SOA Software Portfolio Manager Certified as "Powered by SAP NetWeaver(R)"

LOS ANGELES, CA, Oct 05 (MARKET WIRE) --
SOA Software today announced its Portfolio Manager 6.1 product has been
certified by SAP AG as "Powered by SAP NetWeaver(R)." The solution
provides Planning SOA governance to help ensure that customers are
exposing and consuming the right mission-critical enterprise services
with their SAP(R) solutions. See www.soa.com/sap for detailed information.

The SAP Integration and Certification Center has certified that SOA
Software Portfolio Manager 6.1 can be successfully deployed on the Java EE
5-based SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment (SAP NetWeaver CE) 7.1
component of the SAP NetWeaver technology platform to govern the
development of applications that exchange critical data with instances of
SAP Business Suite software.

"We are delighted to announce the successful achievement of 'Powered by
SAP NetWeaver' certification status for Portfolio Manager," said Roberto
Medrano, executive vice president of SOA Software. "The ability of
Portfolio Manager to help corporations determine the current state of
their services, identify what services they have and need to plan, and to
prioritize service development, will prove highly beneficial to current
and future SAP customers."

Portfolio Manager helps ensure the alignment of SOA Programs with
strategic IT investment and business objectives and make sure that
enterprises build the right services at the right time. Portfolio Manager
now allows customers to better leverage their existing investments in SAP
solutions to build enterprise services and applications that can
transform their business with SOA.

Portfolio Manager(TM) is SOA
Software's innovative Planning Governance product that helps ensure the
alignment of SOA Programs with strategic IT investment and business
objectives and makes sure that enterprises build the right services at
the right time. It helps customers identify candidate services and build
an SOA roadmap through SOA Modeling, Asset Identification, and a
Portfolio Management process. To achieve these goals Portfolio Manager
functions as part of a unified SOA Governance automation suite with
seamless integration with Repository Manager(TM) and Policy Manager(TM).

Key capabilities for Portfolio Manager include:

-- Delivers packaged SOA planning governance methods and governance
automation meta-models
-- Dynamically represents current and future architecture models based on
industry standards and internal definitions
-- Leverages APQC business process frameworks to promote compliance with
industry best practices
-- Provides existing system capability discovery and candidate service
identification
-- Provisions prioritized services into Repository Manager for
Development Governance Automation
-- Ensures that SOA portfolio management remains a continuous dynamic
process

Portfolio Manager Product implements a three-part process for
portfolio management:

SOA Modeling:

-- Model current and target architectures
-- Leverage industry best practice models including APQC
-- Import existing models
-- Integrate with existing modeling environments

Asset Identification

-- Identify assets from Governed Development Platforms and Governed
Service Platforms
-- Manage asset relationships

Portfolio Management

-- Identify candidate services

-- Prioritize service development

-- Enforce enterprise architecture planning policies

-- Create a service roadmap

-- Provision prioritized services into SOA Software's Repository Manager
for Development Governance Automation

About SOA Software

SOA Software is a leading provider of unified SOA Governance automation
products that enable organizations to successfully plan, build, and run
enterprise services. The world's largest companies including Bank of
America, Verizon, and Pfizer use SOA Software solutions to transform
their business. For more information, please visit http://www.soa.com.

SOA Software, Policy Manager, Portfolio Manager, Repository Manager,
Service Manager, and SOLA are trademarks of SOA Software, Inc.

SAP, SAP NetWeaver and all SAP logos are trademarks or registered
trademarks of SAP AG in Germany and in several other countries.

All other product and service names mentioned herein are the trademarks of
their respective owners.

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