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Westbridge Technology was founded in 2001 in Mountain View, CA. The Westbridge Technology founding management team hails from a number of successful companies including: Oracle, HP, DoubleClick, Tumbleweed, Broadvision, Booz-Allen & Hamilton, Silicon Graphics, Veritas and Manugistics. Westbridge Technology's investors include August Capital, Granite Ventures and Sevin Rosen Funds. Dave Marquardt, founding partner of August Capital, Standish O'Grady, founding partner of Granite Ventures (formerly H&Q) and Nick Sturiale, partner of Sevin Rosen Funds are Members of the Board. Dave is a board member of numerous successful companies, including Microsoft, Seagate, Sun (formerly), Cobalt (formerly). Standish is a board member of Mercury Interactive, Tumbleweed Communications, Virage, etc. Nick is a board member of Adeosoft, RouteScience and Neoscale and was CEO of a successful venture backed startup. Westbridge has secured over $15M in two rounds of funding. What does Westbridge Technology do? Westbridge Technology is the leading provider of XML infrastructure solutions for XML and Web Services. Westbridge provides comprehensive solutions for securing XML networks, a critical requirement to the success of any services oriented architecture (SOA) project. Web Services is increasingly the technology of choice to solve enable a variety of IT initiatives including services-oriented architecture, straight through processing, EAI and B2B communication. Use of Web Services results in huge cost savings and opens new windows of business opportunity. The use of Web Services however, does have its challenges that if not addressed can cause serious security breaches as well as skyrocketing costs of management. Westbridge Technology solves the security and management problems with the industry leading XML Message Server (XMS). The XMS is being used at the most intensive and largest scale Web Services implementations and is the choice of Global 2000 companies and public institutions around the world. The XMS includes XML Firewall technology that provides bulletproof protection for XML Web Services. The XMS is noninvasive and requires no coding or integration and fully leverages your existing infrastructure. Organizations can feel confident that their XML Web Services are fully secure and audited while maintaining a low TCO. Westbridge Technology's management capabilities include:SecurityInteroperabilityReal-time monitoringException handlingDynamic routingContent inspectionSLA managementQuality of service enforcementVersioningPublishing testing and controlWestbridge's fault-tolerant, highly scalable, high performance architecture includes a sophisticated Message Processing Pipeline which enables administrators to control how each message gets handled. That coupled with an extensible and flexible Rule Execution Engine provides complete control over the XML message stream. What are some of the benefits of using the Westbridge XMS? Westbridge Technology provides solutions to enable, manage and secure your XML Web Services. The business benefits enjoyed by our customers include: COST: Up to75% cost savings on Web Services development and ongoing administrationTIME: Dramatically reduced time to production of Web ServicesRISK: Minimize security risk with bulletproof Web Services securityThe Westbridge XML Message Server (XMS) provides cost savings for development, deployment, maintenance and subsequent changes to the environment. Web Services and Services Oriented Architectures (SOA) provide flexibility and responsiveness of your applications but there are costs to support this distributed environment. For example, these represent just some of the significant costs in managing and maintaining a Web Service environment: The cost of providing consistent and appropriate security across all Web Service applicationsThe cost of adding additional partners and services to the networkThe cost of supporting new standards and upgraded standardsThe cost of interoperability of different technologies and standardsThe cost associated with improving reliability, scaling as messages increase and improving security as information sensitivity increasesWestbridge Technology also dramatically reduces time to production of Web Services. By removing the need to code in security and service control in each Web Service, Westbridge not only saves money on development but also reduces time to production in hours and days instead of weeks and months. Westbridge significantly reduces project risk. One of the key strengths of Westbridge Technology is security. With the strongest security capabilities on the market, Westbridge secures and audits your information assets. Westbridge insulates you from risks associated with change, including standards and technology risk. Adding new rules and requirements to the network are simple and straightforward tasks. Who are our Customers? Westbridge Technology provides solutions for any type of XML and Web Service environment. Westbridge is installed at Global 2000 clients in the banking, insurance, defense, pharmaceutical, and telecommunications industries. The industries that typically have the most sophisticated and high throughput environments where the Westbridge XMS provides the most value are financial services, insurance, government, telecommunications, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals and healthcare. Where does it fit in my architecture? How do I deploy it? The Westbridge XML Message Server has a high throughput, low footprint gateway that can be deployed in a number of ways. In the proxy mode the XMS can provide XML firewall protection across a number of XML Web Service interfaces. The XMS can be located within the DMZ or within the enterprise. Westbridge also offers the XMS ServiceGate. The Westbridge ServiceGate is an XMS component that operates standalone or in conjunction with the XML Message Server (XMS). The ServiceGate provides individual Web Services with a full set of security and management capabilities offloading your development team, resources required to build in critical functionality and as well, enabling the IT organization to be able to centrally administer one or multiple ServiceGates throughout the organization. The Westbridge ServiceGate can also be used in conjunction with the XML Message Server to provide tiered rules, or to provide endpoint capabilities and development cost savings for specific services. Westbridge is also available as an appliance. To find out more, please visit our appliance page. Deployment is straightforward and requires no additional coding. To find out more, please visit our architecture page. How are we different from the competitive offerings? Westbridge Technology provides industry leading XML Firewall and Web Services security. The Westbridge XMS supports the most standards and has the most complete feature set on the market to secure both internal and external Web Services. Westbridge Technology provides critical technology for enabling SOA. While the Westbridge Technology flagship product XML Message Server (XMS) is described as an XML Firewall, it does much more than simply secure the XML traffic on the periphery. The Westbridge XMS is highly value-added, non-invasive technology that acts as an SOA shared services gateway. It provides much of the necessary infrastructure for securing and managing SOA environments. One of the key infrastructure strengths of Westbridge is the ability to publish Service Views. Service Views are an abstraction of the back end services and enable you to aggregate back end services and republish them with the necessary infrastructure and control needed for SOA. Service Views provide the following benefits required for SOA: Instant security, interoperability, monitoring, routing, and auditingEnable contracts between consumer and providerAutomatically support all the latest standardsSupport instant interoperability with variety of technologies, standards and semantic requirementsLeverage existing infrastructure for services communicationHide back end complexityCan be controlled by different administrators from different departmentsWhat are some of your key features and benefits? The Westbridge XMS provides a full range of security features for protecting XML Web Services networks. For a full list of features, please view our feature list. How is the performance of the XMS? The Westbridge XMS 3.0 addresses many performance gains. The "Smart Parser" technology, introduced in version 3, enables efficient handling of XML messages. Performance improvements of up to 17x have been benchmarked when compared with previous versions. The Smart Parser technology includes several patent-pending improvements to more intelligently handle XML messages. The XMS also supports hardware accelerators, such as those from nCipher and Chrysalis, for providing performance boosts in security processing. Software acceleration from the Smart Parser and other features, coupled with hardware acceleration from leading edge vendors, enables the Westbridge XML Message Server (XMS) to handle the performance and scalability requirements for the most demanding of environments. To learn more about the performance gains of the XMS 3.0, please visit our performance page. What standards do you support? Westbridge supports a number of XML, Web Services, security, transport and transformation standards, including: XML, SOAP, WSDL, HTTP, HTTPS (SSL), , XML Signature, signatures (RSA-SHA1, DSA SHA1), XML Encryption, encryption (RSA Keys, 3DES, AES, 128/192/256 bit keys), SAML, LDAP, WS-Security 1.0, HTTP-based authentication, Active Directory, XKMS, OCSP, PKI Infrastructure (including PKCS#7, #10, #11, #12), CRL, X.509 Certificates, XML Schema 1.0, XPath 1.0, XSLT as well as SNMP and SMTP for alerting. Westbridge not only supports these standards but also supports the interoperability between different security, transport and data schemes.