SOA Software announced 30 new consulting partners, expanding the program to a total of 40 partners.

The growth of SOA Software's program is attributed to an industry wide recognition of SOA Software's leadership position by the system integrator community. Recently SOA Software was positioned in the Leaders Quadrant of the 2007 Integrated SOA Governance Magic Quadrant [1]. SOA Software provides enterprise-class, platform-independent, integrated SOA Governance automation solutions. SOA Software's products provide comprehensive, centralized SOA planning, lifecycle and operational governance automation through a single integrated solution. SOA Software is focused on enterprise SOA, delivering an integrated set of  products. By taking advantage of SOA Software products, and by the increase in the number of SOA projects, professional services organizations are experiencing their own growth with a greater number of clients demanding SOA. This new specialization and revenue stream has become a significant value add that redefines their practices.

SOA Software partners include Value-Added Consultants (VACs), Value-Added Distributors (VADs) and Value-Added Resellers (VARs) who resell products and/or provide customized solutions across global markets. SOA Software seeks partnerships with professional services organizations that can benefit from including the SOA Software product suite in their services offerings. Large companies looking for proven SOA solutions seek and respect the advice and implementation offerings of established services companies. Consulting services companies are now benefiting from including the industry-leading SOA Software suite in their solutions.

The new US partners include: Advantage Factory, Amentra, Bearing Point, BizDomainStore, Cognizant, Congent Infotech, Fino Consulting, Luminance Consulting, Matlen Silver, Neudesic, PRI, Raytheon, theSOAmonitor, Trinity Technology Group, twentysix New York, Two Connect, Inc., Web Age Solutions, and Zensar Technologies. The new European partners include: CODit, Fintricity, IC Consult, Quanam, Torry Harris, SOASolution, Unilog Management, Xlent, and Zensar Technologies. The new Asian partners include: Anatas, Itochu, and Zensar Technologies. A complete list of SOA Software partners can be found at http://www.soa.com.

"SOA Software's strong customer base and leadership in SOA Governance has attracted a phenomenal cadre of consulting partners worldwide," said Roberto Medrano, Executive VP, SOA Software. "Our SOA Governance certification programs are very popular and help to empower consulting organizations to deliver more value with the SOA projects."

"We are excited by our partnership with SOA Software as it provides the tools our clients need to implement an effective services strategy. The partnership provides the missing piece of infrastructure that Australian companies desperately need to execute effective services infrastructure. As importantly, it extends SOA Software's reach into the Asia-Pacific Rim and makes the best Service Governance tools available to Australian clients and organizations coupled with the best consulting available in the service enablement space," said Brad Twynham, Chief Executive Officer of Anatas.

"The Matlen Silver Group is strong in the financial and insurance services industry -- an industry with a long history and large investment in information technologies. We partnered with the SOA Software company because their SOLA product helps our clients reduce their time to market and reuse existing IT assets, while continuing to leverage their highly available, mission critical mainframe platforms," said David Munn, CTO, The Matlen Silver Group.

"Neudesic has long been a leader in service-oriented and enterprise service bus engagements," said Neudesic CTO Tim Marshall. "SOA Software is a natural partner choice for Neudesic as the company is a leader in the field of SOA Governance with offerings that play a key role in Neudesic's ability to deliver comprehensive solutions to our customers."

"SOA Software's recent entry into the Microsoft Business Process Alliance is indicative of their long-term commitment to deliver comprehensive integration solutions to our customers," said Jay Harris Rabin, CEO twentysix New York, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. "twentysix New York is proud to team with SOA Software to provide high performing, cost-effective integrated SOA Governance automation capabilities. The Service Manager and Workbench products offered by SOA Software complement the SOA and Business Process Automation capabilities we have with Microsoft BizTalk Server, Windows Communication Foundation, and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server."

"SOA Software is a critical partnership for us. Our customers are asking for and need effective SOA Governance solutions right now," said Javier Mariscal, President, TwoConnect, Inc. "The TwoConnect and SOA Software partnership addresses this need by delivering SOA Governance products and services that get the job done easily and cost-effectively."

[1] Gartner, Inc. "Magic Quadrant for Integrated SOA Governance Technology Sets, 2007" by L. Frank Kenney, Daryl C. Plummer, December 31st 2007.