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Endeavors Application Jukebox | Download PDFEndeavors Technologies believes it is one of the best-kept secrets in application virtualization and streaming. From its roots as a research project at University of CA Irvine more than ten years ago, the company has grown and developed three new versions of a commercial product, Application Jukebox, aimed at providing on-demand application delivery through a portable application virtualization and streaming architecture. Perhaps most interesting is Application Jukebox SaaS Edition, which extends the flexibility of on-demand virtualization and streaming beyond the enterprise to deliver applications to users when and where they need them. The applications of Application Jukebox are numerous, from enterprise IT application distribution and license enforcement and version control to consumer gaming through a web portal. Currently, 500,000 users are utilizing Application Jukebox (or one of its previous versions). If rumors regarding an upcoming pilot program from Microsoft that will allow service providers to stream Microsoft Office through a SaaS model prove true, Endeavors will be poised to make an even more significant impact on the SaaS market. Read more.
Adobe Systems has established its products as the ubiquitous desktop client for viewing dynamic forms and documents, most notably with its Adobe Reader and Flash Player. With more than 900 million connected desktop computers and devices utilizing Adobe client software, there is no doubt that Adobe products are an integral part of the business landscape. In 2004, the company launched LiveCycle, a set of servers designed to make forms and documents more interactive, extending PDF to back-end processes. The latest version, LiveCycle Enterprise Suite, merges this with the Flex and Flash capabilities from Adobe’s acquisition of Macromedia, providing companies with the ability automate business processes with customer engaging forms and user interfaces. Based on a re-written and unified J2EE server platform, LiveCycle ES provides a collaborative development environment for automating business processes across industries such as financial services, manufacturing, life sciences, and government. As a player in the human-centric category of BPM, Adobe currently has more than 1,300 LiveCycle ES customers.Read more.
Founded in 1991 in Paris, MEGA International has grown to be an enterprise architecture solutions provider with a business process modeling perspective. MEGA International’s new version of its MEGA Modeling Suite has added a new component, MEGA Advisor, to the...Read more.
Appian holds a unique position in the BPM market. The company was founded in 1999 in order to help organizations across industries optimize their business processes. With three of its founders coming from business intelligence vendor MicroStrategy, the company wanted to move beyond mere reporting to help its customers tie high-level business goals to the work employees do every day. Therefore, to help organizations turn insight into action Appian began to build out a standards-based BPM platform that provided an easy-to-use framework for designing, managing and optimizing business processes. Appian’s BPM suite was designed and optimized around a completely Web-based interface using AJAX and Web 2.0 technologies. Appian’s BPM suite has evolved into two primary product lines: Appian Enterprise, for commercial-off-the-shelf enterprise BPM software needs behind the firewall, and Appian Anywhere a BPM suite offered in a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model. Appian Corporation is completely self-funded and has been profitable since its inception. Read more.
Lombardi Software is a BPM pure-play that has been making its BPM solution available to enterprise customers since 2000. Currently, the company has more than 130 customers, with half of them in the Fortune 2000, and it is recognized as one of the leading pure-play BPM solutions. The company is privately held and backed by several significant venture firms, including Austin Ventures, Palomar and InterWest. In 2006, Lombardi doubled its revenues and added more than 50 employees to support the growth. Lombardi TeamWorks Enterprise Edition®, Lombardi’s BPM suite, provides a business-user focused solution to process optimization, and includes tools for business analysts and managers in addition to developers. Lombardi has worked to make its user interface seamless with popular business productivity applications, with the release of a fully integrated add-on product for Microsoft Office, Teamwork for Office, something its customers have appreciated. Lombardi’s newest offering is called Blueprint, and it is designed for companies that are looking for a faster, service-based way to enable collaborative process discovery. The hosted model enables companies to quickly leverage Blueprint in their business process discovery initiatives.Read more.
E2E is a relatively new entrant in the enterprise integration product space, but the company brings with it deep roots in enterprise model-driven integration. Founded more than 10 years ago as a systems integrator in Switzerland, the company quickly built its reputation as a provider of integration services for UBS. As the company continued to support critical enterprise integration projects, it decided in late 2005 to offer the product it had developed for its customer projects to the global market. In January 2006, the company made the switch to a pure product company and since then has been building traction in the model-driven integration market worldwide. With more than 12 customers today, many of them multi-billion dollar enterprises, E2E is bringing its solution, the E2E Bridge, to the global market. The E2E Bridge is a UML-based enterprise service bus (ESB) that provides code-free, model-driven integration with a company’s existing back-end systems. The E2E Bridge supports service-oriented architectures (SOA) and is fairly lightweight because of its UML virtual machine, which does not require a Java application server.Read more.
HandySoft was an early player in the pure-play BPM market. The company’s BizFlow solution gained attention early as a flexible process management tool that was particularly adept at helping organizations manage their compliance needs. After releasing several SOX-based and compliance...Read more.
No matter what sized company you are, there’s a good chance you have more than one business process that revolves around requests and approvals. While general business process management and workflow products can be used to automate such processes, a...Read more.
Savvion has continued to prove itself as a BPMS leader since Upside Research last featured the company in 2003. Still privately held, the company had revenues of more than $25 million in 2005, and is backed by a number of...Read more.
Ultimus has been steadily growing its customer base and evolving its original BPM product to meet the needs of a growing market. With more than 1,600 customers worldwide today, and claims that it has the largest global presence of any...Read more.
Metastorm is a well-established BPM company that has been working aggressively to expand its capabilities and customer base over the past few years. The company acquired transaction-oriented BPM vendor CommerceQuest in October 2005. The acquisition has added CommerceQuest’s strong system-oriented...Read more.
Pegasystems has been automating business-critical processes for F500 organizations with a rules-based solution for 20 years. A public company with 425 employees in offices worldwide, Pegasystems recorded revenues of $97.4 million in 2002. In the past eighteen months, the company...Read more.