Strategic technology alliance to provide BPEL capabilities
Software and Active Endpoints, an independent provider of BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) solutions, today announced a strategic technology alliance. Under the terms of this alliance, Software AG will integrate and redistribute Active Endpoints’ ActiveWebflow products as a key component of Enterprise Service Integrator. ActiveWebflow is a family of standards based products that allow organizations to automate process flows and to quickly and easily define BPEL process compositions that integrate any Web services application components. To provide native XML database functionality, Active Endpoints will integrate Software AG’s Tamino XML Server into ActiveWebflow. In addition to optimizing product development, the technology and business alliance also promotes joint sales and marketing activities.
The integration of BPEL with Enterprise Service Integrator (ESI) allows customers to fully integrate and orchestrate their Business Process Management and Workflow applications with existing Web Services. The combination of Enterprise Service Integrator’s ability to expose existing systems as Web Services with BPEL allows customers to access all their enterprise IT assets within a Service Oriented Architecture. In effect, customers can re-use existing assets and services to create new services, quickly, efficiently and non-invasively.
“Organizations have recognized that solutions based on services-oriented architectures (SOAs) enable their IT systems to closely support their business functions,” said Jonathan Airey, Software AG’s Vice President of XML Business Integration. “A composite application architecture based on the BPEL (business process execution language) standard will allow our customers to create business process driven information systems, reducing their integration costs and significantly increasing the value they can derive from their IT investments. We have chosen Active Endpoints’ ActiveWebflow solution as it is best-in-class BPEL technology.”
“The rapid adoption of services-oriented architectures and Web services is making BPEL the natural choice for systems and business integration,” said Fred Holahan, CEO of Active Endpoints. “By offering solutions that are platform neutral and 100% standards compliant, we aim to radically change the economics of the integration market. With Software AG, we will help customers to quickly achieve success using BPEL as a cornerstone of their integration strategies, without locking them into expensive, proprietary vendor relationships.”
Full BPEL support will be available in Enterprise Service Integrator V3.1 and is planned for release in the fourth quarter, 2005.
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