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.
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.
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.
Today, Active Endpoints announced it has received funding of $5M. Details are in the attached press release.
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.
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.
VOSibilities podcast #29: CEO Mark Taber on Gartner BPM Summit, the BPMS market and ActiveVOS in Q1 [14:18m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (306)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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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!
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.
