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Fujitsu Computer Systems Corporation will announce the launch of the Interstage BPM Version 10 Beta Program at this year’s Gartner Business Process Management Summit: Create and Sustain the Agile Process-Powered Organization, February 4-7, 2008, at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas. In addition, Fujitsu customers, ISCorp and Envision, will present a case study on the use of Fujitsu Interstage(R) Business Process Manager using a Software as a Service (SaaS) model to aid compliance with SEC regulations. Keith Swenson, vice president of research and development at Fujitsu, will also speak at the summit, presenting “New BPM Frontiers: A Preview of What’s Cooking in Fujitsu’s Labs,” and leading a special workshop on “BPM in Practice: Understanding and Implementing BPM.”
In a bid to deliver innovative products and services to the market quickly over the years, business lines within enterprises have accrued technologies, at times independent of each other. The newest release of Fujitsu’s BPM suite will provide enterprises with a rich blend of capabilities that bring business and IT users together to execute well thought-through, architected business transformations while leveraging their existing assets. The Interstage BPM Version 10 will include functionality that supports:
-- Rapid Application Development -- from creating rich user interfaces to
service mashups and composite applications
-- Seamless Collaboration On Tasks -- intuitive, AJAX-based task lists,
wikis, instant messaging, support for RSS feeds, syndications
-- Advanced Process Monitoring & Analysis -- flash-based dashboards with
new graphical options, clipboards to instantly export pdfs and email
reports, extensive process data mining capabilities, auto-detection of
suspicious values within the process warehouse including alerts and
notifications
-- Shared Services & Software as a Service (SaaS) Implementations --
advanced application partitioning and multi-tenancy capabilities that allow
enterprises as well as SaaS partners to host multiple applications on a
single instance of the BPM software in a cost-effective, risk-free manner
-- Governed Business Change -- capabilities that support the life-cycle
management, governance and reuse of both new as well as existing SOA and
non-SOA assets -- e.g., policy management, requirements management, release
management, change management, impact analysis, federation
To participate in the Interstage BPM Version 10 Beta program, contact interstage@us.fujitsu.com.
On Wednesday, February 6, Scott Rodenhuis of ISCorp will present “Envision & ISCorp Aid Compliance With SaaS BPM,” an interactive case study session that details how ISCorp and Envision use Fujitsu Interstage Business Process Manager in a SaaS model to help financial services companies comply with SEC regulations and manage market timing violations. The session includes a demonstration of the solution and a discussion of lessons learned, benefits reaped and the competitive advantage delivered with on-demand BPM.
On Monday, February 4, Keith Swenson will lead “BPM in Practice: Understanding and Implementing BPM,” an intensive workshop covering the benefits of BPM, as well as the relevant industry standards including Wf-XML, XPDL, BPMN and BPEL.
On Wednesday, February 6, Keith Swenson will present “New BPM Frontiers: A Preview Of What’s Cooking In Fujitsu Labs.” The session will cover pioneering solutions from Fujitsu — from a revolutionary technology that can help companies “auto-discover” their existing business processes to a patented BPM-enabled project management methodology that can help businesses with architected business transformations.
In Booth #8, Fujitsu will demonstrate the latest version of its industry-leading BPM Suite, Interstage Business Process Manager, which brings business and IT professionals together to design, simulate, automate, analyze, and optimize business processes.
“The Gartner BPM Summit remains one of the best opportunities for business and IT professionals to explore the strategies and benefits of BPM and reach agreement on the goals, tactics, and solutions that will successfully transform their organizations,” said Ryosuke Mori, executive vice president, Software and Strategy, Fujitsu Computer Systems Corporation. “The Fujitsu Interstage BPM Suite is designed to ensure these groups can leverage the same technology to work toward the same goal of becoming a more agile company.”
Keith Swenson is WfMC technical committee chairman as well as vice president of research and development at Fujitsu Computer Systems Corporation. He is known for having been a pioneer in web services and has helped in the development of numerous standards, including WfMC Interface 2, OMG Workflow Interface, SWAP, Wf-XML, AWSP, WSCI, WS-CAF and ASAP. He has led efforts to develop software products to support work teams at MS2, Netscape and Ashton Tate. In 2004 he was awarded the Marvin L. Manheim Award for Outstanding Contributions in the Field of Workflow.
For more information about the Gartner Business Process Management Summit, visit http://www.gartner.com/it/summits/bpm5/index.jsp.
About Fujitsu Computer Systems Corporation
Headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., Fujitsu Computer Systems is a wholly owned subsidiary of Fujitsu Limited (TSE: 6702) committed to the design, development and delivery of advanced computer systems, application infrastructure software products, and managed services for the business enterprise. Through its TRIOLE(R) strategy, the company offers a complete line of scalable and reliable servers, storage and middleware solutions, high-performance mobile and client computers, as well as professional services. Fujitsu Computer Systems has established itself as a strategic solutions provider to the world’s leading organizations by offering technology innovation, customer choice, exceptional product quality and reliability, as well as outstanding customer service. See http://us.fujitsu.com/computers for further information.
Fujitsu is a leading provider of customer-focused IT and communications solutions for the global marketplace. Pace-setting device technologies, highly reliable computing and communications products, and a worldwide corps of systems and services experts uniquely position Fujitsu to deliver comprehensive solutions that create infinite possibilities for its customers’ success. Headquartered in Tokyo, Fujitsu Limited (TSE: 6702) reported consolidated revenues of 5.1 trillion yen (US$43.2 billion) for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2007. See http://www.fujitsu.com for further information.
Fujitsu, the Fujitsu logo, Interstage and TRIOLE are trademarks or registered trademarks of Fujitsu Limited in the United States and other countries. CentraSite is a joint trademark of Fujitsu Limited and Software AG in the United States and other countries. All other trademarks and product names are the property of their respective owners.
The statements provided herein are for informational purposes only and may be amended or altered by Fujitsu Computer Systems Corporation without notice or liability. Product description data represents Fujitsu design objectives and is provided for comparative purposes; actual results may vary based on a variety of factors. Specifications are subject to change without notice.
SOA Software, the leading Integrated SOA Governance vendor, announced the release of SOLA 6.0 (Service Oriented Legacy Architecture), a major update to its market-leading mainframe SOA Solution.
SOLA is the most complete mainframe Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) solution in the industry. SOLA solves today’s most critical problem, making mainframe applications part of an SOA, in a cost-effective manner. 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. The SOLA runtime environment runs entirely on the mainframe, eliminating the need for expensive, unreliable and unnecessary middleware. This, coupled with SOLA’s Development Studio, vastly increases developer productivity, providing faster time to market and lower application development cost. The combination of a highly optimized runtime, no middleware and improved productivity provide the lowest Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) in the industry.
SOLA eliminates the need to integrate multiple mainframe and distributed products/platforms to create an enterprise class SOA. Unlike alternative solutions that only offer one or two components of mainframe SOA, SOLA offers a complete SOA solution further reducing TCO.
SOLA’s high-performance and low CPU overhead enable customers to run the world’s largest mainframe SOA implementations in the most cost effective manner. SOLA is the only product proven in enterprise implementations to handle high-volume (10 million+) transactions per day in mission-critical mainframe SOA environments.
Innovative SOLA features such as One-Click service creation and an easy to use drag-and-drop interface deliver the only secure, standards-based and governable SOA product in the mainframe industry. SOLA provides mainframe end-to-end governance with WS-Security, WS-Policy, mainframe optimized registry, integrated monitoring, logging, auditing and near limitless scalability, all implemented on the mainframe. This makes SOLA the only solution for companies seeking secure, high-volume, mission-critical mainframe SOA.
SOLA Advantages for mainframe SOA
-- Most comprehensive mainframe SOA solution on the market
-- Production proven track record in the Fortune 1000
-- Lowest TCO (and highest ROI) in the industry
-- SOLA is a Governed Service Platform, making it fully governable by SOA
Software products like Workbench and Service Manager
-- Standards-based, enterprise SOA ready
-- One Click Web Services
-- BPEL support enhances efficiency of complex operations.
-- No workstation software to install
-- Centralized directory
-- Mainframe operates as a server or as a client
“We are extremely pleased to provide a complete mainframe SOA Solution,” said Paul Gigg, CEO of SOA Software. “Our Fortune 1000 customers must have inclusion of the mainframe in their SOA and demand the benefits provided in SOLA 6.0 such as lower total cost of ownership.”
“We have a long established tradition of segment leading technology and innovation,” said Jim Crew, SOLA co-creator and Vice President of SOA Software. “We were the first to offer production mainframe Web Services, the first to implement WS-Security and the first to deliver the most complete mainframe SOA product.”
New features and benefits of SOLA 6.0
-- More powerful Web 2.0 SOLA Development Studio with intuitive drag-and-
drop capabilities. Workflow efficiency has been greatly enhanced without
sacrificing ease of use.
-- BPEL support provides orchestration of Services, allowing customers to
combine Services into composite Services.
-- Enhanced customization (environments, access controls, etc.) allows
SOLA to adapt to customers' environments.
-- Improved performance through enhanced database and parser algorithms
increase efficiency and boost ROI.
-- Improved security such as identity mapping, SAML 2.0 authentication,
XACML authorization, multiple certificates and TLS provide improved
security to a product that already possesses the segment's strongest and
most efficient security.
-- Multiple container and pipeline support boost performance and
efficiency by taking advantage of architectural improvements of IBM's CICS
TS.
-- Enhanced management and administrative capability provide added
flexibility, security and control.
SOLA can function as a stand-alone solution for mainframe SOA and can be governed by SOA Software’s Integrated SOA Governance Automation Solutions, Workbench and Service Manager, acting as a Certified Governed Service Platform. Certified Governed Service Platform status means that customers can be confident that their platforms won’t compromise the fidelity of the governance systems and structures defined in an enterprise SOA program. The certification process ensures that Governed Service Platforms can implement and enforce governance policies providing reporting data to enable a closed-loop audit process. The Governed Service Platform status ensures that SOLA can be consistently governed along with other enterprise service platforms.
About SOA Software
SOA Software is the leading provider of comprehensive, enterprise-class SOA Governance and Legacy integration solutions. SOA Software products provide a comprehensive closed-loop SOA Governance solution (Workbench), a high-performance, scalable SOA security, mediation, and management solution (Service Manager), and a mainframe SOA solution (SOLA). SOA Software products process over 500 million mission critical transactions a month and are used by the largest Fortune 1000 corporations, including Merrill Lynch, Verizon, and Pfizer. For more information, please visit http://www.soa.com.
SOA Software, Workbench, Service Manager, and SOLA are trademarks of SOA Software, Inc. All other product and company names herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their registered owners.
Sparx Systems, a leading vendor of modeling tools based on open standards, today announced its release of new tool support for the Service Oriented Architecture Modeling Language (SoaML). The SoaML profile is now an out-of-the-box inclusion with the latest release of Sparx Systems’ award-winning modeling platform, Enterprise Architect 7.5.
SoaML is a draft specification from the Object Management Group (OMG), which provides a metamodel for designing services within a service-oriented architecture. The specification extends OMG’s Unified Modeling Language (UML), thus enabling a visual and semantically rigorous approach to defining services. The UML profile for SoaML is of interest to business analysts, architects and developers throughout the process of establishing a service-oriented architecture. This includes the specification of systems of services, individual service interfaces, and service implementations. The profile also provides for automatic generation of downstream artifacts using Model-Driven Architect (MDA) approaches.
Complementing the standard SoaML modeling constructs, Sparx Systems has added two new diagram types to Enterprise Architect supporting the underlying SoaML concepts. Each SoaML diagram is linked to a specific toolbox, which provides context-sensitive guidance for SoaML modeling. Sparx Systems has leveraged its successful Model Driven Generation (MDG) customization framework to implement the SoaML profile. “Using the MDG technology, we’ve achieved a seamless addition of the new SoaML profile into Enterprise Architect’s core modeling platform. It also paves the way for further enhancements including SoaML-specific model validation and integration with Enterprise Architect’s Quick Linker for rapid model development,” commented Ben Constable, Chief Operations Officer of Sparx Systems.
This latest release from Sparx Systems is a direct response to increased interest among its customers in SoaML, since the draft specification was published by OMG earlier this year. “The new SoaML profile adds to Enterprise Architect’s strong support for SOA, and ties in with existing capabilities for modeling and generating Web Services, XML Schema and more recently BPEL”, noted Constable. “We’ve built the SoaML profile directly into Enterprise Architect, making it available to users of the Corporate edition and above. So this is in keeping with our tradition of delivering affordably priced, high-end modeling tools,” he explained.
Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect version 7.5 (Build 845) together with built-in SoaML support, is immediately available for download and evaluation from:
http://www.sparxsystems.com/products/ea/trial.html
About Sparx Systems
Sparx Systems (www.sparxsystems.com) specializes in high performance and scalable visual modeling tools for the planning, design and construction of software intensive systems.
With customers in industries ranging from aerospace and automotive engineering to finance, defense, government, entertainment and telecommunications, Sparx Systems is a leading vendor of innovative solutions based on the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and its related specifications. A Contributing Member of the Object Management Group (OMG), Sparx Systems is committed to realizing the potential of model-driven development based on open standards.
The company’s flagship product, Enterprise Architect, has received numerous accolades since its commercial release in August, 2000. Now at version 7.5, Enterprise Architect is the design tool of choice for close to 200,000 registered users world-wide.
)–GoGogh, an interactive solution that allows technology professionals to get technical training and content, and connect with experts in their industry, announces today the launch of its online solution, GoGogh.com. The new company is focused on providing companies and professionals an ideal solution to find comprehensive training in the areas of IT, hardware and software. The GoGogh solution saves companies money by providing premium content at a fraction of the cost of traditional training solutions. Additionally, GoGogh provides an interactive, on-demand training platform designed to help professionals looking to get and stay ahead of the curve.
“The technical world is changing and growing at a record pace. What makes the difference is how companies and independent professionals keep up with global demand, competition, and the onset of new technologies in the market every day,” said Marianne Cherney, CEO and founder of GoGogh. “There are currently over 20 million technical professionals globally. All of them need to continue learning on a regular basis in order to stay on top of new technology, and they are all looking for new and innovative ways to do this. We created this solution to help technical professionals and the companies they work for react to the changes in technology in the most effective, efficient and cost-effective way possible.”
GoGogh allows members to join for free and receive one free training session, access to news and content that is aggregated on the site, and the ability to follow and connect with other experts and industry professionals. For an annual membership of $195, members will receive 12 training courses that they can view up to three times each online, anytime they want, as well as have ongoing communication with the instructors. Businesses that regularly send technical staff to on-site and public training courses can save significant amounts of money by using GoGogh instead. Companies also won’t lose days of productivity while staff are out of the office at training, as they can now watch courses during lunches and after hours, when it’s more convenient for their schedule. A premium membership is also available for $495 per year and includes 36 training courses.
The instructors who teach courses through GoGogh.com are all experts who work in the fields they teach. Professionals have access to courses on everything from iPhone application development to USB architecture to BPEL Modeling, Project Management, ITIL, Oracle and more. GoGogh also features daily Tech Expert Network radio shows on timely topics that are recorded by top technical trainers and experts. Instructors are screened and vetted to ensure quality training.
About GoGogh
GoGogh is an interactive, online solution that allows technology professionals to get expert training and connect with colleagues, instructors and industry experts all in one place. GoGogh is a Scottsdale, Arizona based company and uses training instructors from around the world to teach hundreds of courses in the technology fields. For more information, visit www.gogogh.com.
Delivers Out-of-the-Box Connectivity Between Portfolio Management and 200+ Enterprise Applications and Enables Rapid Integrations into In-House Developed Systems
AUSTIN, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Planview, the leading independent provider of enterprise-wide portfolio management solutions, today introduced the Planview OpenSuite™ Interoperability Platform. This platform delivers out-of-the-box connectivity between Planview Enterprise and 200+ enterprise applications and enables custom integrations with in-house developed systems. The platform accelerates integrations and cuts risk, cost, and complexity from the integration process, reducing integrations to a mapping exercise that can be performed by a business analyst rather than by key technical resources.
The Planview OpenSuite Interoperability Platform delivers out-of-the-box connectors, including those for:
- Applications – including SAP applications; Oracle applications, Siebel CRM, and PeopleSoft ERP; Salesforce; Microsoft Great Plains and Dynamics; Peachtree; Sage CRM SalesLogix
- Databases – including Oracle; IBM DB2; Informix; MySQL; Microsoft SQLServer and Access; Sybase ASE; Teradata
- File Types – including ASCII and Mac ASCII; Microsoft Excel and Word; WordPerfect; Visual dBase; FoxPro; IBM Lotus; dBase
- Technologies – including Email; Email Attachments; FTP; HTTP/S; HTML; Oracle AQ and BPEL; SGML; SOAP; XML
- Legacy – including COBOL; Binary; C-tree; QSAM; Tape Drive Sequential
- Retail Standards – including EDI and EDIFACT; TRADACOM
- Healthcare and Insurance Standards – including HL7; UB92-NSF; HCFA 1500-NSF; ACORD
The company believes the time is ideal for the capabilities enabled by Planview OpenSuite Interoperability Platform. According to the Gartner report, Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools, “Contemporary pressures are leading to an increased investment in data integration in all industries and geographic regions. Business drivers, such as the imperative for speed to market and agility to change business processes and models, are forcing organizations to manage their data assets differently. Simplification of processes and the IT infrastructure are necessary to achieve transparency, and transparency requires a consistent and complete view of the data, which represents the performance and operation of the business.”1
With a long history of enabling easy integrations between Planview Enterprise and other key systems, the Planview OpenSuite Interoperability Platform represents the next phase of the Planview approach to integration. With out-of-the-box connectivity, Planview customers can leverage information in their disparate systems to make informed decisions without dedicating scarce technical resources to the often arduous task of integration. Additionally, the Platform saves and stores all design metadata in an open XML-based design repository, supporting customer requirements for value by allowing for fast and easy interchange and reuse of integration design elements across the organization.
“This platform is an extension of the Planview OpenSuite customer-focused value proposition of making integration within heterogeneous environments attainable, easy, and affordable,” said Patrick Tickle, executive vice president of products, Planview. “Our customers have robust infrastructures with many critical systems – PPM, ERP, CRM, cutting-edge and legacy, on-premise and SaaS – but what management really needs to know is if enough people and money are available to execute company strategy. Now, they have feature-rich, highly configurable, and easy to use data integration software that lets them offer exactly that transparency.”
The Planview OpenSuite Interoperability Platform will be available in June 2009. For more information, contact market@planview.com.
1 Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools, Ted Friedman, Mark A. Beyer and Andreas Bitterer, Gartner, September 22, 2008
About Planview
For 20 years, Planview has been advancing the discipline of portfolio management, helping our customers change the way they manage people and money to make better business decisions. With a singular focus on portfolio management, Planview is the only company that combines customer-driven software, unmatched domain expertise, and proven best practices to solve each customer’s unique business problems.
Planview Enterprise®, a market-leading portfolio management application suite, with Planview PRISMS®, the knowledge base for accelerating organizational change, delivers measurable business results for IT management, product development organizations and throughout the enterprise. As an independent, trusted partner, Planview is committed to interoperability with key management systems through the Planview OpenSuite integration product line. Industry leaders such as Citi, BP, and EDF, rely on Planview to drive revenue, mitigate risk, cut costs, create efficiencies, and ultimately give their businesses a competitive advantage. Privately held and consistently profitable, Planview is headquartered in Austin, Texas. With offices across North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific, the company supports customers in virtually every industry around the world. For more information, visit www.Planview.com.
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