06/12/2007

WebLayers today announced at the IBM Rational Software Development Conference its support for the new IBM Rational Asset Manager offering. WebLayers also achieved Ready for IBM Rational software validation for its integrated Eclipse plug-in working within Rational Application Developer. The validation demonstrates WebLayers has met IBM requirements for interoperability and user experience.

ebizQ received the following details:

WebLayers Center seamlessly integrates and provides governance across key products in the IBM Rational Software Delivery Platform, including IBM Rational Application Developer, IBM Rational ClearCase, IBM Rational BuildForge and the new IBM Rational Asset Manager. With broad support that spans across the IBM Rational software portfolio, as well as other IBM families of products, WebLayers governs the entire software development and SOA life cycles.

“IBM has forged a strong relationship with WebLayers to enable policy management that spans across the IBM Rational family of products,” said Michael Loria, vice president business development, IBM Rational software. “With today’s announced support for IBM Rational Asset Manager, WebLayers continues to expand its comprehensive support across the software development life cycle. Our relationship will help customers not only better govern the process of software delivery but will also speed time-to-value in their projects while lowering costs."

WebLayers Center automates SOA governance with the industry's only independent, cross-platform policy management solution. Based on the largest collection of pre-built policies, WebLayers' architecturally superior solution speeds governance implementation and enforcement from design-time to run-time.

“WebLayers is excited about the introduction of IBM Rational Asset Manager and the overall direction of Rational with the new Jazz Project,” said Gregg Bjork, CEO of WebLayers. “The combination of WebLayers and Rational provides the collaboration, governance, and visibility necessary as enterprises transition to service oriented architectures.