The latest product to be conceived since Software AG and webmethods integrated has been made available this week. WebMethods 7.1 brings technologies for service-oriented architecture (SOA) governance, business integration, business process management (BPM) and legacy modernization together within a fully-modular product suite.
With this combination, the new solution is set to help enterprises reduce operational costs by reusing instead of recreating IT assets, accelerate their process improvement initiatives and make faster, smarter business decisions.
Principal additions in the new release include further enhancements to the business process management component, webMethods BPMS; the introduction of webMethods Optimize for B2B as a real-time monitoring and analysis solution for extended value chains; and the debut of the webMethods ESB as a comprehensive, standards-based enterprise service bus (ESB) solution enabling integration and interoperability of applications, services, processes and partners via a single platform.
“Global enterprises are judged on how they innovate, collaborate and respond to change – both within their organization and beyond. Linking these pursuits together is the ability to orchestrate the often complex interactions of users, data and systems into effective, end-to-end business processes,” said David Mitchell, President and Chief Operating Officer of the webMethods business line of Software AG.
“The latest release of the webMethods product suite addresses this need easily and elegantly. Significant new features work to extend real-time performance monitoring to customers and partners, optimize process execution, and simplify the management of extended supplier networks. Furthermore, it also advances our vision of allowing CIO’s to manage IT as a portfolio of services, due to our continued commitment to a lifecycle approach for the management and governance of all IT assets.”
The webMethods ESB, which debuts with the version 7.1 release, supports a number of key industry standards, including SOAP 1.2, MTOM/XOP, JMS, WS Security and WS-I, as a means for delivering turnkey interoperability and orchestration of Web services within a service-oriented architecture. The platform has also been enhanced to provide faster and more efficient processing of large documents via additional streaming and compression support.
Software AG has also said that it expects to unveil the CentraSite Governance Edition, an updated version of the webMethods Infravio X-Registry, next month in conjunction with the SOA Governance Summit, which is being hosted by Software AG in Copenhagen on October 2, 2007. |
