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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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