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Thomson Prometric Wins InfoWorld 100 Award with Implementation of Actional SOA Management Platform
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 07, 2004 -- Actional, the leading provider of service-oriented architecture (SOA) enablement solutions, announced today that Thomson Prometric was awarded the prestigious InfoWorld 100 Award for its implementation of Actional's SOA management platform. Thomson Prometric, the leading worldwide provider of comprehensive technology-based testing and assessment services, deployed the Actional solution as part of a global initiative to implement a service-oriented application environment.
"We congratulate Thomson Prometric on receiving this prestigious award," said Actional CEO Tom Ryan. "We're pleased that Actional has been able to help Thomson Prometric meet its business goals, which includes increasing the rate of successful transaction processing to 99.9997 percent -- an improvement that delivers more than $1.5 million in value on an annual basis."
Web services provide flexibility to help IT departments adapt to rapidly changing business requirements. However, as Web services applications become more complex and migrate beyond the firewall, the need to reliably manage end-to-end communications is critical. With Actional's SOA management platform, Thomson was able to proactively monitor its Web services performance and increase global service level agreement (SLA) compliance. Further, Thomson Prometric can now obtain metric analysis for corporate initiatives, allowing the IT department to fully support Thomson's business goals.
Every year, InfoWorld names 100 companies that have made the best use of information technology to meet their business and technical objectives. This year, the list of technologies implemented by winning companies included supply chain innovation, content management, business continuity, storage management and wireless/voice, with project budgets ranging from less than $100,000 to more than $100 million.
Winning projects are chosen for innovation and scope by InfoWorld editors from hundreds of nominations entered by readers, technology partners and end-user customers. The full article is available online at: www.infoworld.com/article/04/11/12/46FEifw100intro_1.html?s=feature.
About Actional Corporation
As a leading provider of SOA enablement solutions, Actional Corporation addresses the specific challenges of securing, deploying and managing service-oriented environments, from early Web services projects to enterprisewide SOA initiatives. The company's sole mission is to keep customers' SOAs secure and operational 24/7, making Actional the choice of leading organizations around the world including Danish Immigration Service, Partners Healthcare, Thomson Prometric, MCI, Telstra, Travelers, the U.S. government and others. With Actional's SOA Command and Control Platform, customers can reduce costs and ease the complexity of SOA deployments, thereby increasing the responsiveness of IT, accelerating time-to-market of business-critical applications and capitalizing on the business value of their SOA. Actional, which recently merged with Westbridge Technology, is a privately held company based in Mountain View, Calif. www.actional.com.
About The Thomson Corporation and Thomson Prometric
The Thomson Corporation (www.thomson.com), with 2003 revenues from continuing operations of $7.44 billion, is a global leader in providing integrated information solutions to business and professional customers. Thomson provides value-added information, software tools and applications to more than 20 million users in the fields of law, tax, accounting, financial services, higher education, reference information, corporate training and assessment, scientific research and healthcare. With operational headquarters in Stamford, Conn., Thomson has approximately 38,000 employees and provides services in approximately 130 countries. The Corporation's common shares are listed on the New York and Toronto stock exchanges (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC). Thomson Prometric (www.prometric.com) is the global leader in technology-enabled testing and assessment services for academic, professional, government, corporate and information technology markets. Thomson Prometric delivers standardized tests for 300 clients, in 26 languages, over the Web or through a global network of testing centers in 134 countries. Based in Baltimore, Md., Thomson Prometric employs 3,000 employees worldwide.
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