Canon Enhances imageWARE Solutions With webMethods Integration
August 16 2006 - 10:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
World Leader in Printing and Imaging Strikes OEM Agreement for the
Japanese Market to Better Integrate Document Workflows FAIRFAX,
Va., Aug. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- webMethods, Inc. (NASDAQ:WEBM), a
leading business integration and optimization software company,
today announced an OEM agreement between webMethods K.K., the
company's wholly-owned Japanese subsidiary, and Canon Inc.
(NYSE:CAJ), a global leader in printing and imaging technology for
the consumer, business and industrial markets. Under the agreement
covering the Japanese market, Canon is embedding webMethods
technology as a standard feature within its imageWARE Enterprise
Gateway, which is the company's data transaction product for easily
connecting Canon's input and output solutions with a variety of
back-end systems. "Canon is globally recognized as one of the
world's top brands. They're continuing focus on innovation,
customer service and flawless performance makes the company a top
choice within every market it serves," said Andy Wilkinson, senior
vice president and General Manager, Asia/Pacific & Japan,
webMethods, Inc. "We're excited to be partnered with them in
expanding the out-of-the-box performance that their imageWARE
Enterprise Gateway delivers. This will allow organizations to more
quickly and easily implement and automate document workflow. At the
same time, webMethods' robust performance and significant
scalability complements and extends the high speed processing and
fault-free execution that Canon is known for." Canon is employing
webMethods as an integration standard for linking its input and
output solution to a number of enterprise resource planning (ERP),
supply chain management (SCM), and customer relationship management
(CRM) platforms. As a result, enterprises can significantly reduce
processing costs, order cycles and error rates as documents like
invoices, purchase orders and payments are automatically entered
into each system. Likewise, linking these systems directly to a
variety of digital outputs ensures that fulfillment and billing can
be addressed more quickly and efficiently. As an OEM partner, Canon
is taking advantage of webMethods' industry- leading business
integration technology to reduce the cost, time and complexity
associated with on-boarding new applications and trading partners.
As an open platform boasting broad support for a number of industry
standards and ready access to a wide variety of pre-built adapters,
webMethods' technology can be easily embedded in a variety of
applications to deliver out- of-the-box connectivity and
interoperability to a wide range of applications, databases, and
trading partners. As enterprise-class technology, it also meets the
scalability, performance, security and reliability requirements
associated with business-critical implementations. The imageWARE
Enterprise Gateway has been developed solely for the Japanese
market. Canon has no current plans to expand availability to
additional markets, such as the United States or Europe. About
Canon Inc. Canon Inc. (NYSE:CAJ), headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is
a leader in the fields of professional and consumer imaging
equipment and information systems. Canon's extensive range of
products includes copying machines, inkjet and laser beam printers,
cameras, video equipment, medical equipment and
semiconductor-manufacturing equipment. With over 115,000 employees
worldwide, Canon has manufacturing and marketing subsidiaries in
Japan, the Americas, Europe, Asia and Oceania; and a global R&D
network with companies based in the United States, Europe, Asia and
Australia. Canon's consolidated net sales for fiscal 2005 (ended
December 31, 2005) totaled $31.8 billion (at an exchange rate of
118 yen = US$1). Visit the Canon Inc. website at:
http://www.canon.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 over 1,400 global customers. webMethods is headquartered in
Fairfax, Va., with offices throughout the U.S., Europe, Asia
Pacific and Japan. 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, Inc., +1-703-460-5996, Web site:
http://www.webmethods.com/ http://www.canon.com/
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