The Actional 6.0 software is slated to ship Monday.

After viewing a demonstration of Actional Version 6.0, Janet Park, director of architecture and systems integration at Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. , said she expects that it can help the hotelier automatically define its customized business proc-esses and generate business metrics around them.

"By using Actional [6.0], we can tie the business service operations aspect with more of IT infrastructure management," she said.

Starwood is now using older versions of Actional's SOAP-station Web services broker and Looking Glass Web services management software in a project to rewrite its reservation system to run within an SOA.

Park said she expects that the new version will also allow Starwood to "obtain the last mile of security" within its SOA.