Vitria Technology and startup AptSoft has rolled out
software designed to streamline the integration of applications and
business processes.
Vitria's BusinessWare 4.2 builds on the modelling capabilities
that debuted in the previous version, and features built-in support
for business process fusion, which helps enhance autonomous
transactional processes by tightly integrating them across a range
of different vertical industries.
"The biggest thing we have accomplished is to put in really
strong XML end-to-end support around this notion of document
support," said Todd Martin, Vitria's senior director of product
marketing. "We have tried to really simplify how you pass around a
document within a company, which seems to be the direction for most
companies."
New to Version 4.2 is the Application Framework made up of an
assortment of reusable tools, pre-built modules, extendable user
interfaces, and business collaboration frameworks. These features
serve to accelerate the implementation of common integration
services across a range of vertical and horizontal business
processes.
AptSoft unveiled Director, which is designed to eliminate the
dependence on hardwired code and middleware in application
integration, thereby reducing the need for custom coding.
Director combines the ability to choreograph disparate business
process management with the underlying application integration, and
employs web services standards to create a services-oriented and
events-driven architecture where developers can change business
rules to eliminate customised code writing.
"One of the functional areas we have focused on is to reduce a
business process to components. You only need to know SQL and Java
Script, and not have to use really structured code like in C, Java,
or .net," said David Cameron, AptSoft's vice president of marketing
and product integration.
Ed Scannell writes for InfoWorld
