webMethods, Inc., a leading business integration and optimization software company, today announced that webMethods was ranked as a top influencer for Web services in a recent survey of IT professionals, which was conducted by industry research firm Gartner, Inc. Specifically, the survey identified webMethods as the industry's fifth most influential vendor in terms of overall influence over Web services standards and the developer community with webMethods finishing just behind the four leading application development tools vendors in the opinions of these IT professionals.
"It is gratifying to see that the IT managers and architects entrusted with developing their firm's Web services initiatives recognized us as one of the industry's most influential Web services vendors. We believe this is due to our long-term Web services product leadership, our support for key standards, and our commitment to interoperability," said Marc Breissinger, CTO, webMethods, Inc. "As a result, we were recognized ahead of the other integration specialists as well as the leading packaged application vendors in terms of Web services influence."
