Layer 7 Positioned in the 2011 Leaders Quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for SOA Governance

October 19, 2011

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VANCOUVER, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Layer 7 Technologies, a leading provider of Gateways for service-oriented integration, cloud connectivity and Web-to-mobile information sharing, today announced it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Leaders Quadrant of the 2011 “Magic Quadrant for SOA Governance Technologies.”¹

According to the Magic Quadrant, “As service-oriented architecture becomes mainstream and takes on different names, the importance of SOA governance and the technologies related to it keep increasing. The market for SOA governance technologies keeps changing, driven by more comprehensive requirements from end users.”

SOA Governance is about allowing organizations to govern their interactions with business partners and services provided via the cloud. Layer 7 enables Fortune 500 companies and governments to govern integrations across departments, partners, mobile applications and cloud services.

“This Magic Quadrant evaluates a broad range of SOA Governance technologies available for simplifying control and lifecycle of application services across the extended enterprise,” said Dimitri Sirota, co-founder and vice president of marketing for Layer 7 Technologies. “Being named to the Leaders Quadrant as a pure-play vendor of SOA Gateways, API management or cloud integration is an honor and, we believe, a reflection of our commitment to lead the evolution of SOA Governance to emerging integration areas underpinned by SOA, such as mobile and cloud.”

The requirements for inclusion in this year’s iteration of the Integrated SOA Governance Technologies are more stringent than in previous years. Layer 7 was included under the updated guidelines, which require vendors to offer wider, more-mature service life cycle features; meet minimum revenue in the market; and execute a cloud strategy.

About the Magic Quadrant

The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2011 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

About Layer 7 Technologies

Layer 7 Technologies helps enterprises secure and govern interactions between their organizations and the services they use in the cloud; across the internet; and out to mobile devices. Through its award-winning line of SOA Gateways, Cloud Brokers and API Proxies, Layer 7 gives enterprises the ability to control identity, data security, SLA and visibility requirements for sharing application data and functionality across organizational boundaries. With more than 150 customers spanning six continents, Layer 7 supports the most demanding commercial and government organizations. Layer 7 solutions are FIPS compliant, STIG vulnerability tested and have met Common Criteria EAL4+ security assurance. For more information, please visit www.layer7tech.com, email us at info@layer7tech.com or follow us on Twitter at @layer7.

¹ Gartner “Magic Quadrant for SOA Governance Technologies” by Paolo Malinverno and Daryl C. Plumber, October 17, 2011.