Fiorano Software has announced that its SOA 2006 Platform was featured positively in a recent Technology Audit carried out by Europe’s leading independent IT Research and Advisory firm, Butler Group.

In its review of the Fiorano SOA Platform 2006, Butler Group noted that Fiorano’s integration offerings continue to add functionality, and provide a comprehensive approach to integration, including a number of differentiating elements. For example, the report states “the brokered P2P nature of the solution is itself unusual in the market, and the addition of BPEL compliant process orchestration is timely.

Support for the latest security standards, such as WS-Security, is also included in the newest version. The solution allows both event and service oriented applications to be created, by allowing messages to be reacted to (events) as well as services to be combined together.”

Fiorano SOA 2006 Platform can be deployed in a modular manner, both in infrastructure and application terms, according to the company. The infrastructure can be extended by adding more peer servers at the end points of the network. As new business components are created, existing applications can be extended.

In addition to the need to integrate existing applications, today there is a growing level of interest in the concept of Service Orientated Architecture (SOA), where new, composite applications are developed that may reuse existing business applications as well as create new components.

Butler Group highlights several key characteristics of Fiorano Enterprise Service Bus – a distributed Peer-to-Peer (P2P) integration platform that supports rapid integration between existing applications as well as the development of composite applications in multiple languages.

Fiorano SOA 2006 Platform has been designed to be user-friendly, and can be used by business managers and solution architects in conjunction with technical developers in order to design and deploy processes.

“The Butler Group Technology Audit provides an insightful perspective on the market need for organizations to build composite applications for a quick path to an SOA”, said Atul Saini, CEO & CTO Fiorano Software. “Fiorano’s aim is to provide the infrastructure tooling for organizations to do this based on existing business logic, with minimal requirements for additional coding. The solution is aimed at both vertical and horizontal markets, by enabling a common interface with heterogeneous applications and databases, and supporting the cleansing and transformation of such data sources in real time”, he added.