BEA Systems
www.bea.com

BEA Systems, Inc. is a world leader in enterprise infrastructure software, helping enable companies to improve business responsiveness through service-oriented architecture (SOA), a software design approach that more closely aligns IT with business objectives. With 15,000 customers worldwide including the majority of the Fortune Global 500, BEA and its WebLogic(R) and Tuxedo(R) brands are among the most trusted names in business technology. Headquartered in San Jose, Calif., BEA has 75 offices in 36 countries. More information on BEA products and services is available at www.bea.com

HP
www.hp.com

At HP, we believe a Service-Oriented Architecture is essential in the journey to the Adaptive Enterprise - where business and IT are synchronized to capitalize on change. To help customers realize the advantages of SOA, we take an architectural, service-centric approach, providing SOA implementation planning, integration, and management. Our offerings include end-to-end SOA services, support for customer choice of middleware vendors, HP OpenView SOA Manager, and world-class server and storage products. Coupled with our expertise in open, standards-based, multiple-platform and heterogeneous operating environments, HP offerings enable customers to plan, build, and manage SOA implementations to meet their specific needs.

IBM
ibm.com/soa

IBM has led the information technology (IT) industry since it began, and we've seen it change countless times. In fact, we've often led those changes. Today, more and more customers are searching for ways to increase the flexibility of their business processes strengthen their underlying IT infrastructure and retain and reuse their existing assets.

Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) from IBM is the answer. It provides a flexible, robust infrastructure to model, assemble, deploy and manage business processes for today's on demand business environment. It's cost-effective, modular and scalable which means you can implement an end-to-end SOA solutions customized to your requirements, when you want and how you want.

ORACLE
www.oracle.com

Oracle's business is information - how to manage it, use it, share it, protect it. For nearly three decades, Oracle Corporation (Nasdaq: ORCL), the world's largest enterprise software company, has provided the software that lets organizations get the most up-to-date and accurate information from their business systems. For more information, visit www.oracle.com.

Softare AG
www.softwareagusa.com

Aligning people with the information they need, when and how they need it. That is the core of every Software AG solution. For over 35 years, Software AG has helped organizations develop and operate high-performance systems that are the lifeblood of their business. Today, we've expanded our offerings to ensure those systems are open, standards-based and flexible enough to support ever-changing business processes.

Areas of expertise include: legacy modernization, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Business Process Management (BPM).

Our crossvision(TM) suite enables the next generation of business solutions based on a new approach to SOA. crossvision, based on open standards, synchronizes business and IT goals so organizations can create new processes, quickly and cost effectively, while leveraging existing IT assets.

Software AG supports 3,000 customers in 70 countries around the world.

Active Grid
www.activegrid.com

ActiveGrid, the Enterprise LAMP company, provides a service-oriented application platform built on the lightweight architecture of the proven LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Python/Perl) software infrastructure stack. ActiveGrid Enterprise LAMP simplifies and speeds the development of service-oriented applications that weave together existing enterprise systems into new rich web applications and services. ActiveGrid Enterprise LAMP applications can be flexibly deployed on grids of commodity machines or at virtually any ISP.

Data Synapse
www.datasynapse.com

DataSynapse, Inc. is a global provider of virtual application infrastructure software. The company's flagship products, GridServer and FabricServer(TM), virtualize business-critical applications and adaptively provision them across a shared infrastructure. DataSynapse helps clients improve business agility while reducing the cost and complexity of their IT infrastructure. The company is headquartered in New York.

Layer 7 Technologies
www.layer7tech.com

Layer 7 Technologies (www.layer7tech.com) helps enterprises realize secure, cost-effective business integration using XML and Web services. The SecureSpan product suite governs and accelerates integrations that span security and identity domains without expensive and inflexible programming. Benefits include faster time-to-market, lowered integration costs and security consistency across federated departments and partners.

SOA Leaders
www.soaleaders.org

The SOA Leaders Council is a unique community of service-oriented architecture visionaries. IT executives share their experiences and expertise designing and implementing SOAs to both enrich and learn from their peers. Community members participate in regular in-person local meetings and benefit from hearing first-hand accounts of how others have addressed issues, deployed technology and generated business results. SOA Leaders has chapters throughout the US and in Europe. We welcome new members - please join us.

SOA Leaders Benefactors
AmberPoint - www.amberpoint.com
Parasoft - www.parasoft.com
Reactivity - www.reactivity.com
Systinet Corporation - www.systinet.com
ThoughtWorks - www.thoughtworks.com/us

SOA Software
www.soa.com

SOA Software is the leading provider of comprehensive enterprise-class SOA management, security, and governance solutions. SOA Software's products include the award winning Service Manager(TM), Registry(TM), XML VPN(TM), and SOLA(TM). Service Manager provides a high-performance, scalable SOA Management solution. XML VPN makes it easy for companies to securely publish B2B Web services for their partners to consume. SOA Software's UDDIv3 compliant Registry is the first product to integrate service discovery with policy and performance management. And SOLA is the only production proven mainframe Web services solution for CICS programmers. These enterprise-class products combine to create the only complete SOA Infrastructure solution available today. SOA Software is a privately held company backed by leading investors including Redpoint, Mellon Ventures, Palisades Ventures Fund and Paladin Capital Group.

Sonic Software
www.sonicsoftware.com

Sonic Software is the inventor and leading provider of the enterprise service bus (ESB), a new communication and integration infrastructure that supports the enterprise requirements of a service-oriented architecture (SOA). Sonic's technology delivers the scalability, security, continuous availability and management capabilities necessary to connect, integrate and control distributed, mission critical business processes. Over 1,000 customers use Sonic products to achieve broad-scale interoperability of IT systems and the flexibility to adapt these systems to ever-changing business needs.

Sonic Software is an operating company of Progress Software Corporation (Nasdaq: PRGS), a global software industry leader. Headquartered in Bedford, Mass., Sonic Software can be reached on the Web at www.sonicsoftware.com, or by phone at +1-781-999-7000 or 1-866-GET-SONIC.