"SOA is an increasingly important business requirement for organizations because of the business flexibility it enables," said Sandy Carter, Vice President of IBM SOA and WebSphere, as MSC.Software this week announced its acceptance to the IBM SOA Specialty after successfully completing IBM's rigorous SOA technical and business requirements.

With this achievement, MSC.Software's SimManager has also achieved SOA Connect status, ensuring that it fully integrates with the IBM software and strategy for SOA.

"Working with IBM for SOA helps us provide open, flexible enterprise business infrastructure that will enable us to deliver our solutions to customers with reliability and efficiency," said Bill Weyand, chief executive officer of MSC.Software.