Mindreef today announced Mindreef Coral, a Web services lifecycle collaboration platform for organizations building Web services and service-oriented architectures (SOAs). Coral enables individual users, service teams, and service consumers to collaborate and share information regardless of role, skill set, or development environment.

Each Mindreef Coral server acts as a hub housing Web service data and containing XML-aware tools that allow team members to govern, test, diagnose, and support Web services collaboratively. Mindreef Coral's tools are available to various roles including architects, managers, business analysts, developers, testers, and support staff and enable roles that do not have deep XML or programming skills to perform tasks that previously required more technical skills, according to the company.

Mindreef Coral includes the following capabilities:

Foundational governance, which enables all team members to participate in the governance process. Multi-role tool support allows corporate architects to codify organizational policy and author custom rules.

Multi-role testing enables all team members to perform tests that are most meaningful to their roles. This includes functional and regression testing, as well as quality, interoperability and conformance to organizational and industry standards.

Collaborative diagnostics enable service teams and community users to collect and share all the elements of a Web service for problem analysis.

Lifecycle support helps prevent support issues by exposing service contracts in a form that makes them easy to understand and investigate.

Coral is immediately available for purchase on a concurrent-user license basis. Pricing starts at $999 for a Coral Server that includes the base system components and two-user licenses can be added for $499 per year.