webMethods Certifies and Enables Key Partners for SOA Governance With New Program
November 08 2006 - 8:55AM
PR Newswire (US)
BearingPoint, LiquidHub, Perficient, and Tata Consultancy Services
Sign-on as Charter Members of the webMethods SOA Governance Ready
program WASHINGTON, Nov. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Integration World 2006
-- webMethods, Inc. (NASDAQ:WEBM), a leading business integration
and optimization software company, today launched a new SOA
governance certification and enablement program for its systems
integration (SIs) partners. The webMethods SOA Governance Ready
program identifies and supports specific partners that have made an
additional commitment to SOA governance through specialized
training of consultants, adoption of methodologies for SOA
governance, and additional investments in the creation of
complementary best practices. Charter members include BearingPoint,
LiquidHub, Perficient, and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). The
webMethods SOA Governance Ready program builds upon webMethods'
recently announced products for SOA governance -- webMethods
Infravio X- Registry and webMethods Infravio X-Broker [see separate
announcement: webMethods Brings SOA Governance to the Mainstream,
(November 7, 2006)]. By leveraging webMethods' industry-leading
products to deploy their unique best practices and methodologies
for SOA governance, leading SIs can help Global 2000 enterprises
accelerate time-to-benefit for their SOA investments through the
broader and more rapid reuse of services. More specifically,
webMethods' SOA governance solution offers a flexible and scalable
framework for the assembly and packaging of each partner's
domain-specific metadata and industry-specific policies for reuse
across multiple implementations. Furthermore, it facilitates closer
collaboration with all process actors -- business analysts,
enterprise architects and developers -- for the streamlined
development of new applications and processes. webMethods is
supporting the program with exclusive partner training, enhanced
access to development resources and promotional packaging, and
additional consulting resources for creating customized policies
and contracts as a key component of each partner's SOA governance
offering. "The biggest inhibitors for many organizations' SOA
adoption are their lack of governance as well as their need to
demonstrate a positive return-on- investment," said Lance Hill,
vice president and General Manager, SOA Solutions, webMethods, Inc.
"The webMethods SOA Governance Ready program addresses these
concerns by accelerating partner proficiency on our new solution.
As a result, they can more quickly implement lifecycle governance
at the enterprise-level while more readily demonstrating the value
that these implementations produce. The importance of this issue is
underscored by the premier level of partners -- BearingPoint,
LiquidHub, Perficient, and TCS -- that have committed to the
program in advance of its launch." BearingPoint provides strategic
consulting, application services, technology solutions and managed
services to Global 2000 companies and government organizations.
They help customers achieve results by identifying mission critical
issues and implementing innovative and customized solutions
designed to generate revenue, reduce costs and access the right
information at the right time. According to a recent technology
analyst research report, BearingPoint's SOA offering scored higher
than any other organization's services. "Over the past year, we
have developed an SOA roadmap foundation framework and the
methodologies to enable companies to accelerate delivery with
flexible tools and templates," said Gregory Reh, Managing Director,
BearingPoint. "Now, working with webMethods and the webMethods
governance platform, we have a complete suite of products that
support our methodologies and framework. We will be able to
increase the value that we bring to our customers and to help them
align their IT systems with their business initiatives." LiquidHub
is a systems integrator and technology consultancy delivering
strategy applications, data, and infrastructure solutions within
the context of enterprise and service-oriented architectures.
LiquidHub partners with clients in life sciences, pharmaceutical,
healthcare, insurance, financial services, and other key industries
to deliver technology solutions globally. "SOA's great potential is
in its ability to facilitate customized solutions at the
enterprise-level for individual users. This is something that we've
embraced as a more efficient means in which to deliver our proven
domain experience and best practices," said Jonathan Brassington,
Partner and CEO, LiquidHub. "Effective governance is essential to
this strategy as it supports solution design and application
delivery, while ensuring the long- term viability of these
solutions. By taking advantage of the webMethods platform to
capture and standardize our approach, we can increase the speed and
effectiveness of our customer-facing engagements." Perficient is a
leading information technology consulting firm serving clients
throughout the United States. The company's core competency is in
designing, building and delivering business-driven technology
solutions. Perficient helps clients gain competitive advantage by
leveraging the Internet to make their businesses more responsive to
market opportunities and threats; strengthen relationships with
customers, suppliers and partners; improve productivity; and reduce
information technology costs. "At Perficient, we believe rapidly
changing business environments favor companies that have achieved a
high degree of adaptability. Companies that can quickly adapt their
business processes to respond to new market opportunities or
competitive threats do so by design," said Stephen Haglund,
Operations Director, Perficient. "Using Perficient's services and
webMethods' solutions, clients can take advantage of these more
adaptive business strategies as they are now supported by the more
flexible business applications and IT infrastructure enabled by
SOA." Tata Consultancy Services is a world-leading information
technology consulting, services, and business process outsourcing
organization. The company is recognized for envisioning and
pioneering the adoption of the flexible global business practices
that enable companies to operate more efficiently and produce more
value today. Having commenced operations in 1968, the company now
encompasses operations in 34 countries spanning six continents,
where it provides customers with a range of services. The company
was recently recognized as a "Strong Performer" in the North
American SOA integration services market by a leading industry
research provider. "We continually look to improve and invest our
time and resources in products that provide significant benefits
and efficiencies to our customers. webMethods has a proven track
record of delivering client value through their business process
integration solutions," said Ravindra Asundi, Global EAI Practice
Head, Tata Consultancy Services. "By combining our service
expertise with webMethods' solutions, we will ensure that customers
realize the full benefits of adopting SOA across their enterprise."
Participation within the webMethods SOA Governance Ready program is
by invitation-only. Selection criteria is based on each partner's
demonstrated commitment to creating and maintaining best-in-class
core competencies for SOA governance. Additional partners
interested in joining the program should contact their webMethods
Partner Relations manager to learn more. 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/. About Perficient Perficient is a
leading information technology consulting firm serving Global 2000
and other large enterprise customers throughout the United States.
Perficient helps clients gain competitive advantage by using
Internet-based technologies to make their businesses more
responsive to market opportunities and threats, strengthen
relationships with customers, suppliers and partners, improve
productivity and reduce information technology costs. Perficient is
a member of the Russell 2000(R) index and is traded on the Nasdaq
Global Select Market, a market for public companies that meet the
highest listing standards in the world. For more information about
Perficient, which employs more than 950 professionals, please visit
http://www.perficient.com/. About Tata Consultancy Services Ltd
(TCS) Tata Consultancy Services Limited (TCS) is the world-leading
information technology consulting, services, business process
outsourcing and engineering services organization that envisioned
and pioneered the adoption of the flexible global business
practices that today enable companies to operate more efficiently
and produce more value. TCS achieved this by creating and
perfecting a unique method of global deployment and delivery of
high quality, high value services and products in IT consulting and
business process outsourcing. Known as the "Global Delivery Model,"
this strategic services delivery concept has reshaped the IT
services industry. More than 95% of TCS customers reward the
company's reliability, passion, creativity, and unique ability to
handle the broadest range of their IT needs by continually
extending and deepening their partnerships with TCS. With over
70,000 of the world's best trained IT consultants located in 35
countries, TCS is uniquely positioned to deliver its flexible world
class services seamlessly to any location. TCS reported
consolidated revenues of $2.97 billion (U.S.) in the fiscal year
2005-2006. The company is listed on the National Stock Exchange and
Bombay Stock Exchange in India. For more information:
http://www.tcs.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/ http://www.perficient.com/
http://www.tcs.com/
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