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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION
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Systems/Enterprise:
IDS SCHEER, WebV2 TO OFFER DIST.
BUSINESS PROCESS SOLUTIONS
IDS Scheer Inc, a leading provider of business process excellence services
and
tools, announced an alliance with WebV2 Inc, a provider of distributed
business process execution solutions. Through the alliance, WebV2 can
integrate the market-leading ARIS Toolset into WebV2's Business Process
Connectivity Solution, offering enterprise organizations a federated approach
to managing the business process lifecycle and extending it to mobile users
and other entities beyond the enterprise.
Distributed business process management (BPM) offers a new approach and
allows
organizations to link highly autonomous nodes, such as mobile users or
partners, to a seamless process chain. This approach is ideal for
manufacturing and supply chain related industries.
"We are looking forward to expanding the functionality of our business
process
execution solution by integrating the ARIS Toolset to build a new process
distribution platform," said Steve Stephansen, president and CEO of WebV2.
"For the first time, we can take the power of BPM to the mobile user and
enable organizations to deliver the next-generation of process
innovation."
According to Stephansen, this unified solution will address the needs of
organizations with decentralized environments, either internal or external to
the organization. For example, many public sector agencies utilize independent
data from various sources that need to be integrated into one server. The new
solution takes a federated approach that enables more highly autonomous units,
or nodes, especially mobile users.
"By including WebV2 in our process execution activities, we continue our
key
initiative to extend the 'Process-to-Application' capabilities of our ARIS
process lifecycle solutions to achieve business process excellence," explained
Mathias Kirchmer, CEO of IDS Scheer Inc. "Now, mobile users and other entities
beyond the enterprise can play a more integral role in the process fabric, and
contribute to creating more efficiencies within an organization."
The integrated solution will be based on the Business Process Execution
Language (BPEL4WS), an XML-based language designed to enable task-sharing for
a distributed computing or grid computing environment -- even across multiple
organizations -- using a combination of Web services. Web V2 customers are
excited by the potential of the new solution including Siemens.
"We have implemented the WebV2 software to automatically update disparate
reporting and accounting databases and found it to work seamlessly," said
Silvano Dall'Asta, vice president and chief financial officer of Siemens
Corporate Research.
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