SALAMANDER FURTHER CHALLENGES MARKET WITH NEW GROUND-BREAKING PLATFORM FOR BUSINESS-DRIVEN SOA

YORK UK, October 18, 2007 - British technology company Salamander is launching a ground-breaking, business-driven SOA solution combining its MooD® business architecture technology with vendor-independent SOA methodology from Everware-CBDI, the leading independent source of SOA guidance.

The second major announcement from award-winning Salamander in as many weeks, the SOA solution is targeted at business managers, business architects, service architects and solution architects. It enables full-lifecycle service architecture planning, governance, testing and deployment as a solution to achieving SOA goals.

This latest offering brings together solutions from two innovative organizations: Salamander's MooD technology and Everware-CBDI's Service Architecture & Engineering™ (CBDI-SAE™). And, for a limited time, the Service Architecture Sampler with MooD is available free online from www.soa-technology.com.

David Sprott, vice president Everware-CBDI and CEO of Everware-CBDI International, says: "Despite much talk, the industry has not yet delivered comprehensive support for advanced SOA that governs the entire life cycle from business to operational management.

"The MooD platform is genuinely groundbreaking - its automation of CBDI-SAE™ integrates the business, service specification and technical perspectives in a manner that can deliver on the SOA vision."

MooD, from Salamander, combines the ability to build and exploit architectures, define and manage change programmes, increase performance and create business intelligence solutions - all based on a common Enterprise Business Model. MooD 2007 includes MooD Business Orchestration, uniquely weaving SOA methodology into the Enterprise Architecture through business drivers.

CBDI-SAE™ is a comprehensive, fully defined approach for service oriented architecture (SOA) - including a reference architecture, process guidance and policies - which is underpinned by the CBDI-SAE™ Meta Model for SOA.

Dr Simon Smith, Salamander's chief architect, says: "Many organizations mistakenly adopt a technology-centric view of SOA. Working with CBDI-SAE™ ensures a business-driven approach where the service architecture is designed to align with business objectives, rather than one dictated by the technology infrastructure and existing applications."

The MooD Service Architecture Sampler implements concepts in the CBDI-SAE™ Meta Model for SOA, to provide support for the CBDI-SAE™ approach in MooD in the following areas:

• Service identification, and the association of Services to corresponding business concepts in the business model such as business capabilities and business processes, also including support for Business Type Modelling
• The modelling of Layered Service Architectures designed to ensure flexibility and encourage sharing, showing the relationships between services, with support for specification, implementation and deployment views of the Service Architecture
• Detailing rich Service Specifications to provide the necessary communication to both service developers and solution assemblers
• SOA Governance including the ability to run diagnostics to ensure that SOA policies are complied with in the model, for example policies that ensure the integrity of the service architecture
• Platform-independent testing and simulation of services and orchestrations through interaction with major vendor SOA technologies prior to development and deployment.

Available now The MooD Service Architecture Sampler is available with immediate effect.

A time-limited evaluation copy of MooD including the CBDI-SAE™ Service Architecture Sampler is available for download at www.soa-technology.com. Versions are available for new and existing MooD customers.

NOTES TO EDITORS

About The Salamander Organization
Salamander is a technology company that provides its clients with the capability for continuous enterprise assessment, transformation and optimization, and the on-going agility to respond to market challenges and change.

Salamander's technology, MooD, is an award-winning business driven toolset that delivers this capability and provides the control and governance to realize strategic goals through the utilisation of best practice, business-relevant enterprise and service architecture solutions.
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Further information about MooD can be found at www.tsorg.com/salamander_technologies_mood_transformation_technology.htm

About Everware-CBDI

Everware-CBDI is the leading independent provider of full-lifecycle, SOA-based research, education and consulting to businesses and governments. CBDI Forum is the Everware-CBDI research capability and portal providing independent guidance on best practices in SOA, including CBDI Service Architecture & Engineering™ a repeatable process for enterprise SOA. CBDI Journal is a monthly subscription publication read by IT architects worldwide. Headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia, USA, the company has operations in North America and Europe. For more details see www.everware-cbdi.com and www.cbdiforum.com.

Further information on CBDI-SAE can be found at www.cbdiforum.com/public/service_architecture_engineering.php

Contact Information

Salamander Contact: Bernard Edwards
Phone: +44 (0)118 945 0216

Everware-CBDI Contact: David Sprott Phone: +353 (0)28 38073