BOSTON, Jul 09, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Forum Systems, Inc., the leading provider of SOA Gateway, Forum Sentry, today announced it has partnered with Techlogix to bring SOA products to markets in United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Asia-Pacific. Techlogix will supply Forum Sentry with installation and architecture consulting services to its large customer base across Asia-Pacific and United Arab Emirates.

In United Arab Emirates, many financial institutions and multi-national companies have started adopting SOA for adding efficiencies to their business. UAE companies are some of the most advanced in deploying technology standards in banking and telecom sectors. A healthy economic outlook for the region combined with a desire to create more efficiency in the region's electronic business processing system has created momentum for SOA.

"We are surprised to see recent interest in the UAE region for SOA," said Mamoon Yunus, CTO, Forum Systems. "The Techlogix and Forum Systems partnership provides a potent combination of SOA architecture and consulting leadership with powerful and affordable SOA products. This combination enables rapid SOA enablement across corporations and their partners."
 

As pioneers in the Web Services Security and now SOA application delivery arena, Forum Systems has brought to the market the industry's first SOA Gateway product, Forum Sentry. Over 15 percent of the Fortune 1000 enterprises have adopted Forum System's architecture and technology, including the nation's top e-retailer, Amazon, the top telecommunications company, Motorola, the largest financial services firm, Citigroup, and the U.S. Internal Revenue Service.

"Forum Systems has a strong reputation for bringing innovative technologies and solutions to companies worldwide," said Salman Akhtar, co-CEO of Techlogix. "As a result of this partnership, we will continue to provide the best SOA gateway product to our customers."

 

Forum Systems, Inc. is the leader in Web Services and SOA Security infrastructure with a comprehensive suite of XML acceleration, trust management and threat protection solutions for SOA. Forum Systems' flexible hardware, software and embedded products make vibrant business communications possible by actively protecting XML data and Web Services across networks and business boundaries. Forum's products have been chosen by over 150 Fortune 1000 industry leaders and are winners of Network Computing Magazine's Well-Connected 2006 and 2004 Awards and Product of the Year 2004 Award, Network Computing Magazine's Editor's Choice 2003 Award, Network Magazine's Product of the Year 2003 Award and most recently "Most Outstanding Product of the Year 2006" Well-Connected Award by CMP Media. Forum XWall Web Services Firewall was also the industry's only XML Firewall selected by InfoWorld LEADERBOARD 2004. http://www.forumsys.com/

Techlogix is a global consulting and IT services company specializing in the following practice areas such as SOA, Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, Business Process Management, Enterprise Application Integration, IT Governance and Software Product Engineering. Techlogix provides expert business process analysts and strong technology implementation teams that translate corporate strategies into creative, robust, and effective systems that leverage a client's unique competitive advantage. Techlogix works collaboratively with clients driving complex change initiatives that deliver business value within short time frames of 12 to 16 weeks in fixed-price, fixed-time engagements. http://www.techlogix.com

SOURCE: Forum Systems, Inc.