Axway
Axway has made a strong move into hosted integration services space with the release of a joint SaaS offering with Atos Origin targeting both large customers and the mid-market with a low price point and 30-day deployment schedule. (3/11/2008)

Price: $495

BEA Systems
Despite the looming Oracle acquisition this summer, BEA continues to execute on several initiatives, reaching milestones with the AquaLogic Suite, building on its Java virtualization capabilities and deepening its Web 2.0 line of solutions. (4/29/2008)

Price: $495

EMC
EMC has upgraded its unified enterprise content management offering, Documentum, with a fully SOA-based Web services API, but SOA-centric customers will be hard to come by without a strong Web 2.0 and SOA workflow modeling and execution story. (3/12/2008)

Price: $495

GXS
GXS continues to target large customers with support for XML-based financial messaging standards while seeking out the SMB market and broader integration opportunities by positioning its VAN as a global SaaS platform for supply chain management. (1/28/2008)

Price: $495

IBM
IBM continues to capitalize upon its formidable product catalogue and services horsepower to reach new customers through vertical market solutions, a new SaaS platform, hosted evaluation services and use case-based application deployment tools. (2/7/2008)

Price: $495

Inovis
Inovis has upgraded its B2B hosted infrastructure, enhanced its Web forms support and has strengthened its BPM and SOA capabilities with the acquisition of BetweenMarkets. (4/16/2008)

Price: $495

IONA
IONA continues to leverage its distributed architecture, building out its FUSE product line and leveraging its data management acquisition, but the company faces competition from broader SOA suites and emerging open source infrastructure providers. (12/20/2007)

Price: $495

Microsoft
Microsoft is actively moving forward with a more capable .NET Framework BizTalk Server along with hosted SOA and application services and modeling-based development that will increase the company’s dominance within the SMB segment. (2/7/2008)

Price: $495

Oracle
Oracle is moving into pre-built, vertical market middleware solutions while continuing to deploy innovative solutions for requirements such as extreme transaction processing and Web 2.0. It remains a force in the application infrastructure market. (9/6/2007)

Price: $495

Progress Software
Progress extended its SOA management solution to include tracking of process flows inside and across BPM process, launched a distributed deployment tool for Sonic and seen significant SaaS revenue growth, but faces pressure from ESB vendors. (3/11/2008)

Price: $495

Red Hat
Red Hat has made substantial progress in the application infrastructure market since its acquisition of middleware provider JBoss in 2006, and now offers a legitimate though still incomplete SOA suite built completely upon open source technology. (1/28/2008)

Price: $495

SAP
SAP continues to grow NetWeaver as a capable middleware solution, adding a business rules engine with the acquisition of YASU, submitting memory management tools to Eclipse Foundation and strengthening its SOA training and certification program. (2/8/2008)

Price: $495

SEEBURGER AG
SEEBURGER continues to build on its solid B2B integration portfolio via a partnership with Edifecs aimed at simplifying the creation of trading partner transaction specifications. But the firm remains focused on empowering SAP implementations. (1/28/2008)

Price: $495

Software AG
Software AG continues to build on its webMethods acquisition, boasting significant licensing revenues and establishing a number of beneficial partnerships to tackle vertical markets, couple security and policy enforcement and field BI-based BPM. (3/4/2008)

Price: $495

Sterling Commerce
Sterling Commerce has demonstrated a clear sense of direction for its hosted and on-premise solutions with new visibility offerings, an expanded data center footprint and a joint sales partnership with parent company AT&T. (3/24/2008)

Price: $495

Sun Microsystems
Sun continues to refine its Java platform with a substantial NetBeans update and new Java support model better suited to long-term ISV efforts, but the company must face aggressive competition from open source ESB vendors. (5/16/2008)

Price: $495

TIBCO
Showing double-digit licensing and services revenue growth, TIBCO continues to build out its strategic SOA platform, ActiveMatrix, with enhancements spanning integration, composite application development and governance. (6/9/2008)

Price: $495

Vignette
Vignette continues fulfill its Next-Generation Web initiative with an updated Content Management solution, adding rich media services and streamlined publishing. But the firm faces competition from rivals with strong Web 2.0 and BPM/SOA solutions. (12/10/2007)

Price: $495

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