprise-wide deployments.

“Policy-based governance is the key to successful IT initiative,” said Irwin Wallach, CEO of WebLayers. ”WebLayers Center is the only enterprise-class governance platform that automates policy- based governance for every stage of a project that results in alignment with strategic business goals, minimization of implementation risks and meeting quality of service requirements.” WebLayers Center was built from the “ground-up” to address the need of providing an automated and extensible architecture for enterprise-wide visibility, control and verification of IT policy compliance. Key capabilities include:

• Enterprise Scalability: An innovative Dynamic Association Engine allows policies to be defined once and enforced anywhere, when needed and optimized for different use cases.
• Federation Architecture: Empowers individual organizations to independently develop projects in a timely manner, with the assurance of meeting overall enterprise IT compliance directives and goals.
• Full Life Cycle Support: Governance from inception through design, deployment and operations.
• Heterogeneous, Extensible and Automated Policy Platform: Automates the creation, deployment and enforcement of policies for most content types and IT entities that cut across the enterprise.

Broad-Based Governance Policies vs. Static Silo-Based Rules
Many governance solutions on the market today are only delivered as vendor-specific rules for their own proprietary product offerings. These rules have been built as an ad-hoc capability that applies only to their particular solution and for only a stage within the lifecycle. Not only does this create fragmented governance with heterogeneous systems, but it lacks unified policy enforcement and enterprise visibility and incurs significant cost of knowledge, maintenance and deployment.

By contrast, WebLayers Center was “purpose-built” to deliver a unified set of polices that can be automatically defined, deployed and enforced consistently for all IT entities across diverse organizations. This approach enables policy-based governance that spans the entire IT lifecycle process for any strategic initiative (e.g. SOA, Outsourcing, and Enterprise System Integration). The result is the ability to meet the urgent needs of individual lines of businesses that can align with corporate goals.

"Policy-based Governance is a critical component missing from most enterprises that are trying to align IT initiatives with their constantly shifting business goals." said Ronald Schmelzer, senior analyst at ZapThink. "WebLayers' solution surpasses most in their combination of significant experience, capabilities and pioneering technology to deliver enterprise-wide, policy-based governance solutions for these strategic initiatives."

WebLayers Center Platform-Solutions and Comprehensive, Integrated Capabilities
The WebLayers Center platform is organized into solution-specific products with a set of integrated tools, customized dashboards and policy libraries. This allows organizations to easily and automatically define, enforce and audit policy compliance for each IT initiative across the enterprise.

• WebLayers Center for SOA™: The pressure to get the job done by individual groups often undermines the ability to implement an enterprise-wide SOA implementation. Now, all organizations can successfully develop and deploy compliant reusable services which are key to a successful SOA implementation.
• WebLayers Center for Outsourcing™: Most organizations are utilizing outside resources to alleviate the cost pressures of building applications. Now, third-party development projects can be continuously monitored for policy conformance throughout their lifecycle so they are delivered on time, on budget and fully compliant.
• WebLayers Center for Enterprise Systems Integration™: Today’s corporate IT environments consist of a mesh of heterogeneous systems that are quite complex, if not impossible, to manage for consistent application integration. Now, organizations can ensure consistent interfaces, design conventions, and protocols between all systems (e.g. messaging, configuration standards, naming conventions, security, data structures, and more) in order to easily integrate XML, web services, legacy and B2B applications for these heterogeneous IT environments.

For each of these solutions the WebLayers Center platform leverages embedded, integrated capabilities that automate and simplify policy governance throughout the enterprise: For flexible and automated policy definition and deployment, WebLayers Policy Libraries allow non- technical and technical personnel to create a set of policies from a solution-specific library or import current policies that can be automatically and consistently deployed across diverse systems and organizations.

For central control and local policy enforcement, WebLayers Governors can be deployed to any IT entity to continuously monitor and control compliance to policies that are appropriate for that specific systems and its role within the IT project lifecycle. For in-depth auditing and compliance verification, WebLayers Dashboards provide extensive visibility and contextual reporting of compliance across the enterprise to verify and enforce policy conformance.

WebLayers Center features its powerful Dynamic Association Engine that automatically and transparently builds relationships among all objects and the infrastructure and automatically connects policies, projects, people, and systems throughout the project life cycle.

Pricing and Availability
Available immediately, WebLayers Center consists of servers, governors and libraries with server pricing starting at $150,000.

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 between its members. Today the Forum includes over 1,000 members representing more than 350 organizations.

A private company founded in 2002, WebLayers is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. For more information please visit www.weblayers.com.

Copyright 2007 WebLayers, Inc. All rights reserved. Information in this document is subject to change without notice. WebLayers Center, WebLayers Center for SOA, WebLayers Center for Outsourcing and WebLayers Center for Enterprise Services Integration are trademarks of WebLayers, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective companies.