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We are very pleased to announce that ActiveVOS has experienced record growth in Q2 of 2009.

Eine deutsche Version der Pressemitteilung ist auch beigefügt.

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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 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.

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

Tony Baer has written about ActiveVOS on his OnStrategies blog.

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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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.

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.

SD Times reports on some of the new features coming in ActiveVOS 6.1. Read the article here.

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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In this post, Dana Gardner has identified critical new reporting capabilities and added OS and platform support available in the latest version of ActiveVOS.

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.

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.

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.

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.