Layer 7 Technologies announced it has been selected as a “Cool Vendor” in Gartner’s Cool Vendors in SOA Governance, 2008 report. Layer 7 provides flexible and simple-to-use gateways for defining, managing and scalability enforcing policy-based governance policies in SOA.

“Organizations realize that employing simple, scalable and flexible performance management, security and governance solutions is critical to the health of their business,” said Dimitri Sirota, Vice President of Marketing and Alliances, Layer 7 Technologies. “Layer 7 is pleased to have been evaluated by Gartner, which we believe is recognition for its unique family of SOA gateways that provide customers with a broad range of operational SOA management requirements and an extensible, scalable and standards-based approach to better address policy lifecycle from creation to enforcement.”

Layer 7 is known for its innovation in SOA governance and addressing SOA security, runtime governance and policy management challenges. Recognized for its strategic global partnerships and co-authoring of the WS-Policy, Layer 7’s family of SOA gateways provide end-users with centralized monitoring and management of production SOA preferences like service access, message security, availability, SLA conformance, virtualization and data validation.

Layer 7 has also invested in governance interoperability initiatives, including Governance Interoperability Framework (HP) and CentraSite Community (Fujitsu/Software AG).