iTKO LISA™ 4 SOA Testing Honored with Top Award in the Service Performance Category

Dallas, TX (PRWEB) April 21, 2008 -- iTKO LISA, a provider of testing, validation and virtualization solutions for SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) software, today announced that its flagship product, LISA 4, was honored by TechTarget's SearchSOA.com with a Gold Award for Service Performance Product of the Year for 2007.

Presented by the of TechTarget's Application Development Media Group, these awards recognize the best SOA and Web Service products brought to market between December 1, 2006 and November 30, 2007.

"(iTKO) really understands service orientation," wrote one judge. "SOA is something they do natively. More users ought to start taking advantage of products like this, because not nearly enough services are being put through a proper quality process."

The Product of the Year awards are judged by the SearchSOA.com editorial staff, in conjunction with a team of users, industry experts, analysts and consultants. Winners were selected for their ability to demonstrate excellence across a host of criteria, including innovation, performance, functionality and value, as well as ease of use and ease of integration into existing environments. A total of nine Gold medal winners were chosen across eight award categories.

"We are honored to be selected as a leader in the broad category of Service Performance, which encompasses structural, behavioral and performance aspects of SOA Governance" said John Michelsen, founder and chief scientist at iTKO. "Our LISA 4 platform helps organizations that struggle with complex SOA environments to test, validate, capture and simulate services in a virtual service environment. This award validates our approach to ensuring quality at every layer of SOA applications, at every stage of the design and development lifecycle.

LISA 4 provides the enterprise with a verifiable, enforceable way to validate that SOA policies and service levels are being reliably met, as a key part of SOA Governance. Unlike code-and-UI oriented tools, LISA is a singularly developed application suite from iTKO. The company's solution allows the entire team to create, manage, and orchestrate tests continuously, throughout design, development and deployment, in order to prevent costly application failures and errors.

About SearchSOA.com
SearchSOA is a service-oriented architecture (SOA)-focused Web site that provides information technology (IT) professionals with the most relevant information on SOA, Web services, application integration, SOA implementation and governance with the latest news, tips, tutorials and more.

About iTKO
iTKO, Inc. offers the most complete software solution for testing, validating, and virtualizing Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA). LISA exercises multiple business technology layers within a single test case. iTKO's mission is to allow everyone involved in IT to own Complete, Collaborative, and Continuous software quality, from development, to QA and business analysts. iTKO LISA Complete SOA Testing Platform system performs unit, functional, regression, load and performance tests, without requiring test coding or script maintenance, saving up to 80% of the cost of testing over the course of six months. For dynamic web applications, web services, J2EE, .NET, Java objects, ESB messaging buses, databases, and many more technologies, LISA provides live interaction with every layer, and gives everyone the "Freedom-to-Test" applications exactly as they will be deployed. Founded in 1999, the Dallas-based company's customers include Citigroup, WaMu, Level3, TIBCO and i2.

http://www.itko.com