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Industry Viewpoints
Actional products have gained industry recognition as being a leading provider of Web service management solutions.
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"Actional was selected in this early transition stage as they offered a cohesive migration path as well as the management features necessary for our extensive [SOA] implementation" |
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"Actional has delivered in some key areas. Its core management offering allows users to monitor, handle interventions (either via intermediaries or by plugging directly into applications through Service Stabilizers) and manage policy. Since the summer of 2004, its Looking Glass network management suite has also been able to manage non-SOAP services (such as databases or web pages) through agents, fuelling its ambitions to offer management beyond web services and XML."
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"Actional SOA Command and Control addresses the toughest challenges that we've encountered in the evolution of our SOA, and presents the strongest value proposition on the market."
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"The combined offering [of Actional and Westbridge] is comprehensive and powerful."
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"The Actional-Westbridge merger is a sensible move because it creates a larger functional footprint and increases value of the customer relationship."
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"As the adoption of Web services and SOAs expands, the needs of organizations are evolving and becoming more complex, as are the roles of those responsible for developing and executing a successful SOA strategy. With their complementary technologies, the combined offering from the merger of Actional and Westbridge is targeted at simplifying the work needed to deploy an integrated SOA environment, thus driving down total cost of ownership, and by remaining open, leveraging the value of an organization's existing IT investments."
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"I'm very impressed with the Actional product line and I'm putting the company on my list of Web services companies to watch."
Mark Gibbs, Network World |
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"Actional provides a far weightier management capability and toolset for building, securing, and managing a Web services network than its competitors' offerings. It affords greater control than out-of-house hosted solutions and its flexibility certainly beats that of internally instrumented applications."
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"If Web Services is to achieve the wide-scale adoption the industry hopes for vendors will need to provide a scalable infrastructure for high growth. Actional's architecture meets this requirement."
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"Loosely Coupled has selected Westbridge Technology (now Actional) as one of the 10 vendors we feel have the most established market offering, in terms of either their market credibility or customer acceptance."
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"If you want a true service-oriented architecture for your company, you might take a gander at Looking Glass 5.1 from Actional Corp. It can locate the source of mixed-service app problems, whether XML-based or not."
Mark Hall, Computerworld |
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"SOAPstation gave us all the operational monitoring we could possibly want and then piled on SOAP-specific features such as routing, support for Web services security and a flexible implementation architecture - all while outperforming the competition…SOAPstation proved worth of our Editor's Choice award."
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Industry analysts have praised Actional for its phased approach to Web services management. Application developers can introduce SOAPstation at the project level and the operations team can later deploy the company's Looking Glass management server and console."
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"Looking Glass appears to be leading the way in a vital space for the successful future of Web Services."
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"Actional is one of the leading pure-play providers of Web services management products."
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"Judith Hurwitz, analyst and founder of Hurwitz Group, called Actional's platform improvements and new products impressive, noting that the company is as advanced as any standalone Web services platform provider because of its breadth of products, which she said are perhaps only outdone by IBM and HP."
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"Performance is a critical requirement for processing XML on the network, Westbridge (now Actional) and Layer N provide cutting-edge technologies that remove many of the security and performance barriers for using XML and Web Services."
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"Actional's Web services management platform delivers a comprehensive solution to the unique application management challenges commonly faced in enterprises. This combined solution will help customers to rapidly deploy Web services and immediately capitalize on the benefits across their enterprise."
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"Network firewalls don't provide the application-level protection necessary to secure a Web Services environment because Web Services have been designed to tunnel through them. Westbridge (now Actional) XML Message Server secures XML and SOAP traffic and provides a security management platform to administer any XML Web Service network."
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"Every time I hook up with those guys and hear what's going on, I'm surprised to hear how far along they are. What Westbridge (now Actional) does is provide an administrative interface, the administrative overlay, if you like, that turns a basic Web service data feed into something you can really use. The product, for example, enables descriptions of data feeds for use by Excel users, or sharing of security profiles with others in a group."
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"As more organizations deploy Web services across their enterprise, they will be faced with significant challenges in managing the ripple effects resulting from constant change across their service network. With the introduction of Looking Glass, combined with SOAPstation, Actional is one of the first vendors in the market to truly address this problem - helping organizations proactively monitor and manage their entire Web service network."
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"The SOAPstation server excels in versioning, XML transformations and routing of managed services. The versioning mechanism performed flawlessly."
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