Company

• Overview
• Management Team
• Strategic Advisory Board
• Investors
• Analyst Coverage
• Press Releases
• Events
• In the News
• Careers
• Contact

Press Releases

WebLayers Announces New White Paper Promoting Policy-Based Governance for the Enterprise

Contends That “Without Policies, There Is No Governance.”

Cambridge, MA, May 16, 2006 – WebLayers, the leading provider of policy-based governance solutions for strategic IT initiatives, today announced availability of its new white paper, Policy-Based Governance for the Enterprise.

Policy-Based Governance for the Enterprise contends that the rise of Policy-Based Governance is the result of the proliferation of heterogeneous and highly distributed computing infrastructures that make it impossible for IT leadership to exert the kind of control and influence over the work necessary to support the business. IT is being tasked with supporting new business initiatives without the ability to enforce the policies that have been established to ensure their implementation; as a result IT is literally “flying blind,”—investing millions of dollars in one-off projects that do not add to the enterprise IT assets of the company.

"WebLayers understands that SOA Governance is far more than the governance of an SOA initiative," said Jason Bloomberg, Senior Analyst, ZapThink. "In fact, SOA governance involves applying policies throughout the lifecycle of any strategic IT initiative for any company leveraging SOA to provide greater business agility. WebLayers' approach to policy-based governance enables companies to achieve their agility goals, while ensuring that corporate policies are communicated and followed throughout the IT lifecycle.”

Policy-based Governance includes the following basic elements:

Set Enterprise Policies: Companies need the ability to associate their business policies, technical policies and actual implementation in a transparent fashion. Policies set the goals that organizations use to direct and measure success. Auditing & Conformance: Policies should not be left to documentation. Policies should be an active part of the operations of companies. Following the policy definition stage, policies should be put to work to detect, analyze, and audit compliance. This process should be integrated with the design, development, deployment and operation of Services in an efficient and transparent manner. IT Developers, Architects, and Project Teams need the ability to conform to policies through an automated system that will enable them to easily trace and address noncompliance. Management: Track, Review and Approve: Once policies are defined and conformance processes are in place, decision makers need to govern the implementation, encourage reusability, manage collaboration processes, and improve business metrics. These outcomes are the true value of integration.

“CIO’s and IT leadership are challenged every day to support strategic business initiatives that are critical to the success of their companies and that often requires some change within the infrastructure and applications of their IT resources in order to rapidly and effectively respond to the demands of the business,” said Irwin Wallach, CEO of WebLayers. “We believe IT organizations can achieve the best of both worlds by delivering systems that support the short-term needs of the business while building a foundation for policy-based governance that can be easily leveraged for its on-going and future needs. Because quite frankly, without policies there is no governance.”

WebLayers Center, the industry’s first enterprise-class, “purpose-built” platform for policy-based governance delivers a unified set of policies 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. The result is the ability to meet the urgent needs of individual lines of businesses that can align with corporate goals.

Policy-Based Governance for the Enterprise Whitepaper is available at: http://www.weblayers.com/collateral.htm

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.