Mindreef, Inc. Joins SOA Link Multi-Vendor Governance Interoperability Initiative; Leading Provider of Solutions for SOA Quality Joins HP, Infravio and Others to Promote End-to-End SOA Interoperability

HOLLIS, N.H.--June 12, 2006--Mindreef(R), Inc., a leading provider of solutions that enable organizations to build and maintain high quality service-oriented architectures (SOA), announced that it has joined SOA Link - an industry initiative focused on creating a complete solution for SOA governance and interoperability.

Announced in May 2006, SOA Link is a multi-vendor initiative organized by Infravio, Inc., the SOA Governance Company. SOA Link was founded to bring together multiple vendors that provide products for SOA governance to mutually interoperate. It also serves as a catalog of interoperable solutions in SOA and can assist IT buyers in establishing product integrations or vendor alliances.

Through SOA Link, Mindreef joins AmberPoint, HP, Infravio, IONA, JBoss, NetIQ and other SOA vendors in a commitment to providing interoperable SOA solutions. Mindreef's integrated tools support quality-driven SOA by ensuring compliance to standards and best practices, enabling efficient problem resolution, and facilitating service reuse. Development teams at Wachovia, Fidelity National Financial, Charles Schwab, and more than 1,000 companies worldwide use Mindreef products to successfully build, test, and maintain effective Web services and SOAs.

"Mindreef is a great addition to SOA Link," said Miko Matsumura, vice president, marketing and technology standards at Infravio. "Mindreef's products in the SOA Link ecosystem will help assure the kind of service quality and reliability which underlie agility and reuse."

Quality-Driven SOA: A Foundational Approach

A key requirement for an SOA is that the components that comprise the system be available at all times. This means that changes made to individual components--either code, metadata, or a specific policy--must be made dynamically. Combining a governance solution with a system for dynamically analyzing and testing components ensures that changes are checked for quality and interoperability prior to being re-introduced into the SOA's production environment.

Mindreef provides a comprehensive solution for SOA quality with Mindreef SOAPscope Server(TM). An always-on, server based environment, SOAPscope Server works hand in hand with governance solutions so that changes to an SOA system component can be tested against all of the components with which it interoperates before re-entering the ecosystem, ensuring that changes will not negatively impact system quality.

"Mindreef is firmly committed to promoting quality-driven SOA, so we consider joining SOA Link a positive step for us and our customers," said Frank Grossman, founder and president of Mindreef. "Driving industry-wide SOA governance will greatly reduce the time it takes to develop and deploy high quality, reusable Web services, while assuring agility and adaptability as teams scale SOA to the enterprise level."

For a complete list of SOA Link vendors and for more information about membership, please visit www.soalink.com.

About Mindreef

Mindreef, Inc. is a leading provider of solutions for the successful development of Web services, enabling organizations to meet their goals for high-quality SOA adoption. Mindreef products enable business analysts, architects, application developers, testers, operations, and support staff to build, deploy, and maintain a SOA. Mindreef products are in use by more than three thousand customers worldwide. Mindreef is a private company, venture backed by Kodiak Partners. For more information, visit www.mindreef.com.