LOS ANGELES, CA – - SOA Software, a leading provider of SOA governance, cloud and enterprise API management products, has earned the prestigious Gold status in the Golden Bridge Awards in the Application Development Innovation category for its Atmosphere API Management software. The coveted annual Golden Bridge Awards program with active participation from a broad spectrum of industry voices, encompasses the world's best in products and services, innovations, executives and management teams, case studies and successful deployments, product management, websites, blogs, white-papers, videos, partner programs, and customer satisfaction programs from every major industry in the world. Winners were honored in San Francisco on Tuesday, October 2, 2012 during the 4th annual awards dinner and presentations.

'It's an honor to be named a winner by Golden Bridge Awards and receive recognition from the industry and so many esteemed peers,' said Robert Medrano, EVP SOA Software. 'These awards attest to our commitment to staying ahead of the curve in the enterprise software field – in this case leveraging our corporate DNA to extend our SOA governance platform into API management.'

Enabling the API Economy

Enterprises are increasingly making business applications available as APIs in order to drive business growth and expose new revenue and partnership opportunities, and ultimately to improve business effectiveness. Open APIs allow external developers to build applications that leverage core business capabilities. Enterprise APIs are offered to a more limited group to enable more sensitive B2B or B2E (employee) applications. Both enterprise and open APIs are typically built on a foundation of enterprise SOA services. As such, they require robust governance.

SOA Software Atmosphere is the highest performing, most comprehensive API management solution on the market today. Atmosphere provides a secure, robust platform that companies can use to share their APIs with the growing app developer community, their partners, and customers. Atmosphere manages, monitors and secures companies' APIs. Atmosphere ensures that these APIs deliver the level of service customers and partners require; that corporate and customer information and assets are secure; and that the integrity of the corporate brand is protected.

About the Golden Bridge Awards

Golden Bridge Business and Innovation Awards are an annual industry and peers recognition program honoring best companies in every major industry from large to small and new start-ups in North America, Europe, Middle-East, Africa, Asia-Pacific, and Latin-America, Best New Products and Services, Best Innovations, Management and Teams, Women in Business and the Professions, Case Studies, Customer Satisfaction, and PR and Marketing Campaigns from all over the world. Learn more about The Golden Bridge Awards at www.goldenbridgeawards.com

About SOA Software

SOA Software is a leading provider of unified SOA governance, cloud and enterprise API management products that enable organizations to plan, build, and run enterprise services and open APIs. The world's largest companies including Bank of America, Pfizer, and Verizon use SOA Software solutions to transform their business. Gartner placed SOA Software in the Leaders Quadrant for the 2011 'Magic Quadrant for SOA Governance Technologies.' The company is also recognized as a 'Leader' by the Forrester Research Waves for Integrated SOA Governance and SOA Life Cycle Management. For more information, please visit http://www.soa.com.