IDS Scheer, IBM Partner on BPM for WebSphere

Developing interface between ARIS business process management solution and Big Blue's integration developer platform

Developing interface between ARIS business process management solution and Big Blue's integration developer platform

Berwyn, PA — December 22, 2005 — Business process management (BPM) solution provider IDS Scheer is partnering with IBM to develop a new interface between the ARIS Platform and IBM WebSphere to allow customers to automatically execute processes modeled in ARIS on the IBM WebSphere Integration Developer platform.

Under the terms of the partnership, both companies agreed to allow the seamless implementation of technical processes using IBM execution engine technology as well as the integration of current applications.

The new interface, intended to bridge the gap between the technical description of processes and the practical implementation, optimizes a unique connector based on the BPEL standard to reduce project times, increase the efficiency of the systems implemented and prevent media breaks, IDS said.

IDS said that this partnership is part of its ARIS P2A initiative to expand its product portfolio to integrate with other vendor's enterprise architecture offerings. This solution offers time and cost savings in the development of individual software and implementation of the middleware (EAI, Workflow, portal software, .NET, J2EE), enables the orchestration of enterprise and web services by BPM standards (BPEL, BPML, XML, XMI) and offers documentation for better communication between technical and development departments, IDS said.

The process information available in ARIS can be transformed into technical processes to be executed on WebSphere Process Server. The new partnership will also allow customers to import existing and new ARIS models directly into the IBM WebSphere Integration Developer tools.

"This first-time shared integration of two leading BPM products offers mutual benefits to customers of both solutions, even if used separately," said Dr. Mathias Kirchmer, CEO of IDS Scheer in the Americas. "The power of this joint integration adds tremendous value to prospective customers who are considering modeling their business processes but have not yet selected a platform, especially one that offers an open, service-oriented architecture."

In early 2006 the two companies plan to showcase the first implementation of the new methodology in pilot projects with customers such as Audi and HypoVereinsbank.

"The interface is the first step towards meeting the pressing demands of our customers for process orientation while simultaneously giving them the freedom of choice regardless of the IT platform," added Kirchmer. "Future integration developments may include linkage of data from the IBM runtime environment with our ARIS Process Performance Management tool."


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