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WebLayers Accepted Into IBM SOA Specialty

WebLayers Policy Infrastructure Complements IBM SOA Foundation

Cambridge, MA, October 11, 2006 – WebLayers, the leading provider of Policy Infrastructure for SOA Governance, today announced it has extended its relationship with IBM to capitalize on the rapid demand for SOA Governance solutions. IBM has designated WebLayers as a SOA Specialty partner after successfully completing IBM's rigorous SOA technical and business requirements.

SOA Governance requires the definition and enforcement of architectural standards and business policies to maintain order over the highly distributed nature of SOA. An effective SOA Governance solution consists of several components, including an independent policy infrastructure that interoperates with all of the systems across the SOA lifecycle. WebLayers Center is the Policy Infrastructure that enables you to define, enforce, and audit policies across the IBM SOA Foundation from design through deployment.

“WebLayers complements the role of the IBM SOA Foundation by providing the policy infrastructure necessary to implement SOA governance,” said Sandy Carter, IBM Vice President, SOA & WebSphere. “With broad support across the IBM product family, enterprises now have a comprehensive solution to govern and measure SOA initiatives”. Both companies have also co-authored a new whitepaper entitled “The Cornerstones of SOA Governance: Policies, Registries and Repositories.” To download please visit www.weblayers.com/cornerstones

“As enterprises rapidly evolve to SOA, they begin to understand the need for policy- based governance as a means to provide the visibility, control and verification necessary to achieve success,” said Gregg Bjork, CEO of WebLayers. “Our expanded partnership with IBM provides our joint customers a more complete solution to drive business results.”

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.