Latest Release of webMethods Fabric Converges EAI, SOA and BPM Into a Comprehensive Platform for Business Process Integration
November 07 2006 - 8:55AM
PR Newswire (US)
Unveiled Today at Integration World 2006, webMethods Fabric 7.0
Highlighted by Breakthrough Technologies Enabling Organizations to
Deliver Systems That Are Faster to Develop, Easier to Use and Less
Costly to Maintain WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Integration
World 2006 -- webMethods, Inc. (NASDAQ:WEBM), a leading business
integration and optimization software company, today unveiled
webMethods Fabric(TM) 7.0 as the industry's most advanced,
fully-integrated product suite for business process integration.
webMethods Fabric 7.0 delivers a number of major breakthroughs,
including guided process improvements, seamless collaboration
between IT and business, and lifecycle management of corporate IT
assets. Guided Process Improvements A significant differentiating
feature of webMethods Fabric 7.0 is its integrated use of
webMethods' industry-leading Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) for
the real-time analysis of end-to-end process performance and guided
process improvement. A 3-D graphical interface enables users to
easily identify system problems, automatically determine root
causes, and instantly drill down for additional detail. With event
correlation, automated variance baselining, and business impact
analysis, this "actionable insight" facilitates continuous process
improvement, such as employed within popular methodologies like Six
Sigma. Users can detect, diagnose and remediate defective
processes, transactions, and orders from their desktops. Automated
alerts ensure that corrective action can be taken to assure
compliance with customer-based service-level agreements (SLAs).
Seamless Collaboration between IT and Business Business analysts
and developers can quickly create processes, composite applications
and human workflow tasks by using a "drag-and-drop" library of more
than 150 UI controls. Through webMethods Fabric's Eclipse-based
toolset, users can collaboratively depict every component of the
process -- models, swim lanes, Key Performance Indicator (KPI)
trees, step transitions and user interfaces -- and configure them
into unique business processes. A new semantic metadata library
facilitates faster development and extended enterprise service
reuse through the use of common, clear terminology to describe IT
assets. Based on its use of the Resource Description Framework
(RDF) and the Web Ontology Language (OWL), the library
automatically learns dependencies and relationships between IT
assets. As a result, searching for unique concepts, templates, and
existing assets based on a variety of criteria, including its role
within a business process, relationships with key enterprise
systems, authors and/or subsequent contributors, has never been
easier. Additionally, metadata enhances collaboration among large,
geographically dispersed teams. Integrated run-time simulation
graphically animates the process on a step- by-step basis to
identify break points as a means for facilitating flawless
execution at implementation. Additionally, webMethods Fabric
leverages AJAX technology to develop rich browser-based interfaces
to improve productivity by dynamically delivering information
without page refreshes. "The challenge with most business process
management solutions is their starting premise that users are
modeling new processes from scratch. In reality, most organizations
need to first seize greater control over existing processes,
through process mapping, monitoring and performance analysis, as a
means for subsequent improvement," said Kristin Muhlner, executive
vice president for Product Development, webMethods, Inc. "Our
approach leverages business activity monitoring to identify,
diagnose and address business issues. By marrying this with a rich
collaborative development environment, a semantic metadata library
and SOA infrastructure, organizations can intuitively and
seamlessly deliver business applications that not only better meet
the needs of the business but are faster to deploy and less costly
to maintain." webMethods Fabric 7.0 also incorporates
industry-leading business rules management from Fair Isaac as a new
feature. It allows business users to create, manage, and modify
business rules -- even highly complex ones involving multiple sets,
arrays and string manipulations -- directly from their desktop.
This provides process owners with the ability to directly manage
key decision-making criteria, such as changing credit scoring or
promotional discount requirements, within the process. Lifecycle
Management of Corporate IT Assets A key component of webMethods
Fabric 7.0 is best-in-class governance for service-oriented
architecture (SOA). Following webMethods' recent acquisition of
Infravio, webMethods is introducing two new products for SOA
governance: webMethods Infravio X-Registry as a fully-integrated
registry/repository, and webMethods Infravio X-Broker for lifecycle
management and policy enforcement [see separate announcement:
webMethods Brings SOA Governance to the Mainstream, (November 7,
2006)]. Building on their existing use of webMethods as an
enterprise services bus (ESB) to create and manage Web services,
enterprises can employ these additional components to
institutionalize their SOA efforts through the expanded and more
consistent use of common standards, reusable services, and shared
best practices. With built-in support for key standards, including
JSR-168 and WSRP, these applications can be subsequently reused
across nearly any implementation. Other supported standards include
BPMN and BPEL for process models. Product Availability Components
of the webMethods Fabric v. 7.0 product suite will be available
beginning this December. Through March 31, 2007, webMethods will be
offering package pricing through its "Quick Start" program for
specific configurations of webMethods Fabric -- webMethods for B2B,
webMethods for BPM, and webMethods Optimize (business activity
monitoring) -- as a means for accelerating time- to-benefit. The
unveiling of webMethods Fabric 7.0 took place at Integration World
2006, webMethods' fifth annual global customer conference, which is
taking place this week in Washington, DC. 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 1,400 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, Inc.,
+1-703-460-5996, Web site: http://www.webmethods.com/
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