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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 and GT Software Bring BPM to Mainframe Users

Sonal Rajan — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:11:46 +0000

We are pleased to announce a marketing partnership designed to increase awareness of the importance of mainframes in Business Process Management (BPM). Join us along with GT Software at the SHARE mainframe users group conference in Boston, MA from August 1-5, 2010. See how today’s leading companies are conquering the challenge of integrating mainframe applications and data into BPM projects through web services. We will present how ActiveVOS™ Business Process Management System (BPMS) and GT Software’s Ivory® Service Architect can be used together to implement BPM.

Using ActiveVOS™ BPMS and GT Software’s Ivory® Service Architect together ensures that the BPM objective of integrating both people and systems is achieved by permitting the integration of mainframe applications. First, Ivory can be utilized to design a web service that is a composite of individual transactions and database accesses from the majority of popular mainframe systems. Then, ActiveVOS can be employed to model and deploy the overall business process, including Ivory-created web services. In this way, mainframe assets – no matter how granular or proprietary – are available to be used in BPM applications.

Find more details about the SHARE presentation in the PDF below.

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Active Endpoints welcomes the new CMIS standard

Alex Neihaus — Wed, 05 May 2010 13:25:19 +0000

OASIS has announced that the Content Management Interoperability Standard (CMIS) 1.0 has been approved. As true believers in the value of standards for customers, we believe that ECM and BPMS have a natural, but not overlapping, affinity in companies that are developing a new generation of process applications. Now, users can rely on standards to protect them from “losing” their business logic to a proprietary integration.

In February, we demonstrated how CMIS can be used to integrate ActiveVOS BPMS with Alfresco ECM to create processes that combine content, people and systems in an open, standards-compliant way. It’s a very compelling demonstration of the value of CMIS. We are pleased that CMIS has been approved and look forward to a world in which business processes can simply and compatibly integrate sophisticated content management capabilities.

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AAPT streamlines business product creation with ActiveVOS

Alex Neihaus — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 13:08:41 +0000

IT Wire has written an article about AAPT’s use of ActiveVOS which includes an interview with AAPT COO David Yuile who said, “The ethernet [sic] and IP VPN products are just the first ones out of the box. There will be lots of others to follow. Because of what we have done these will be much quicker. We have dramatically compressed the product development cycle…One product that would have taken us nine months to develop we were able to do in three.”

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cio.co.uk: “Active Endpoints…provide[s]…key capabilities…”

Alex Neihaus — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 15:09:33 +0000

Neil Ward-Dutton has written an interesting article about the “mainstreaming” of BPM in which he details his reasoning for why BPM is now, “suddenly,” being more widely deployed.

Neil mentions ActiveVOS as the BPMS that is making it possible for development teams to take advantage of new-style BPM. We appreciate the mention and, no surprise, believe Neil is on to a big idea.

What is that idea? Simply that for BPM to become mainstream, it needs to be the mainstream development style. Thus, the market requires a BPMS like ActiveVOS, which is designed specifically to be architecturally “correct” and to allow IT to change its development style by welcoming business analysts and developers into the “bazaar.”

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New school BPM

Alex Neihaus — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 13:15:24 +0000

Neil Ward-Dutton of MWD Advisors has written a blog post making the point that BPM has entered a new phase: one in which “…process management thinking and tools have now well and truly broken out of [a] niche…”

We couldn’t agree more. “New school” BPM should be commoditized, should be the default way of developing and enhancing “everyday” applications and should be devoid of “…lots of ceremony, burning of incense, and so on.”

We appreciate Ward-Dutton’s understanding of how ActiveVOS is attempting to mainstream BPM: by focusing on what we call the “extended development team” and enabling the various roles in that team to quickly adopt BPM thinking and tools.

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bpmredux.com on ActiveVOS: “..tremendous buzz…that shines through…”

Alex Neihaus — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 17:54:50 +0000

bpmredux.com, the voice of BPM analyst and blogger Theo Priestley, has just published a mini-review of ActiveVOS 7.

We are very gratified to have attracted Theo’s attention and for his perceptive analysis of what makes ActiveVOS unique.

Theo’s overview of ActiveVOS is different from many others because he took note of our enthusiasm for BPM in general and ActiveVOS in particular. He talks about our (somewhat lame) attempts at humor and I thought readers of this blog might be interested in the full story.

With the change in the US to daylight-saving time in mid March followed a week or so later by the change in Scotland to British Summer Time, our meeting time got confused. While we were waiting for Theo, we made up new titles for ourselves. It was the kind of the idle, gallows humor a group sometimes indulges in before a big meeting. The “tm” symbols are a bit of a take-off on business cards we’d recently been given by a marketing firm that was trade marking ordinary terms.

Unlike some BPMS vendors – who would have put on their overly-serious faces when the analyst showed up – we went with the silly titles because we thought they were hilarious – and because BPM should not be a humorless discussion of dry technology. BPM is an exciting, vibrant product space as capable of generating passionate discussion as the next gizmo from a consumer electronics company associated with fruit grown on trees.

Here’s an image from the slide deck showing the titles we used to introduce ourselves to Theo:

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bpmredux.com interviews Active Endpoints CTO Michael Rowley

Alex Neihaus — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 18:56:15 +0000

Theo Priestley of bpmredux.com interviews CTO Michael Rowley. Read the interview here.

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Perform Magazine: Using BIRT in ActiveVOS

Alex Neihaus — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:03:49 +0000

Read about BIRT reporting in ActiveVOS in this story from a recent issue of Perform Magazine. Our Sr. Director of Products, Luc Clément, was interviewed for this story. Luc describes how BIRT reporting leverages a BPMS’s capabilities to deliver visibility into business operations.

You can see ActiveVOS in the BIRT marketplace here.

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searchSOA.com discusses Service Component Architecture (SCA)

Alex Neihaus — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:11:52 +0000

searchSOA.com has just published a story on SCA (Service Component Architecture) which describes some of the benefits that SCA delivers for developers of services-based process applications. You can read the full article here, including the comments of our CTO, Dr. Michael Rowley.

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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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searchSOA.com: “This the moment for SOA-based BPMS to shine”

Alex Neihaus — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:49:31 +0000

Colleen Frye of searchSOA.com has written a very timely article about SOA-based BPMS. Ms. Frye sought out a broad range of opinion; she spoke with us here at Active Endpoints as well as with IBM, Oracle, Forrester Research and T-Impact, among others.

Everyone agrees: for BPM to succeed as a new approach to developing applications, BPMSs need to be based on fundamentally sound application architecture. Today, that means using SOA principles. Here’s a link to this important article.

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searchSOA.com on the BPMN 2.0 with BPEL discussion

Alex Neihaus — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 13:32:58 +0000

Frequent visitors to our blog (and we hope you become one) will have already that we are in the middle of a fascinating discussion on the question of execution engines. Now, Rob Barry of searchSOA.com has weighed in with this post.

We welcome your comments and feedback on this topic.

Also, we would also like to invite you to our weekly webinar CTO Tuesdays. Every Tuesday at noon ET, 17:00 UTC, Active Endpoints CTO Michael Rowley discusses a single technical topic in 30 minutes, followed by a Q&A from the audience. In the recent past, we’ve covered topics like the BPMN 2.0 diamond control flow and engine-managed execution. Our most recent webinar delved into the the issues of dead path detection in BPEL and how to model in BPMN 2.0 to avoid duplicate activity execution.

You can always find the replays of the webinars on this blog in the “CTO Tuesdays” category (RSS feed here). Registration for the next CTO Tuesdays webinar is always available here.

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searchSOA.com on mashups

Alex Neihaus — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:39:06 +0000

searchSOA.com’s Rob Barry has written an interesting piece on mashups and the role of BPM in creating mashups. He mentions ActiveVOS as one BPM system that because of its services-based capabilities, can quickly create mashups, or as we would call them, process applications.

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ebizQ podcast:How BPMS Delivers Value to Today’s Business

Alex Neihaus — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:09:06 +0000

At Gartner’s BPM Summit in October, ebizQ’s Peter Schooff talked with me (Alex Neihaus) and Active Endpoints CTO Michael Rowley about ActiveVOS 7.0 and its new BPMN 2.0 modeler. A link to the podcast is below and it is included in our podcast feed in the iTunes Store.

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Liberation from Oracle SOA Suite, Biblical storms and a social media meetup

Alex Neihaus — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:23:21 +0000

Well, it’s the day after our big push to liberate Oracle SOA Suite 11g users during Oracle “Open”World in San Francisco.

And I am almost at a loss of words to describe our experience and the effect we seemed to have had. But, I gotta try. Here are some semi-random comments.

We are extraordinarily grateful for IDG News reporter Chris Kanaracus’s story, which perfectly captured the reasons we stood on a street corner for two days to make sure people understand that alternatives to high costs and lock-in exist.

Our social media meetup was a great success…and a lot of fun. We shared photos and videos of the event. (Here’s a video of the main reason for the party. ) I kid you not, the coolest people are the people who you befriend first online and then have the pleasure of meeting in the real world.

On Tuesday, October 14, we were hit with a rain storm that dumped a month of rain on San Francisco in about six hours. In spite of the high winds and Biblical downpours, we persisted in our mission of liberation from Oracle SOA Suite 11g.

You can check out videos on our YouTube channel (you have to see…and I mean you really have to see — the video titled “In the rain”), see stills in our Flickr photostream and, for our podcast subscribers, I’ve enclosed a short iPod-formatted video in the RSS feed. There’s also an HD-version of the video, for those that want to “be there” with us. Both are attached to this post.

Finally, you might find Otis Maxwell’s post about our attack on SOA Suite interesting. Otis’s description of how he found our meetup is very interesting. He calls what we did “suitcasing.” I think it’s simpler: we poked Oracle in the eye…and people loved it.

In case you are one of the folks who didn’t get the cards we handed out with the 11 things to consider before using SOA Suite 11g, here’s an image:

As you can imagine, pulling something like this off takes planning and dedication. I want to thank Sonal Rajan and Leslie Minasian, both of Active Endpoints, and Pat Flanders for their hard work and dedication.

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PC World covers ActiveVOS at Oracle OpenWorld

Alex Neihaus — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 23:24:24 +0000

PC World had this to say about ActiveVOS at Oracle OpenWorld today (full article here):

Not everyone at the show was buying into Oracle’s middleware pitch.

Representatives of ActiveVOS, which makes a product that competes with Oracle’s SOA Suite, capered on street corners outside the Moscone Center wearing comical black-and-white prisoners’ garb, begging passers-by to “free” them from the alleged higher cost and constraints of owning SOA Suite.

We appreciate everyone who stopped by today and laughed with us (or cried, as appropriate) as we stood outside Moscone and made it clear there are alternatives to expensive, complex products like Oracle SOA Suite 11g. We’re glad we made you (and thousands of others) smile.

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Dennis Byron on ActiveVOS 7 BPM

Alex Neihaus — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:03:33 +0000

Dennis Byron uses a clever metaphor (“Is it floor wax or dessert topping?”) as a way to describe what’s new in ActiveVOS 7.0 in a post on itbusinessedge.com.

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SOA Talk blog covers ActiveVOS 7

Alex Neihaus — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:35:41 +0000

Last week, CTO Michael Rowley and I showed ActiveVOS 7 to Rob Barry of TechTarget’s SOA Talk blog. I know it’s a party foul to quote yourself in a blog post, but we are grateful that Rob chose to highlight one of the main accomplishments we believe we have achieved for BPM in ActiveVOS 7:

“BPM suites that focus on business users, they don’t get technical enough,” said Alex Neihaus, VP of marketing at Active Endpoints. “They become islands of computing and sit off by themselves. And with BPMS for architects and developers, the level of cost and complexity is beyond the level of what most people are willing to undertake.”

This “third way” between the cost and complexity of stacks from Oracle and IBM and the unfulfilled promises of Lombardi and Pegasystems to integrate easily across the enterprise are why we believe we have become so popular among development teams. Looking past old buying habits and the new politics of “end user” BPM, our customers are seeking great technology at an affordable price that can be used to create integrated processes as that are themselves services.

You can read Rob’s entire blog post here.

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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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Dana Gardner on ActiveVOS 7.0

Alex Neihaus — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:33:17 +0000

As most software companies do, we have been previewing the next release of our BPMS, ActiveVOS 7.0, to journalists, analysts and important bloggers. Last week, we had the pleasure of showing the new release to Dana Gardner, who has blogged about his impressions on zdnet.com.

Dana talks in his post about a “new Moore’s Law” in which the limits of silicon to deliver productivity have been reached. Instead, he envisions a wave of innovation in process applicaitons that, combined with continued advances in hardware, re-accelerate productivity:

This new…law declares that productivity today is better gained from improving business processes and the way human tasks and machines tasks are combined to rapidly improve results. Productivity needs to come from ongoing process innovation and refinement.

This is a very exciting idea…and we are pleased to be one of the ways to enable the next wave of process applications.

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SD Times previews ActiveVOS 7.0 BPMS

Sonal Rajan — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:23:39 +0000

David Worthington has written an article in which he previews some of the new features available in ActiveVOS 7.0, shipping this fall. The next release of ActiveVOS BPMS will make it even easier for developers, business analysts, IT operations staff and end users to collaborate in the development and deployment of BPM applications.

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Butler Group reports on ActiveVOS

Alex Neihaus — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:53:15 +0000

Attached to this post is a recently completed “technology audit” of ActiveVOS, written by Mike Thompson of the Butler Group. This is a must-read for anyone interested in a balanced, impartial description of ActiveVOS and its BPM capabilities. Post from: VOSibilities, the Active Endpoints BPMS blog Learn more about ActiveVOSButler Group reports on ActiveVOS

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eBizQ.com on the “culture” of open source and BPM

Alex Neihaus — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:42:26 +0000

Dennis Byron has written a new feature about the “culture of open source” in BPM and describes how customers benefit from the commerical license offered for ActiveVOS BPMS.

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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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Dana Gardner: “Talk about the benefits of CEP and business users eye light up”

Alex Neihaus — Fri, 01 May 2009 18:17:59 +0000

Dana Gardner has written an interesting post on it-director.com about the promise of complex event processing (CEP). In reference to us, he points out that we aren”t big on terminology. That’s because terminology isn’t what people buy…they buy products. We hope that what Dana has in mind is that by being first to completely integrate a CEP engine into a BPMS, ActiveVOS has made the terminology debate unnecessary. We sure think it has.

Learn more about CEP inside ActiveVOS and see why our users’ eyes are lighting up when they see what the combination of a truly flexible BPMS with integrated CEP can do for them.

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ActiveVOS featured in eWeek Slideshow

Sonal Rajan — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 20:26:42 +0000

Screenshots of ActiveVOS 6.1, including any-order BPM development and how standards-compliant BPEL is automatically generated, are featured in an eWeek Slideshow.

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Tony Baer discusses ActiveVOS

Alex Neihaus — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:37:25 +0000

Tony Baer has written about ActiveVOS on his OnStrategies blog. Post from: VOSibilities, the Active Endpoints BPMS blog Learn more about ActiveVOSTony Baer discusses ActiveVOS

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Bloor Research “definitely recommends” a look at ActiveVOS BPM

Alex Neihaus — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:50:34 +0000

We are pleased to post an update on ActiveVOS 6.1 by Bloor Research’s Simon Holloway.

In the PDF attached to this post, Simon overviews the ActiveVOS BPMS, outlines how it works and describes how users will benefit from using ActiveVOS in their BPM roll-outs.

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Joe McKendrick on how Fastenal’s use of SOA “delivers actual competitiveness”

Alex Neihaus — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:47:51 +0000

Writing in eBizQ’s SOA in Action blog, Joe McKendrick discusses how Fastenal Corp. is using ActiveVOS in production to revamp to its sales order processing system.

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Fastenal Corp. uses ActiveVOS to implement SOA

Sonal Rajan — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:13:13 +0000

Integration developer Adam Swift at Fastenal describes how his team uses ActiveVOS to quickly implement SOA-based applications for vital business processes, including an order management system. Read the article here. Post from: VOSibilities, the Active Endpoints BPMS blog Learn more about ActiveVOSFastenal Corp. uses ActiveVOS to implement SOA

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Dave Worthington of SD Times previews ActiveVOS 6.1

Alex Neihaus — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 22:27:25 +0000

SD Times reports on some of the new features coming in ActiveVOS 6.1. Read the article here. Post from: VOSibilities, the Active Endpoints BPMS blog Learn more about ActiveVOSDave Worthington of SD Times previews ActiveVOS 6.1

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Product review: “ActiveVOS 6.0 is a game changer”

Sonal Rajan — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 17:20:50 +0000

We know this time of year is supposed to be slow, but we’ve got a present for you anyway. Hot off the presses is a product review of ActiveVOS 6.0 by Paul O’Connor. Paul is SOA Practice Director and Chief SOA Architect for e-brilliance LLC (a leading SOA consultancy).

As Paul puts it “Do yourself a favor and check out this great visual orchestration system.” If you have not yet considered ActiveVOS to orchestrate your SOA based applications, make it one of your New Year’s resolutions.

One week left to enter our Bring SOA Home for the Holidays contest! Download ActiveVOS and submit your good ideas. You could win a very, very cool Lenovo netbook.

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Dana Gardner: Active Endpoints beefs up visual orchestration system

Sonal Rajan — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:46:32 +0000

In this post, Dana Gardner has identified critical new reporting capabilities and added OS and platform support available in the latest version of ActiveVOS. Post from: VOSibilities, the Active Endpoints BPMS blog Learn more about ActiveVOSDana Gardner: Active Endpoints beefs up visual orchestration system

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SearchSOA.com: ActiveVOS “…is beginning to show dividends”

Sonal Rajan — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:00:57 +0000

Rich Seeley has written a very interesting article about how visual modeling of business processes enables IT to work more closely with business users. Rich also points out how ActiveVOS has achieved great results for Fastenal.

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Mike Kavis reports on BPM at CERN and its deployment of ActiveVOS

Alex Neihaus — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:10:43 +0000

Mike Kavis has published an article on bpminstitute.org about CERN’s deployment of ActiveVOS.

Many thanks to Derek Mathieson of CERN (on the far left here, next to me and two CERN colleagues at JavaOne in May, 2008) who has driven the vision of BPM with ActiveVOS at CERN and who is one of our most valued customers. Also, a shout-out to Mike Kavis for taking the time to tell this great story.

Thank you both, gentlemen.

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Rich Seeley reports on ActiveVOS for SOA applications at Fastenal Co.

Alex Neihaus — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:21:54 +0000

In an article for searchSOA.com, Rich Seeley reports on how Fastenal Company — the fastest growing industrial distributor in the US — has implemented SOA applications using ActiveVOS.

RIch writes:

“Implementation of business process management [BPM] and service-oriented architecture [SOA] to replace legacy batch processing is helping speed inventory data to sales representatives at Fastenal…”

Adam Swift of Fastenal said:

“Once you understand the principles of service-oriented architecture [SOA], it’s easy to use ActiveVOS to deploy new services,” said Adam Swift, integration developer for the BPM order tracking system at Fastenal. “Business process can be created with drag-and-drop.”

Read the full article here.

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Rich Seeley reports on ActiveVOS for SOA applications at Fastenal Co.

ADTmag.com: “Will ActiveVOS usher in a new wave of application development?”

Alex Neihaus — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:11:05 +0000

In a new article about ActiveVOS on ADTmag.com, John K. Waters writes on adtmag.com that “industry analysts are listening” to the message we have for SOA and BPM developers.

We want to thank John and ADTmag.com for writing about the essence of what we’ve set out to do: change not just the way Java developers work on the next generation of SOA applications, but how they actually feel about doing so. That’s why we have the “messianic fervor” John writes about.

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IT Toolbox on “Low Cost SOA Software”

Alex Neihaus — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:31:10 +0000

In a post on his SOA blog, Eric Roch talks about the impact of low-cost SOA software and how ActiveVOS 6.0 is an all-in-one solution for creating service orchestrations.

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searchSOA: ActiveVOS 6.0 “…matures SOA..”

Alex Neihaus — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 15:51:07 +0000

Rich Seeley at searchSOA.com covers the release of ActiveVOS 6.0 in this story.

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SD Times: “ActiveVOS 6.0 gains BPMN for adjusting workflows”

Alex Neihaus — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:22:07 +0000

SD Times’s David Worthington covers the release of ActiveVOS 6.0 in this story. Post from: VOSibilities, the Active Endpoints BPMS blog Learn more about ActiveVOSSD Times: “ActiveVOS 6.0 gains BPMN for adjusting workflows”

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Dana Gardner: ActiveVOS 6.0 extends SOA investment

Alex Neihaus — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:06:37 +0000

In a blog post on Briefings Direct, Dana Gardner comments on the importance of the release of ActiveVOS 6.0.

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Integration Developer News podcast with AE’s Michael Rowley on ActiveVOS 6.0, SOA and BPM

Alex Neihaus — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:52:23 +0000

Vance McCarthy of Integration Developer News has posted a very interesting podcast with Active Endpoints’ Director of Strategy and Technology, Michael Rowley. Vance discusses with Michael what the concept of a visual orcehstration system is, the standards we have implemented in ActiveVOS 6.0, and how an integrated system accelerates developement of SOA-based applications.

The podcast can be accessed here.

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Integration Developer News podcast with AE’s Michael Rowley on ActiveVOS 6.0, SOA and BPM

ebizQ’s Dennis Byron talks with Mark Taber about ActiveVOS, BPEL and open standards

Alex Neihaus — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:08:52 +0000

In a new podcast, Dennis Byron of ebizQ talks with Active Endpoints CEO Mark Taber about visual orchestration systems in general and ActiveVOS in particular. There’s also an interesting discussion about the importance of standards like BPEL for creating service orchestrations.

Thanks to Dennis and Mark for a very interesting podcast, one that’s well worth your time.

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ebizQ’s Dennis Byron talks with Mark Taber about ActiveVOS, BPEL and open standards

Computerworld previews ActiveVOS 6.0

Alex Neihaus — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:34:58 +0000

Mark Hall of Computerworld previews ActiveVOS 6.0 and points out one of its major benefits: collaboration among developers, end users and business analysts.

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ActiveVOS Cracks the Code on Mass Deployment of Business Applications

Alex Neihaus — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 20:24:14 +0000

David Worthington of SD Times covers the release of ActiveVOS 5.0 and writes that we have “…cracked the code to bring Web services into mass deployment for line of business applications.” The entire article is here.

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Enterprise Open Source Magazine on First Open-source BPEL4People Implementation

Alex Neihaus — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 15:40:58 +0000

Enterprise Open Source covers the availability of ActiveBPEL Community Edition 5.0 Server.

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Active Endpoints Part of JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform

Alex Neihaus — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 18:12:57 +0000

Active Endpoints participates in the JBoss open-source SOA platform

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