Partnership Simplifies the Inclusion of Mainframe-based Business Services in Business Process Management Initiatives
Plano, TX and Atlanta, GA - December 1, 2005 - GT Software, Inc., a leading provider of rapid service-oriented architecture (SOA) development for the mainframe, and Fuego, a leading provider of agile business process management (BPM) solutions, today announced an alliance ensuring that mainframe-based business services can play a key role in BPM-based applications.
The partnership between the two companies initially consists of joint marketing and sales activities, and in the future will include engineering activities to more tightly couple the two leading technologies, further simplifying customer process development, management and optimization.
SOA requires the successful interaction of both new and legacy applications and GT Software is at the forefront of delivering mainframe-based business services, said Rick Mattock, vice president, product strategy at Fuego. Customers immediately benefit because mainframe business-services can be more easily included as part of a new, open and agile process in FuegoBPM.
GT Software's Ivory solution enables the deployment of mainframe-based business services that fuel enterprise SOA initiatives. Mainframe developers can graphically orchestrate mainframe transaction, application, data, and web services into multi-step, multi-operation business services with no formal training or consulting required.
The FuegoBPM Suite is an advanced BPM software platform that enables companies to easily and rapidly achieve the promised benefits of a service-oriented architecture (SOA). Fuego offers customers a technology-agnostic approach that is effective at tying together the enterprise applications and legacy databases that are prevalent throughout today's heterogeneous environments. In a fraction of the time, effort and cost of proprietary infrastructure, FuegoBPM allows users to model their business processes, define key performance indicators (KPIs), simulate the expected performance, connect those processes to people and systems, execute the processes and manage exceptions. Most importantly, the solution provides valuable insight through its ability to measure, monitor and optimize process effectiveness.
The FuegoBPM Suite is an advanced BPM software platform that enables companies to easily and rapidly achieve the promised benefits of a service-oriented architecture (SOA). Fuego offers customers a technology-agnostic approach that is effective at tying together the enterprise applications and legacy databases that are prevalent throughout today's heterogeneous environments. In a fraction of the time, effort and cost of proprietary infrastructure, FuegoBPM allows users to model their business processes, define key performance indicators (KPIs), simulate the expected performance, connect those processes to people and systems, execute the processes and manage exceptions. Most importantly, the solution provides valuable insight through its ability to measure, monitor and optimize process effectiveness.
As a BPM pioneer, Fuego provides innovative solutions to design, execute and continuously improve dynamic business processes that span people, applications and organizations. With Fuego, companies can quickly close the gap between business strategy and process execution to gain immediate payback. Fuego customers have implemented some of the largest process solutions in the world involving tens of thousands of users and millions of transactions across the insurance, healthcare, manufacturing, banking, telecommunications, education and energy services industries. Fuego is privately held with headquarters in Dallas and offices across North America, Latin America and Europe.
For more information, contact Fuego at 972-801-4200, or visit www.fuego.com.
GT Software (www.gtsoftware.com) is a leading provider of rapid SOA development solutions that leverage mainframe resources, making the mainframe an active participant in SOA initiatives. GT Software's products enable a company's mainframe developers to quickly and easily model, automate, and extend mainframe processes for deployment as key components of an enterprise SOA solution. With more than 2,000 installations worldwide, GT Software provides high-quality, innovative and cost-effective solutions for many Fortune 1000 companies. Founded in 1982 and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, GT Software is a privately held company represented in the US, Canada, Asia, Europe, Australia, Africa and South America.
Rob Morris, GT Software, Inc., 404-253-1300, rmorris@gtsoftware.com
Stephanie Coggin, Michael & Partners for Fuego, 972-716-0500 x17, scoggin@michaelpartners.com
