Alliances

We partner with software vendors and with other service providers to offer customers:

  • Increased service offerings and levels;
  • Complementary, best-of-class solutions;
  • Simplified customer purchasing processes;
  • Decreased project risk and time-to-market; and
  • Increased market exposure through co-marketing initiatives.

For more information about our existing partnerships, or to inquire about new partnerships, please e-mail us at partners@forestay.com.

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Partners

Red Hat
Amberpoint
Active Endpoints
Information Builders / iWay Software

Parasoft
WebLayers
The Advisory Council
Model Driven Solutions

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Red Hat

Red Hat is the leader in enterprise Linux and is the most recognized open source brand in the world. Solutions include Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, JBoss Enterprise Middleware, and a broad range of management and services.

Our Value-add

We are a "Red Hat Ready" reseller and system integrator. We introduce our customers and prospects to Red Hat's products and create successful implementations.

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AmberPoint

AmberPoint is the industry-leading provider of visibility, management and security software for distributed applications.

Our Value-add

We are an AmberPoint Systems Integrator, providing expertise in their SOA governance and management systems. We introduce our customers and prospects to AmberPoint's products and create successful implementations.

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Active Endpoints

Active Endpoints, has created a comprehensive system, ActiveVOS, which enables developers to quickly and easily create the next generation of standards-based business process applications.

Our Value-add

We are an ActiveVOS reseller and system integrator, providing specific expertise in this low-cost standards-based comprehensive BPM solution, with which we have extensive hands-on experience. We introduce our customers and prospects to Active Endpoints' products and create successful implementations.

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Information Builders - Real-Time Business Intelligence and Enterprise Reporting Software

Information Builders (IBI) simplifies enterprise business intelligence and reporting by providing more access to more data sources and running on more platforms than any other vendor.

    iWay Software - Accelerating Business Integration
IBI's iWay Software subsidiary provides rapid integration solutions that help companies meet new business challenges without making their vital information investments obsolete.

Our Value-add

We are an IBI InfoElite Solutions Associate, providing expertise across the iWay product suite. Accordingly, we have established relationships with most of the IBI/iWay management teams, which gives us broad visibility and influence that we are leveraging to provide value across several areas:

  • Sub-contract professional services, including both consulting and training;
  • Strategic sales support: In addition to introducing customers to iWay's products, we are providing pre-sales support to iWay's sales teams in their efforts to sell their new products into accounts they already "own";
  • Recruiting qualified candidates for positions across various groups, including product development and management, professional services, sales engineering, and channel management. As an approved recruiting service, we are able to refer candidate resumes directly to the hiring managers, without bothering the HR department.
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The Advisory Council (TAC)

Parasoft is the leading provider of innovative solutions that automatically identify and prevent software errors from reoccurring in the development and QA process.

Parasoft's SOAtest is an automated Web services testing product that allows users to verify all aspects of a Web service, from WSDL validation, to unit and functional testing of the client and server, to performance testing. SOAtest addresses key Web services and SOA development issues such as interoperability, security, change management, and scalability. It recently won "Best SOA Testing Tool" honors in Sys-Con's 2005 Readers' Choice Awards.

Our Value-add

We partner with Parasoft to provide best-practice guidance for test-driven development of BPEL-based Web service orchestrations. In addition to introducing customers to Parasoft's products, we are preparing a joint pre-recorded Webinar for distribution on Parasoft's Web site. The topic is how to execute a BPEL proof-of-concept project, using SOAtest for test-driven development.

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WebLayers

WebLayers leads the market in policy- based governance solutions for strategic IT initiatives, including SOA, outsourcing, and enterprise system integration.

WebLayers' flagship product, WebLayers Center, is a breakthrough policy governance platform that automates the creation, deployment, enforcement, and verification of policies for IT initiatives of any size for their entire life cycle and easily scales from individual projects to enterprise-wide deployments.

Our Value-add

We partner with WebLayers to provide best-practice guidance for policy-based governance of service-oriented architecture implementations. We introduce our customers and prospects to WebLayers' products and create successful implementations.

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Model Driven Solutions is a leading provider of professional services and products that leverage Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Model-Driven Architecture (MDA) and Semantic Web techniques and standards. We assist major organizations in achieving effectiveness and agility in a changing and collaborative world.

Founded in 1996 as Data Access Technologies (DAT) has been a leader in the development of open standards and supporting products that result in SOA based Executable Enterprise Architectures (EEA). Model Driven Solutions' EEA focus helps drive information systems to quickly and cost effectively address business and defense initiatives. Active in the Object Management Group (OMG), The Open Group, the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS), World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and other standards development organizations, Model Driven Solutions provides industry leadership that is, today, resulting in significant technological advancements and customer satisfaction.

Our Value-add

We provide best-practice guidance for generating executable BPEL processes from UML enterprise architecture models.

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The Advisory Council (TAC)

The Advisory Council (TAC) is the IT industry's fastest growing IT reasearch and advisory service. They deliver on-demand, actionable expert advice customized for each client's situation.

Our Value-add

In addition to providing on-demand IT research and advisory services as practitioner experts, we are helping TAC launch their "SmartSOA" consulting practice.