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Underscores its Collaboration with IBM and Joint Customers Such as
Fireman’s Fund to Drive Pervasive Quality into SOA Deployments
Hollis, NH — October 4, 2006 — Mindreef®, Inc., which
helps organizations drive quality, trust, and reuse into their
service-oriented architecture (SOA) deployments, today announced that
it has achieved IBM Advanced Business Partner status and is now IBM
ServerProvenTM for Mindreef SOAPscope® solutions.
Through its participation in the IBM PartnerWorld and ServerProven
programs, Mindreef products help companies that deploy IBM hardware and
middleware solutions to:
The company earned its enhanced status and was recognized for its
collaboration with IBM and Webify (acquired by IBM) for Fireman’s Fund,
one of the nation’s largest property and casualty insurer providers. By
using Mindreef SOAPscope to diagnose, test and ensure quality for a
Web-service based property quote service-oriented business application
(SOBA), the team was able to automate 80 percent of its Web service
testing efforts, reduce initial cost of ownership, and improve team ROI.
Mindreef SOAPscope and SOAPscope ServerTM provide
integrated tools that enable quality-driven SOA by validating
compliance to standards, pervasive testing and efficient problem
resolution. Teams at Wachovia, Fidelity National Financial, Charles
Schwab and more than three thousand customers at more than 1,200
organizations worldwide use Mindreef products to successfully build,
test, and maintain high-quality Web services and SOAs. The resulting
trust in SOA-based services leads to increased adoption and reuse of
Web services throughout the SOA.
Mindreef is also recognized as an IBM ISV partner in the PartnerWorld
Financial Markets and Banking Industry Networks, to capitalize on the
growing market opportunity generated by the increasing requirements of
customers in these markets.
"IBM sales engineers have been using Mindreef SOAPscope in the field
for nearly two years for quality testing and to pinpoint issues in
customers’ Web services and SOA deployments," said Frank Grossman,
co-founder and president of Mindreef. "IBM sets a very high standard
for quality in Web services and SOA, and we’re pleased that they
continue to rely on Mindreef SOAPscope."
The IBM PartnerWorld Industry Networks provide ISVs with comprehensive
business insight, technical resources, networking opportunities, and
marketing and sales support designed to help them reach more customers
and close deals faster. Participants in the PartnerWorld Industry
Networks can team with IBM to bring on demand solutions to market more
easily and to ensure these solutions meet specific industry needs,
reflecting how customers buy technology today. ISVs can sign up for
PartnerWorld Industry Networks at www.ibm.com/isv
About Mindreef
Mindreef, Inc. provides tools and infrastructure that help
organizations drive quality into their SOA deployments. Our products
enable business analysts, architects, application developers, testers,
operations, and support staff to perform quality-related tasks or
access quality-related artifacts at any time. Mindreef products are in
use by more than three thousand customers at more than 1,200
organizations worldwide. Mindreef is a private company, venture backed
by Kodiak Partners. For more information, visit www.mindreef.com |
