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New HR-XML “Profile” for Mindreef SOAPscope Server Helps the
Consortium and its Members Improve Web Service Compliance,
Interoperability, and SOA Quality
Hollis, NH — September 19, 2006 — Mindreef®, Inc., which
helps organizations drive quality, trust, and reuse into their
service-oriented architecture (SOA) deployments, today announced that
it is partnering with the HR-XML Consortium to accelerate Web services
industry standards for interoperability. The HR-XML Consortium is a
global, non-profit consortium dedicated to the development and
promotion of a standard suite of XML specifications to enable
e-business and the automation of human resources (HR) related data
exchanges.
The current phase of Mindreef’s work with the consortium involves the
creation and availability of an “HR-XML Profile” as a downloadable
element for use with Mindreef SOAPscope ServerTM,
a team-based platform with tools for governance, testing, diagnostics
and support that span the entire service-oriented lifecycle. Teams at
Wachovia, Fidelity National Financial, Charles Schwab, IBM and more
than 3,000 enterprises and organizations worldwide use Mindreef
products to design, implement and deploy projects faster and achieve
pervasive SOA quality. The resulting quality and trust leads to
increased adoption and reuse of services throughout the SOA.
Available to HR-XML members to download at http://www.hr-xml.org,
the new HR-XML Profile is used early in the development process to
provide teams with built-in conformance checks as they design, analyze,
test and diagnose Web services using Mindreef SOAPscope Server. By
laying a foundation for quality at the outset, companies can establish
a process for success that will become a standard practice as new
services are added to their SOA, ensuring consistent trust and reuse.
The consortium is also using the HR-XML Profile for SOAPscope Server to
ensure compliance with WS-I profiles throughout the development and
testing process, and to capture a diverse range of best practices in
custom rules within the HR-XML Profile. It will become an important
part of HR-XML's internal quality control processes going forward and
will be valuable for HR-XML members looking to reduce development costs
and automate e-business processes for HR-related activities by
deploying Web services.
“The HR-XML Profile for Mindreef SOAPscope Server will help drive the
wide-scale adoption of XML-based HR industry standards through
compliance, interoperability, and best practices,” said Chuck Allen,
Director of the HR-XML Consortium. “Mindreef brings tremendous
expertise as they work closely with major enterprises and financial
service organizations that have adopted SOAPscope Server for Web
services development, testing, governance and quality.”
“The availability of an HR-XML profile for Mindreef SOAPscope Server is
a win-win for Mindreef customers and for HR-XML members seeking to
improve the quality and interoperability of their SOA initiatives,”
said Frank Grossman, co-founder and president of Mindreef. ”HR-XML is a
visionary group committed to providing long-term guidance and programs
for open data exchange standards based on XML, and we’re pleased to
partner with them to accelerate Web service interoperability,
governance, and SOA quality.”
About HR-XML Consortium
The HR-XML Consortium (http://www.hr-xml.org)
is an independent, non-profit organization dedicated to enabling
e-Commerce and human resources data interchange universally. The
mission of the HR-XML is to spare employers and vendors the risk and
expense of having to negotiate and agree upon data interchange
mechanisms on an ad-hoc basis. By developing and publishing open data
exchange standards based on Extensible Markup Language ("XML"), the
Consortium aims to provide the means for any company to transact with
other companies without having to establish, engineer, and implement
many separate interchange mechanisms. HR-XML’s efforts are focused on
standards for staffing and recruiting, benefits enrollment, payroll,
competencies and workforce management.
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 |
