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Active Software
Active Software is a leading provider of eBusiness integration software products
and solutions, enabling customers to become an eBusiness with faster and more efficient
operations, real-time information flow, and greater responsiveness to customers within and
across the extended enterprise. A pioneer in the new category of Enterprise Application
Integration (EAI), Active Software provides the ActiveWorks Integration System, a
comprehensive suite of products that rapidly deliver comprehensive eBusiness solutions
BEA Systems, Inc.
BEA Systems, Inc., is a leading provider of mission-critical middleware and Internet
solutions for the world's largest enterprises. BEA's product line enables end-to-end,
integrated solutions for electronic commerce and business-critical systems. BEA products
include BEA TUXEDO, the industry's market share leader for distributed transaction
management software, BEA WebLogic, a leading Web application server providing Java and EJB
solutions, and BEA eLink, a solution for integrating enterprise applications.
Bluestone Software, Inc.
Bluestone Software, Inc. is the leader in enterprise interaction management - a term
coined by the company to define the controlled exchange of web-enabled enterprise
information. Bluestone develops and markets Sapphire/Web, a framework of award-winning
enterprise Web application server products, and Bluestone XML-Server, the first generally
available dynamic XML server
Candle
Candle is committed to providing the products and services needed for successful
application connectivity and integration and for managing message-based middleware. Their
distributed systems business focuses on applications management and other distributed
application needs, particularly monitoring and managing Business Application Response Time
to help users meet their service-level agreements. They also continue to develop our
systems availability and performance management solutions, both mainframe management and
distributed solutions such as the Candle Command Center.
CrossWorlds Software
CrossWorlds Software, Inc. has pioneered the industrys first Processware
software products (patent pending), cross-application business process functionality that
let disparate enterprise applications from multiple vendors work together.
CrossWorlds first product, CrossWorlds Customer Interaction, provides a complete
solution for integrating front-office applications such as Aurum, Clarify, Scopus, Trilogy
and Vantive with back-office applications such as Baan, PeopleSoft and SAP. The
companys investors include Compaq Computer Corporation, Ernst & Young
LLP, Intel
Corporation, J.D. Edwards, Kanematsu, Manugistics, OMRON Corporation and SAP AG.
IBM
IBM is about two things: (1) Creating the industry's most advanced information
technologies and (2) Helping customers apply those technologies to improve what they do -
and how they do it. The MQSeries Family is a complete portfolio of open, scalable,
industrial-strength messaging software that enables companies to embrace and extend
existing IT investments to integrate complex business processes across different hardware
and software. The members of the family are MQSeries messaging products, MQSeries
Integrator and MQSeries Workflow. The family addresses the critical areas of IT
management; messaging, application and information integration; and business process
automation, support and service.
InConcert
InConcert, Inc. develops, markets, and supports integration solutions for Operational
Support Systems (OSS). These solutions enable the world's top telecommunications service
providers to gain a significant competitive edge in todays dynamic business climate.
The company was recently acquired by TIBCO
Level 8 Systems, Inc.
Level 8 Systems is a premier provider of business integration solutions through a
combination of technologies and services that enable organizations to meet their
information systems integration, E-commerce enablement, and application development needs.
Level 8's software product set includes enterprise application integration (EAI) and
E-Commerce enablement products, message-oriented middleware (MOM), and enterprise
application development tools
New Era
Of Networks (NEON)
New Era of Networks, Inc. (NEON) is the industry leader in providing Enterprise
Application Integration (EAI) solutions to financial services, banking, brokerage,
telecommunications, utilities, manufacturing, healthcare and other industries. NEON is the
first company to provide packaged solutions that successfully integrate legacy
applications, client/server and web-based applications, as well as popular Enterprise
Resource Planning (ERP) applications. With more than 140 implemented customers worldwide,
NEON has demonstrated that its applications shorten implementation cycles, easily
integrate disparate platforms, and allow information to be shared and managed across the
enterprise. The NEON product suite supports Enterprise Application Integration across the
leading databases, including DB2, Informix, NT SQL Server, Oracle, and Sybase; and
provides libraries for SAP and PeopleSoft ERP applications.
Oberon Software
Oberon Software, Inc. is a premier provider of software integration products designed
to enable e-business. Through Oberons e-Enterprise integration platform, companies
can best prepare for and enable e-business by leveraging the capabilities of traditional
enterprise applications and leveraging new e-business applications and architectures.
Oberon differentiates its market offerings with a total solution that encompasses
products, partners and services to support and enable each segment of e-business including
integration within the enterprise, business-to-business, customer facing and
e-marketplaces/exchanges. Oberon strives to help customers optimize value with effective
business process level integration that leverages existing technology investments.
Oracle
Oracle Corp. is the leading supplier of software for enterprise information
management. The company has two major businesses: one aimed at providing the lowest cost
information technology infrastructure, and the other to provide business and competitive
advantage through high value applications. The company offers its database, tools and
applications products, along with related consulting, education, and support services.
Oracle is one of the first software companies to implement its model of enterprise
software management through network computing - capable databases and products, and the
first major software company to make full-featured products available electronically on
the Internet. It is the only company capable of implementing end-to-end enterprise IT
infrastructure and applications solutions on a global scale. From EAI point of view the
most relevant products are AQ, MQ gateway and XML
Saga Software
Sagavista is a new, business-centric middleware solution from SAGA that intelligently
links various systems in order to access desired enterprise information, integrating
disparate operating environments within the enterprise. Through Intelligent Agent
Adapters, Integration Server and Integration Workbench, an enterprise can now integrate
leading ERP, packaged, custom and legacy applications with minimal costly custom
programming.
Sagavista's pre-built application adapters and message brokering technology provide
today's global and rapidly changing businesses with significantly increased sharing of
data among previously incompatible connected applications or data sources in the
enterprise. Sagavista enables businesses to share more information with more people more
efficiently and cost-effectively.
Sterling Commerce, Inc.
Sterling Commerce, Inc. is the world's leading provider of end-to-end E-commerce
solutions based on Internet technology. Their mission is to help companies capitalize on
the extraordinary opportunities for growth and profitability brought about by the Internet
and supporting technologies. Sterling Commerce E-commerce solutions squarely address the
most important issues companies face as they make the transition to an Internet-driven
economy: how to build and manage global commerce communities, how to better integrate
their business processes, and how to achieve greater competitiveness through new sales
channels, improved productivity and enhanced responsiveness to customers.
SuperNova, Inc.
SuperNova provides reliable and adaptable software solutions for Enterprise
Application Development and Integration. SuperNova helps its customers shorten development
and integration project cycles and drastically reduce software related expenses. SuperNova
believes that enterprise application integration (EAI) without any development is a
contradiction. For SuperNova development is a key ingredient of any flexible integration
solution. The company?s solutions are based on 11 years of proven technology and
experience with hundreds of enterprise customers in industries ranging from banking,
manufacturing and telecommunications, to energy, services and retail. In most cases,
SuperNovas integration tools are complementary to other EAI vendors? enterprise
application integration platforms.
TIBCO
Founded in 1985 as Teknekron Software Systems, Inc., TIBCO Inc. is a recognized leader
in information systems integration and a pioneer in advanced middleware development for
the global enterprise. Our unmatched expertise in distributed computing, networking,
database systems and information workflow has made TIBCO integral to the IT strategy of
the world's most progressive international companies. With offices worldwide to serve a
rapidly-expanding client base of major financial services institutions, consumer and high
tech manufacturing giants and software developers, TIBCO, an independent division of
Reuters Group PLC, is committed to bringing a world of information to you, wherever you
are, and wherever you want to be.
TSI Software Inc
TSI Software is a leading provider of solutions for integrating business applications
within and between enterprises. TSI's customers include leaders in every industry
including American Express, Citibank, Eastman Kodak, Hewlett-Packard, Hoechst, IBM, Lucent
Technologies, NationsBank, and Texas Instruments. TSI's flagship product, Mercator, is in
use in over 1,400 sites worldwide and has been adopted by major partners such as IBM,
CrossWorlds, Netscape and Price Waterhouse for delivering integration solutions.
Vitria Technology
Vitria Technology Inc. provides the first business-level, model-driven software
solution for enterprise application integration (EAI). Vitria BusinessWare helps companies
gain end-to-end visibility and control of business processes that span multiple
information systems. BusinessWare solutions are driven by graphical business process
models that allow business analysts to control and coordinate cross-application
information flows without programming. This unique approach reduces the time and cost of
integrating applications, and provides the flexibility companies need to continuously
adapt processes and supporting systems to changing business conditions. Leading companies
including Deutsche Bank, Federal Express, Hewitt Associates, KPMG, Qwest Communications,
SBC Communications, and Vanstar Corporation have already chosen BusinessWare to integrate
their business-critical information systems. Vitria also works closely with leading
product and service partners including Andersen Consulting, Clarify, HP, KPMG, Netscape,
Oracle, and Sun Microsystems.
WebMethods
WebMethods is a leading provider of open solutions for business-to-business (B2B)
integration. The webMethods B2B solution provides companies with integrated, direct
links to buyers and suppliers, connecting them to major B2B marketplaces and enabling
real-time, interactive communication through the Internet, regardless of existing
technology infrastructure. Powered by XML, webMethods B2B can automate critical business
processes such as customer relations, procurement and financial services, supply chain
management, logistics and sell-side/buy-side e-commerce.
EAIQuadrant.com
EAIQuadrant is the best source of up to the minute news and publications about EAI
EAI Journal
EAI Journal - The Resource for e-Business and Application Integration - is sharply
focused on this key aspect of enterprise computing. Each month it looks at the technical
issues surrounding strategic e-business deployment, including the integration of
applications and middleware, and also consider the business implications. In addition, our
Website features all the latest breaking news in the market and arranges content
intuitively by topic.
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