webMethods Reinforces Industry Leadership with Major Presence at the Gartner Business Process Management Summit
February 26 2007 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
webMethods, Inc. (Nasdaq:WEBM), a leading business integration and
optimization software company, today announced that it is serving
as a Platinum Sponsor for the Gartner Business Process Management
Summit taking place this week (February 26-28) in San Diego. As
part of the company�s significant presence at the event, webMethods
will be showcasing webMethods BPMS, a full-feature business process
management suite (BPMS), and other key components of the recently
released webMethods Fabric� 7 product suite. webMethods� executives
and customers will be featured presenters at the Summit with
webMethods also hosting a BPM Master Class immediately following
the event. �Many of the approaches that we�ve long championed are
fueling BPM�s rapid ascent at the enterprise level,� said Kiran
Garimella, vice president, Office of the CTO, webMethods, Inc.
�Increasingly, enterprises recognize the benefits of building from
a business integration core as well as the underlying role that SOA
plays in driving long-term agility. What�s becoming equally clear
is the need to monitor and measure first as a means for achieving
sustainable process improvements with an end-goal of putting more
power into the hands of end-users. Bringing all of this together
into a cohesive whole requires the right people, processes and
technologies, which will be the focus of our discussions at the
conference.� In a recent report1, Gartner, Inc. declared
�[a]lthough many user organizations have separate service-oriented
architecture and business process management initiatives under way,
both are more successful and the benefits are compounded when they
are united.� The research firm went on to report that
�organizations that align their BPM and SOA initiatives in 2007
will double their likelihood of becoming industry leaders in 2011
(0.7 probability).� webMethods� sponsored presentations at the
Gartner Business Process Management Summit include: �Cox
Communications Improves Order Processing through SOA-based BPMS� �
Bruce Beeco, Cox�s director of technical architecture, will discuss
how one of the nation�s largest cable providers is implementing a
service-oriented architecture (SOA)-based BPMS to reduce errors,
improve productivity and speed order processing times across its
customer-facing operations. �Aligning the Right Approach and
Technology for Faster ROI� � Garimella, the author of �The Power of
Process: Unleashing the Source of Competitive Advantage� and Susan
Ganeshan, webMethods� vice president for product management, will
share winning strategies for ensuring long-term success with
business process management (BPM). A specific goal of their
presentation is in helping enterprises more quickly and effectively
measure, model, implement and improve business processes. Also
being showcased during the event is webMethods Fabric 7.0, the
latest version of webMethods� flagship product suite, which is
distinguished by the inclusion of webMethods BPMS as a newly
available solution. Key features of this comprehensive business
process management suite (BPMS) include an Eclipse-based process
modeling environment for codeless development, extensive support
for both human-to-human and system-to-system task flow, business
rules management, and a new semantic metadata library. Another
differentiating aspect of webMethods BPMS is the enhanced process
monitoring and real-time business analytics that it offers as an
integrated feature. This provides enterprises with the �actionable
insight� needed to effectively model and improve business
processes. webMethods� core business activity monitoring (BAM)
technology is also fundamental to webMethods Optimize for SAP, a
new performance monitoring solution for SAP-based business
processes, such as Order-to-Cash, that is also being showcased at
the event. Following webMethods� recent acquisition of Infravio,
webMethods Fabric 7.0 is also marked by the debut of best-in-class
SOA governance components as well as the continued inclusion of
industry-leading business integration capabilities. �The customer
response to �7�s� release has been uniformly positive with client
projects already in production,� said Ganeshan. �For these
organizations, this latest release of webMethods Fabric answers a
fundamental question � why should I continue to invest in distinct
silos for business integration, SOA and BPM when I don�t have to?
Users benefit from closer alignment between IT and the
line-of-business as our customers are thrilled with the overall
reduction in time, cost and effort required to develop new process
applications for their businesses.� Immediately following the
event, webMethods will bring its popular BPM Master Class program
to San Diego on March 1st. Led by Garimella and Bruce Williams, the
author of �Six Sigma for Dummies� and a Gartner BPM Summit
keynoter, this one-day session will prepare business analysts and
enterprise architects alike to fully-leverage an emerging
generation of BPM technologies targeting enterprise-level
requirements. During the program, they and other executives will
outline models and approaches for defining BPM in the business
lexicon; achieving continuous process improvements; creating the
business case for BPM investments; and avoiding common pitfalls and
other lessons learned from actual implementations. Additional
information on this program, as well as other BPM Master Classes
occurring throughout North America, can be found at
http://www.webmethods.com/bpmeducation. 1 SOA and BPM Are Better
Together (February 9, 2007) by Paolo Malinverno and Janelle B.
Hill, Gartner, Inc. 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 1,500 global customers. webMethods is headquartered in
Fairfax, Va., with offices throughout the U.S., Europe, Asia
Pacific, Middle East & Japan. More information about the
company can be found at 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.
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