Like other providers of legacy integration middleware, Seagull Software sees the impact that Web services and service oriented architectures (SOA) are having on how users interact with their host systems. Last week Seagull announced a new partnership with Jan Baan's software startup, Cordys, that will provide Seagull customers with new opportunities for hooking Web services together and managing their interaction.
Cordys is a young software company focused on providing tools to help users connect their applications using new Web services technologies. The company was founded in 2004 by Baan founder and former CEO, Jan Baan, and other former executives of the once high-flying Dutch ERP software company. Cordys, like Seagull, is headquartered in The Netherlands; Cordys American office is in Sterling, Virginia, while Seagull's American headquarters is in Atlanta.
Cordys' flagship software suite is the Business Collaboration Platform, a composite application framework (CAF) the company bills as one part enterprise service bus (ESB), one part business activity manager (BAM), one part business process management (BPM), and one part Web services orchestration. That's a lot of parts and acronyms, but integration is still a hairy business, which, unfortunately, still begets a certain level of complexity, although that is beginning to change in large part due to Web services technologies.
