Joint Marketing and Sales Programs Highlight Alliance
Atlanta, GA and Cuperino, CA - March 21, 2005 - Atlanta-based GT Software, Inc., a leading provider of mainframe integration solutions, and Infravio, Inc., a leading provider of SOA Web Services Management products, today announced that Infravio has joined the GT Software Partner Program to give customers using the GT Software Ivory™ Mainframe Web Services product the ability to manage their Web services with Infravio technology. This partnership enables the two companies to leverage sales and marketing channels, and promises to provide substantial value to customers who are looking to manage and govern policy in their Service-Oriented Architectures (SOAs) using legacy mainframe applications.
"Organizations worldwide are under tremendous pressure to reduce total cost of ownership and fully utilize existing IT investments. Many of these organizations are using GT software to enhance return on their legacy assets via Web services," said Joe Ganem, CEO of GT Software. "Infravio has extensive experience working with Fortune 1000 companies on Web services implementations and has assisted companies in the design and build-out of SOAs."
Added Srinivas Balasubramanian, founder and CEO for Infravio, "With our combined solutions - the Infravio Ensemble™ Web Services Management Suite and the GT Software Ivory Mainframe Web Services product - we deliver a comprehensive SOA Web services implementation framework that helps companies reduce cost and complexity, ease the deployment and reuse of services for business-critical applications, and maximize return on investment from their legacy environments."
GT Software and Infravio offer seamless integration of Ivory-generated WSDL with Infravio's Ensemble, the Xtended Web Services Management Suite built on Web Services Delivery Contracts™. The integrated solutions are available immediately. Please contact sales@gtsoftware.com or sales@infravio.com for further information.
Infravio, Inc. is a leading provider of SOA Web Services Management products with deep expertise gained through Fortune 1000 customer projects. Infravio Ensemble™, the company's Xtended Web Services Management suite provides a powerful solution for Web services asset, delivery, and operations management. It features Web Services Delivery Contracts™ to control and manage Web services providers and consumer applications across the entire lifecycle. Infravio Ensemble's open and extensible architecture makes it an excellent framework for a sustainable Service-Oriented Architecture. Headquartered in Cupertino, California, Infravio is backed by venture capital firms, Walden International and Crystal Ventures, as well as NetIQ Corp. (Nasdaq: NTIQ). For more information, please call 1.877.2INFRAV (1.877.246.3728), email info@infravio.com, or visit www.infravio.com.
Ivory is a trademark of GT Software, Inc. Infravio Ensemble and Web Services Delivery Contracts are trademarks of Infravio, Inc. All other names, brands or products may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
