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Integrates Service Lifecycle Governance and SOA Quality to Ensure Service Trust, Reuse and Agility

PITTSBURGH & HOLLIS, N.H.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 26, 2007--LogicLibrary® Inc., the leader in SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) governance and software reuse, together with Mindreef®, Inc., the leader in SOA Quality software solutions for the successful development and testing of Web services and SOA, today announced a strategic partnership. The companies are integrating LogicLibrary's Logidex™ SDA (Software Development Asset) governance hub with Mindreef’s SOA Quality platform, SOAPscope Server™ with Mindreef Policy Rules Manager™, to provide customers with an end-to-end SOA governance and testing solution. This optimal combination extends governance from Enterprise Architecture and SOA technical policy definition through the service Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) to deployment, incorporating powerful service policy validation and test automation at customer-designated points in the service lifecycle.

Logidex is a best-of-breed architectural and SDA lifecycle governance hub that enables customers to integrate SDA processes within the SOA service lifecycle in conjunction with related SOA governance tools. “Our customers will have high confidence in their SOA Service quality with the combined expertise and capabilities provided by LogicLibrary and Mindreef,” said Don Imhoff, LogicLibrary president. “Combining Logidex’s best-of-breed service lifecycle governance capabilities with Mindreef’s policy validation and test automation capabilities will allow our customers to be better able to improve SOA quality early in the service SDLC, thereby reducing costs and increasing service stability and trust.”

Mindreef SOAPscope Server is a team-based platform for assuring SOA quality, with always-on tools for SOA testing, diagnostics, governance and support. With SOAPscope Server, service teams can leverage robust features while collaborating to improve overall SOA quality, including Web services testing and QA, design-time support, prototyping, change-time support, run-time support, load testing and policy compliance validation. Mindreef Policy Rules Manager is an add-on capability to SOAPscope Server 6.0 for policy authoring and validation of services, which allows teams to translate best practices into rules and validate them automatically as service designers create new services. Through the integration between SOAPscope Server with Policy Rules Manager and Logidex, service consumers can realize greater confidence and trust in the services they are using and service producers gain increased visibility into how the services are being used.

“A successful, agile SOA requires both governance and quality – especially as services are consumed by more than one composite application, making the requirements for high quality and performance of each service even more critical,” said Frank Grossman, co-founder and CTO of Mindreef. “We’re pleased to partner with LogicLibrary to provide our customers with an end-to-end governance solution to ensure service trust and reuse, which drive cost savings and business agility through high-quality SOA implementations.”

About LogicLibrary

LogicLibrary is the leading provider of software and services that make it possible for enterprises to manage and reuse Software Development Assets (SDAs). The company’s patented technology provides a comprehensive and collaborative approach for creating, migrating and integrating enterprise applications for use in service-oriented architecture, software reuse and other software development initiatives.

LogicLibrary has been positioned in the “Leader” quadrant in Gartner Inc.’s 2H05 to 1H06 Magic Quadrant for Metadata Repositories¹ and maintains strategic partnerships with HP as a member of their Developer & Solution Partner Program and Enterprise Management Alliance Program, IBM, as an Advanced PartnerWorld Partner, Microsoft, as a member of the Visual Studio Industry Partner (VSIP) and Certified Business Partner programs, and Serena, as a member of the Technology Partner Alliance. LogicLibrary has been recognized for three consecutive years on the SD Times 100 list of leaders and innovators in the software development industry and has integration partnerships that include Microsoft, IBM, Eclipse, BEA and Borland. LogicLibrary is headquartered in Pittsburgh, with an additional office in Rochester, MN. For more information, visit www.logiclibrary.com.

About Mindreef

Mindreef, Inc., The SOA Quality Company™, provides integrated software solutions that help organizations ensure trust, confidence and agility in their quality-driven SOA deployments. Mindreef’s award-winning SOAPscope® product family – including SOAPscope Server™, Mindreef Load Check™, and Mindreef Policy Rules Manager™ – helps business analysts, architects, application developers, testers, operations and support staff to ensure quality as they define, implement, integrate, test and deploy Web services and composite applications. Teams at Wachovia, Fidelity National Financial, Charles Schwab, IBM, Valero Energy and more than 3,000 customers at over 1,200 organizations worldwide – including 40 of the Fortune 100 – use Mindreef SOAPscope and SOAPscope Server to successfully build, test and maintain high-quality Web services and SOAs. Mindreef is a private company, backed by Kodiak Venture Partners. For more information, visit www.mindreef.com.

¹ 2H05 to 1H06 Magic Quadrant for Metadata Repositories; Michael Blechar; June 30, 2005. LogicLibrary and Logidex are trademarks of LogicLibrary, Inc. Mindreef is a registered trademark of Mindreef, Inc.; Mindreef SOAPscope Server, Policy Rules Manager and Load Check are trademarks of Mindreef, Inc. All other brands and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.