webMethods Highlights the Role of IT in Achieving Strategic Business Objectives With Integration World Program
October 31 2005 - 8:30AM
PR Newswire (US)
SOA, BPM and ROI Among the Key Topics Being Addressed During
Premier Business Integration Forum FAIRFAX, Va., Oct. 31
/PRNewswire/ -- webMethods Inc. (NASDAQ:WEBM), a leading business
integration and optimization software company, today announced the
formal program for Integration World 2005. This year's event is
projected to be the most ambitious and important edition yet of the
company's annual user conference with more than a thousand
attendees from the company's partners and customers expected to
convene November 14-16, 2005 in Atlanta, Georgia. The conference
theme, Power Your Big Ideas, will be brought to life as attendees
hear from a number of esteemed practitioners sharing innovative
strategies and best practices for leveraging integration to achieve
strategic business objectives. Leading these discussions are Alex
Matthews of ABN AMRO, webMethods CEO David Mitchell and the winners
of the 2005 webMethods Customer Innovation Awards in a series of
highly anticipated keynote presentations. "Increasingly, companies
are recognizing the vital role integration plays in the execution
of corporate strategy," said Mitchell. "With the emergence of
service-oriented architecture, the ascension of business process
management, and the adoption of new tools for assessing
return-on-investment, this is a critical and exciting time for our
industry. Specifically, we're now poised to move beyond many of
today's technological limitations so that we can more actively
shape business performance and differentiation. I'm excited that so
many industry leaders have elected to join us for Integration World
2005 as their participation sets the stage for what is likely to be
the most valuable and powerful forum yet." As enterprise architect
for the Wholesale Clients Strategic Business Unit, Alex Matthews is
responsible for overseeing the definition and implementation of
technology strategy within Investment Banking Operations at ABN
AMRO. Recently, Matthews led the rollout of a new service-oriented
architecture (SOA) delivery framework, which has greatly bolstered
the banking giant's overall agility and responsiveness by speeding
the process in which new systems can be deployed to end-users. As
part of this process, ABN AMRO has also been an innovator in the
use of business activity monitoring technology (BAM), applying BAM
throughout its investment banking operations to secure greater
end-to-end process visibility and predictability. Other featured
keynote presenters will include executives representing the three
winners of the 2005 webMethods Customer Innovation Awards. These
organizations are being recognized for their leadership in
leveraging IT to achieve specific business objectives for market
share growth, customer service excellence, and operational
efficiency. In addition, Marc Breissinger, webMethods' chief
architect, will outline the numerous visionary features that have
been transformed into reality with the latest release of webMethods
Fabric(TM). The conference will also feature more than forty
additional track session presentations focusing on the latest
advances in business integration: * Integration and SOA: Leveraging
integration and SOA in a common enterprise framework * Improving
Business Process Productivity: Utilizing model-driven design to
accelerate the delivery of business solutions * Delivering Industry
Solutions: Responding to new business requirements and
opportunities, such as SOX, Payments Processing Optimization, RFID
and the Demand Driven Enterprise * Leveraging Best Practices:
Learning from leaders who have transformed the way integration
technology affects their business * Diving Deep into Technology:
Everything you ever wanted to learn about webMethods Fabric -- now
in an expanded session-length format In addition to webMethods
executives, attendees will learn directly from their peers with
customer presentations including those from 7-Eleven, Dean Foods,
Disney, Key Bank, Sony Pictures Entertainment, and Spartan Stores.
A number of leading industry analysts, including Eric Austvold of
AMR Research, Rebecca Wettemann of Nucleus Research, Forrester
Research's Ken Vollmer, and Roy Schulte of Gartner, will also be
featured as they share with attendees a variety of recent findings
and industry projections. Integration World 2005 also provides
webMethods customers with the chance to directly interact with
company executives, weighing in on a number of key issues impacting
future product direction in both formal and informal sessions.
These opportunities include participation within interactive focus
group discussions surrounding a number of forthcoming product
offerings. Integration World 2005 will also feature a hands-on
solution center showcasing a variety of solutions and services from
webMethods and its partners, and the always popular customer
celebration, which is slated for the 755 Club at the Atlanta
Braves' Turner Field. Integration World 2005 takes place November
14-16th at the Atlanta Hyatt Regency in Atlanta, Georgia.
Additional information and event registration can be found by
visiting http://www.integrationworld2005.com/. 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 of, 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: John Conley of webMethods,
+1-703-460-5996, Web site: http://www.webmethods.com/
http://www.integrationworld2005.com/
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