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IBM, NuWave Technologies Express Support for Testing, Performance and Load Checking Early in the SOA Lifecycle; Helps Companies Ensure Quality, Trust and Agility

ORLANDO, FL – IBM IMPACT 2007 – May 21, 2007 – Mindreef^®, Inc., The SOA Quality Company™, today announced customer support for SOAPscope Server^TM 6.0 with Load Check™, which allows service teams to utilize test-driven development techniques to confidently build high-quality Web services and composite applications.

. Mindreef has received positive support and feedback from customers, partners and industry watchers that SOAPscope Server 6.0 with Load Check allows SOA teams to pinpoint performance and scalability issues early and cost effectively in the service lifecycle, and improve overall quality and performance.

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

Mindreef SOAPscope Server 6.0 represents a significant leap forward in the product architecture and was designed based on years of customer feedback to address the real-world needs of Web services and SOA team members. Version 6.0 introduces support for add-on modules, the first of which is Load Check – allowing development and QA teams test the performance and scalability of services earlier in the lifecycle where they are less complex and less costly to find and fix. Mindreef’s flexible approach allows teams to add on specific modules and shared workspaces as their SOA implementations grow from tens to hundreds of services and become more complex. 

Mindreef SOAPscope Solutions Address Real-world SOA Quality and Performance Needs

Mindreef is an IBM (NYSE: IBM) Advanced Business Partner and its SOAPscope® solutions have achieved SOA Specialty certification and are IBM Server Proven. The company is also an IBM ISV partner in the PartnerWorld Financial Markets and Banking Industry Networks. Mindreef products are used by IBM and its customers to help validate SOA installations and solve Web services and SOA-related problems quickly and efficiently during all stages of the service lifecycle.

“Mindreef SOAPscope Server 6.0 dramatically simplifies the effort required to test and validate the Services published with IBM Information Server (IIS),” said Michael Curry, Director of Product Strategy and Management, IBM Information Platform and Solutions. “With SOAPscope Server 6.0, our customers and technical field teams not only can unit test their new Web Services in minutes, but can also begin stress testing and performance analysis immediately, without having to wait for application teams to finish building elaborate test harnesses. Potential bottlenecks are identified and corrected early in the development cycle instead of months later during or near production.”

NuWave Technologies (www.nuwave-tech.com) provides large-scale, high-availability on-line transaction processing (OLTP) solutions across multiple computer platforms to organizations in Financial Services, Transportation, Utilities and the Public Sector. Its SOAP/AM^® product suite provides a standards-based solution that allows customers to extend the life of their legacy applications through the use of Web services and interfaces.

“Using Mindreef SOAPscope Server with our SOAP/AM product suite allows us to better collaborate with customers and improve the performance and quality of our product,” said Dave Belliveau, Senior Software Architect, NuWave Technologies. “SOAPscope Server 6.0 with Mindreef Load Check is especially compelling as it now allows us to run performance and load checking early in the development lifecycle, and serves as a standardized platform upon which to exchange important performance and support information with our customers.”

“The role of testing and quality assurance takes on a whole new dimension for services development, deployment and management,” said Dana Gardner, principal analyst of Interarbor Solutions. “Those organizations moving to services oriented architectures (SOA) need to continuously assess the dynamic dependencies between and among services – from creation to aggregation to shared and often undetermined use. Mindreef's SOA lifecycle approach and analytics modules help compress the distance between service development and reliable real-world usage.”

For more information about SOAPscope Server 6.0 and Load Check licensing options, or to request an evaluation copy, please contact Mindreef at sales@mindreef.com, (603) 465-2204 ext. 581, or visit www.mindreef.com.

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 www.mindreef.com.

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