We’ve had a good Fall here at Layer 7. Last month, Gartner declared that Layer 7 is a leader in its 2011 Magic Quadrant (MQ) for SOA Governance Technologies. To be placed by Gartner in the Leaders Quadrant is a formal recognition of a company’s excellence in its vision and its ability to execute. We’ve achieved this honour with Gartner before (it was the last time they evaluated the SOA Governance space, back in 2009); but this year the firm raised the bar considerably by emphasizing the greater scope of SOA governance, including the overall life cycle of policy and services. We’ve worked hard to develop a complete SOA governance solution—something that Gartner clearly recognized, as are the only SOA gateway vendor to be included in this year’s leaders quadrant. This is an achievement our whole team is very proud of.

But the honours didn’t stop there. Last week, Forrester published The Forrester Wave™: SOA Application Gateways, Q4 2011. I am very pleased to announce that Forrester has also recognized Layer 7 as a leader. Forrester evaluates vendors based on 45 criterion that cover current offering, strategy, and market presence. Layer 7 achieved the highest scores in both the current offering and strategy categories.

As with the Gartner MQ, the actual placement of Layer 7 on the Forrester Wave is dramatic—and it is very flattering. I can’t reproduce either graphic here, but I would encourage you to use your Gartner and Forrester subscriptions to see the reports for yourself. Both studies offer comprehensive information about the state of SOA governance and technology in 2011.

Finally, Layer 7 was ranked as number 71 in Deloitte’s 2011 Technology Fast 500™. The Fast 500 recognizes the 500 fastest growing North American companies in technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences and clean technology. Deliotte ranks organizations based on their percentage of revenue growth over the five-year period between 2006 and 2011. Being named to the Fast 500 brings us full circle: from vision, to execution, to concrete revenue growth.

I’m looking forward to 2012.

More exciting news! You may recall we recently announced that Layer 7 had been named a Deloitte Technology Fast 500 growth company. Well, now we’re very pleased to inform you that Layer 7 has been positioned as a leader in Gartner’s 2011 Magic Quadrant for SOA Governance Technologies. The Magic Quadrant is an influential research report that presents a global view of Gartner’s opinion on the main vendors in the SOA governance space.

According to Gartner: “All vendors considered in this Magic Quadrant have articulated a cloud strategy, and have provided evidence that they have started to execute it.” Notably, the report also states that “SOA governance in the cloud also overlaps consistently with API management, the combination of services enabling organizations to deploy, intermediate, govern, catalog and secure public Web APIs based on Web-oriented architecture (WOA) principles, mainly for the use of mobile applications.” The expansion of SOA technologies and governance models across the Web and into the Cloud is central to Layer 7’s business model, as we continue to develop best-of-breed solutions for SOA governance, API management and Cloud integration.

And here’s some more good news. We are offering our blog readers complimentary access to this valuable research report. Simply click here to register for access to the Gartner Magic Quadrant for SOA Governance Technologies 2011. For more information on the Magic Quadrant and Layer 7’s inclusion in the report, you can read our press release.