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No Magic, Inc.®, a leading vendor of architecture modeling software, today announced the release of MagicDraw® UML 10.5, an upgrade of No Magic’s award-winning UML-based architecture tool. MagicDraw 10.5 extends its business process modeling capabilities to export Business Process Execution Language (BPEL 1.1) compliant code from Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) diagram. The new version delivers a brand new integration with ProActivity Business Process Analysis suite, updated NetBeans integration and improved GUI to increase flexibility and convenience using the tool.
No Magic continues its commitment to narrow the divide between business needs and the systems developed to meet those needs by extending a Business Process Modeling offering in its award-winning UML-based architecture tool. The new MagicDraw UML BPEL Export functionality allows the users to export their Business Process Execution Language (BPEL 1.1) compliant code from a Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) diagram. The outputted BPEL code can be used in BEA WebLogic 8.1.
“By leveraging our experience gained implementing the best support of UML and other standards from Object Management Group (OMG) in MagicDraw, we move to provide our customers the most complete standards compliant solution in Business Process area,” said Richard Green, CEO of No Magic.
The new brand integration with ProActivity Business Process Analysis Suite eliminates the gap separating business analysts from application analysts and system designers. Now MagicDraw UML imports static and dynamic structure information from ProActivity business models for instant creation/redesign of IT systems.
In addition to the new business process modeling offerings, No Magic continues to enrich its UML modeling capabilities. This new version delivers GUI improvements that increase the convenience and flexibility of working with MagicDraw UML. To reflect the changes in NetBeans IDE 4.X No Magic has updated the seamless integration with NetBeans IDE. This update allows the most standard compliant UML tool on the market to be used by the users of the latest NetBeans version.
About No Magic
Founded in 1995, No Magic Inc. is headquartered in Allen, Texas with operations worldwide. In 1998 No Magic released MagicDraw UML version 1.0, the first large scale application completely developed in Java, earning Sun’s “100% Java Application” credential. The tool has won numerous awards from the world’s most prestigious developers’ journals. In addition to the continued development of MagicDraw, No Magic, Inc. also provides software development outsourcing, consulting, enterprise architecture, business process, training services from its software development facilities in Kaunas, Lithuania and Bangkok, Thailand.
ILOG® (NASDAQ: ILOG; Euronext: ILO, ISIN: FR0004042364) today announced the availability of integration betweenILOG JRules™ and Oracle® BPEL Process Manager. By integrating the ILOG and Oracle products business users can use ILOG JRules, a key offering in ILOG’s business rule management systems (BRMS) product line, to create and edit policies from within Oracle Business Process Management (BPM) applications in a familiar language rather than having to rely on IT staff. The two products used together can enable faster response times to changing business environments and government regulations, as well as competitive pressures for organizations, especially those in financial services, insurance, government, telecommunications, retail and manufacturing industries.
Customers can use ILOG JRules as a “decision service” for Oracle BPEL Process Manager, providing the means for publishing rules and rule sets as reusable services that result from multiple business processes. This allows users to build flexible service-oriented architectures (SOA) by leveraging existing resources, while minimizing the cost of deploying new applications. Oracle BPEL Process Manager and the JRules-enabled decision service are critical components of a BPM solution, each reducing the cost and complexity of integration projects while increasing their strategic value.
“The global economy is operating in real-time, around the clock and organizations need to ensure their business change is operating at the same pace. That means ensuring systems have the flexibility to respond to changes rapidly and effectively,” said Amlan Debnath, vice president, Server Technologies at Oracle. “ILOG’s support of Oracle BPEL Process Manager provides our joint customers with a combination of flexibility, scalability and performance that is required in today’s business environment.”
BRMS: Essential to BPM and SOA
Business rule management systems (BRMS) combine with business process management systems (BPMS) to achieve the highest levels of process agility. A BRMS allows business policies to be managed separately from the rest of the application, eliminating the need to make policy changes to a BPM application through traditional software coding. This approach also means policies can be managed through BRMS-based decision services as part of a Service-oriented architecture (SOA). The resulting solutions provide for the continuous adjustment of processes in response to changing business conditions and allow business users to maintain the application, lowering IT maintenance costs. The BRMS market leader, ILOG is also the leader in technical integration with BPM vendors, including industry leaders Axway, BEA, EMC-Documentum, FileNet, Fuego, Fujitsu, IBM, Oracle, Vitria and W4. Currently, more than 30 Global 2000 organizations use ILOG’s BRMS products in combination with a BPM solution.
Oracle BPEL Process Manager, a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware, connects and coordinates business processes that span multiple departments and applications, combining processes and policies contained in disparate packaged applications and legacy systems into one platform. A key goal of Oracle’s BPM approach is to delegate the definition, coordination and execution of business processes to the business analysts – not IT – allowing them to visually define the business flows between applications, departments, business partners and individuals. ILOG JRules extends this functionality by allowing the business analysts to have access to the policies that are ultimately driving the business processes.
ILOG has consistently built on its history of product innovation to make ILOG JRules the industry’s leading business rule software. For the third year in a row, ILOG has been named to the leader quadrant of Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Business Rule Engines and ILOG was recently named the BRMS market leader by IT research firm IDC. ILOG’s BRMS customers include eBay, Freddie Mac, Sabre, Zurich American and many other leading Global 2000 companies and governments worldwide.
ILOG is a member of the Oracle PartnerNetwork.
About ILOG
ILOG delivers software and services that empower customers to make better decisions faster and manage change and complexity. Over 2,000 global corporations and more than 400 leading software vendors rely on ILOG’s market-leading business rule management system (BRMS), optimization and visualization software components, to achieve dramatic returns on investment, create market-defining products and services, and sharpen their competitive edge. ILOG was founded in 1987 and employs more than 600 people worldwide.
ILOG is a registered trademark, and ILOG JRules is a trademark, of ILOG. All other trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.
Oracle, JD Edwards, PeopleSoft, and Retek are registered trademarks of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates.
Active Endpoints, Inc. (www.active-endpoints.com), the leading provider of BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) products and services, today announced that the ActiveBPEL Designer (formerly ActiveWebflow™ Professional) will now be available for free download from the Active Endpoints website as well as for free redistribution by other organizations.
ActiveBPEL Designer is a comprehensive Eclipse Ready™ BPEL authoring environment. The product includes extensive productivity features to speed developers through the BPEL design and testing cycle, including advanced visual controls, runtime simulation, integrated debugging and 100% standard BPEL code generation.
“We are very pleased to make the ActiveBPEL Designer freely available to the IT community,” said Fred Holahan, Chairman and co-founder, Active Endpoints. “The ActiveBPEL Designer is often cited as the best BPEL design and test environment available today. By providing organizations with free and easy alternatives for acquiring, using and redistributing this world-class product, we aim to accelerate the adoption of BPEL.”
ActiveBPEL Designer – Visual, Productive, Standard.
ActiveBPEL Designer is an Eclipse Ready environment that includes the following key features:
- Process Visualization: intuitive, drag and drop diagram editing that allows users to rapidly construct process diagrams of any complexity. When process design is completed, users can perform visual runtime simulation and debugging, significantly reducing QA cycle times.
- High-productivity Instrumentation: high-productivity visual controls that provide easy access to the most common BPEL related resources. Users can quickly locate, register and use their WSDL resources; create reusable BPEL process artifacts (BPELets™); and access a number of pluggable language environments for advanced data integration, mapping and transformation.
- Uncompromising BPEL Support: out-of-the-box support for any BPEL 1.1 processes. ActiveBPEL users can easily render diagrams by importing existing BPEL process definitions, and they can readily generate BPEL process definitions from any ActiveBPEL diagram. BPEL generated by ActiveBPEL can be executed by any BPEL 1.1 compliant engine.
“Our early successes with SOA have raised new opportunities and requirements, particularly in the area of BPEL-based, composite applications,” said Asit Bhattacharya, Senior Software Engineer, Vodafone Plc. “We knew we had discovered a world-class BPEL authoring solution as soon as we began using the ActiveBPEL Designer. It fits right in to our Eclipse tooling framework and provides an exceptional level of development productivity. The process simulator alone was of significant value, saving us critical QA time as we bullet-proofed our applications.”
Availability
ActiveBPEL Designer is freely available for immediate download at www.active-endpoints.com/freebpel. Additional information about Active Endpoints’ products and services can be obtained by contacting the Company at +1.203.929.9400 ext. 709 or info@active-endpoints.com and by visiting www.active-endpoints.com.
In related news, the Company also announced that it has unified all products under the ActiveBPEL family name and announced general availability of ActiveBPEL 2.0, a comprehensive family of open source and commercial products for building, testing, deploying and managing composite, service-oriented applications. Please visit www.active-endpoints.com/newspr to read the full release.
About Active Endpoints, Inc.
Active Endpoints is the leading provider of BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) solutions. Active Endpoints’ solutions enable organizations to go beyond simple application connections to build and deploy composite, process-driven information systems based on BPEL, the next generation Web services orchestration standard. From open source to mission critical deployments, Active Endpoints empowers IT organizations to quickly adapt to evolving customer demands – reducing the cost of integration, leveraging infrastructure investments and enabling the sharing of business processes with customers, partners and suppliers. More financial services, government, telecommunications, high technology, and retail organizations use Active Endpoints’ solutions than any other BPEL technology. Headquartered in Shelton, Connecticut, Active Endpoints is privately held. More information is available at www.active-endpoints.com.
ActiveBPEL, ActiveWebflow and BPELet are trademarks of Active Endpoints, Inc. Eclipse and Eclipse Ready are trademarks of Eclipse Foundation, Inc. All other company and product names are the property of their respective owners.
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Parasoft, a leading provider of Web services solutions, announced the release of Parasoft BPEL Maestro 1.5. Designed to help enterprises develop, manage and orchestrate long-term, persistent Web Service business processes. Parasoft BPEL Maestro 1.5 delivers a comprehensive BPEL engine and development toolkit that strictly adheres to Web Services and BPEL standards.
Helps Enterprises Realize the Vision of SOA
To ease the development of Web Services applications, BPEL Maestro 1.5 allows enterprises and system integrators to create Web service business processes using a simple flexible GUI. Companies will be able to deploy their Web service business applications faster with few resources. Complex Web Service applications, such as adjusting business processes and associated data integration, can be quickly changed.
“BPEL processes need to be executed by a runtime engine that supports a number of requirements, including native support for Web service standards as well as asynchronous messaging, process persistence, and transactional models consistent with long-term processes,” Jim Clune, director of WS Technology for Parasoft.” Parasoft BPEL Maestro satisfies these requirements by offering a unique set of technologies, and gives companies unprecedented ease-of-use and flexibility when it comes to driving Web Services business processes.”
About Parasoft BPEL Maestro
Parasoft BPEL Maestro 1.5 is a 100 percent native BPEL integration platform. Based on participation and contribution to many of the web and Web Services standards bodies (e.g. WS-I and OASIS), it contains a BPEL engine and toolkit built from the ground up to strictly adhere to Web Services standards. Features include:
- Asynchronous messaging via both JMS and SOAP/HTTP with WS-Addressing.
- Process persistence through a standard RDBMS.
- Scalability through automatic dehydration of process instances into persistent storage.
- Transactional integrity through both a short-term atomic transactional model and a long-running compensation-based model.
- Application level correlation of messages in extended, stateful conversations.
- Full-featured toolkit in the Eclipse development environment for developing, debugging, and managing BPEL processes.
- Web Service standards as basis, including BPEL, WSDL, SOAP, XML, HTTP, JMS and WS-Addressing.
“Enterprises using Web Services need not only flawless execution of complex business processes but also to reduce the time and effort to deploy those processes,” said Wayne Ariola, Vice President of Corporate Development for Parasoft Corporation. ” Parasoft BPEL Maestro 1.5 increases development productivity by providing enterprises with a fast, flexible and cost effective way to implement robust and secure Web Services utilizing industry accepted standards.”
Availability
Parasoft BPEL Maestro is available for Linux, Windows XP/2000 and Solaris.
About Parasoft
Parasoft is the leading provider of innovative solutions that automatically identify and prevent software errors from reoccurring in the development and QA process. Developed with Automated Error Prevention (AEP) methodologies, its award-winning, patented solutions enable software development organizations to reduce delivery delays and improve the quality, security and predictability of enterprise applications. Parasoft has more than 10,000 clients worldwide, including Bank of America, Boeing, Cisco, Disney, HP, IBM, Lehman Brothers and SBC. Founded in 1987, Parasoft is headquartered in Monrovia, CA. For more information visit: www.parasoft.com.
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