Torry Harris announces partnerships with 3 major American SOA product developers

Bangalore, 25 January 2006: Torry Harris Business Solutions, the leading provider of IT services with core focus on middleware technologies has announced a huge expansion in its partnership ecosystem. Three of the major Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) product vendors GigaSpaces, SOA Software and webMethods have today inked their association with Torry Harris, the SOA implementation services leader.

With a strong partner ecosystem, Torry Harris will be combining its onsite offshore SOA implementation expertise with the strengths of world-class products, chosen by the customer. Partnering with leading product companies in the SOA arena will enable Torry Harris to provide a comprehensive, high-quality, cost effective SOA implementation, based on the best of breed products that suit it’s customer’s requirements and infrastructure.

Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Ashwin Krishna, Chief Operating Officer, Torry Harris Business Solutions said “These major SOA vendors are distinguished in the market for their unique product profiles. They chose Torry Harris Business Solutions for some of the unparalleled advantages the company brings in, including its rich middleware and integration expertise. Torry Harris is one of the few IT service businesses with a specialist SOA R&D cell comprising expert teams with extensive experience in planning and implementing SOA strategies and environments”.

Torry Harris is already partnered with IBM and Kabira and the company expects income gross revenue from these partnerships to touch US$ 2m in 2007 alone. Through these partnerships, the Torry Harris consultants are trained on new versions, deployment scenarios, implementation challenges/resolutions and best practices of the SOA products for the benefit of the end clients. Torry Harris will announce further global partner arrangements through 2007.

Eric Carlier, Director, Kabira Technologies, a company acclaimed for providing high performance transaction processing software for global enterprises said “Offshore solution development with Torry Harris has helped us immensely to deliver solutions faster to our clients. Their “can-do” attitude and quality processes have added value to our offerings”.

Founded in 1998, Torry Harris is headquartered in New Jersey with offshore development centers in Bangalore (India) and Shenzhen (China) and sales and operations offices in Europe, the Middle East and the Asia Pacific regions. Torry Harris provides IT services aimed at creating and maintaining mission critical IT systems to industries like Telecommunications, BFSI (Banking, Financial Services and Insurance), e-governance and Healthcare, to name a few. Torry Harris currently employs about 800 people at their India Development Center in Bangalore. For more information, please log onto www.thbs.com

About GigaSpaces:
GigaSpaces provides infrastructure software for high-volume transaction processing applications and low-latency requirements, plus an alternative to web services for implementing high performance and scalable SOAs. Customers include leaders in the financial services, telecommunications, and government institutions. Founded in 2000, GigaSpaces has offices in New York, San Francisco, London, Paris and Israel.
http://www.gigaspaces.com

About SOA Software:
SOA Software is a leading provider of comprehensive enterprise-class SOA management, security and governance solutions. Products include Service Manager(tm) (high-performance, scalable SOA management and security solutions), Workbench(tm) (comprehensive closed-loop SOA governance solution), and SOLA(tm) (mainframe Web services solution for CICS programmers). SOA Software is privately owned and backed by leading investors such as Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Redpoint.
http://www.soa.com

About webMethods:
webMethods provides business integration to the world's largest corporations and government agencies. webMethods flagship product suite, webMethods Fabric, is the only integrated platform to deliver both SOA and BPM.
http://www.webmethods.com