webMethods, Inc. (Nasdaq: WEBM), a leading business integration and optimization software company, today announced that the company has been re-elected for a third consecutive term to the Web Services Interoperability (WS-I) Organization Board of Directors. WS- I is an open coalition of industry groups and end-user organizations that is chartered with advancing Web services interoperability across heterogeneous platforms, operating systems and programming languages. Prasad Yendluri, the principal architect for webMethods' Office of the Chief Technology Officer, will continue to serve as the company's representative on the WS-I board.
"The continued endorsement of our peers for the valuable role that we're playing in enabling consistent and reliable Web services interoperability is extremely gratifying," said Prasad Yendluri, architect, webMethods, Inc. "With our long-term leadership in business integration, we've gained a unique customer-centric perspective on the importance of interoperability to the continued adoption of Web services and broader success of service-oriented architecture. Through our role within the WS-I, we're able to leverage this insight to help make standards useful and applicable in the real-world."
webMethods has long maintained a leadership role in a number of significant standards-related initiatives. For example, the company proposed one of the first standards for service-oriented computing to the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) in 1997 and helped found the UDDI consortium in 2000. Through its active and continuing participation in key standards groups, including the W3C and OASIS, webMethods has aided the development and advancement of key Web services standards such as SOAP 1.2, WS-BPEL 2.0, XML Schema, WSDL 2.0, UDDI, WS-Addressing, WS-Transaction, WS-Notification and WS- RX.
WS-I's board of directors is comprised of representatives from 11 companies, including BEA Systems, Fujitsu Ltd., HP, IBM, Intel Corporation, Microsoft Corp., Oracle Corporation, SAP AG, Sun Microsystems and webMethods. As an active member of the WS-I since its inception, webMethods has served the organization in a variety of roles, including editor of the Basic Profile and as the chair of the marketing communications committee.
About Prasad Yendluri
Prasad Yendluri is the principal architect for webMethods' Office of the Chief Technology Officer, where he focuses on Web services and related standards. Previously, he served as the architect for the company's platform architecture and product strategy group.
In his current capacity, he represents the company and its customers with a number of standards bodies, including WS-I, where he serves on the organization's board of directors; the W3C, where he has been an active participant in a number of key initiatives, including the WS-Addressing, WSDL 2.0, WS-Choreography and WS-Architecture Working Groups; and OASIS, where he is involved with the WS-BPEL Technical Committee as an editor of the WS-BPEL 2.0 specification and the Java Community Process.
Yendluri has co-authored several significant technical specifications, including WS-MetadataExchange and WS-Discovery, and has published numerous technical articles. He was also a significant contributor to the UDDI v2.0 and ebXML messaging service specifications, and served as the lead architect and co-author of the RosettaNet Implementation Frameworks 1.1 and 2.0 specifications. Yendluri is also a member of the Expert Group on JAXM, JAXB, JAXR and JAX-RPC specifications.
Yendluri holds a master of science degree in computer science from the University of Louisiana and a bachelor of science in electrical engineering from Madras Institute of Technology.
About WS-I
WS-I is an open industry organization committed to promoting consistent and reliable interoperability among Web services across platforms, applications and programming languages. The organization unites a diverse community of Web services companies to provide guidance, recommended practices, and supporting resources for developing interoperable Web services. Since its formation in February 2002, more than 170 companies have joined WS- I. For more information, please visit http://www.ws-i.org, or e-mail info@ws-i.org
About webMethods, Inc.
webMethods (Nasdaq: WEBM) provides business integration software to integrate, assemble and optimize available IT assets to drive business process productivity. webMethods delivers an innovative, enterprise-class business integration platform that incorporates proven integration technology with next generation capabilities into one interoperable set of tools that delivers a unique combination of efficiency, agility and control. webMethods combines industry leadership with a zealous commitment to customers to deliver tangible business value to approximately 1,400 global customers. webMethods is headquartered in Fairfax, Va., with offices throughout the U.S., Europe, Asia Pacific and Japan.
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