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.
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.
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.
Rich Seeley at searchSOA.com covers the release of ActiveVOS 6.0 in this story.
SD Times’s David Worthington covers the release of ActiveVOS 6.0 in this story.
In a blog post on Briefings Direct, Dana Gardner comments on the importance of the release of ActiveVOS 6.0.
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.
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.
Mark Hall of Computerworld previews ActiveVOS 6.0 and points out one of its major benefits: collaboration among developers, end users and business analysts.
