Ivory Service Architect Voted Best Integration Tool, Best Integrated Services Environment, and Best Legacy Adapter

 ATLANTA, July 23, 2007 -- GT Software, a leading provider of rapid SOA development solutions that leverage mainframe resources, today announced that the company has received three SOAWorld Readers' Choice Awards from SYS-CON Media (www.sys-con.com). GT Software’s Ivory Service Architect received awards for Best Integration Tool, Best Integrated Services Environment, and Best Legacy Adapter.

The awards recognize the best tools, solutions, and education offerings in 20 categories. Winners were selected through reader-submitted nominations, followed by online voting at SOA World, a leading source of SOA news and information. The awards were announced following the SOAWorld Conference and Expo 2007 East, in New York.

With GT Software’s Ivory Service Architect, developers can quickly and easily create and publish Web services, developing right-sized composite business services from existing mainframe assets with little or no training, and no consulting required. The solution then provides a high-performance runtime engine for executing the deployed business services.

Earlier this year, GT Software was accepted into the IBM SOA Specialty, after successfully completing IBM’s rigorous SOA technical and business requirements. GT Software’s Ivory Service Architect integrates with the IBM SOA Foundation, a single, integrated platform that combines the industry’s top application server and integration capabilities.

Rob Morris, GT Software Senior Vice President of Marketing and Strategy, said, “SOA World readers are savvy in their assessment of technologies, because they are using a variety of solutions every day. It is gratifying to receive this kind of acknowledgement from people who have first-hand experience with the value that Ivory Service Architect brings to their enterprises. The name of the award says it all: reader’s choice. The entire GT Software team is honored by this designation, it is the best kind of validation we can receive.”

"We applaud all of the winners and finalists on their achievement in winning our Readers' Choice Award," said Roger Strukhoff, Editorial Director and Group Publisher of SYS-CON Media. "SOA adoption throughout enterprise IT worldwide is a fast-growing yet complex phenomenon. Our readers are in the trenches every day with their SOA designs and deployments, and their enthusiasm in selecting the winning technologies in each category demonstrates their commitment to working with the best software from several leading vendors.”

The centerpiece of the company’s mainframe solution, GT Software’s Ivory Service Architect consists of Ivory Studio, a graphical modeling environment; and Ivory Server, a high performance SOAP processor with runtime service orchestration and WSDL repository. Underscoring GT Software’s commitment to SOA, Ivory Service Architect allows the mainframe to become an active participant in an SOA.