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Active Endpoints Significant Growth Attracts Industry Veterans to Executive Team and Board of Directors

John Cingari — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 00:30:27 +0000

Active Endpoints, Inc., the leader in affordable, service-oriented BPM that development teams love, today announced that John Cingari has joined the company as Chief Marketing Officer, Tyler Drolet as Chief Financial Officer, and Henry Ancona, who has served on the boards of Pegasystems, Computervision (acquired), and OneSource Information Services (acquired), to the Board of Directors. In addition, René Bonvanie, Vice President, Worldwide Marketing, Palo Alto Networks and former Oracle, SAP, Veritas, and Serena Software executive, joined the Board of Directors in February of this year.

These industry veterans, who have created and managed both rapidly growing private and public companies, joined the company because of Active Endpoints’ unique vision to deliver affordable, service-oriented BPM in order to take advantage of strong demand in this segment of the large and growing BPM market.

The company continues to show significant traction, confirming customers want an alternative to traditional, complex and expensive BPMS’s. For example, revenues grew over 100% in the 1st half 2010 compared to the 1st half of 2009. In addition, the customer base continues to expand in all geographic regions and industries, including Telecommunications (Tele2), Media and Entertainment (itfc), Government (Naval Research Labs), and Financial Services/Insurance (Desjardins General Insurance Group).

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Western Governors University Realizes 80% Savings with Active Endpoints Business Process Management System

John Cingari — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 00:16:21 +0000

Western Governors University is an online university that was facing student management challenges as it continued to grow at a significant pace. The university is in a rapid growth state, and was looking for a BPM solution, one that would be based on standards and could incorporate human tasks with automated processes.

The IT organization at WGU launched a search for a BPM system that was standards-based, supported a services-oriented architecture and easily deployed and maintained on their own. After considering several of the other solutions (including JBoss jBPM and coding a solution themselves), WGU selected the ActiveVOS business process management system (BPMS) from Active Endpoints.

This Upside Research Implementation Brief takes a closer look at the university, its challenges, and its decision to select a model-driven BPMS over a set of non-integrated propriety tools as the foundation for its SOA architecture. It also examines the business impact of its BPM deployment.

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Active Endpoints posts record sales in Q2 2010

Alex Neihaus — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 13:00:24 +0000

We are very pleased to announce that, once again, ActiveVOS BPMS grew substantially in Q2 2010. BPM users around the world are looking for a new kind of BPMS — one that is easier to master and use. And they are finding it in ActiveVOS. The attached press release has the details of the BPMS’s growing momentum.

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ActiveVOS BPMS named to SD Times 100 for second consecutive year

Alex Neihaus — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 12:45:17 +0000

Active Endpoints is honored to have its ActiveVOS BPMS recognized by SD Times for the second year in a row. Our BPMS has been selected for the prestigious SD Times 100. The details are in the press release attached to this post. Post from: VOSibilities, the Active Endpoints BPMS blog Learn more about ActiveVOSActiveVOS BPMS named to [...]

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Australian Telecom AAPT goes live with ActiveVOS applications

Alex Neihaus — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 13:00:34 +0000

Today, Active Endpoints announced that Australian telecom AAPT has gone into production with ActiveVOS to support the launch of many of its updated services.

Details of how AAPT has used BPM to change the way it develops applications are in the press release attached to this post.

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Active Endpoints Triples New Customer Revenue in Q1 2010

Alex Neihaus — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 13:00:34 +0000

In Q1 of 2010, ActiveVOS sales continued to grow rapidly. Please see the press release attached to this post for details. Post from: VOSibilities, the Active Endpoints BPMS blog Learn more about ActiveVOSActive Endpoints Triples New Customer Revenue in Q1 2010

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MWD Advisors: ActiveVOS “… hits the event-driven BPM sweet spot”

Alex Neihaus — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 14:38:00 +0000

We are pleased to make available a newly published analysis of ActiveVOS written by Neil Ward-Dutton of MWD Advisors.

We are especially excited that Neil chose to focus on the integration of complex event processing (CEP) into ActiveVOS. This report describes how powerful the combination of BPM and CEP can be and makes a point we have long asserted: that CEP shouldn’t be a separate thing. Instead, it should be integrated into the core of the BPMS.

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VOSibilities podcast #46: SOA, BPM and building your digital business

Alex Neihaus — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 14:59:53 +0000

We are very pleased to present a replay of a webinar we hosted featuring Forrester Research, Inc. Vice President and Principal Analyst Randy Heffner and Michael Rowley, CTO, Active Endpoints, Inc. titled SOA, BPM and building your digital business.

Originally recorded on March 25, 2010, this webinar explains what a digital business is and describes the technological approaches that are possible to achieving digital processes using SOA and BPM. A demonstration of the ActiveVOS BPMS is given to illustrate some of the concepts of a digital business. A stimulating Q&A with attendees follows.

There are multiple formats attached to this post, including a Flash version that can be streamed from the blog.

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Ovum BPMS report adds ActiveVOS to “consider” list

Alex Neihaus — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:00:56 +0000

We are honored to have been added to Ovum’s list of BPMSs to consider in their latest decision matrix on business process management. Attached to this post are two PDFs. First, a press release announcing the results and, second, a copy of Ovum’s conclusions along with their “radar” (or detailed report) on ActiveVOS. Post from: VOSibilities, the [...]

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Alfresco CTO to present on “CTO Tuesdays”

Alex Neihaus — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:03:26 +0000

We are very pleased to announce that John Newton, CTO of Alfresco Software, will be our guest on CTO Tuesdays this week. Details are in the media advisory attached to this post. Register for the webinar at http://www.activevos.com/ctot Post from: VOSibilities, the Active Endpoints BPMS blog Learn more about ActiveVOSAlfresco CTO to present on “CTO Tuesdays”

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ActiveVOS Experiences Rapid Sales Growth in Q4 2009

Alex Neihaus — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 14:00:57 +0000

In the last quarter of 2009, ActiveVOS sales grew rapidly. Details are in the attached press release. Post from: VOSibilities, the Active Endpoints BPMS blog Learn more about ActiveVOSActiveVOS Experiences Rapid Sales Growth in Q4 2009

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ActiveVOS BPMS Automates Information Sharing for Government Security Agency

Alex Neihaus — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:48:27 +0000

Attached to this post is a news release announcing availability of a new case study describing how ActiveVOS has been used to improve information classification in a government security agency.

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ActiveVOS government security agency case study

Alex Neihaus — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:25:20 +0000

Attached to this post is Upside Research’s implementation study of ActiveVOS at a North American government security agency. While the agency is not named for security reasons, the agency’s staff participated in the gathering of data for this report. The report documents the power of BPM to automate and enhance core processes — in this case, classification of information coming into and going out of the agency.

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ActiveVOS BPM and SoftConEx Revolutionize Airline Ticketing

Alex Neihaus — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:00:32 +0000

ActiveVOS and SoftConEx have announced that their products have been combined to deliver a revolution in airline ticketing workflow for distributors, business travel service companies and travel portals. Details are in the press release attached to this post. Post from: VOSibilities, the Active Endpoints BPMS blog Learn more about ActiveVOSActiveVOS BPM and SoftConEx Revolutionize Airline Ticketing

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ActiveVOS “liberates” Oracle OpenWorld

Alex Neihaus — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:24:10 +0000

Today, we are at Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco. We’ve dressed up actors as prisoners of SOA Suite 11g. We’ve handing out cards that contain the 11 things to think about when considering SOA Suite 11g and an invite to our social media meetup Tuesday, October 13. Here are the details.

We’re having fun. In the video below, you can see that people are enjoying the humor and taking the time to read our “11 things to consider before using Oracle SOA Suite 11g.” They’re also posing with our prisoners and shooting video and photos. So, we expect a great turnout tomorrow at the meetup. Remember: you can win an iPod nano for the best photo/video of the prisoners at the meeting. The judges are the audience. So, join us for some drinks, snacks and fun.

Check out some of the video and photos below.

First, we “cowboy up” at a Starbucks, then hit the streets before dawn to get a head start on liberation from SOA Suite 11g. Reactions are positive…from the woman who stands on the street corner reading the 11 things to consider about SOA Suite to the person complimenting our costumes:

The look of relief on a newly-liberated attendee:

After release from 11g prison, it’s all smiles on the streets of San Francisco:

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Time is money for TheWatchery.Com using ActiveVOS

Alex Neihaus — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:23:18 +0000

Today, we are very pleased to announce another customer success story for ActiveVOS. Details are in the press release attached to this post.

This story is of particular note because we are showing ActiveVOS 7 this week at the Gartner BPM Summit. In this morning’s opening keynote, I listened as Janelle Hill and Jim Sinur described the benefits of BPM: speed, flexibility, responsiveness, business-owner-driven change, competitive advantage.

I was all smiles. See, I had the pleasure of interviewing the customer for this press release. As Janelle and Jim described the possibilities of BPM — how it can fundamentally change businesses — I remembered the interview with TheWatchery.Com and our excitement when they told us that ActiveVOS had allowed them to make millions of dollars overnight because they could change their processes so quickly. I think this story embodies much of what we are hearing about at the BPM Summit.

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New Forrester TechRadar™ report on Business Process Management Suites (BPMS)

Alex Neihaus — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:30:04 +0000

We wanted to make our readers and RSS subscribers aware of a new report on BPM that Forrester Research has recently published. It’s titled Forrester TechRadar™ For BP&A Pros: Business Process Management Suites, Q3 2009. While must you either buy the report or be a Forrester client to read it in full, the executive summary on Forrester’s website aptly sums up in a single sentence why BPM has become a very hot topic in enterprises: “Enterprises face increased demands for improvements in business agility; BPM tools can remove many of the barriers to success.”

If you are evaluating BPM for your organization, we highly recommend that you take a look at this report. It can only assist you in understanding the broad diversity of technical approaches to BPMS.

ActiveVOS is, for the first time, included in the broad survey of technologies that Forrester’s analysts provide in this report. We’re very gratified to have been included and we hope that if our approach to BPMS as described in the report matches your needs (and we bet it will), you’ll look take a close look at ActiveVOS.

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ActiveVOS supports smart grid deployment in Scandinavia

Alex Neihaus — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:00:25 +0000

Today, Active Endpoints is announcing a success story that we believe demonstrates the flexibility and capability of ActiveVOS and also makes us proud of the way the product has been used. As you can see in the press release attached to this post, ActiveVOS is being used to implement the business processes necessary to implement smart electrical grids in Scandinavia.

Building a smart grid means changing many of the core things a utility does that involve customers. It’s nitty-gritty operations like ordering new meters…getting them installed…making sure billing systems can handle customers who sell energy back to the grid and/or are interruptible.

We are very excited that ActiveVOS is BPMS has been chosen to help the global effort to become more energy-smart.

BTW, ActiveVOS 7 is now available for download.

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Active Endpoints announces ActiveVOS 7.0

Alex Neihaus — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:00:53 +0000

We are very pleased to announce ActiveVOS 7.0. The full press release is attached to this post. You might also be interested in seeing our new screenshot tours, browsing detail about the new release’s features and reading What’s New in ActiveVOS 7.0.

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New white paper on business and IT alignment

Alex Neihaus — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:02:41 +0000

One of the hottest topics in enterprise computing today is the proper relationship between business users and IT. Our CEO, Mark Taber, blogged about one aspect of this important topic just yesterday. Also yesterday, Gartner’s Jim Sinur wrote a very compelling post asking additional questions about the proper relationship between IT and end users.

Today, we are pleased to make available a new white paper by well-known industry analyst Sandra Rogers which offers additional insight into this very question.

Here’s an excerpt from the paper:

Organizations are discovering that the use of more visual and self-documenting solutions can better ensure that requirements are commonly understood and agreed upon, and measure if certain business goals met. Utilizing BPMSs like ActiveVOS that help individuals capture current and future state, that are easier to use and allow for multiple and concurrent cycles while designing and enhancing business processes, can greatly impact overall results. The use of such technology that provides deeper transparency into one’s processes, enables the sharing of best practices, and allows business stakeholders building degrees of freedom in adjust application and process parameters can help bring all parties into further alignment.

We hope you enjoy Sandy’s paper.

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Michael Rowley to present SCA at UCLA Java Users Group

Alex Neihaus — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:00:44 +0000

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Michael Rowley, Active Endpoints CTO, will be presenting a talk on the Service Component Architecture (SCA) at the UCLA Java Users Group on Thursday, August 27, 2009. Details are in the media advisory attached to this post. Post from: VOSibilities, the Active Endpoints BPMS blog Learn more about ActiveVOSMichael [...]

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Naval Research Lab to present webinar on orchestration

Alex Neihaus — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 20:00:14 +0000

We hope you will join us on Wednesday, July 29 at noon EDT, 9am PDT, 16:00 GMT for a webinar presented by the Naval Research Laboratory, which has recently investigated orchestration technology. Details are in the attached media advisory. Please register here for this free webinar.

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“Understanding SCA (Service Component Architecture)” is published

Alex Neihaus — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:00:13 +0000

Active Endpoints’ CTO Michael Rowley, Ph.D has just co-authored a new book on the Service Component Architecture (SCA) along with Jim Marino, Ph.D. of Metaform Systems. The press release attached to this post includes a link to a website that offers a coupon code for a special discount that can be applied to a purchase of Understanding SCA (Service Component Architecture).

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Webinar: Automating application deployment

Alex Neihaus — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:55:22 +0000

On Thursday, 16 July at 2pm ET, Active Endpoints and rPath are presenting a joint webinar that will show how a BPMS can be combined with advanced deployment technology to speed application deployment and reduce costs. We hope you will join us at 2pm ET, Thursday, 16 July for a fascinating walk-through of a solution to this complex problem.

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ActiveVOS posts another record quarter of growth in Q2 2009

Alex Neihaus — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:02:03 +0000

We are very pleased to announce that ActiveVOS has experienced record growth in Q2 of 2009. Eine deutsche Version der Pressemitteilung ist auch beigefügt. Post from: VOSibilities, the Active Endpoints BPMS blog Learn more about ActiveVOSActiveVOS posts another record quarter of growth in Q2 2009

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ActiveVOS is named to the SD Times 100

Alex Neihaus — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:00:51 +0000

Active Endpoints has been named to the SD Times 100 list for 2009. Our press release announcing this honor is attached to this post.

This award validates the both the market acceptance of our ActiveVOS business process management system (BPMS) and the thought-leadership that Active Endpoints has achieved with its vision of a BPMS that development teams will love.

Instead of me going on and on about why we cherish this recognition, I’ll just quote Alan Zeichick’s take on what the award is and what it signals to development teams that are considering a BPMS:

Unlike other awards programs, we don’t benchmark application servers, or count defects in operating systems, or consider annual sales values, or ask companies to submit flattering essays about themselves and their customers. The SD Times 100, in fact, isn’t a product award or a marketing award.

Instead, we work hard to identify—and highlight—where the “buzz” is. What are development managers thinking about? What are the talking heads talking about? What are competitors sweating about? What is the industry focused on? That’s the SD Times 100.

Thank you, SD Times and also a big thank you to our customers, who have made our BPM system such a success.

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Active Endpoints Ships ActiveVOS 6.2 MultiSite BPMS

Alex Neihaus — Tue, 05 May 2009 13:00:51 +0000

Today, Active Endpoints announced ActiveVOS 6.2, including ActiveVOS’s new MultiSite capability. ActiveVOS becomes the first business process management suite (BPMS) to enable multiple, geographically dispersed data centers to be joined together to execute and manage BPM applications. More details are in the press release attached to this post.

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Active Endpoints Receives $5M in Funding

Alex Neihaus — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:30:29 +0000

Today, Active Endpoints announced it has received funding of $5M. Details are in the attached press release. Post from: VOSibilities, the Active Endpoints BPMS blog Learn more about ActiveVOSActive Endpoints Receives $5M in Funding

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ActiveVOS Experiences Rapid Growth in Q1 2009

Alex Neihaus — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:00:08 +0000

Today, we are pleased to announce that Active Endpoints’ ActiveVOS BPM system has continued to experience rapid growth and acceptance among BPMS buyers worldwide. The details are in the press release attached to this post. Post from: VOSibilities, the Active Endpoints BPMS blog Learn more about ActiveVOSActiveVOS Experiences Rapid Growth in Q1 2009

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VOSibilities podcast #29: CEO Mark Taber on Gartner BPM Summit, the BPMS market and ActiveVOS in Q1

Alex Neihaus — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 18:14:15 +0000

In our latest podcast, I sat down for a quick chat with Active Endpoints’ CEO Mark Taber to recap our recent attendance at Gartner’s BPM Summit and the company’s approach to the BPMS marketplace. Mark detailed the reasons for the success ActiveVOS BPM had in Q1, despite these challenging economic times. Note to competitors (yes, we know you’re listening (-: ): you will squirm more than a little as Mark details how customers are able to get into production with ActiveVOS BPM with only modest levels of professional services billings.

And a special treat: I got Mark to spill the beans about some of the future plans for ActiveVOS. A must-listen podcast for anyone interested in using BPM to improve their business results.

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New SOA white paper issues a “call-to-action”

Alex Neihaus — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:00:53 +0000

Today, Active Endpoints announced that it has published a white paper authored by noted industry analyst David Linthicum which debunks the idea that SOA development of business process management applications is difficult and expensive. The press release describing the new white paper is attached to this post. You can download the white paper itself here or here.

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Active Endpoints Announces ActiveVOS 6.1

Alex Neihaus — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 12:51:30 +0000

Today, we are very pleased and excited to announce ActiveVOS 6.1. The press release with all the details is attached to this post.

To view selected content about the release, visit our What’s New page on our product website. And, don’t forget to listen to Michael Rowley and Luc Clément discuss the themes and objectives for ActiveVOS 6.1 in this podcast.

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VOSibilities podcast #28: ActiveVOS 6.1

Alex Neihaus — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 21:03:45 +0000

It’s my great pleasure to post a conversation with my colleagues here at Active Endpoints, Michael Rowley, director of technology and strategy and Luc Clément, senior director of products in which they discuss the themes and features in our new release, ActiveVOS 6.1.

Michael and Luc detail how ActiveVOS 6.1 has masked the complexity of BPEL, allowing developers to work more naturally to create advanced SOA-based BPM applications. Luc and Michael also discuss the capabilities of a new feature in ActiveVOS 6.1 called “process rewind” which permits new levels of control over running processes.

And, Michael and Luc give a sneak peak at what’s next for ActiveVOS 6.1, discussing how a BPMN-style canvas can improve collaboration in the development of BPM applications. You may also find the the What’s New in ActiveVOS 6.1 document we posted earlier this week on the blog informative as well.

Whether you are a current user of ActiveVOS or you are evaluating BPM systems, I hope you will find this podcast an informative update. As I am posting this podcast before ActiveVOS 6.1 is officially released, I do not yet have direct links to the new content on our website. But if you visit our home page starting March 10, 2009, you will be able to quickly find updated samples, documentation, demonstrations and, of course, a free trial of ActiveVOS 6.1.

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What’s New in ActiveVOS 6.1

Alex Neihaus — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 20:03:17 +0000

Unlike other companies that want to keep everything a big secret until they ship a release, we can’t wait for you to discover the cool new things we’re shipping in the latest release of our BPM product, ActiveVOS.

We plan to have ActiveVOS 6.1 available on March 10, 2009. But for BPM developers and business analysts longing for a simpler, more intelligent, easier-to-use BPM system, there’s no need to keep our new release secret. ActiveVOS 6.1 is precisely what you have been waiting for. And, if the vicissitudes of QA testing cooperate, you can have it next week.

The PDF attached to this post, authored by our Director of Products, Luc Clément and our Director of Strategy and Technology, Michael Rowley, is a great overview of what’s in ActiveVOS 6.1.

Check out the very sophisticated control of in-flight processes via our new “process rewind” capability in ActiveVOS 6.1. And, for those of you who a) know that BPEL is the core language for SOA and b) have thought BPEL is too complex, be sure to read up on how ActiveVOS 6.1 automatically generate BPEL assigns and the WSDL’s necessary to create compelling BPM applications.

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Congratulations to the “Bring SOA Home for the Holidays” contest winners

Sonal Rajan — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 20:35:10 +0000

Today, Active Endpoints announced the winners of the Bring SOA Home for the Holidays contest, where entrants were asked to submit something which shows how they used their free, 30-day supported trial of ActiveVOS in the development of their own BPM and SOA applications in exchange for a chance to win one of three Lenovo^® IdeaPad^® netbooks.

Selected from hundreds of entries, the three winners were chosen based on creativity, thoroughness and quality of work:

1st place: Brian Carey, President, Simple Empowerment of BPMS, Inc. (client project: Perot Systems)

2nd place: Ervin Nemesszeghy, Software Architect/Java EE Developer, Hardcomsoft

3rd place: Karl Geppert, CTO, Chemwatch

Wanna win some cool prizes? Enter our current contest BPM in a Bottle for your chance to win either a T-Mobile® G1™ smart phone with Google™ or a Logitech® Squeezebox™ Boom network music player. Contest ends March 27 so don’t delay!

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Active Endpoints announces ActiveVOS is part of Seros’ offerings

Alex Neihaus — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 13:03:47 +0000

Today, Active Endpoints announced that well-known government and industry SOA consultant Seros has made ActiveVOS the centerpiece of its offerings. Read the details in the press release attached to this post. Post from: VOSibilities, the Active Endpoints BPMS blog Learn more about ActiveVOSActive Endpoints announces ActiveVOS is part of Seros’ offerings

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Active Endpoints announces “BPM in a Bottle Contest”

Alex Neihaus — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:56:24 +0000

Today, in the winter of our economic discontent, Active Endpoints has announced something fun: a contest in which the winners will take home some very cool prizes. Our “BPM in a bottle” contest embodies several important ideas about ActiveVOS. First, that BPM is best accomplished with an all-in-one, standards-based system. Second, that BPM system should be very affordably priced. Third, that it should be fun and easy to use that BPM system to automate business processes.

Read all the details in the press release attached to this post. Enter at www.absolutebpm.com — and good luck!

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Commodities Trader Trafigura Redesigns Core Systems with ActiveVOS

Alex Neihaus — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:00:46 +0000

Today, Active Endpoints announced that UK-based commodities trader Trafigura, Ltd. has implemented a BPM application written in ActiveVOS for its risk assessment function. This application was written by Brown Study, Ltd., an Active Endpoints partner. The press release and accompanying white paper are attachments to this post. Post from: VOSibilities, the Active Endpoints BPMS blog Learn more [...]

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Webinar: Lifting the Hood on BPM

Alex Neihaus — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 19:17:55 +0000

This Wednesday, January 21, at Wednesday, January 21 at 2pm ET, 11am PT, 18:00 GMT, we will be presenting a free webinar (register here) in which we will “open the hood” and take a detailed look at a reference BPM and SOA application we call “Vintage Old Stock.” This webinar promises to be an excellent way for you to learn some of the latest techniques for creating BPM applications in a services-based environment.

Our ActiveVOS product manager, Mike Moniz, will detail how this fully featured business process was built using the latest SOA techniques and open standards. At the end of the demo, Mike will be taking your questions.

We encourage you to download a fully-configured version of the application, complete with extensive documentation, as a way to cement the very exciting things you will learn in this webinar.

Once again, here’s the registration link. We hope you can join us.

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Active Endpoints Reports Record Growth in 2008

Alex Neihaus — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:04:43 +0000

Today, Active Endpoints announced details of ActiveVOS’s success in 2008. More information is in the press release attached to this post. Post from: VOSibilities, the Active Endpoints BPMS blog Learn more about ActiveVOSActive Endpoints Reports Record Growth in 2008

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Active Endpoints Announces New Learning Tool for Java Developers

Alex Neihaus — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:00:29 +0000

Today, we are announcing via press release the Vintage Old Stock demonstration application for Java developers who are interested in seeing how an SOA-based application is designed, built and deployed.

Details are in the press release attached below as well as in Luc’s previous pre-holiday post about the demo. Included in the press release are instructions on how you can download a customized version of the ActiveVOS demo to experiment with the application on your own machine.

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“Bring SOA Home for the Holidays” contest extended to 12/31

Sonal Rajan — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 21:00:14 +0000

‘Twas the night before New Year’s and all through the house
Not a process was broken, not even a browse.

The ActiveVOS users sat by their computers with anticipation
In hopes that the “Bring SOA Home for the Holidays” judges would like their contest submission.

When out in the judges’ office there arose such a clatter
Every Active Endpoints employee wondered what was the matter.

And what to their wondering eyes should appear
But the judges with the list of three lucky winners of some really cool Lenovo gear!

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I hope you enjoyed reading this little parody of “The Night Before Christmas” as much as I enjoyed writing it. Seriously, we have some good news. Because of the great response to our contest “Bring SOA Home for the Holidays,” we have extended the submission deadline to New Year’s Eve – December 31, 11:59pm.

It’s easy and fun! Download a supported 30-day trial of ActiveVOS, the world’s leading visual orchestration system, and tell us how you would use it in your SOA, BPM, BPEL or BPMN projects. Make this holiday season a winner for you and your company. Try ActiveVOS…win a Lenovo netbook! Visit www.soaholiday.com for details and contest rules.

Happy Holidays!

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Active Endpoints Joins Web Services Test Forum

Sonal Rajan — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 17:06:50 +0000

Active Endpoints, in collaboration with fifteen other vendors and enterprises, announces formation of group to promote web services interoperability. Post from: VOSibilities, the Active Endpoints BPMS blog Learn more about ActiveVOSActive Endpoints Joins Web Services Test Forum

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Active Endpoints ships ActiveVOS 6.0.2

Alex Neihaus — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:00:27 +0000

Today, Active Endpoints shipped ActiveVOS 6.0.2 with additional enhancements along with expanded operating system and database support. Details are in the press release attached to this post. We invite everyone to try ActiveVOS via a 30-day, supported, free trial.

Also, there’s still time to enter the Bring SOA Home for the Holidays contest. Simply by downloading ActiveVOS and submitting your good ideas, you could win a very, very cool Lenovo netbook.

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Announcing the “Bring SOA Home for the Holidays” contest

Alex Neihaus — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:53:56 +0000

Active Endpoints is very pleased to announce a contest for the 2008 holiday season: Bring SOA Home for the Holidays. Details are in the press release attached to this post. Three winners will receive a very cool Lenovo netbook. (I wish I had one!)

It’s an easy contest to enter: all you have to do is register to download a copy of ActiveVOS at www.soaholiday.com. To win, all you have to do is submit something that shows what you did with your free, supported 30-day trial of ActiveVOS. Complete rules are at the contest mini-site at www.soaholiday.com.

Thanks for entering, and good luck!

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Join Active Endpoints and WSO2 for a live community call-in on SOA, BPM, ESBs and more

Alex Neihaus — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:07:04 +0000

Have you ever wished you could sit back, pop open a beverage of choice and have a stimulating technical discussion about SOA, ESBs and the latest in enterprise application development with the leading experts driving these technologies? A talk with no marketing agenda…no sales pitch…a place to really learn something new without having to separate the chaff from the wheat?

Well, wait no longer. On Wednesday, 12 November, 2008, at 9am ET, 6am PT, 14:00 GMT, Active Endpoints and WSO2 are holding a live, free call-in and online chat conference at http://www.talkshoe.com/tc/31357 in which their technical leaders will discuss the future of SOA development and take questions from attendees. TalkShoe allows people anywhere to participate in a group meeting using call-in phone on landlines or VoIP. Attendees can also use chat to participate in the group discussion. Active Endpoints and WSO2 are hosting this call-in as a way to bridge the gap between our software companies and our users because with today’s social networking technologies, the era of big, remote, you’ll-use-what-we-ship software is over.

Our guests will include:

Paul Fremantle, CTO, WSO2
Michael Rowley, Director of Strategy and Technology, Active Endpoints
Luc Clement, Director of Product Management, Active Endpoints

These three distinguished technologists will discuss any number of topics, including:

How Java developers can leverage their current skills in the new world of web services
Why an open-source ESB is a fundamentally smart way to integrate many different services
What, exactly, is “orchestration” and why do I care about it?

But the real beauty of this call-in show is that the discussion will go wherever the attendees take it. So, please join us with your questions at http://www.talkshoe.com/tc/31357.

How to join a TalkShoe call-in:

Dial this number: +1 724 444 7444 (long distance and/or toll charges apply); then enter this call id when prompted: 31357, then the # key, OR

Go to http://www.talkshoe.com/tc/31357 15 minutes before the start time and a web chat client will automatically start, OR

For VoIP users:

a. Download and install TalkShoe Live Pro here: http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/tscmd/download/1 and search for call id 31357 OR
b. Use any SIP-standard softphone including Gizmo, SJphone, and X-Lite. Skype is not SIP-compliant but you can use SkypeOut to call 724-444-7444 (note: Skype charges for this). The address for Gizmo is 123@66.212.134.192; the address for SJphone and most other VoIP clients is 66.212.134.192.

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Active Endpoints and WSO2 to host joint webinar

Alex Neihaus — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:37:04 +0000

WSO2 and Active Endpoints are hosting a joint webinar focusing on ESB and how to use a BPEL- and BPMN-based BPM system for best results on Tuesday, October 28 at 2pm ET, 11am PT, 18:00 GMT. Details are in the press release attached below and you can register at http://www.activevos.com/mainstream.

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CERN succeeds with ActiveVOS

Alex Neihaus — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:47:51 +0000

Today, we are very pleased and honored to announce that the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), inventor of the World Wide Web as well as the home of the world’s largest machine, the Large Hadron Collider, has widely deployed ActiveVOS in its core operations.

Details are in the press release attached to this blog post.

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ActiveVOS announces UK reseller

Alex Neihaus — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:00:16 +0000

Today, we are pleased to announce that T-Impact has become a reseller of ActiveVOS in the United Kingdom. Details are in the press release attached to this post. Post from: VOSibilities, the Active Endpoints BPMS blog Learn more about ActiveVOSActiveVOS announces UK reseller

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Fastenal Succeeds with ActiveVOS for its SOA applications

Alex Neihaus — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:59:42 +0000

Today, we are pleased to announce another customer success story, this time with Fastenal Corp. As you can read in the press release attached to this post, Fastenal has built SOA-based applications with ActiveVOS that are key to its international expansion as well as its future growth in the US marketplace.

We are proud to be able to help Fastenal achieve its objectives and thank them for allowing us to tell this story.

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