“The use of Service Oriented Architectures among customers is evolving rapidly from technology evaluation into production deployment,” said Michael Liebow, vice president, SOA and Web Services, IBM Global Services. “Expanding the IBM SOA Management Practice to include partners like Actional will benefit customers by speeding SOA deployments and give assurance that they are working with trusted partners and proven technology.”

IGS will incorporate and resell Actional's Looking Glass and SOAPstation products. These proven, enterprise-class solutions offer unprecedented visibility and performance along with the unique capability of managing of a heterogeneous environment and services beyond SOAP and XML. Customers realize real business value as they migrate from pilot projects to production SOA.

“As the recognized leader in SOA management solutions, we are excited by both the SOA Management Practice initiative and extension of that initiative to include Actional as their best of breed SOA management vendor ,” said Tom Ryan, CEO of Actional. “Actional's solutions have been proven in vertical markets around the world including government, hospitality, energy, banking and more. This partnership will allow Actional to grow its capabilities and enable organizations to quickly realize the full promise of SOA.”

About Actional
Actional's enterprise-class solutions address the critical challenges of securing, monitoring and managing SOA environments. Leveraging leading technology and services, customers achieve the end-to-end transaction visibility required for performance, web services management and SLA adherence. Actional's proven solutions are designed for each stage of migration from Web services pilots to production SOA. Actional is a privately held company based in Mountain View, Calif. For more information, please visit www.actional.com.

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