SOA Software announced that it has joined Microsoft's Business Process Alliance. The Business Process Alliance will propel mainstream adoption of People-Ready Processes by offering customers a set of end-to-end solutions for automating Business Processes. SOA Software's Workbench and Service Manager products provide comprehensive Integrated SOA Governance automation capabilities for Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2 and Internet Information Services (IIS).

Businesses are increasingly turning to Microsoft to connect their information workers to desktop technologies they are familiar with, and provide their IT Pros and developers with the tools to build, deploy and manage end-to-end business process solutions. SOA Software's products allow enterprise customers to govern the services, processes, policies, profiles, information, and the relationships between them. SOA Software's standards-based Workbench and Service Manager products integrate with Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2 and Internet Information Services (IIS) to ensure the compliance, security, reliability, and performance of the services they consume and expose, as a governed service platform.