Mindreef

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Approach Drives Business Agility and Flexibility 

ORLANDO, FL - IBM IMPACT -- 2007 - May 24 -- Mindreef®, Inc., a leading provider of software solutions for the successful development of Web services, today announced its acceptance into the IBM SOA Specialty after successfully meeting IBM's rigorous SOA technical and business requirements. Mindreef's award-winning SOAPscope® software solutions - including SOAPscope Server™, Mindreef Load Check™, and Mindreef Policy Rules Manager™- integrate with the IBM software and strategy for SOA to help companies increase agility, and ensure trust and confidence in their SOA deployments.

In a related announcement, Mindreef this week introduced SOAPscope Server 6.0 and Load Check (see: http://home.mindreef.com/news/press-releases  ). A free whitepaper addressing the importance of agile load checking for SOA quality is available at: http://home.mindreef.com/whitepaper_impact.html.

The IBM SOA Specialty provides technical enablement and a skills-building roadmap for partners who want to access the growing SOA market opportunity. Increasingly, business applications require tremendous flexibility to adapt to changing customer demands, regulatory requirements, company policies and competition. SOA provides this flexibility through the facilitation and re-use of application components. Without re-use of services, the proliferation of redundant services can result, increasing the cost and time required to implement even minor changes required by the business environment.

“SOA is an increasingly important business requirement for organizations because of the business flexibility it enables,” said Sandy Carter, Vice President, SOA and WebSphere, IBM Software Group. “Mindreef's commitment to SOA provides their customers with the tools and a flexible architecture that can allow them to increase the effectiveness of their SOA investments.”

Mindreef SOAPscope solutions directly complement IBM's SOA Governance and Best Practices model, adding SOA quality throughout the Define, Assemble, Deploy and Manage phases. Mindreef SOAPscope solutions are used by customers to help validate SOA installations and solve Web services and SOA-related problems quickly and efficiently during all stages of the service lifecycle.

As Web services are deployed, SOAPscope Server is able to interact with the IBM WebSphere® Service Registry and Repository (WSRR). Mindreef products support Web services on any version of IBM WebSphere and can be configured to run in a WebSphere Application Server (WAS) 6.0 or higher.

“IBM's SOA capabilities reflect a commitment to helping companies achieve agility through high quality, well-performing Web services and composite applications,” said Frank Grossman, Co-founder and CTO of Mindreef. “As an IBM Business Partner, we get tremendous support on education, training and marketing that we can leverage to help customers improve the quality, performance and effectiveness of their SOA implementations.”

In addition to achieving IBM SOA Specialty certification, Mindreef is an IBM Advanced Business Partner and its SOAPscope solutions are IBM Server Proven. The company is also an IBM ISV partner in the PartnerWorld Financial Markets and Banking Industry Networks. Mindreef customers include Wachovia, Fidelity National Financial, Charles Schwab, Valero Energy, and more than 3,000 customers at over 1,200 organizations worldwide, including 40 of the Fortune 100.

About Mindreef, Inc.

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 http://www.mindreef.com.

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Becky Ayers

Mindreef, Inc.

(321) 446-5466

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