Savvion selects Active Software’s ActiveWorks Integration System to enable rapid integration of customers’ existing applications into managed eBusiness solutions
SANTA CLARA, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A. - Active Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: ASWX), a leading provider of eBusiness infrastructure products, and Savvion, a global provider of innovative automated business management solutions, today announced that Savvion will use Active Software’s ActiveWorksTM Integration System to streamline the integration of customers’ disparate enterprise applications into managed eBusiness solutions.
The Westaim Corporation holds a 22 per cent equity interest in Savvion, formerly Technology Deployment International.
Savvion has developed a solution that enables its flagship product Savvion BusinessManagerTM to tightly interoperate with over 60 enterprise applications that Active Software integrates. The combination will support managing end-to-end business processes that involve integration with existing enterprise applications such as SAP, Oracle Financials, PeopleSoft, Siebel, and Clarify as well as legacy and mainframe systems. A business process application that allows customers to order replacement parts via the Web might include in the BusinessManager process flow the querying of an inventory database to check parts availability, an accounting application to verify the customer’s credit and a shipping scheduler application to determine the most cost effective and timely method of routing the replacement parts. Access to each of these external systems by BusinessManager would be performed through ActiveWorks. The Savvion/ActiveWorks integration solution will be available later this month.
“Savvion lets companies revolutionize the way they do business by leveraging Internet-based technologies. Using BusinessManager, customers can quickly automate both human and computer-based business processes to operate in an online environment, streamlining interactions with customers, partners, suppliers, and employees around the clock,” said Dr. Ketabchi, Savvion founder and CEO. “Our partnership with Active Software will further speed deployment of Savvion solutions, providing rapid integration of customers’ existing enterprise applications into automated, managed eBusiness solutions.”
“To remain competitive in today’s Internet era, companies need to automate and manage their business processes and in doing so integrate with a wide variety of disparate systems,” said Chet Kapoor, vice president of Business Development at Active Software. “Our ActiveWorks Integration System lets customers quickly integrate Savvion BusinessManager applications with a large number of third-party products through a single connection between Savvion and Active Software.”
Savvion BusinessManager
Savvion’s BusinessManager is a pure Java and XML software platform that lets customers quickly model internal and external business processes into managed eBusiness applications. The system’s business process execution engine automatically transforms these processes into flexible, distributed Web-based applications that enable the management of business operations over intranets, extranets, and the Internet. Sophisticated management tools let customers manage business operations proactively, monitoring processes in real time, analyzing operational performance and modifying them on the fly to react to changing business conditions. By supporting the rapid development of managed eBusiness systems, enhanced by its partnership with Active Software, Savvion lets companies reduce operational costs, improve customer satisfaction, and increase revenues.
“Our solution not only transforms business processes across the extended enterprise but equally important, it provides an online management environment where customers are able to monitor, analyze and control their business operations at all times,” Ketabchi added. “Through our partnership with Active Software, Savvion further validates its leading position in delivering managed eBusiness solutions that are quickly and easily integrated with existing systems.”
Active Software's ActiveWorks Integration System
ActiveWorks provides a fast path to eBusiness integration inside the enterprise. ActiveWorks allows business processes to drive eBusiness integration and enables scalable implementation, from small pilot programs to geographically dispersed solutions. ActiveWorks supports the major application, platform and networking standards required by eBusiness solutions and provides an open platform for partners to build products and solutions that expand a customer’s eBusiness capabilities. These technical benefits translate to faster time-to-market, enabling new revenue opportunities for today's major corporations.
About Savvion
Savvion is an innovative global provider of Internet-deployed business management solutions. The company’s flagship product, BusinessManager, enables organizations to quickly transform internal and external business processes into flexible, distributed Web applications that can be accessed and managed over intranets, extranets, and the Internet. Customers then manage their business and their processes online across extended enterprises, streamlining interactions with customers, partners, suppliers, and employees. Providing integrated management tools, BusinessManager offers customers a key competitive differentiator by allowing them to monitor and analyze business operations proactively and respond to changing business conditions by quickly modifying their business processes. Privately held Savvion is headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif. For more information, visit www.savvion.com or call 1-888-544-5511.
About Active Software, Inc.
Founded in 1995, Active Software, Inc., (Nasdaq: ASWX) is a leading provider of eBusiness infrastructure software products. Active Software’s eBusiness platform, the ActiveWorks Integration System, automates end-to-end business processes within the enterprise. Active Software has approximately 200 customers in industries such as telecommunications, financial services, government, technology, utilities, distribution, manufacturing and transportation. Active Software is headquartered in Santa Clara, California. For more information, visit the company Web site at www.activesoftware.com.
About The Westaim Corporation
The Westaim Corporation is a technology incubator that launches exceptional technologies into the marketplace. In addition to its investment in Savvion, Westaim’s technology investments include Westaim Biomedical Corp., which has developed an infection control technology for use in the treatment of wounds, and iFire Technology Inc., which has developed a revolutionary low-cost flat panel display. Westaim’s common shares are listed on Nasdaq under the symbol WEDX and on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the trading symbol WED.
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For more information:
Tony Johnston, Senior Vice President, Corporate Affairs, The Westaim Corporation,
(403) 234-3103, info@westaim.com, http://www.westaim.com
Don Nanneman, Savvion, (408) 330-3496, nanneman@tdiinc.com
Mary MacGregor, Spiralgroup for Savvion, (760) 360-9014, marym@spiralgroup.com
Sandy McBride, Active Software, Inc., (408) 969-5614, sandy@activesw.com
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