webMethods Certifies and Enables Key Partners for SOA Governance with New Program
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 8 -- Integration World 2006 -- webMethods, Inc. (NASDAQ:WEBM), a leading business integration and optimization software company, today launched a new SOA governance certification and enablement program for its systems integration (SIs) partners. The webMethods SOA Governance Ready program identifies and supports specific partners that have made an additional commitment to SOA governance through specialized training of consultants, adoption of methodologies for SOA governance, and additional investments in the creation of complementary best practices. Charter members include BearingPoint, LiquidHub, Perficient, and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). The webMethods SOA Governance Ready program builds upon webMethods' recently announced products for SOA governance -- webMethods Infravio X- Registry and webMethods Infravio X-Broker [see separate announcement: webMethods Brings SOA Governance to the Mainstream, (November 7, 2006)].
By leveraging webMethods' industry-leading products to deploy their unique best practices and methodologies for SOA governance, leading SIs can help Global 2000 enterprises accelerate time-to-benefit for their SOA investments through the broader and more rapid reuse of services. More specifically, webMethods' SOA governance solution offers a flexible and scalable framework for the assembly and packaging of each partner's domain-specific metadata and industry-specific policies for reuse across multiple implementations. Furthermore, it facilitates closer collaboration with all process actors -- business analysts, enterprise architects and developers -- for the streamlined development of new applications and processes. webMethods is supporting the program with exclusive partner training, enhanced access to development resources and promotional packaging, and additional consulting resources for creating customized policies and contracts as a key component of each partner's SOA governance offering.
"The biggest inhibitors for many organizations' SOA adoption are their lack of governance as well as their need to demonstrate a positive return-on- investment," said Lance Hill, vice president and General Manager, SOA Solutions, webMethods, Inc. "The webMethods SOA Governance Ready program addresses these concerns by accelerating partner proficiency on our new solution. As a result, they can more quickly implement lifecycle governance at the enterprise-level while more readily demonstrating the value that these implementations produce. The importance of this issue is underscored by the premier level of partners -- BearingPoint, LiquidHub, Perficient, and TCS -- that have committed to the program in advance of its launch."
BearingPoint provides strategic consulting, application services, technology solutions and managed services to Global 2000 companies and government organizations. They help customers achieve results by identifying mission critical issues and implementing innovative and customized solutions designed to generate revenue, reduce costs and access the right information at the right time. According to a recent technology analyst research report, BearingPoint's SOA offering scored higher than any other organization's services.
"Over the past year, we have developed an SOA roadmap foundation framework and the methodologies to enable companies to accelerate delivery with flexible tools and templates," said Gregory Reh, Managing Director, BearingPoint. "Now, working with webMethods and the webMethods governance platform, we have a complete suite of products that support our methodologies and framework. We will be able to increase the value that we bring to our customers and to help them align their IT systems with their business initiatives."
LiquidHub is a systems integrator and technology consultancy delivering strategy applications, data, and infrastructure solutions within the context of enterprise and service-oriented architectures. LiquidHub partners with clients in life sciences, pharmaceutical, healthcare, insurance, financial services, and other key industries to deliver technology solutions globally.
"SOA's great potential is in its ability to facilitate customized solutions at the enterprise-level for individual users. This is something that we've embraced as a more efficient means in which to deliver our proven domain experience and best practices," said Jonathan Brassington, Partner and CEO, LiquidHub. "Effective governance is essential to this strategy as it supports solution design and application delivery, while ensuring the long- term viability of these solutions. By taking advantage of the webMethods platform to capture and standardize our approach, we can increase the speed and effectiveness of our customer-facing engagements."
Perficient is a leading information technology consulting firm serving clients throughout the United States. The company's core competency is in designing, building and delivering business-driven technology solutions. Perficient helps clients gain competitive advantage by leveraging the Internet to make their businesses more responsive to market opportunities and threats; strengthen relationships with customers, suppliers and partners; improve productivity; and reduce information technology costs.
"At Perficient, we believe rapidly changing business environments favor companies that have achieved a high degree of adaptability. Companies that can quickly adapt their business processes to respond to new market opportunities or competitive threats do so by design," said Stephen Haglund, Operations Director, Perficient. "Using Perficient's services and webMethods' solutions, clients can take advantage of these more adaptive business strategies as they are now supported by the more flexible business applications and IT infrastructure enabled by SOA."
Tata Consultancy Services is a world-leading information technology consulting, services, and business process outsourcing organization. The company is recognized for envisioning and pioneering the adoption of the flexible global business practices that enable companies to operate more efficiently and produce more value today. Having commenced operations in 1968, the company now encompasses operations in 34 countries spanning six continents, where it provides customers with a range of services. The company was recently recognized as a "Strong Performer" in the North American SOA integration services market by a leading industry research provider.
"We continually look to improve and invest our time and resources in products that provide significant benefits and efficiencies to our customers. webMethods has a proven track record of delivering client value through their business process integration solutions," said Ravindra Asundi, Global EAI Practice Head, Tata Consultancy Services. "By combining our service expertise with webMethods' solutions, we will ensure that customers realize the full benefits of adopting SOA across their enterprise."
Participation within the webMethods SOA Governance Ready program is by invitation-only. Selection criteria is based on each partner's demonstrated commitment to creating and maintaining best-in-class core competencies for SOA governance. Additional partners interested in joining the program should contact their webMethods Partner Relations manager to learn more.
About webMethods, Inc.
webMethods (NASDAQ:WEBM) provides business integration software to integrate, assemble and optimize available IT assets to drive business process productivity. webMethods delivers an innovative, enterprise-class business integration platform that incorporates proven integration technology with next generation capabilities into one interoperable set of tools that delivers a unique combination of efficiency, agility and control. webMethods combines industry leadership with a zealous commitment to customers to deliver tangible business value to more than 1,400 global customers. webMethods is headquartered in Fairfax, Va., with offices throughout the U.S., Europe, Asia Pacific and Japan. More information about the company can be found at http://www.webmethods.com/.
About Perficient
Perficient is a leading information technology consulting firm serving Global 2000 and other large enterprise customers throughout the United States. Perficient helps clients gain competitive advantage by using Internet-based technologies to make their businesses more responsive to market opportunities and threats, strengthen relationships with customers, suppliers and partners, improve productivity and reduce information technology costs. Perficient is a member of the Russell 2000(R) index and is traded on the Nasdaq Global Select Market, a market for public companies that meet the highest listing standards in the world. For more information about Perficient, which employs more than 950 professionals, please visit http://www.perficient.com/.
About Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS)
Tata Consultancy Services Limited (TCS) is the world-leading information technology consulting, services, business process outsourcing and engineering services organization that envisioned and pioneered the adoption of the flexible global business practices that today enable companies to operate more efficiently and produce more value. TCS achieved this by creating and perfecting a unique method of global deployment and delivery of high quality, high value services and products in IT consulting and business process outsourcing. Known as the "Global Delivery Model," this strategic services delivery concept has reshaped the IT services industry.
More than 95% of TCS customers reward the company's reliability, passion, creativity, and unique ability to handle the broadest range of their IT needs by continually extending and deepening their partnerships with TCS. With over 70,000 of the world's best trained IT consultants located in 35 countries, TCS is uniquely positioned to deliver its flexible world class services seamlessly to any location. TCS reported consolidated revenues of $2.97 billion (U.S.) in the fiscal year 2005-2006. The company is listed on the National Stock Exchange and Bombay Stock Exchange in India. For more information: http://www.tcs.com/
CONTACT:
John Conley of webMethods, Inc.,
+1-703-460-5996,
John.Conley@webMethods.com
Web site:
http://www.webmethods.com/
http://www.perficient.com/
http://www.tcs.com/
