webMethods Advances Business Process Productivity with Formation of Dedicated Resource Team
September 06 2005 - 9:30AM
PR Newswire (US)
New Group Offers Extended Industry Expertise for Leveraging
webMethods Fabric to Achieve Continuous Process Improvements; Hires
Jim Gahagan and Richard Douglass to Lead the Group's Financial
Services and High-Tech Manufacturing Teams. FAIRFAX, Va., Sept. 6
/PRNewswire/ -- webMethods Inc. (NASDAQ:WEBM), a leading business
integration and optimization software company, today introduced its
Global Strategic Business Solutions group, a dedicated team of
industry experts assigned with creating targeted business solutions
built on webMethods Fabric(TM), the company's flagship product
suite for integrating, assembling and optimizing end-to-end
business processes. The group has already played a central role in
webMethods' recent introduction of a new series of Business Process
Productivity solutions, which are being employed across various
industries to help enterprises more readily realize continuous
process improvements across their most critical operations. These
solutions include webMethods Payments Monitoring(TM), which debuted
yesterday for the wholesale banking sector. Through the development
of reference architectures, business case analysis tools, and other
resources, the group is also helping a number of customers and
industry partners implement additional solutions for addressing a
variety of process-related business requirements. "By defining
processes and methodologies for implementing our technology to
solve a variety of specific business challenges, webMethods is
helping clients meet their unique requirements more completely,
confidently and efficiently than previously possible," said Deborah
Rosen, executive vice president, Worldwide Marketing, webMethods
Inc. "The added insight and experience offered by our Global
Strategic Business Solutions team is a significant differentiator
for ensuring that customers maximize their return- on-investment
from every initiative that they undertake using webMethods
technology." One of the primary focuses of the Global Strategic
Business Solutions group is to provide customers and partners with
ready access to industry expertise for leveraging the extensive
capabilities of webMethods Fabric to solve specific business
challenges. Among the core industries covered by the group are
consumer product goods & retail, financial services, high-tech
manufacturing, media & telecommunications, and process
manufacturing. In addition to developing pre-packaged solutions for
specific business challenges, the group also conducts customized
Business Process Productivity Assessments. These engagements
typically commence with a gap analysis of existing business process
requirements and architectural capabilities; followed by an audit
used to quantify and substantiate the impact of recommended process
improvements, along with the identification of specific Key
Performance Indicators (KPIs) to track these improvements; and
conclude with a comprehensive Business Case Analysis designed to
outline potential costs, risk factors, and projected payback for
each proposed initiative. "The orchestration of various systems,
information repositories, workflows and people into end-to-end
business processes can be quite complex. As the industry leader in
this area, webMethods offers unique and proven methodologies for
quickly roadmapping these requirements into comprehensive business
solutions that consistently achieve the desired performance
improvements," said Arnold Huffman, vice president, Global
Strategic Business Solutions, webMethods Inc. "Through this
approach, we've been able to help global enterprises report
millions in savings and other benefits from streamlining key
aspects of their business, such as their supply chain, order
fulfillment, or call center operations." As a key component of
these ongoing efforts, webMethods recently appointed Jim Gahagan
and Richard Douglass to lead the group's financial services and
high-tech manufacturing teams. They join Raman Flawn, Chris Kraus
and Matt Willis, who lead the media & telecommunications,
consumer product goods & retail, and process manufacturing
teams respectively. Gahagan joins webMethods as Senior Director for
Financial Services with specific responsibilities for supporting
the company's 135 financial services customers. Prior to joining
webMethods, he served with PeopleSoft as a vice president with the
firm's Global Industry Executive Financial Services team.
Previously, he was a vice president with both Merrill Lynch and
Goldman Sachs, overseeing diverse technology portfolios during the
course of a twenty-year career with the two financial services
giants. With twenty years of experience in supply chain management
and operations, Douglass joins webMethods as a Director overseeing
the high-tech manufacturing sector for the firm's Global Strategic
Business Solutions group. Previously, he served as the Managing
Partner for Manufacturing Associates, an advisory firm supporting
high-tech manufacturers. Prior to joining Manufacturing Associates,
Douglass was an Associate Partner at Accenture, a global consulting
firm, where he served as a key member of the firm's Global Chemical
Practice. His industry credentials include a Green Belt in Six
Sigma and he is also APICS certified. 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, and webMethods Fabric and webMethods
Payments Monitoring are trademarks, of webMethods, Inc. in the
United States and certain other countries. 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, or Web site:
http://www.webmethods.com/
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