Software AG (Frankfurt TeDAX: SOW), and Active Endpoints, Inc., the leading independent provider of BPEL solutions, today announced a strategic technology alliance. Under the terms of this alliance, Software AG will integrate and redistribute Active Endpoints' ActiveWebflow products as a key component of Enterprise Service Integrator. ActiveWebflow is a family of standards based products that allow organizations to automate process flows and to quickly and easily define BPEL process compositions that integrate any Web services application components. To provide native XML database functionality, Active Endpoints will integrate Software AG's Tamino XML Server into ActiveWebflow. In addition to optimizing product development, the technology and business alliance also promotes joint sales and marketing activities.
The integration of BPEL with Enterprise Service Integrator (ESI) allows customers to fully integrate and orchestrate their Business Process Management and Workflow applications with existing Web Services. The combination of Enterprise Service Integrator's ability to expose existing systems as Web Services with BPEL allows customers to access all their enterprise IT assets within a Service Oriented Architecture. In effect, customers can re-use existing assets and services to create new services, quickly, efficiently and non-invasively.
