PRESS
RELEASE
Adeptia BPM Server offers an intuitive, code-free approach to process
automation allowing customers to utilize the efficiencies and advantages of BPM
quickly and easily. The latest version
of BPM Server includes human workflow, graphical process flow design and reporting
capabilities along with enterprise and partner integration in a packaged solution.
Chicago, IL – March 2, 2005 – Adeptia
Inc., an innovative provider of business process management (BPM) technologies,
announced today the release of its leading-edge BPM Server version 4.0. The new
version of BPM Server allows customers to deploy and utilize the full potential
of business process integration. By deploying this product, organizations can
fully manage, automate and optimize multi-department processes and workflow.
The strength of Adeptia BPM
Server lies in the ease-of-use enabled by a Web-based, wizard-driven interface
that allows graphical representation of highly complex process flows and easy
specification of data integration rules without writing any code. By combining
process design and workflow management with data transformation, Web Services
and real-time enterprise integration, Adeptia BPM Server offers a
“BPM-in-a-box” solution.
“Adeptia BPM Server v4.0 takes
us closer to our vision, which is to make BPM and B2B integration pervasive by
making it available for organizations of all sizes. The BPM Server enables companies
to strategically utilize people, processes, policies and technology to create a
powerful competitive advantage.” – said Lou Ennuso, CEO of Adeptia. “Adeptia’s
unique product delivers state-of-the-art process management that greatly
improves profitability by driving operational excellence while streamlining
costs.”
The BPM Server is a Java based
product that allows multi-platform support and enables service oriented
architecture. It enables collaboration among business and IT users to improve
performance of systems and business processes. The BPM Server’s user friendly
and intuitive functionality offers business users the ability to self-manage
processes without involvement of IT. For assured performance and secure
management of enterprise-wide information, BPM Server provides enhanced
security features, exceptional load balancing and failover capabilities. This
version also includes new adapters for third-party applications to widen the
scope of technology platforms and systems integration.
Adeptia BPM Server includes
process models and templates for insurance and automotive industry. These
models and templates are designed to provide customers with ready-to-deploy
solutions to quickly address crucial business needs.
Key components of Adeptia BPM Server
Business Process Management
Process Designer: The Process Designer provides a
graphical environment for design of business process flows. It allows business
users to design process flows, and IT users to implement those processes with
executable services that represent specific business tasks. The Process
Designer is used to orchestrate business tasks and thus create process flows. It
helps both IT staff and business users to collaborate for documenting and
designing of business processes.
Process Engine: The Process Engine is a runtime component that
executes the process flows that are defined in the Process Designer. The Process Engine supports comprehensive
BPM functionality while offering highly scalable and robust performance. It supports clustering of multiple nodes of
BPM Servers for load balancing and redundancy.
It also includes “transaction-recovery” capability to automatically
restart and recover processes that were interrupted by any software, hardware
or network failure.
Workflow Manager: BPM Server provides support for human
workflow tasks to be included in the automated process flows. A web-based Task Manager is also provided
for business users to manage these tasks. The workflow tasks allow business
users to upload and download documents as well as fill-out forms and make
decisions. The Task Manager displays
all the tasks waiting for the users so they can view their work list and take
appropriate action.
Enterprise and External Integration
Web Services: The Web Services component allows creation of
services that invoke or utilize Web services to perform specific tasks, and
then orchestration of these web services in the process flows. This component also allows any process flow
created in the BPM Server to be published as a Web service.
Data Transformation: This component facilitates creation and
parsing of different data formats and structures or schemas. It provides a
graphical, wizard-driven data mapping interface that enables specification of complex
mapping rules in English, without the need for any code. Furthermore, it
enables printing and archiving of these mapping rules directly into PDF for
easy reviews and sign-offs.
Data Transport: The Data Transport component provides
integration support to receive and send data using a wide variety of protocols
and adapters. This allows the BPM
Server to integrate process flows with any back-office applications or database
as well as with external entities such as customers, suppliers and partners. The Data Transport component supports assured,
secure and timely delivery of data irrespective of the data size. A
differentiating capability of the Adeptia BPM Server is its ability to handle
not only message-based communication but also the transport and transformation
of bulk-data.
“BPM Server is an innovative, next generation
product that is designed to simplify deployment of process integration for
companies with diverse IT infrastructure and skill-sets so they too can benefit
with all the advantages of BPM. It is architected from the ground up using
latest technologies and open standards to provide Adeptia customers with a
flexible, scalable and easily manageable enterprise class solution.” – said
Deepak Singh, CTO of Adeptia.
Availability
The Adeptia BPM Server has
been released for general availability.
Please contact Adeptia (sales@adeptia.com)
for more information.
About Adeptia, Inc.
Manage, Automate, Optimize business processes
Adeptia is an enterprise
software company headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, that provides business
process integration technology to easily and quickly automate business
processes across supply chains using industry-specific standards. Adeptia’s
unique product combines business process management with business-to-business
integration. Adeptia’s reusable and highly scalable technology has been
deployed by Fortune 1000 companies. For more information, visit http://www.adeptia.com.
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Contact Information
Rob
Walter
Adeptia,
Inc.
(312)
442-4426
rob.walter@adeptia.com