Mindreef Joins CentraSite Community for SOA Quality and Interoperability PDF Print E-mail

Leading SOA Quality Company Joins Founding Partners Software AG and Fujitsu, and 14 Other Strategic Sponsors, to Drive Pervasive Quality into SOA Deployments

Hollis, NH — July 25, 2006 — Mindreef®, Inc., the leading provider of solutions that enable organizations to build and maintain high quality service-oriented architectures (SOA), today announced its membership in the CentraSiteTM Community recently founded by Software AG and Fujitsu. Through its participation in the CentraSite Community, Mindreef can help companies test and verify the quality of their SOAs by using this community-based destination for SOA best practices and industry information.

Mindreef provides 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 SOAPscope® and SOAPscopeServerTM 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.

Through its participation in the CentraSite Community, Mindreef can help organizations:

  • Explore and work with existing Web services

  • Conform to an organization’s SOA standards and best practices

  • Effectively communicate and collaborate, regardless of role or location

  • Test and diagnose Web services throughout the entire SOA lifecycle

  • Solve SOA-related problems efficiently


CentraSite, the SOA registry and repository jointly developed by Software AG and Fujitsu, provides the framework for application composition, business process management, legacy system integration and service orchestration. Integrating directly with the CentraSite registry, Mindreef’s quality solutions provide automated testing for policy conformance, performance validation and interoperability. It also provides a human-readable view that allows anyone to browse, understand and try existing services within the registry. CentraSite Community customers can download free trial versions of Mindreef’s products at www.mindreef.com

"Mindreef's innovative products help CentraSite customers test and verify the quality of their SOAs," said Frank Grossman, Mindreef president and co-founder. "We share the CentraSite Community's vision of extensive SOA reuse and enhanced collaboration and look forward to helping CentraSite customers drive pervasive quality into their SOA deployments."

About the CentraSite Community

The CentraSite Community, founded by Software AG and Fujitsu, is a unique approach to: 1) uniting partners (Sponsors) to deliver standards-based, interoperable SOA solutions; and 2) providing enterprise customers with a single destination for SOA best practices and the latest industry information by leveraging social media tools such as discussion forums, blogs, wikis and RSS feeds.

The CentraSite Community’s rapidly growing coalition of Sponsors is committed to delivering on the promise of SOA – interoperability and reuse. The aim of the community is to help enterprises in their endeavors to break down legacy, stove-pipe applications into modular components that can be leveraged across different business lines and units.

CentraSite is a standards-based registry and repository jointly developed by Fujitsu and Software AG and continuously enhanced by the CentraSite Community Sponsors. CentraSite represents the foundation of the CentraSite Community and serves as the central store that provides enterprises with visibility and control over their SOA assets.

To learn more about CentraSite and the CentraSite Community, visit www.soaworks.com

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