As part of
a bid to boost its service-oriented architecture (SOA) offering,
Mercury Interactive Corporation, is to acquire SOA technology
provider Systinet Corporation, in a deal reputedly worth $105.0
million.
The move is a
significant switch for Mercury who has made its reputation in
providing business technology optimisation (BTO) software, whilst
Systinet is a leading provider of governance and lifecycle
management software and services. In essence, Systinet technology
manages SOA business services and to build secure and reliable Web
services, and Mercury hopes that combining it with its solutions
will help enable customers to take a lifecycle approach to
optimising the quality, performance and availability of SOA
business services.
Market analyst
Forrester says that Mercury will use the BTO initiative as a
strategic differentiator, namely to support the business of IT
through quality assurance, IT governance, and IT operations via a
consistent and integrated suite of management products. Forrester
regards SOA as the key to success for companies moving from large,
mostly monolithic applications to service-oriented ones
Systinet SOA
products provide a “system of record” and a set of governance and
lifecycle capabilities that help provide the visibility, control,
quality and integrity critical to SOA success. Systinet products
deliver capabilities for publishing and discovering business
services; creating, managing and enforcing policies; and managing
the full lifecycle of business services and other SOA assets.
Key Systinet
products include: Systinet Registry, a business service registry
for organising, managing, discovering, and publishing reusable
business services and other SOA assets; Systinet Policy Manager,
which streamlines policy creation and management and automates
service validation to help ensure only conforming services are
published into production.
"We are very
excited to join with Mercury to accelerate our ability to help
customers optimise the business outcomes of their SOA initiatives,”
enthuses Thomas Erickson, president and chief executive officer of
Systinet. “The combination of Systinet SOA solutions and Mercury
BTO Enterprise will provide Mercury customers with a more
comprehensive approach to achieving reliable and predictable
business outcomes from SOA initiatives.”