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ActiveVOS BPM: A Tailored Solution for IT and Business

To get started, take a look at a video tour of ActiveVOS 9.0. Explore features and capabilities in the guide entitled “What’s New in ActiveVOS 9.0.” View the comparison chart for both editions to see which one best suits your needs.

Give us a call. We’d love to discuss the following with you as you explore your SOA-based business process management (BPM) options:

- Comparing the value of private and public clouds
- Determining the right architecture for a private cloud
- Leveraging the cost/benefits of a multi-tenant architecture
- Evaluating the right BPMS platform for SaaS providers

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Active Endpoints Announces ActiveVOS 9.0 and New Data Center Edition

There are two important reasons why we’ve hired Rich. First, scale. We continue to gain traction in the BPM space, validating that users are seeking alternative approaches to the usual suspects when it comes to implementing BPM. Our inside sales team needs to keep pace with this explosive growth. Second, expertise. Rich’s deep enterprise software sales experience for a broad range of technologies will guide the company’s sales into rapidly expanding markets for BPM.

Read the news announcement below for details.

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Active Endpoints Hires Rich Noyes as New Vice President of Sales

We are happy to share the news that Active Endpoints customer Tele2, a European telecom headquartered in Sweden, with over 30 million customers in 10 countries, has achieved some remarkable milestones implementing the ActiveVOS business process management system (BPMS):

- Scaled to six million transactions per month with goals to 12 million by year end

- Implemented in a third of the time compared with prior open source approaches

- Expanded to 20 integration projects, 50 business processes, 100s of web services

- Eliminated the need for customer service representative (CSR) intervention

Click “View” below to read the press release and how telecommunications provider Tele2 uses ActiveVOS to integrate its core billing and provisioning applications.

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European Telecom Tele2 Scales with ActiveVOS BPMS

Our CTO, Michael Rowley Ph.D., will be presenting Cloud Extend on May 5 at the Red Hat Summit in Boston. The theme is “Your Cloud Application Isn’t Done Yet,” meaning that your SaaS application is probably not done until you have added some level of customization. See Lori MacVittie’s insightful review of Could Extend here: http://bit.ly/llIJ8M.

Principal Analyst Mike Gualtieri from Forrester Research, Inc., will be featured in a related live webinar on May 4, “3 Steps to Get Business Users on Your Side,” on how to encourage business users to design SaaS process applications—at the heart of Cloud Extend and its underlying design technology Socrates.

Stop by booth 204 for live demos of Cloud Extend, Socrates and ActiveVOS BPMS. And for the chance to win an iPad, which coincidentally, is what we will use to show you the power of our products.

Details on the events are in the attached announcement. We hope to see you, live or virtually, next week!

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CTO Michael Rowley Presents Cloud Extend at Red Hat Summit and JBoss World 2011

Cloud Extend for Salesforce.com gives sales managers and other domain experts the ability to deliver to their users knowledge and interactive guides in an effective manner, without involving developers.

We appreciate Chris’s mention and recommend reading his article to see how we are helping customers get the most out of their on demand CRM and what the future holds for Cloud Extend for Salesforce.com.

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PCWorld: Cloud Extend “makes Salesforce.com easier to use”

Conversations we like to join:

- Comparing the value of on-premise and SaaS applications
- Extending the value of cloud applications
- Simplifying the creation of custom applications
- Consumerizing enterprise applications – a megatrend for the software industry
- Adding value to SaaS applications by ISVs and consulting firms

Learn more and register for the early access program at http://bit.ly/CloudExtend.

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Cloud Extend for Salesforce.com Boosts Sales Team Productivity

We have not seen anything quite like this before and are sure you have not, either. Take a look and let us know what you think – sign up for the Socrates Instant Trial. You’ll be designing screenflows faster than being able to digest any Greek philosohers’ texts, even the abridged versions!

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KMWorld: Socrates “shows great potential”



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Active Endpoints Announces Socrates

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TVTechnology: ActiveVOS automates workflows for itfc

Why Active Endpoints? Our process automation platform, ActiveVOS, makes it easy and affordable for developers, architects and IT project managers to develop, deploy and manage core business processes. Clearly, the market is actively engaging in this shift away from using expensive, packaged SOA and BPM applications.

2011 is shaping up to be a great year.

The details are in the press release attached to this post.

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Active Endpoints Selected as “Company to Watch” in 2011 by CIO UK Magazine

Notable new Q4 2010 customers include e-Dialog, a technology and full service email marketing company, Comisión Federal de Electricidad (Federal Electricity Commission), a Mexican government agency that provides electric power for the majority of the country’s residents, and the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO), an intergovernmental body tasked with detecting any nuclear explosion conducted on Earth. Another major milestone was the release of ActiveVOS 8.0 our flagship BPM platform.



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Active Endpoints Grows Revenue 100% in 2010

Another major milestone in the quarter was the release of ActiveVOS™ 8.0 business process management system (BPMS), the latest version of the company’s flagship product. Highlights of ActiveVOS 8.0 include support for Business Process Management Notation (BPMN), the addition of swimlanes, support for BPMN 2.0 boundary events, new data access integration capabilities, improved deployment management and expanded task management. The combination of these new capabilities improves the ability for all stakeholders – project managers, application architects, solutions architects and developers– to utilize ActiveVOS for designing, developing and deploying mission-critical, custom process applications even more effectively.

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Active Endpoints Triples Revenue for Q3 2010

Join featured speakers Thom Rubel of IDC Government Insights and Michel Rowley of Active Endpoints, along with Application Development Trends magazine for this complimentary LIVE webcast.  Learn the benefits of “smart application” to government agencies and how a standards-based Business Process Management System (BPMS) can provide the technology to enable this kind of innovation.

• When: Thursday, September 30, 2010 12:00 EST / 16:00 GMT
• What: Complimentary webinar
• Topic:  BPM for Government Agencies: How “Smart” Can IT Be?
• Speakers: Analyst – IDC Government Insights’ VP of Research, Thom Rubel and Active Endpoints’, CTO, Dr. Michael Rowley
• To Register:  http://bit.ly/GovBPM

Discover more details about this complimentary webcast by downloading the .PDF file below.

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Active Endpoints presents webcast entitled “Business Process Management (BPM) for Government Agencies: How “Smart” Can IT Be?”

Today we are happy to announce ActiveVOS 8.0, the latest release of the company’s flagship product. Highlights of the release include support for Business Process Management Notation (BPMN) swimlanes and support for BPMN 2.0 boundary events, new data access integration capabilities, improved deployment management, and expanded task management. The combination of these new capabilities improves the ability for all stakeholders – project managers, application architects, solutions architects, and developers– to utilize ActiveVOS for designing, developing and deploying mission-critical, custom process applications even more effectively.

Learn more about the new and improved BPMS capabilities in ActiveVOS 8.0 by downloading the full release details in the .pdf below.

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Active Endpoints Releases ActiveVOS 8.0

The new solution will sit alongside the company’s current media asset management system Mediaflex, and archiving system Front Porch Digital. Together they will enable itfc to seamlessly integrate workflows across many different, and previously incompatible, broadcast systems.

Learn more by downloading the .pdf below

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itfc invests in an ActiveVOS business process management system to help clients benefit from better workflow efficiencies

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

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

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 and GT Software Bring BPM to Mainframe Users

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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Active Endpoints welcomes the new CMIS standard

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AAPT streamlines business product creation with ActiveVOS

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

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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New school BPM

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

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bpmredux.com interviews Active Endpoints CTO Michael Rowley

You can see ActiveVOS in the BIRT marketplace here.

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Perform Magazine: Using BIRT in ActiveVOS

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searchSOA.com discusses Service Component Architecture (SCA)

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.

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Ovum BPMS report adds ActiveVOS to “consider” list

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

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 the BPMN 2.0 with BPEL discussion

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searchSOA.com on mashups

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

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

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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PC World covers ActiveVOS at Oracle OpenWorld

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Dennis Byron on ActiveVOS 7 BPM

“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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SOA Talk blog covers ActiveVOS 7

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

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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Dana Gardner on ActiveVOS 7.0

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SD Times previews ActiveVOS 7.0 BPMS

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Butler Group reports on ActiveVOS

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

Eine deutsche Version der Pressemitteilung ist auch beigefügt.

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ActiveVOS posts another record quarter of growth in Q2 2009

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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ActiveVOS is named to the SD Times 100

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ActiveVOS featured in eWeek Slideshow

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Tony Baer discusses ActiveVOS

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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Bloor Research “definitely recommends” a look at ActiveVOS BPM

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

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Fastenal Corp. uses ActiveVOS to implement SOA

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Dave Worthington of SD Times previews ActiveVOS 6.1