Nordic Recycling and Environmental Services Leader Selects webMethods Fabric for Business Process Integration
July 12 2005 - 10:01AM
PR Newswire (US)
Nordic Recycling and Environmental Services Leader Selects
webMethods Fabric for Business Process Integration Stena Metall
Group to More Efficiently Connect With Trading Partners and
Optimize Enterprise Business Processes STOCKHOLM, Sweden, July 12
/PRNewswire/ -- webMethods Inc. (NASDAQ:WEBM), a leading business
integration and optimization software company, today announced that
webMethods Fabric(TM), the company's flagship solution for helping
enterprises increase Business Process Productivity, has been
selected as the integration infrastructure for Stena Metall Group,
a leader in recycling and environmental services for the Nordic
region. The adoption follows an exhaustive five-month review
process in which four vendors' integration solutions were
rigorously tested and evaluated in head-to-head competition.
According to Patrik Mattsson, Stena Metall's integration
infrastructure team leader and IT architect, "webMethods' platform
stood out at an early stage as a stable and robust product with a
great ability to expand as our company grows. The criteria used to
evaluate webMethods Fabric included stable integration of our
internal business and operations systems, as well as the security
and strength of electronic data interchange (EDI) connections to
external customers, with additional judging of the scalability and
reliability of the overall suite." webMethods Fabric is being
employed by Stena Metall to simplify and extend integration of
numerous globally-deployed, heterogeneous systems spanning the
company's nine business units as well as to support information
exchange with hundreds of global trading partners operating across
a number of industries, including metals, paper, electronics,
petroleum, hazardous waste and chemicals. By selecting webMethods
Fabric, Stena Metall is now able to address all of the company's
diverse business processes, including customer records management
and real-time integration with external, third-party customer
portals. webMethods Fabric also encompasses webMethods' expertise
in the materials processing sector, which helps Stena Metall comply
with overlapping regional, national and global certification
requirements that can make data management and sharing increasingly
complex. "With over 50 customers in the materials processing
industry, webMethods recognizes the unique challenges these
companies face in efficiently communicating with trading partners
and optimizing their supply chain in a constantly fluctuating
environment," said Matthew Willis, vice president, Process
Industries, webMethods. "With webMethods, companies like Stena
Metall have realized a tenfold reduction in integration costs along
with similar improvements in their overall responsiveness. By
reducing operating costs, improving time-to-market, and extending
business visibility to enjoy greater predictability, these
enterprises are leveraging webMethods Fabric to increase their
Business Process Productivity." About webMethods Inc. webMethods
(NASDAQ:WEBM) provides business integration software to integrate,
assemble and optimize available IT assets to drive business process
productivity. webMethods delivers an innovative, enterprise-class
business integration platform that incorporates proven integration
technology with next generation capabilities into one interoperable
set of tools that delivers a unique combination of efficiency,
agility and control. webMethods combines industry leadership with a
zealous commitment to customers to deliver tangible business value
to more than 1,300 global customers. webMethods is headquartered in
Fairfax, Va., with offices throughout the U.S., Europe, Asia
Pacific and Japan. More information about the company can be found
at http://www.webmethods.com/. The webMethods name and logo are
registered trademarks, and webMethods Fabric is a trademark, of
webMethods, Inc. All other marks mentioned are trademarks or
service marks of their respective companies. DATASOURCE: webMethods
Inc. CONTACT: Nicola Males (UK), +44-1784-221623, , or Kim Cornwall
(US), +1-703-460-5910, , both of webMethods Inc. Web site:
http://www.webmethods.com/
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