PolarLake Announces Support for Choreography Description Language (WS-CDL) Enables support for peer-based monitoring and control of complex business processes

Dublin, Ireland, 29th April 2006 – PolarLake, a world leader in application and data integration, announced today that its Integration Suite product now offers integrated support for W3C’s Choreography Description Language (CDL), and thus enables the efficient control and monitoring of business processes, increasing operational efficiency and reducing risk. CDL is an XML-based language that describes peer-to-peer collaborations of participants by defining, from a global viewpoint, their observable behavior within integration solutions involving ordered message exchanges that accomplish a common business goal.



Through support for CDL, PolarLake – alongside open source tools such as those from Pi4 Technologies Ltd and products such as those provided by Hattrick Software Ltd - enables the business to define, manage and control business processes with the certainty required for the ever-demanding regulatory environment. The result is improved accountability, exception handling capabilities, performance and business monitoring of all Straight-Through Processing (STP) solutions within the organization. This monitoring capability in particular allows the organization to ensure that all executing events match declared processes. Systems, events or processes that diverge from these expected behaviors can then be identified and rectified as quickly as possible.



“Support for CDL is an increasingly common requirement amongst integration technologies. For financial services organizations in particular, choreography is seen as a key element in the control and monitoring of business processes, which in turn can help improve operational efficiency and reduce risk,” said Warren Buckley, CTO of PolarLake. “PolarLake is committed to meeting the specific, real-world needs of our customers and now integration solutions built using PolarLake can easily leverage the declarative power of CDL to ensure the delta between the expected and the actual is known, controlled and reduced.”



“Coupling strong mediation and monitoring tools from PolarLake with CDL tools from Hattrick Software provides a unique proposition,” said Steve Ross-Talbot, CTO of Hattrick Software. “The productivity gains delivered by PolarLake and Hattrick Software enable systems to be modeled, deployed, monitored and managed in a fraction of the time.”



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About PolarLake

PolarLake, a leader in standards-based incremental integration, provides a complete suite of products for implementing integration solutions based on the Enterprise Service Bus architecture. PolarLake’s full-strength, productive solutions deliver code-free orchestration and mediation of software services, enabling integration solutions to be extended and re-used without extensive re-engineering.



PolarLake has a proven track record in delivering the benefits of incremental integration, whilst leveraging existing IT investment in standards, skills and systems to reduce both initial investment and total cost of ownership. Deployed customers in financial services include JPMorgan Chase (NYSE: JPM), Pioneer Investments, part of the Unicredito Italiano Banking Group (Milan: UC), Man Financial (LSE: EMG), Nissay Dowa (Tokyo: 8759) and Bank of Ireland (Dublin: BIR), in government include Criminal Justice IT and the Department of Constitutional Affairs in the UK, and in telecommunications include two of Japan’s largest providers and Midwest Wireless (USA).



PolarLake solutions are provided by partners such as Accenture, Hitachi Systems and Services (Tokyo: 3735) and Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq: SUNW). PolarLake is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, with offices in London, New York and Tokyo.



About Hattrick Software
Hattrick Software provides professional open source support for Pi4 Technologies CDL open source tools suite. Hattrick Software is developing a new software solution called the Behavioural Backbone, based on the CDL tools suite. This software enables the processing of complex transactions to be automated without the need to substantially re-engineer existing systems and without introducing a central point of control.