SOA Software today launched its market leading mainframe SOA solution SOLA for IMS transactions. SOLA is a comprehensive mainframe Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) solution that cost effectively makes mainframe applications part of an SOA.  SOLA provides customers with a fast and easy process to expose mainframe applications as secure Web Services, and allows mainframe applications to consume Web Services.  Using SOLA, customers can leverage billions of dollars of existing mainframe investments when building an enterprise SOA.