Intalio|Cloud

Intalio and MphasiS Announce Partnership to Deliver Business Process Management Solutions

2010-03-11T05:23:05Z

Combined services to streamline Customer Business Processes

Palo Alto, Calif.— March 11, 2010 — Intalio, Inc., the Enterprise Cloud Company, today announced that it is partnering with MphasiS, a leading applications services, remote infrastructure services, and business processing outsourcing (BPO) services provider, to offer Intalio|Works BPMS solutions worldwide. MphasiS will be a Platinum Partner of Intalio, providing Intalio|Works BPMS related systems integration and other services.

MphasiS currently provides best in class Business Process Management (BPM) based solutions - delivering business results to world's leading banks and insurance companies using a variety of BPM solutions. The current partnership, along with MphasiS’ recent acquisition of AIG SS, AIG’s India based IT captive with significant BPM capabilities, will further strengthen the company’s presence in the BPM space.

MphasiS is also one of the leading providers of Open Source solutions leveraging its own IP portal framework named mFrame Open - Open Source portal framework. This partnership will help the two companies leverage each other’s capabilities in BPM to help enterprises streamline their business processes and realize increased transparency, improved customer satisfaction and faster time-to-market.

“MphasiS has a long history of helping its customers worldwide to achieve their business outcomes, maintain their competitiveness in the marketplace and reduce TCO for all their IT needs,” said Gopinathan Padmanabhan, President Application Services and Sales EMEA, MphasiS. “Leading solutions such as Intalio|Works BPMS are instrumental in accelerating our ability to make our customers successful. Intalio combines the economics of open source software with their robust development, support and business process expertise that enables us to support our customers effectively” he added.

“We are excited about our partnership with MphasiS because of their leadership in providing services and expertise to dramatically impact their clients’ business success,” said Ismael Ghalimi, CEO of Intalio. “By partnering with an experienced, global partner like MphasiS, we are delivering better business process management to a much wider range of enterprises.” Intalio|Works BPMS supports the entire process lifecycle from initial modeling, through execution, monitoring and optimization, and is deployed on any standard J2EE platform.

MphasiS and Intalio have come out with two types of service offerings to enable deployment of Intalio|Works BPMS.

o Consulting Services – including best practices and methodologies, ‘Solution Accelerators’ to jump-start customer implementations, and ‘Business Process Improvement’ recommendations based on the shared expertise of the two companies.

o Professional Services – including Proofs-of-Concept of Intalio|Works BPMS, Greenfield implementations and customization, and application maintenance and support.

About MphasiS

MphasiS is a leading applications services, remote infrastructure services and Business Process Outsourcing services provider. The company delivers real improvements in business performance for clients through a combination of technology know-how, domain and process expertise. With currently over 33,000 people, MphasiS services clients in financial services & insurance, healthcare, communications, transportation, consumer & retail industries and to governments around the world. To know more, please visit www.mphasis.com.

About Intalio, Inc.

Intalio is the leading vendor of enterprise cloud computing platforms. Intalio has over 600 customers in 55 countries, including ABB, Allianz, Cisco, Henkel, INFORMATICA, Kaiser Permanente, The Queensland Government, Grupo Santander, and SABRE Holdings. Founded in July 1999, Intalio is a privately-held, venture-backed company located in Palo Alto, California. For more information on Intalio, please call 650-596-1800 or visit www.intalio.com.

Intalio is a registered trademark of Intalio, Inc. All other names, brands or products may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

Intalio PR Contact
Paul Salazar
(650) 596-1800
salazar@intalio.com

Q2 in Asia Pacific

2010-03-04T08:58:49Z

We are entering the last month of the first quarter of 2010 and all of our training sessions are almost sold out. If you wish to train your team in March, please register immediately for our training in Kuala Lumpur on March 22nd.

After the successful opening of our training center in Bangkok in February, we have decided to extend our footprint in Asia by conducting our first training in Hong Kong on April 19th and first training in Jakarta on June 14th.

Here is the complete schedule for our training classes in Asia Pacific for Q2 2010:

If you are still not sure about joining one of our training sessions, make sure to register to one of the following webinars:

Intalio’s Customers - Read All About Them

2010-03-05T19:21:04Z

We've been busy adding new customers, both for our BPMS product family as well as our recently-added Webtide family of products, including Jetty and Comet D. We have a range of case studies that highlight our successes in the field, both with our customers directly as well as with our strategic deployment partners around the world. You can download these case studies (plus white papers and datasheets) by visiting the Intalio Resource Center. Some of the customers include:

City of Oulu - a collaboration between Intalio and partner Ixonos to automate processes for an E-government solution for a municipality of 120,000 residents.

Tyredating - a collaboration between Intalio and partner Altendis for this major retailer to build a reliable, orchestrated data flow between all participants of data transactions.

Zimbra - an insider view of Jetty Server scalability with Comet.

Polar Rose - using Hightide and Intalio's consulting to fuel growth and indexing capacities.

Photacular - using Jetty and Intalio's developer advice to accelerate development time.

Intalio to Join Finalization Task Force of Business Process Modeling Notation 2.0 Specification

2010-02-02T07:50:33Z

Company extends its participation in the BPMN 2.0 specification with OMG

Palo Alto, Calif. — February 2, 2010 — Intalio, Inc., the Enterprise Cloud Company, today announced that it will continue its commitment to the development of the BPMN™ 2.0 specification as a member of the OMG™ Finalization Task Force. Intalio has been a long-time contributor to the BPMN specification, and in joining the OMG Finalization Task Force, the company continues its role evolving the specification that enables businesses to understand their internal business procedures in a graphical notation and communicate these procedures in a standard manner, from drawing to execution.

"Intalio, being one of the founding members of BPMI, is a natural partner and participant in the BPMN 2.0 specification,” said Vishal Saxena, VP of Engineering for the Intalio|Works division. “We are excited to be a part of BPMN 2.0 Finalization Task Force, and are committed to this emerging standard for our customers and community."

Intalio has a long history supporting standards for Business Process Modeling, including the BPMN 1.2 specification and BPEL 2.0. As a pioneer in BPM solutions, Intalio has an extensive base of over 600 customers in production with Intalio BPMS. Intalio has been the leader in open source BPMS since 2007, with over 50,000 users and hundreds of thousands of downloads.

“OMG is delighted to welcome Antoine Toulme of Intalio to the BPMN2 Finalization Task Force,” said Andrew Watson, OMG’s Technical Director. “Intalio is widely recognized as a thought leader in Business Process Management, and Intalio’s involvement in OMG’s BPMN2 work will help ensure the highest quality standard.”

About Intalio, Inc.

Intalio is the leading vendor of BPMS solutions and enterprise cloud computing platforms. Intalio has over 600 customers in 55 countries, including ABB, Allianz, Cisco, Henkel, INFORMATICA, Kaiser Permanente, The Queensland Government, Grupo Santander, and SABRE Holdings. Founded in July 1999, Intalio is a privately-held, venture-backed company located in Palo Alto, California. For more information on Intalio, please call +1 650 596 1800 or visit www.intalio.com.

Media Contact:
Paul Salazar
(650) 596-1800
salazar@intalio.com

Intalio Announces Jetty Support for WebSocket

2010-01-11T13:48:05Z

New implementation enhances two way communications across browsers, making real-time web applications more easily scalable

Palo Alto, Calif. — January 11, 2010 — Intalio, Inc., the Enterprise Cloud Company, today announced Jetty support for WebSocket. Jetty-7.0.1 has been extended with a WebSocket server implementation based on the same scalable asynchronous IO infrastructure of Jetty and integrated into the Jetty Servlet container. Jetty is now able to communicate using the proposed WebSocket standard, enhancing performance of real-time web applications.

WebSocket came out of work on HTML5 by the What Working Group to specify a mechanism to allow two way communications between browsers. It is currently being standardized at the W3C for the WebSocket API and by the IETF for the WebSocket protocol and is expected to be supported by releases of Firefox and Google’s Chrome Browser in the near future.

WebSocket is fully integrated into the Jetty HTTP server and servlet container, so a Servlet or Handler can process and accept a request to upgrade a HTTP connection to a WebSocket connection. Applications components created by standard web applications can then send and receive datagrams over the WebSocket with non blocking sends and receives.

"We are thrilled to introduce this leading edge implementation of the WebSocket standard for Servlet developers,” said Adam Lieber, General Manager of the Intalio|Works division of Intalio. “Implemented in the standard Jetty server, the industry can continue to develop its products without disruption, but with the ability to upgrade connections from uni-directional to bi-directional opportunistically as support spreads. Developers won't need two separate work streams or releases to deal with communication modes."

More information on Jetty is available on the Intalio|Works website. Jetty can be downloaded from the Webtide website. Professional Services, Training, Support and Consulting for Jetty are available from Intalio|Works.

About Intalio, Inc.

Intalio is the leading vendor of enterprise cloud computing platforms. Intalio has over 600 customers in 55 countries, including ABB, Allianz, Cisco, Henkel, INFORMATICA, Kaiser Permanente, The Queensland Government, Grupo Santander, and SABRE Holdings. Founded in July 1999, Intalio is a privately-held, venture-backed company located in Palo Alto, California. For more information on Intalio, please call +1 650 596 1800 or visit www.intalio.com.

Intalio is a registered trademark of Intalio, Inc. All other names, brands or products may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

Media Contact:
Paul Salazar
(650) 596-1800
salazar@intalio.com

New Executives Bolster Intalio as it Expands Into New Markets

2010-01-11T13:49:02Z

Former Oracle and VMware executives bring core engineering experience to California start-up

Palo Alto, Calif. — January 11, 2010 — Intalio, Inc., the Enterprise Cloud Company, today announced that three new executives are joining the company, bringing strategic experience in core areas of the business to bolster Intalio’s expansion into new technology areas and global markets. Marc Friend, CFO, Vishal Saxena, Vice President of Engineering of the Intalio|Works division, and Joanne Syben, Vice President of Engineering of the Intalio|Cloud division, are seasoned executive leaders from top silicon valley firms.

Marc Friend is responsible for strategic investments, business models, and all areas of finance and accounting for both the Intalio|Cloud and Intalio|Works divisions. Prior to Intalio, Mr. Friend held operational roles in Product Management at Microsoft, and Marketing and Finance roles in numerous start-ups. Marc was a founding investor in Acta Technology.

Vishal Saxena is responsible for leading technology development and engineering for the Intalio|Works division. Mr. Saxena was the Senior Development Manager for the Oracle Business Process Analysis Suite. He was Oracle’s chief evangelist for BPMS. Prior to his 8 years at Oracle, Mr. Saxena was at Abilizer Solutions and Tata Consulting Services.

Joanne Syben is responsible for engineering development for the Intalio|Cloud division. Ms. Syben has 25 years of development and leadership experience in OS and storage software. Prior to Intalio, she was Sr. Director ESX R&D in charge of core storage at VMware. Prior to VMware, Ms. Syben was VPE at GreenBorder, InterSAN and SCO.

“Our most important asset is our people, and we are investing in top talent as we grow and expand the breadth of product offerings as well as the global market reach of Intalio,” said Ismael Ghalimi, CEO and co-founder, Intalio. “As we bring our private cloud platform to enterprises worldwide, I can count on Marc, Vishal and Joanne to help build Intalio into a world-class provider of technology and services.”

About Intalio, Inc.

Intalio is the leading vendor of enterprise cloud computing platforms. Intalio has over 600 customers in 55 countries, including ABB, Allianz, Cisco, Henkel, INFORMATICA, Kaiser Permanente, The Queensland Government, Grupo Santander, and SABRE Holdings. Founded in July 1999, Intalio is a privately-held, venture-backed company located in Palo Alto, California. For more information on Intalio, please call +1 650 596 1800 or visit www.intalio.com.

Media Contact:
Paul Salazar
(650) 596-1800
salazar@intalio.com

Introducing Intalio|Cloud and Intalio|Works

2009-12-16T14:13:19Z

For ten years, Intalio has been an innovator and leader in software, creating the leading open source Business Process Management solution in use at over 50,000 sites worldwide. Intalio has a long history of working with the open source software community, creating a sustainable business model as a commercial open source provider. Combining its history in open source middleware, applications and now infrastructure, Intalio has launched its Private Cloud solution, Intalio|Cloud.

In order to focus its resources on its growing array of products, Intalio has divided itself into two divisions, Intalio|Cloud and Intalio|Works. As you use Intalio|Works BPMS, or discover the powerful array of lightweight Java application servers and related software in the Intalio|Works Jetty Family, or opt to deploy a Private Cloud solution from Intalio|Cloud, you will learn that the engineers, support techs and leaders of the two divisions of Intalio are experts in their fields, leveraging extensive expertise in their respective areas of technology to bring solutions to the marketplace that help business run better. Get to know us at our new websites, Intalio|Cloud and Intalio|Works.

Asia Pacific training in Q1 2010

2009-12-16T14:16:32Z

As announced in my earlier message, our training sessions are now endorsed by Enhanced CITREP in Singapore. A direct consequence is that our Singapore sessions are now fully booked several weeks in advance and we already have to prepare for 2010. In the first quarter of 2010, we will open a new training center in Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok. Please find below the list of our schedule:

Finally given the success of our first Process Modeling Framework class, we will open a new class end of March:

March 24th-26th, Process Modeling Framework in Singapore

For any information on those sessions, please contact asia@intalio.com.

Learn about BPM

2009-12-16T14:16:50Z

Dr. Alexander Samarin from our good partner Teamlog just published his latest book on processes featuring Intalio|BPMS. From the introduction:

The third part (chapters 6 to 9) addresses mainly business process modelling issues, including a set of guidelines for developing implementable business processes by modelling them as executable processes. We use the Intalio BPM suite to illustrate and implement business processes. This part is designed for people who are business process architects and business process engineers (we consider these roles to be the natural evolution of the traditional business analyst role towards BPM).

Check out the book websiteto learn more.

Intalio Opens Cloud Computing Center of Excellence in Singapore

2009-12-10T06:34:54Z

Intalio Opens Cloud Computing Center of Excellence in Singapore New R&D Center will develop business applications for Intalio|Cloud

SINGAPORE — November 10, 2009 — Intalio, Inc., the Enterprise Cloud Company, today announced that it would develop a Governance, Risk Management and Compliance (GRC) application and a Partner Relationship Management (PRM) application for use on top of its award winning Private Cloud Computing platform. Both applications will be delivered as part of an integrated solution incorporating Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) layers from Intalio.

Intalio is also announcing that it is establishing an R&D center in Singapore to support its development efforts and to foster innovation in the region. Intalio recognizes Southeast Asia as a high growth market for IT solutions including cloud computing and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). Intalio’s main customers in Southeast Asia include several Fortune 100 banks, Mitsubishi Corporation, Mitsui, and NTT Data.

"Cloud computing hastens the pace of Infocomm Technology becoming the 4th utility, after electricity, gas and water, for businesses." said Andrew Khaw, Senior Director, Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA). "Cloud computing technologies offered by industry players such as Intalio will help to catalyse and accelerate business innovations on cloud computing. We see Singapore-based companies playing a keystone alliance role in bridging talent to trigger the growth of cloud computing in Asia.”

Intalio has selected Singapore for its R&D center because of its diverse talent pool, and because its strategic location makes it a good launch pad to the Southeast Asian market. In addition, it will be able to tap on Singapore’s new nationwide broadband network capable of up to 1Gbps per end user connection to be fully rolled out by 2012. Intalio’s cloud computing platform will further spur adoption of the fiber network through a range of applications for both private and public sectors.

“Intalio Pte Ltd has been established in February 2009 and is already helping many Intalio customers in Southeast Asia,” said Arnaud Blandin, Managing Director of Intalio|APAC. “Southeast Asia is proving to be a thriving market for us, and we have great expectations for our private cloud offering there. Having a local R&D team along with a local support organization means a lot to our Asian customers, who usually expect a very high level of product quality and professional services.”

About Intalio, Inc.
Intalio is the leading vendor of enterprise cloud computing platforms. Intalio has over 600 customers in 55 countries, including ABB, Allianz, Cisco, Henkel, INFORMATICA, Kaiser Permanente, The Queensland Government, Grupo Santander, and SABRE Holdings. Founded in July 1999, Intalio is a privately-held, venture-backed company located in Palo Alto, California. For more information on Intalio, please call 650-596-1800 or visit www.intalio.com.

Intalio is a registered trademark of Intalio, Inc. All other names, brands or products may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

Media Contact:
Paul Salazar
(650) 596-1800
salazar@intalio.com

Intalio Announces Jetty 7

2009-12-15T05:53:25Z

Intalio Announces Jetty 7
New release of lightweight open source Java application server brings key new features to increase performance and support cloud deployment

PALO ALTO, CA — November 9, 2009 — Intalio, Inc., the Enterprise Cloud Company, today announced the immediate availability of Jetty 7, the leading lightweight open source Java application server. The new release includes features and capabilities that extend Jetty’s reach into mission-critical environments, as well as support its deployment on top of cloud computing platforms.

Jetty 7 brings performance optimizations that continue to make Jetty highly suitable for rich web applications. Thanks to its small memory footprint, Jetty has become the most popular application server for embedding into other open source projects, including ActiveMQ, Alfresco, Equinox, Felix, FUSE, Geronimo, GigaSpaces, JRuby, Liferay, Maven, Nuxeo, OFBiz and Tungsten. Jetty also quickly established itself as the standard Java application server for the leading providers of cloud computing services, such as Google with Google AppEngine and the Google Web Toolkit, and Yahoo! with Hadoop and Zimbra.

Jetty 7 is the first release of Jetty developed in partnership with Eclipse.org, where the project has gone through phases of IP auditing, dual licensing, and improved packaging for such things as OSGi integration. This brings some of the latest web serving technologies to one of the largest communities of Java developers. In addition, Jetty 7 makes some of the key servlet 3.0 features such as asynchronous transactions and fragments available in a servlet 2.5 container.

“We are pleased that Jetty is part of Eclipse.org and is continuing to be adopted into a broad range of applications,” said Ismael Chang Ghalimi, Founder and CEO of Intalio, Inc. “As Intalio brings the cloud computing revolution behind the firewall, Jetty is becoming a standard building block of its underlying infrastructure.”

Jetty is used as a standard Java application server by many open source projects for cloud computing, including Eucalyptus and Hadoop. Jetty provides both an asynchronous HTTP server and an asynchronous HTTP client, and therefore supports scalable implementations of both ends of protocols such as Bayeux, XMPP, and Google Wave that are playing a critical role in cloud computing environments. Jetty can also be embedded in small and mobile devices. Today, Jetty runs on J2ME and Google Android, and is powering new smartphones from Verizon and other manufacturers that will start production before the end of 2009.

“Jetty 7 contains a significant reorganization of the packaging and jars, as well as many fundamental improvements in the underlying infrastructure of Jetty," said Adam Lieber, General Manager, Intalio|Works, and former CEO of Webtide. "With Jetty already deployed into some of the most demanding enterprise environments, Jetty has been accepted for mission-critical deployments. And now that Webtide is fully integrated into Intalio, Jetty is being introduced to a wider base of users worldwide.”

The Jetty distribution is available via http://eclipse.org/jetty under the terms of the apache 2.0 or eclipse 1.0 licenses. It is covered by the terms of the Eclipse Foundation Software User Agreement. The distribution contains the core functionality of HTTP server, servlet container and HTTP client. More information and technical blogs can be found at http://www.webtide.com/.

Intalio is a registered trademark of Intalio, Inc. All other names, brands or products may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

Media Contact:
Paul Salazar
(650) 596-1800
salazar@intalio.com

Next generation of OSS/BSS Framework

2009-12-16T14:17:12Z

Our platinum partner in Italy, Witech has designed the next generation of OSS/BSS system using Intalio|BPMS. Please check out the following presentation to learn about the advantages of the platform

Witech gives a presentation on Intalio|BPMS

2009-12-16T14:17:29Z

For those of you residing close to Milan, we highly recommend that you visit the Duke Italia conference as our Platinum Partner Witech will give a presentation on how BPM systems such as Intalio|BPMS can help minimize investments on platforms and software licenses. Witech will illustrate the presentation with several case studies where they successfully deploy Intalio|BPMS recently. Update: the presentation can now be accessed from Slideshare

Next events in APAC

2009-12-16T14:17:45Z

I am pleased to announce that our training sessions for Q4 are now opened for registrations. We will continue delivering our main training every month and we have added 2 new items: a Process Methodology training in October and we are opening a specialized training on very advanced features at the end of the year. Please find below the list.

Australia/New Zealand

South East Asia

October 14th-15th, Singapore: Process Methodology training
October 20th-23rd, Singapore
November 2nd-5th, Kuala Lumpur
November 16th-19th, Singapore
December 7th-8th,Singapore

Given our recent certification under Enhanced CITREP, our sessions tend to be booked quite in advance so I advise you to book as early as possible. For any information on those sessions, please contact asia@intalio.com.

Mellanox and Intalio Win Gold at Best of VMworld 2009 Awards

2009-09-03T05:15:30Z

Mellanox and Intalio Win Gold Award in the “Cloud Computing Technologies” Category at the Best of VMworld 2009 Awards
Joint Solution Enables Unified Cloud Networking for Compute and Storage, While Maximizing Cloud Efficiency and Reducing Total Cost of Operations

VMWORLD 2009, SAN FRANCISCO, CA — September 3, 2009 — Mellanox® Technologies, Ltd. (NASDAQ: MLNX; TASE: MLNX), a leading supplier of end-to-end connectivity solutions for data center servers and storage, and Intalio, Inc., the Enterprise Cloud Company, today announced that the Intalio|Cloud Appliance, accelerated by Mellanox 40Gb/s InfiniBand, has received a Best of VMworld 2009 award in the Cloud Computing Technologies category. An independent team of judges consisting of experts and editors from SearchServerVirtualization.com reviewed and evaluated the products according to innovation, value, performance, reliability and ease of use.

The Intalio|Cloud Appliance integrates in a single rack all the hardware and software required for building a true enterprise-class private cloud computing platform. The hardware consists of Mellanox 40Gb/s InfiniBand interconnect technology, HP BladeSystem blade servers and enclosures and Solid State Drives (SSD) for all database storage. Utilizing InfiniBand, the Intalio|Cloud Appliance benefits from a unified networking fabric and removes the need for deploying and managing multiple networking technologies, such as Ethernet and Fibre Channel. This reduces networking hardware acquisition costs by up to 50% and network management costs by up to 30%, while boosting performance.

"By meeting the performance, efficiency, scalability and quality of service needs of the most demanding customer and applications, the Intalio|Cloud Appliance, accelerated by Mellanox 40Gb/s InfiniBand, is ideally suited for a broad array of cloud services," said Ismael Chang Ghalimi, CEO of Intalio. "We are pleased to have our joint solution named as one of the ‘Best of VMworld 2009’."

"The Intalio|Cloud Appliance, accelerated by Mellanox 40Gb/s InfiniBand, reduces hardware acquisition costs dramatically while improving cloud services delivery through significantly higher application scalability and performance," said John Monson, vice president of marketing at Mellanox Technologies. "It is an honor to be named as one of the ‘Best of VMworld 2009’."

The Intalio|Cloud Appliance is being demonstrated at the Mellanox booth (#2220) at VMworld in San Francisco, August 31-September 3, 2009.

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About Mellanox
Mellanox Technologies is a leading supplier of end-to-end connectivity solutions for servers and storage that optimize data center performance. Mellanox products deliver market-leading bandwidth, performance, scalability, power conservation and cost-effectiveness while converging multiple legacy network technologies into one future-proof solution. For the best in performance and scalability, Mellanox is the choice for Fortune 500 data centers and the world’s most powerful supercomputers. Founded in 1999, Mellanox Technologies is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California and Yokneam, Israel. For more information, visit Mellanox at www.mellanox.com.

About SearchServerVirtualization.com
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Intalio Acquires Webtide, Developer of the Jetty Application Server

2009-09-01T16:40:41Z

Intalio Acquires Webtide, Developer of the Jetty Application Server
Acquisition adds millions of deployment sites, consolidates Intalio's cloud platform

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — September 1, 2009 — Intalio, Inc., the Enterprise Cloud Company, today announced the acquisition of Webtide, the team behind the Jetty open source Java application server. Jetty is currently used on millions of web servers, and powers products such as Cisco SESM, Google AppEngine, Google GWT, HP OpenView, IBM Tivoli NetView, Oracle WebLogic Business Connect, Sybase EAServer, and Yahoo! Zimbra. Jetty has become the most popular application server for embedding into other open source projects, including ActiveMQ, Alfresco, Eclipse, Felix, FUSE, Geronimo, GigaSpaces, JBoss, JRuby, Liferay, Maven, Nuxeo, OFBiz, Tungsten, and Ubuntu. Jetty is also used as a standard Java application server by many open source projects for cloud computing, including Eucalyptus and Hadoop.

"This new acquisition dramatically expands Intalio's footprint in the enterprise software market," said Ismael Chang Ghalimi, Founder and CEO of Intalio, Inc. "We're now part of the very fabric of the Java-powered Internet, with millions of active deployment sites, both behind corporate firewalls, on the Web, and on mobile devices. This acquisition also brings Intalio at the forefront of the cloud computing revolution, with Intalio|Jetty powering some of the most widely used infrastructure technologies for cloud computing, including Apache Hadoop, Eucalyptus, and Google AppEngine."

In order to consolidate its enterprise cloud computing platform, Intalio selected Webtide over alternative vendors, for several reasons. First, Jetty is quickly becoming the most popular Java application server, with deployments on 289,237 public web servers vs. 411,028 for Tomcat (Source: Netcraft). Second, thanks to its small memory footprint, Jetty has established itself as the standard Java application server for the leading providers of public cloud computing services, such as Google with Google AppEngine and the Google Web Toolkit (GWT), and Yahoo! with Hadoop (now an Apache project) and Zimbra. Third, Jetty provides both an asynchronous HTTP server and an asynchronous HTTP client, and therefore supports scalable implementations of both ends of protocols such as Bayeux, XMPP, and Google Wave. Lastly, Jetty can be embedded in small and mobile devices. Today, Jetty runs on J2ME and Google Android, and it will power many new smartphones that will be released later this year by several handset manufacturers.

"With Webtide becoming part of Intalio, Jetty is now poised to become the standard Java application server for cloud computing," said Adam Lieber, CEO of Webtide. "Intalio's vertically integrated platform for enterprise cloud computing will bring Jetty into the most demanding corporate environments, giving our team the resources it needs to take Jetty to the next level. For example, Intalio is now funding the development of a Jetty-powered implementation of the Google Wave Federation Protocol, which we expect to release very soon."

Webtide is self-funded and profitable, has 10 employees, and maintains offices in the United States, the United Kingdom, Italy, and the Philippines. Webtide will be managed as a fully-owned subsidiary, while Adam Lieber will join Intalio as Chief Open Source Officer. In this capacity, he will manage Intalio's open source initiatives, such as Apache Buildr, Apache ODE, Eclipse BPMN, Jetty, and Tempo. Jetty will remain an independently managed open source project lead by Webtide’s founders Greg Wilkins and Jan Bartel, and licensed under the Apache License and Eclipse Public License. Webtide will continue to support all existing customers. Intalio will also distribute and support the Hightide open source application server, which includes the Jetty scalable web container, the JettyPlus JNDI framework, the Atomikos XA transaction manager, the ActiveMQ messaging service, and the Cometd Ajax messaging framework.

“Intalio understands that Jetty must continue to be developed with a large degree of independence for it to remain a best-in-class project within the open source community,” said Greg Wilkins, Founder and CTO of Webtide. “Intalio successfully implemented this strategy when they acquired FiveSight Technologies, which lead to the creation of the Apache ODE project, now the most widely used open source BPEL engine. We believe that such a model will be replicated with Webtide, to the benefit of all Jetty users and Webtide customers.”

Jetty and Hightide can be downloaded from www.webtide.com.

Intalio is a registered trademark of Intalio, Inc. All other names, brands or products may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

Media Contact:
Jonathan Crow
(650) 596-1800
crow@intalio.com

Intalio Mellanox Deliver High Performance Private Cloud Appliance

2009-08-31T15:58:37Z

Intalio and Mellanox Deliver First High Performance Private Cloud Appliance
Mellanox’s InfiniBand Technology Enables Unified Cloud Networking for Compute and Storage, Maximizing Cloud Efficiency and Reducing Total Cost of Operations

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — August 31, 2009 — Intalio, Inc., The Private Cloud Company, announced a strategic partnership with Mellanox Technologies, a leading supplier of end-to-end connectivity solutions for data center servers and storage. Through this partnership, Mellanox Technologies will supply its world leading InfiniBand adapters and switches used by the Intalio|Cloud Appliance as a unified networking fabric.

The Intalio|Cloud Appliance integrates in a single rack all the hardware and software required for building a true enterprise-class private cloud computing platform. The hardware is made of standard components using HP BladeSystem blade servers and enclosures, Solid State Drives (SSD) for all database storage, and the InfiniBand interconnect technology to effectively connect them all together. The Intalio|Cloud Appliance is used for powering Intalio|Cloud On-Demand and Intalio|Cloud Managed-On-Premises. With the latter option, all hardware and systems administration services are provided on-premises by Intalio, while customers only pay for a monthly user fee.

Intalio selected InfiniBand over alternative networking technologies for its record bandwidth (40Gbps), unrivaled low latency (1.2 microseconds) and kernel bypass to maximize system efficiency, application adaptability and productivity of jobs outsourced by Intalio’s customers. Using InfiniBand, the Intalio|Cloud Appliance benefits from a unified networking fabric, removing the need for deploying and managing multiple networking technologies such as Ethernet and Fibre Channel, thereby reducing networking hardware acquisition costs by up to 50% and network management costs by up to 30%, while boosting performance.

"When we designed our first cloud appliance, large bandwidth and low latency were top priorities, and for this reason InfiniBand quickly became a no-brainer," said Ismael Chang Ghalimi, CEO of Intalio. "We selected Mellanox Technologies as our exclusive supplier of InfiniBand equipment for the performance and quality of their end-to-end connectivity products, their close relationship with HP, and their world-class technical support. This partnership allowed us to deliver a cutting-edge appliance in a record time, with minimum up-front investments."

InfiniBand's high bandwidth and low latency also reduces the I/O overhead introduced by virtualization for implementing a scalable multi-tenant architecture. By offering up to 4 times as much bandwidth as 10 Gigabit Ethernet, InfiniBand dramatically reduces the performance impact of real-time Virtual Machine (VM) replication for fail-over and disaster recovery purposes. Also, thanks to its very low latency, InfiniBand makes it possible to create a unified memory space across multiple blade servers, allowing applications and databases to be scaled up without having to use dedicated SMP systems. Such architecture can reduce hardware acquisition costs by up to 75%.

“Cloud computing solutions deploy the highest performance I/O and networking solutions in order to ensure the required levels of service, efficiency and utilization,” said John Monson, vice president of marketing at Mellanox. “We are pleased to partner with Intalio and provide our end-to-end InfiniBand solutions to enable the Intalio|Cloud Appliance to provide the most productive and economical cloud infrastructure to our mutual customers.”

The Intalio|Cloud Appliance powered by Mellanox InfiniBand adapters and switches is currently used by Intalio for its On-Demand offering for customers such as Mitsubishi Corporation and Mitsui. The Intalio|Cloud Appliance Model I puts in a single rack up to 128 CPU cores, 2.3TB of memory, 24TB of SSD database storage, and 528TB of HDD file storage. The Intalio|Cloud Appliance Model II, a scaled-down version of the Model I, will be demonstrated in the Mellanox booth (Booth Space #2220) at VMworld in San Francisco, August 31-September 3, 2009.

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crow@intalio.com

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Intalio Brings on Former SAP Executive as COO

2009-07-07T02:04:31Z

Intalio Brings on Former SAP Executive as Chief Operating Officer
Stefan Schaffer joins leading Enterprise Cloud Computing vendor

PALO ALTO, Calif. — July 7, 2009 — Intalio, Inc., The Enterprise Cloud Company, announced that former SAP Executive Stefan Schaffer has joined the company as Chief Operating Officer, effective immediately.

Building on the leading open source solution for Business Process Management, Schaffer will drive the expansion of the company, developing the first integrated cloud computing platform designed for the enterprise. Schaffer has more than 16 years of experience in the enterprise application space. Before joining Intalio, he served as Senior Vice President at SAP and SAP Business Objects, where he held several senior leadership positions in development, product management, and sales.

“With our recently announced private cloud offerings, the rapid growth of our BPM business and our global presence, we are very excited to have Stefan join our management team,” said Ismael Chang Ghalimi, CEO of Intalio. “His broad experience in enterprise applications and in managing world class global teams will further strengthen Intalio’s position in the market.”

Schaffer has a degree in mathematics from the University Karlsruhe and has lectured about Organization and IT at Mannheim University.

About Intalio, Inc.

Intalio is the leading vendor of enterprise cloud computing platforms. Intalio has over 600 customers in 55 countries, including ABB, Allianz, Cisco, Henkel, INFORMATICA, Kaiser Permanente, The Queensland Government, Grupo Santander, and SABRE Holdings. Founded in July 1999, Intalio is a privately-held, venture-backed company located in Palo Alto, California. For more information on Intalio, please call 650-596-1800 or visit www.intalio.com.

Intalio is a registered trademark of Intalio, Inc. All other names, brands or products may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

Media Contact:
Jonathan Crow
(650) 596-1800
crow@intalio.com

OpenPMF 2.0 is now shrink-wrapped with Intalio|BPMS

2009-06-25T18:55:02Z

ObjectSecurity, makers of OpenPMF, recently put together a video with Rick Geneva, Intalio Process Expert, describing how OpenPMF works inside Intalio to automatically generate object security using a process model. The great thing about this application is that instead of having to secure all the bits and pieces of your network infrastructure individually because you have a well defined process with detailed context, you can do it all very simply and easily through the OpenPMF interface within Intalio. No having to work in a separate interface, no having to set up a separate security infrastructure. And with just a few clicks you can deploy the rules throughout the run-time environment. Check out the video.

You Got It!

2009-05-28T04:04:51Z

When announcing a new product or a new strategy, some things usually get lost in translation, either because you did not get a chance to personally brief the journalist or analyst who wrote a piece on your announcement, or because the story just wasn't solid enough. To my surprise, none of that happened with the launch of Intalio|BPM, Intalio|CRM, and Intalio|Cloud last week. While we released four new products (including a hardware appliance) and laid out a fairly complex story, everybody got it, down to the most subtle details of our business model (managed on-premises). Some of the best articles came from Brenon Daly, James Taylor, and Phil Wainewright. It looks like we hit a chord...

Frequently Asked Questions

2009-05-27T00:21:51Z

Everything you've ever wanted to know about Intalio and never dared to ask.

Intalio Foundation

2009-05-21T14:10:10Z

Over the years, Intalio has made numerous contributions to the developers community, through the creation of many Open Source projects, and the donation of code bases worth millions of dollars. After ten years, we feel that time has come for us to support other communities as well, and we are creating the Intalio Foundation to support this effort. As a first project, the Intalio Foundation will make our business applications available to communities of non-profit organizers, artists, and solo entrepreneurs. The Foundation's initial endowment will be one free user account for every ten accounts of Intalio|BPM and Intalio|CRM On-Demand sold between June 1st 2009 and May 30th 2010, with an initial grant of 100 seats worth over $100,000. If your organization qualifies for such a grant, or you know an organization that does, please send your application to foundation@intalio.com.

Rocking and Rolling

2009-05-21T13:09:38Z

We did it! Today, Intalio successfully released Intalio|BPM Business Edition, Intalio|CRM, Intalio|Cloud, and the Intalio|Cloud Appliance, plus a working version of the ultra-cool Process Table built for the Dogfood Project, powered by a preview release of the brand-new Intalio|BPM Developer Edition and fully integrated with Intalio|CRM. Registrations for Intalio|BPM and Intalio|CRM On-Demand are now open, and everything seems to be working flawlessly. Of course, we're still in Beta for both products, so bugs are to be expected, but at least we're live. We also announced two acquisitions: ProcessSquare in Germany (we never formally announced it until now) and CodeGlide in Argentina. A short version of our big story is available on this press release, and the full story is on the updated Intalio website. Rock on!

Intalio Acquires BPM and CRM Companies, Launches Intalio|Cloud

2009-05-28T22:09:52Z

Intalio Acquires BPM and CRM Companies, Launches Intalio|Cloud
Intalio|Cloud and Intalio|Cloud Appliance available On-Demand and On-Premises

PALO ALTO, Calif. — May 19, 2009 — Intalio, Inc., The Enterprise Cloud Company, today announced the acquisition of CodeGlide, a software company based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and ProcessSquare, a software company based in Munich, Germany. Prior to the acquisitions, CodeGlide had developed a powerful platform for Customer Relationship Management (CRM), including Sales Force Automation, Marketing Automation, Customer Helpdesk, Analytics, Enterprise Mashups, and Office Productivity, while ProcessSquare had developed a Web-based Business Process Management (BPM) application used by customers such as ABB, Allianz, and Henkel. Both product lines have been fully integrated within Intalio's product stack over the past six months.

Following these acquisitions, Intalio developed the first integrated cloud computing platform designed for the Enterprise. Intalio|Cloud leverages a unique combination of hardware and software to deliver an enterprise-grade cloud computing experience, with true multi-tenancy, dynamic provisioning, elastic scalability, and deployment both on-demand and on-premises. While alternative offerings focus on the Infrastructure as a Service layer, Intalio|Cloud goes all the way up to the application layer, providing best-in-class solutions for BPM and CRM.

"These two acquisitions and the massive product development efforts that followed are taking Intalio to a whole new level," said Ismael Chang Ghalimi, Founder and CEO of Intalio, Inc. "We're now bringing BPM and CRM together into an integrated cloud computing platform that is unlike anything currently available on the market. Intalio|BPM is now available as a 100% multi-tenant, Web-based application, while Intalio|CRM is at feature parity with Salesforce.com, costs 60% less, and is available both on-demand and on-premises, while providing a much better user interface, similar to Microsoft Dynamics CRM's."

"Intalio is integral to the operation of the Bank's back office processes," said a Vice President at one of the World's largest banks. "The current platform has allowed us to implement our processes and drive improvements in ways that have up until this point not been feasible with the current crop of BPM vendors. The introduction of Intalio’s Enterprise Cloud Platform provides us with the platform for the next stage in our evolution, creating a comprehensive process operating system that will allow increasing agility of our core processes, and the extension of them beyond the boundaries of our business."

“Post-modern application architecture demands a deconstructed meta-platform, in which cooperation and composition outweigh cohesion," said Richard Watson, Analyst for Burton Group. "A cloud application platform needs multi-tenancy, location-independence, metadata-driven application engines, and easy composition of loosely-coupled resources at its heart.”

In order to facilitate the deployment of Intalio|Cloud within large organizations, Intalio also developed the Intalio|Cloud Appliance, which puts in a single rack all the hardware and software required for building a true enterprise-class cloud computing platform. The hardware is made of HP BladeSystem blade servers and enclosures, Solid State Drives (SSD) for all database storage, and the InfiniBand interconnect technology. The Intalio|Cloud Appliance is used for powering Intalio|Cloud On-Demand, and is available for deployment on-premises as well. Intalio also provides a Managed-On-Premises deployment option, whereby all hardware and systems administration services are provided on-premises by Intalio, while customers only pay for a monthly user fee.

"Intalio, utilizing HP BladeSystem technology as its backbone, has built a groundbreaking cloud appliance on the world's most advanced, sophisticatedly sound and manageable platform," said Al Chien, Vice President, Client Solutions of Dasher Technologies, and a 20-year veteran of HP. "HP BladeSystems will also allow Intalio's customers to dynamically gain efficiencies through their advanced power and cooling optimization techniques, while providing the very best hardware/software solution."

Intalio|BPM, Intalio|CRM, Intalio|Cloud, and the Intalio|Cloud Appliance are all available today at www.intalio.com.

About Intalio, Inc.

Intalio is the leading vendor of enterprise cloud computing platforms. Intalio has over 500 customers in 55 countries, including ABB, Allianz, Deutsche Bank, GE, Henkel, INFORMATICA, Kaiser Permanente, The Queensland Government, The Irish Revenue Service, Grupo Santander, and SABRE Holdings. Founded in July 1999, Intalio is a privately-held, venture-backed company located in Palo Alto, California. For more information on Intalio, please call 650-596-1800 or visit www.intalio.com.

The Intalio is a registered trademark of Intalio, Inc. All other names, brands or products may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

Media Contact:
Jonathan Crow
crow@intalio.com

Mad Rush

2009-05-18T22:52:18Z

Tomorrow, Intalio will release four new products, two of which are available on-demand, and one is made of atoms rather than bits. We will also announce the closing of another acquisition that is taking the company to a whole new level. As a result, we had to make significant changes to our website, move to a much larger data-center, implement native multi-tenancy in many parts of our product stack, integrate our online applications with our marketing automation, salesforce automation, billing, and accounting systems, all while putting the final touch on Intalio|BPM 6.0. In other words, we've been pretty busy. If you want to know more about what's going on at Intalio, check our website tomorrow (Tuesday) at 10am PDT, or join us for the launch party.

Baby Process

2009-04-01T21:29:41Z

With the recent profusion of Intalio-ettes lately (over 6 births in multiple countries and multiple continents in the last few months) and in honor of April fool's day, management has decided to commission a project to create a

BPMN diagram for having a baby - as a public service to future parents everywhere.

Please use this post for public comments on suggestions for additions to the process.

Q2 Training sessions in APAC

2009-03-18T07:52:18Z

The APAC training schedule for the second quarter has been published. You can start booking your seats now:

We received several requests for a new training in Kuala Lumpur. If you are interested for such an event to happen either in May or June, please drop us a line at asia@intalio.com.
Intalio|BPP 6.0 Enterprise Edition will be used for the intermediate and advanced days.

Academic Studies on Intalio

2009-03-17T21:28:05Z

Turns out there is a class at the Helsinki University of Technology focusing on Enterprise integration technologies and writing scientific reports based on research in this area. Part of the class is devoted to Business Process integration, modeling, and management.

We were pleased to see that a few students wrote fairly detailed analysis of Intalio. One paper from Pekka Helkiö, Antti Seppälä, and Ossi Syd discussed the importance of standards, specifically BPMN and BPEL, and the degree to which Intalio complied with these standards. For BPMN they noted that there were some notations missing but the end effect was negligible. For BPEL they found "no evidence of non-conformance to [the] WS-BPEL 2.0 standard." Looking at the report from an objective standpoint it was a great read. From a vendor standpoint I would love to have seen some comparison.

Speaking of comparisons, the other report was done by Pin Nie, Riku Seppälä, and Måns Hafrén in cooperation with the end client Logica. This paper picked up on the previous research noting that the authors themselves would have liked to see comparisons as well. So, these students compared Intalio|Community Edition with JBoss jBPM. In a section on the different methodologies of the two companies, the authors discussed the philosophy here at Intalio of getting IT and business people on the same tool, as opposed to catering only to developers. There is a lot of detailed information in this paper as well. Intalio was given high marks for the ability of our process engine to support compensating transactions and exception handlers. In the area of process modeling, Intalio|Designer gained prominence for our "superior visualization."

Intalio in Australia!

2009-03-12T03:08:20Z

I am really pleased to announce that our Australian office is now up and running in Sydney. Paul Taylor has been already quite successful in organizing popular training sessions in Sydney and Brisbane and he is already heading to New Zealand for our first training session there. This new office opening is simply an answer to the growing demand from our customers and partner located in Melbourne, Queensland or Sydney. We look forward to more success stories!

New Intalio BPP 6.0 screencast

2009-03-17T15:45:41Z

I recently added a new screencast that introduces the new Intalio BPM 6.0 system. If you are currently evaluating the Community Edition, this demonstration is a good opportunity for you to see the Enterprise Edition.

View it here:

Intalio BPP 6.0 flash demo

Intalio EE 6.0 is still in beta version (as of February 2009) but it's already a big hit among customers that are using it. Myself and the rest of the process expert team have been working closely with our engineering teams to make a much more usable and productive system that business analysts and IT engineers alike will want to use. Many systems favor one role or the other. I believe that at Intalio we've done a great job of creating a system that is equally effective for the business users concentrating on workflow as well as the IT engineers wanting to do services orchestration.

The screencast is in Flash format, and includes the following:

BPMN 1.2 process modeler
New workflow forms system (AJAX). This is in addition to the previous XForms module.
Business Rules Engine (BRE) decision tables and decision management
Business Activity Monitoring (BAM)
Simpler modeling for multiple process participants (implicit WSDL)

If you haven't downloaded a new version of Intalio in a while, this is the one for you! Besides the dozens of features highlighted in the demonstration, there are many more features and enhancements over version 5.2. If you are considering Intalio for an upcoming project, I recommend starting with 6.0. We are close enough to a GA release that by the time you are ready to go into production the 6.0 GA version should be ready.

Keep an eye on the Intalio.com website for more flash demos like this one. I will be several more demos over the coming months as we get more features from the 6.x series integrated into the product.

Also, feel free to contact me if you have any questions about the features in the demo.

Intalio BOP - Translated to Japanese

2009-02-23T19:32:28Z

A while ago Ismael discussed Intalio's vision of a Business Operating Platform (BOP).

Our partner in Japan, Tomoaki Sawada, translated the presentation into Japanaese:

Introducing Intalio|BOP (Japanese)

View more documents from Tomoaki Sawada. (tags: intalio|bop intalio|bpp)

In the article Ismael lays out the components of a BOP and compares them to the Anatomy of the Linux Kernel which is:

Linux Operating System	Business Operating System
Process Management	Process Management (in a different sense)
Memory Management	Data Management
Virtual File System	Enterprise Content Management
System Call Interface	Application Interfaces (REST, WSDL, Java APIs)
Device Drivers	Connectors
Network Stack	Enterprise System Bus
Registry	Master Object Registry
User and Security Management	Single Sign-On
Windowing Framework	Interface Development Tool (Intalio\|AJAX)
User Desktop	Intalio\|Portal
Administration Tools	Unified Management Interface
System Monitoring Tools	Intalio\|BAM
Integrated Development Environment	Development Environments (same requirements)
Web-based User Interface	Web-based User Interface (same requirement)
On-demand and On-premise Deployment	On-demand and On-premise Deployment (same requirement)
Grid Architecture	Grid Architecture (same requirement)
Open Source	Open Source (same requirement)

Intalio @ CeBIT

2009-02-20T21:31:03Z

Intalio will be present at CeBIT fair (3rd to 8th of March) this year. Ancud IT and Intalio are presenting this year at the CeBIT fair (booth E 46 in hall 6) the new Business Edition as well as the new Enterprise Edition 6.0. If you are at CeBIT you are cordially invited to stop by and have a sneak view at our cutting edge technology.

Intalio|Business Edition comes into the Intalio Business Operating Platform (BOP) family with a number of customers who have built processes using only staff from finance, manufacturing, or human resources departments – not your typical BPM developers. Furthermore, the processes designed by these users are fully executable with the click of a button. In order to finish tasks allocated within the processes the end user can complete the assignment within the tools they use on a daily basis such as Outlook and Notes. So, there is no need for them to switch to another application and interrupt their workflow.

First Training in India

2009-02-06T01:40:56Z

We are very pleased to announce that due to a strong demand, we have decided to open regular training sessions in India. Our first training session will happen in March 23rd to 25th in Bangalore. The number of seats is limited so please register early using the Training Website. We will make sure to post pictures of this first Indian training.

New Case Study - Bank Baltikums and D8

2009-02-02T18:08:30Z

We just added a new case study to our site. D8, our implementation partner for JSC Akciju komercbanka Baltikums (Bank Baltikums), put together a great presentation that goes into a lot of depth about how they integrated Intalio, Sharepoint, and Alfresco to support the rapid expansion of the bank.

Developing more complex processes with Sharepoint seems to be a hot topic these days. Have you had any experience with implementing Sharepoint into a BPM environment? If so let us know what you found to be good and bad about it.

As always we would love to hear about your successes in implementing Intalio. Feel free to send me an email at Jonathan Crow.

New Website

2009-01-17T17:10:44Z

This year marks Intalio's ten year anniversary. In order to celebrate in style, we just released a brand new website. Design was provided by SolutionSet, content developed by Jonathan and myself, integration implemented by Pascal, and deployment supported by WordPress 2.7. Enjoy!

PMI Methodology

2009-01-09T17:12:31Z

The Process Experts (PEs) here at Intalio are a key element to helping customers build successful projects, and indeed are critical to the functioning of our company. Esteban is one of our PEs in Latin America and just posted this article about about the considerations that traditional project managers should have when they face BPM projects.

A short summary of the article in English:
"PMI methodology had been successful for many years, but project managers in charge of BPM projects face new challenges that should force them to drop some old concepts. Embracing BPM is more about changing the way the business itself is managed, but the project oriented approach is not up to change anytime soon. Here's the list of the top concepts to be dropped by BPM project managers aiming to deliverer good results."

Here is the summary in Spanish:
"La metodología respaldada por el PMI tuvo sus orígenes en los mundos de la ingeniera. Ha sido probada eficiente y exitosa tantas veces que llego a migrar al mundo de los sistemas y por mucho tiempo fue la forma correcta de realizar proyectos de TI. Entonces, ¿Por qué habría que pensar que hay que tener alguna consideración especial cuando se habla de BPM?"

Meet Us In Asia Pacific!

2009-01-09T16:44:18Z

We are a few weeks away from celebrating the first anniversary of our Asia-Pacific main office in Singapore.
This has already been a very successful year for this office: we organized training sessions in Singapore, China, Australia, Malaysia and The Philippines where we met new users that eventually became partners or customers.
We do plan to expand our activities in 2009 and we will be touring few cities to present the recent projects, the new features of Intalio|BPP 6.0 as well as give a preview of Intalio|Business Edition.

Don’t hesitate to join us during our cocktail sessions:

ebizQ Webinar: Process-Driven Data Integration

2009-01-06T01:05:14Z

I just found out about this webinar coming up today: Guaranteeing Agility in SOA and BPM with Process-Driven Data Integration Date: December 09, 2008 Time: 12:00 pm US Eastern It is not too late to get in. The webinar will be presented by Ash Parikh from Informatica, and Madan Sheina, Principal Analyst at Ovum. The whole process-driven data integration concept is definitely gaining currency in the marketplace. Informatica and Intalio joined forces a while back to bring BPM and data integration together. Since then we have added our voices to the conversation. We believe this is an important issue where a lot of education is needed to get out to businesses. So we would encourage you to attend.

Feedback from France

2008-12-09T22:22:05Z

We recently spotted interest about Intalio in France. Chris Doudet is sharing his experience (in French) on our training and his first processes, while at Octo they evaluate BPMN (also in French) and apparently like our vision (scroll down to the comments for the discussion). Being French myself I am very pleased to see interest pick up next to home!

Business Technology Interview: Arnaud Blandin

2008-11-25T17:03:16Z

Business Technology, the German magazine for, well, technology in business, featured an interview with Arnaud Blandin, Intalio's Director of Business Development. My German isn't quite that good so I had to read a translated version (using Babelfish).

In the interview Arnaud talks about how "Open Source permitted it to Intalio to place the conventional sales model on the head" (you have to love automatic translation engines). The ability for Open Source to provide a pay-as-you-go approach to building your BPM project, what we refer to as COSMO (commercial open source model) has proved to be a successful approach for us. Arnaud and BT also discussed the state of the industry today in regards to co-opetition in the Open Source world.

Meet Intalio In New York - Nov. 18

2008-11-25T16:58:07Z

We are hosting a cocktail party at The Great Room, Renaissance Times Square Hotel in New York from 6-8pm on November 18, 2008.

Our CEO Ismael Ghalimi, will be in town so we want to extend the invitation to our friends and colleagues in the area to come join us for drinks and chat about Business Process Management. A number of visionaries in the industry mentioned they would drop by, so I think it will provide some interesting conversation. A great opportunity to talk to others who are going through the same BPM adoption path you are, or have innovated and are willing to share their recipe for success.

If you are interested, let me know either by email jos@intalio.com or by phone (203) 791-0182.

Looking foward to seeing you there.

Bino Jos
Process Expert, Intalio.

Renaissance Time Square Hotel

Two Times Square, 714 Seventh Avenue

New York, NY 10036

Come to See Us at ApacheCon in New Orleans

2008-11-10T22:35:40Z

A big part of the Intalio server team, which includes several Apache ODE committers, will be next week in New Orleans at ApacheCon US (November 3rd to 7th). If you're planning to attend ApacheCon or just happen to be in the area during that period, feel free to contact me and we'll arrange a meet-up. See you there!

Journal of Digital Asset Management Interviews Ismael Ghalimi

2008-11-10T22:35:05Z

Michael Moon, of the Journal of Digital Asset Management, and Intalio CEO Ismael Ghalimi had an interesting conversation the other day. And lucky for us;) Michael is the editor in chief and was able to capture the discussion for his magazine. SaaS 2.0 onward! is available in the October edition of the magazine.

Ismael and Michael took the long view, going back into history of BPM but also peering into the crystal ball to see what the future holds. Ismael discusses how Software-as-a-Service acts as both a disruptive technology and an enabling ecosystem. The two also got into the role of process orchestration in digital supply chains. Definitely a wide ranging article.

Twittering

2008-11-10T22:33:42Z

We now twitter our blog posts! Please feel free to follow Intalio.

Intalio presentation at the Open Source Series Workshop 2008

2008-11-10T22:32:47Z

Adeel Javeed presented Intalio at the Open Source Series Workshop 2008.

He made the slides available on Slideshare. Don't hesitate to give some feedback!

Intalio JapanCon 2008: Intalio Server Overview

2008-11-10T22:31:20Z

Alex Boisvert, Intalio's Product Development Director, presented an overview of the Intalio Server at Intalio JapanCon 2008.

Process Engine

Intalio uses Apache Ode as the BPEL engine. This is the leading BPEL engine. It uses only open standards, uses a fully transactional engine, and is embeddable. Processes are tied to memory. There are customers with 200,000+ processes running.

Ode is very scalable. It uses multi-threading and can be clustered. Clustering supports automatic failover. In a clustered environment the database is used as a system of reference. Only minimal node synchronization is required.

Performance depends on:

Message bus
Process design
Process persistance
Event persistance
Hardware software configuration

Usually the database is the bottleneck. Intalio recommends the use of the best database possible to achieve best performance.

Typical server performance on standard server hardware.is 1 million transaction per day on a database persistent server. Non-persistent servers get 10 million transactions a day.

Process management is handled from the bpms console. On top of that there are process query and debug APIs. Process versioning is done as processes are deployed. By default the new version of a process replaces an older version. It is also possible to have custom versioning by using the server API, to control process life-cycle.

Human Workflow

The workflow components are a set of components that allow you to define your own workflow rules. There are many choices for user interface creation including XForms (Orbeon), TIBCO GI, Ruby etc.

The available task types for workflow are;

Initiate Process
People Task
Notifications

Provides a full security framework, providing typically AAA functionality, by default the security framework is integrated with LDAP.

Server Roadmap and Research

Intalio currently has many features in development. Here are a few:

Simple BPEL - simPEL
Simple BPEL provide an alternative to using visual design tools. It has a simpler syntax. Developers do not need to create BPEL directly. SimpEL is a scripting dialog of BPEL, programmer friendly with a syntax similar to JavaScript. You can mix SimPEL with Java, PHP, Ruby etc. You can also generate BPMN diagrams from SimPEL.

RESTful BPEL
Provides a simpler method of using web services, such as those provided by Amazon, google, salesforce.com etc. Provides the ability to exposing processes as resources.

TAS3
Trusted Architecture for shared security, a European Union project on how to deal with trust and security, details are available at www.tas3.eu

Feeds
Adding support for BPEL to distribute data on an internet-scale.

Native XQuery Support
Providing a more powerful data manuiplation lanaguge.

Publish-Subscribe
Popular architecture for event distribution, decouple publishers from consumers.

Singleshot
Experimental task manager for process managemen, being developed in Ruby on rails.

Other blog articles in this series:

Intalio JapanCon 2008: Liferay Portal

2008-11-10T22:27:32Z

Next up in our continuing coverage of Intalio JapanCon 2008 is Bryan Cheung, the CEO of Liferay - the leading Enterprise Open Source Portal.

Within the last ten years the idea of the Enterprise Portal has matured to fulfill the promise of the original value statement.

What Is Liferay

IBM Webshphere and Oracle and BEA Portals. Really when you are looking at Enterprise Portals, there are fewer and fewer players. When Oracle purchased BEA that created a combinate of 4 portals under the same roof. What is certain is that only one of those is going to survive. If you are looking to deploy a portal today, there is a lot of risk.

Liferay has a leg up in that they are the leading Open Source vendor. They are also a competitor to Sharepoint. Liferay provides same degree of collaboration, same Sharepoint functionality but in an open way. Also, social software and collaboration is combining into one category to make knowledge workers more productive. Liferay vigorously adheres to standards.

Customers include NBA, Sesame Street (a favorite of mine) and BMW.

What Business Problems does Liferay solve?

Unify personalization, securit, application/data access and user experience across the enterprise
Quickly create portals, intranets, shared workspaces, web sites and apps
Bring together SOA and Web 2.0
Retain control of your technology and business

In the past Portals have promised more than delivered. Liferay is determined to give as much functionality out of the box to deliver on the original promise and now the technology is mature enough to make it happen. As Ismael mentioned, you are never sure which software is going to survive, and without access to the source code you can never be sure that software will live on. Open Source assures the customer that they always have access to the code to maintain.

Case Studies

HanseMerkur Insurance Group
High availability website - in moving from Web 1.0 to 2.0, we still need to ensure availability but with dynamic content.

Advertising campaigns drove customers to website in waves. Hard deadline set by business because of campaigns. Content was constantly changing. Liferay portal for content publishing with multiple authors. The site went live in 6 weeks. At peak a quarter million pages are served per hour.

Enterprise Integration portal - customer and sales data integrated. Assured online access for entire sales. Single sign on and bringing in a single user experience were key. They received a very high level of acceptance immediately after going live. Adding services quickly is now possible.

Cisco Systems
Wanted to use Liferay for developer network for social collaborative work. Diagram of community of communities, different groups for technologies and solutions. They wanted to foster innovation among partners to accelerate solutions development. They used Liferay to create stickiness and reduced dependence on internal support by providing this community. Phase 1 is building a collaboration platform, Phase 2 will add Business Processes, and Phase 3 is building community enhancement.

Now Bryan goes into demo mode. He shows how easy it was to build a replica of the Nintendo site and compartmentalize the site by creating different articles and combining them on the same page.

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Intalio JapanCon 2008: BAM Presentation

2008-11-10T22:29:04Z

Continuing coverage of Intalio JapanCon 2008, next up Ben Bushman, one of Intalio's Process Experts, delivered a presentation on Business Activity Monitoring.

What is Business Intelligence

BI takes data from the operations and submits it to the managing BPM. BAM integrates BI report design into Intalio|Designer. Serves the report to browsers from Intalio|BPMS.

External Variables

This is a key part of Intalio|BAM. It enables a special way of storing the data occurring in a process. Process variables are not persistent between process instances. The difference between process variables and external variables is that the data from an external variable is stored in a database and can then be used to display information used in reports to make better decisions. Processes, forms, and reports are created in Intalio|Designer. The business analyst and the IT staff work together to define whatever is necessary in Designer, and then deployed to Intalio|Server. As processes are running, the data is saved to a data store to be used by the report generator. This means that the data is displayed in real-time.

Steps to Create a BAM

Create a metric, something that must be decided at the beginning of the process. When you start designing the process sit down with a high level stakeholder that can define goals and measurements.
Add metric to process as external variable
Create a data source
Define report

Creating the data source requires knowledge of the target. Intalio can generate the right kind of code for the database you are using.

Defining the report allows you to display the information in the most accessible manner.

Key Performance Indicators are good to put wherever there is a change of state, e.g. from new to revised.

Here Ben went into demo mode. To view a screencast of BAM in action you can go to our Intalio community site.

No other BAM competitor uses external variables. In all the other vendors you have to manually define, select, and map the data. External variables can be simply dragged and dropped into the appropriate area are tracked automatically.

For SAP data business objects, you can drag and drop these the same way. Take the external variable and map them directly into your SAP instance.

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Intalio JapanCon 2008: Henry Peyret - Forrester

2008-11-10T22:27:48Z

Next on the agenda for Intalio JapanCon 2008 is the keynote address from Henry Peyret, the Principal Analyst, Forrester Research. His presentation introduced "BPM Trends for Intalio."

Has worked on BPM for ten years now, started out with EAI, connectors, BAM, ESBs. Henry started out as any good analyst would with numbers showing how BPM is becoming mainstream. The goal now is to not only make it mainstream, but to make it successful.

Market Trends
Business drivers:

Uncertainty requires agility
End-to-end process optimization, across silos
not only about productivity improvements
Globalization - a single process for everyone
localization - managing variants

According to customers, the most important benefit is increased productivity. But the most important element for Henry is the ability to change processes quickly and easily. This is becoming key for IT because of the changing regulations, changing requirement, changing business environment.

A BPM Center of Excellence is necessary for results. It is a key factor for success not only for measurement but for implementation. There is a strong correlation with a COE and goals being met. Metrics measured right now, productivity, quality, risk, compliance. Need to include measurements for agility as well.

The answer to what type of BPM project is most underway is modeling. They start with modeling and move on, but the maturity is not quite as far along with other BPM projects. The next level of maturity is execution, and the higher levels are process monitoring and optimization. Most customers have done some sort of execution but have not yet gone further.

Customers need to correlate and monitor internal and external data. If a company is growing 20% which is a good number for that company, but the industry is growing at 40%, there is a better understanding of how well the company is really doing. Instead of just Key Performance Indicators, which should be called Key Productivity Indicators, we should add Key Quality, Agility, and Risk Indicators (KQI, KAI, and KRI). The goal is to recognize that each of these is supplied by different groups - suppliers, employees, outsourcers, IT systems, partners. For contract monitoring each resource involved should inherit global objectives. Contract monitoring is becoming a key area for BPM in the near future.

Software-as-a-Service, it will be important to externalize these processes to partners, across different types of repositories an important aspect of contract monitoring. Choose the right level of BPP that is not too simple but not too complex.

What is next

Dynamic Business Apps. We build applications that are agile, flexible, able to change. Characteristics:

user-centric
process-oriented
flexible
collaborative
context-driven
dynamic - can change in business time without programmers
information-rich

Telco's originally took 2 years to deliver applications on their platforms. The next generations took 4 months, then 1 month. Now with the fourth generation it takes one week. That is the type of dynamic bussiness application development process that needs to occur now. These apps will represent a fraction of the IT portfolio but will be the most strategic. These Dynamic Business Apps need to be tested.

Recommendations:

Bring a BPMS center of excellence to your organization
BPMS is a good candidate for Dynamic Business Apps
Continue to watch the most innovative BPMS providing competitive advantages

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Intalio JapanCon 2008: Introducing BPP

2008-11-10T22:28:06Z

Today is the beginning of Intalio JapanCon, hosted most graciously by our partner Tomoaki Sawada. Our CEO and co-founder Ismael Ghalimi started off the conference with a presentation introducing Intalio|BPP for the first time, the world debut if you will. Ismael posted his own article about the session here. Ismael's full presentation is available below.

Sawada-san set the stage by welcoming the attendees, and discussing Intalio's success - over 500 customers, about 50,000 individuals working with our community version, and specifically addressing some of the exciting things that are happening in the Japanese market. Sawada-san mentioned how much Ismael loves Japan and is excited to be here.

This is Ismael's 10th trip to Japan in a very short time. The market is definitely taking off for Intalio.

Because of the financial crisis in the US and America it presents an opening for Japan to work with SaaS companies to build a worldwide presence.

BPP - Business Process Platform. How can you use BPP to build your SaaS offerings. BPM 2.0 - what does this mean and why should you care?

What problem does Intalio solve? Customers looking for an enterprise have only a few options - IBM, Microsoft, Oracle (BEA), SAP, all are expensive fragmented and closed source. The acquisition of BEA, or indeed any other acquisition, means that some of the products will not be continued. A closed source company that gets acquired - there is no guarantee that they will be around, even large companies and the software can die with them. Open Source Software (OSS) means that the software can be maintained and is available for as long as the customer wants. The Microsoft BPM offering is pretty much only for Microsoft shops, and more companies are moving away from Microsoft. SAP is the same way, only for SAP users. So you have two options left IBM and Oracle. Even these large companies can discontinue products and customers are stuck with software that is no longer supported, end users are no longer able to make changes to that software. OSS gives you the source code which allows you to make changes to your software for as long as you want. OSS means never having to say goodbye.

Intalio Business Process Platform

Same components as the bigger players. Partnerships with other OSS vendors has allowed us to build an integrated platform that rivals IBM and Oracle. It goes beyond BPM it is about building the platform you will use today and tomorrow for creating enterprise applications. You can do this in the cloud or in your hosted environment. We are doing this in a very collaborative model. The software is written in the US, Japan, Brazil, China, the Ukraine, and other global locations.

We take integration very seriously. Other offerings from IBM and others are a patch-work. How are they integrated?

Runtime compnents integrated at the API level.
Deployment supported on the same app server
Installation supported from main Intalio installer
Certified for all platforms (widest array in the business)
Dev tools integrated in an IDE
Unified life-cycle through Intalio|Repository
System admin tools integrated through Hyperic HQ
Authentication supported through Diamelle OpenIAM
Component upgrade supported automated
Internationalization and localization offered for all supported locals

Commercial Open Source Model - COSMO

How do we mix OSS with a way to commercialize the product? Open Source Code Base - Donated to Apache and Eclipse. We work with large Open Source organizations so that they can promote and manage.

Community Edition - add 10% of code to the OSS software. Free to use but no binaries and no support. The most widely used BPM in the world.

Enterprise Edition - add another 10% of code to the Community Edition. You have the right to the source code and modify it forever. We provide support and maintenance, patch updates, and indemnification. It gives the customer all the benefits of OSS, and gives us IP protection.

Proof that the model works is the adoption. Intalio has an incremental adoption process. First we engage with our community users through training. Training is sold by email mostly, we have one tele-sales rep. The people giving the training are the ones selling it mostly. We essentially have no sales people. All sales are made by trainers. What that means for the end user is that you will not give us money to pay a salesperson's salary. Every penny goes to something that gives real value to the company and the software.

User base - we have 50,000 user organizations using our software. Intalio is the most largely used BPM software in the world today. Our customer base took off dramatically when we switched to the COSMO model. Just last quarter we signed 1.26 customers every single day including weekends. We have 30 resellers around the world and today most customers are coming through our partners. Adoption of the software is really driven by our customers.

Intalio|BPP

This is the first time we have talked about the complete story. This audience is the first to hear it. BPP is not just for process, it is about building any application. 20 years ago applications started with the database. About 10 years ago came a new piece of software that helped you build applications on top of that stack - the app server. Moving forward we need that, but we need more and better support for things that move and evolve. You need both data and something very similar to the DB engine for the process. You need a process engine next to the database engine - a BPEL engine. This was the vision we had nine years ago. We turned that vision into something real. Along the way we learned that even though this is the platform there are many different ways you can use the software based on what you want to do. We are building the platform to be used by the business people, the architects, the developers either in the cloud or hosted by you. We started by addressing the needs of the architects or business analysts - Intalio|Designer and a workflow task manager. On top of that we added components to make it a real, scalable, secure architecture - BAM, Portal, ECM, BRE, ESB. These components plus Designer plus Server = Enterprise Edition. Over the last year we got a lot of feedback saying that's great but what if I want to write code. You have a zero-code single click deploy, but I want to write code. We sat down with them and tried to understand what they need. They like the engine but don't like BPEL. Too complex. They need something powerful like BPEL but simpler. We developed a new language - SimPEL a simple language based on Ruby a very clean syntax, very small. Semantics are similar but a lot easier to use. We built Singleshot on top of that for lightweight mash-ups, a task manager built on things like REST, RSS, iCal. You can now do load balancing in a mash-up based on availability. For the language we decided not to decide. We allow people to use whatever they want to use - any language. We are providing containers, object binding for whatever language.

Ismael stated that this is a breakthrough because you can keep writing in whichever language you want, whenever you need orchestration, or support for asynchronous things, long-running processes, you code in whatever language you use, Intalio provides the most powerful engine without having to learn it. Much like the database could be used by any development platform Intalio|BPP does that for the process engine. This is the Intalio Developer Edition that was announced several months ago.

Today we announce a new project. several months ago we released Intalio|Server running on Amazon Web Services - Intalio|On Demand. We are now developing four new products - an online BPM Designer running on any web browser, mash-up templates for things like SalesForce.com, an online SimPEL editor, and an online UI developer.

The online BPM designer uses the same standard - BPMN 1.1 - to drag and drop objects via a web interface to design processes.

The beauty of this model is that you can start from one perspective, say a web developer working in lightweight environment, and easily migrate to an enterprise environment.

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New Online Advanced BPMN Training

2008-11-10T21:45:20Z

While we have had basic BPMN training online before, BPMN online level-2 training represents a first for us.

More info
Event Date:10/03/2008
Event Time:12:30 - 16:15 EDT (GMT-0400)

If you plan on attending you will need to register and attend tomorrow's BPMN online class, level 1: September 26th. If you have prior BPMN training this class may not be necessary.

BPMN online level-2 training will discuss some very important topics, much of it coming from research and an upcoming book project. We will talk about:

BPMN process patterns for solving business problems
How this is a big leap forward from the Van Der Aalst patterns that simply define possible flows in a mathematical, technical way.
Real-world examples in a simple, easy to understand format.
Process modeling vocabulary: What is a controlling authority? What are participation levels? And more!
Decision management patterns
Turning the “guess work” into a scientific formula that is easily reproduced for any process modeling exercise.

And much, much more!

Even if you already think you know a lot about BPMN, it’s well worth your time to attend this event.

Here is the full list of online classes coming up.

BPMN online class, level 1: September 26th
Provides a good introduction to the BPMN 1.1 specification and how to model processes. Covers all of the BPMN 1.1 shapes and how to use them. Provides a good introduction into the concepts and vocabulary necessary for effective process modeling.

BPMN level 2 class: October 3rd
Provides a practical approach on how to use the modeling notation to accomplish common process modeling problems. Included in this course will be an introduction to over a dozen common BPMN patterns that will help you accomplish your business objectives quickly, accurately, and without the guess-work normally associated with process modeling. Also, there will be an introduction into decision management and a vocabulary that will help your organization be more efficient when communicating about your business processes.

A good, full understanding of the BPMN 1.1 specification is a prerequisite to attend this class.
Register now

Process Modeling Framework (PMF) class: October 17th
The Process Modeling Framework (P.M.F.) is a structured approach to process modeling that results in consistent, accurate, readable process diagrams using the BPMN 1.1 modeling notation.

Provides an introduction into a structured approach to process modeling. The methodology and best practices of the experts will be shared in this class. PMF is more than just a methodology - it's a management practice for processes that involves executives, business analysts, managers, and IT staff. Each part of an organization has different needs for diagramming processes, and long-term management of the processes once they are automated. This course offers a practical guide on how to implement BPMN on a large scale throughout your organization.

Realizing that process are not 1-dimensional, the PMF addresses the idea that multiple people, and systems are involved an a business process. A single, simple diagram does not meet the needs of a large organization. Executives need a different diagram style than managers. IT engineers need a different diagram style than business people. Different levels of detail, different levels of process ownership are all included into the PMF.

PMF also includes a strategy for long-term process management and process governance.

A good basic understanding of the BPMN 1.1 specification is required to attend this session. The BPMN level-1 online class satisfies this requirement, but it is recommended that you also attend the BPMN level-2 class to get the most from this session.

Eclipse BPMN modeler sub-project available for feedback

2008-11-10T21:33:55Z

Hi all, I am glad to announce that the BPMN modeler we develop as part of the SOA Tools project is planning to evolve from the status of component to the status of sub-project. You can read the announcement here, don't hesitate to contact us if you are interested to join us!

BPM in South Africa

2008-11-10T21:34:25Z

I just came back from a trip in Johannesburg where I had the ability to demonstrate the capabilities of Intalio|BPMS at BPM Congress 2008 and meet our first South African customers.

It was interesting to hear our users' confusion as the marketing messages from some of the more traditional vendors in South Africa is very BPM 1.0 oriented. One vendor at the conference even confessed that they were using BPM in their marketing brochures as it was very trendy and their platform was not designed to use the latest industry standards!

On the good news side, many companies had started SOA initiatives and realized that they could just download and test Intalio|BPMS for free to get an idea why BPM is the killer app for SOA. It was also very exciting to get a full room of trainees for our first ever training in South Africa - we even had a waiting list!

Our good partner Shimo IT is currently implementing projects for our users and you should see some follow-up news soon.

Going to Gartner BPM Summit?

2008-11-10T21:31:16Z

On Sept. 10-12 we will be heading over to Gartner's BPM Summit in Washington D.C. If you are going as well please drop by. Process expert Stephen Day and I will be in booth H showing off our latest stuff - BAM, BRE, Alfresco and Liferay Integration, and just geeking about BPM in general (we can also talk about other subjects if pressed;).

Are you not going, but would like to? Gartner has given us a couple of free passes to extend to our beloved community. So, if you are interested shoot me an email at crow [at] intalio [dot] com. I am sure the tickets will go fast, so it's on a first come first serve basis.

Hope to see you there.

Attending Business Process Management Congress 2008?

2008-11-10T21:30:09Z

If so let me know. I would love to meet you there. For those of you not familiar with the event: Business Process Management Congress 2008 Learn How To Model, Manage, Monitor, And Optimise Your Business Processes September 1 - 5, 2008 · Gallagher Estate, Johannesburg, South Africa The event looks really solid, with something like 50 speakers, and many of them really worth listening to. But come and see my presentation anyway:). I will be discussing real projects of real customers using our BPM solution, Intalio|BPP, as their core platform. I will also bring out some of the reasons why open source was important for their adoption of our software suite. BPM Main Brochure 13286 001 (Updated 12062008)

Get your own at Scribd or explore others: Business General information communication

BPM is Missing the Data? Not Any More

2008-11-10T21:27:40Z

A little while back Informatica announced that they were embedding Intalio into PowerCenter, their data quality and integration platform. The topic of BPM and SOA and data quality and integration has beed widely discussed, not only at our user conference, but by Ash Parikh of Informatica on his blog, also here, here, and here, not to mention the vendors trying to cobble together solutions.

Especially in BPM projects content is king. We all know bad data in = bad data out. But if you turbo charge the process with BPM you get bad data out squared. Other solutions tend to minimize the data integration complexity or rely on application integration to handle the data. Enterprise companies require flexibility in their data integration projects. With a mixture of batch and real-time data migration applications can easily get out of synch. Duplication of data at the minimum can cause a significant drop in productivity. At the more problematic end of the spectrum it can cause, for example, billing issues that may cost the company (previously) loyal customers.

What data problems do you have? I would be interested in hearing your stories about how bad data has created headaches for your company.

Intalio|JapanCon 2008

2008-11-10T21:25:48Z

For those of you in Asia who may have missed IntalioCon 2008, we are excited to present Intalio JapanCon 2008 in Tokyo on October 6-7.

Our good friend and partner Tomoaki Sawada, he of Dogear fame and the principal consultant at JISI, is arranging the conference. He put up some more details in Japanese on his blog.

The conference will take place at the KDDI hall in Ohtemachi. The speaking lineup will include industry notables, partners and customers showing off the latest in how they have implemented and integrated Intalio|BPMS, and of course our CEO, Ismael Ghalimi.

The agenda is still to come, but I wanted to make sure your calendars were marked.

Intalio User Conference In Japan October 6 7 (English)

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Intalio|BPMS 5.2 Introduces Key Features for Enterprises

2009-05-16T23:32:11Z

INTALIO|BPMS 5.2 INTRODUCES KEY BPM FEATURES FOR ENTERPRISES
New Release Provides: Business Activity Monitoring, Support for Latest Industry Standards (BPMN 1.1), Widest Array of Certified Platforms and Internationalization

PALO ALTO, Calif. — Aug. 6, 2008 — Intalio, Inc., the leading Open Source BPMS company, today announced the release of Intalio|BPMS 5.2 with new features aimed at enterprise customers. Enterprise BPM projects involve disparate applications deployed in a global environment. The new services available in Intalio|BPMS 5.2 address enterprise requirements for monitoring and managing business activities, support for the latest industry standards, and increased stability and performance integrated on a wide array of platforms. For more detailed information, please visit the What’s New page on our website.

“We have spent the last nine years building an enterprise-ready BPMS that can compete on the same level as the largest vendors in the industry,” stated Ismael Ghalimi, Intalio CEO and co-founder. “With this release, I am happy to say we have arrived. And coming off several quarters of year-over-year growth at over 125%, I am confident that this version will continue that success.”

Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) provides corporations with a unified view of their business through Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), dashboards, and reports. Including BAM within Intalio|BPMS 5.2 allows companies to define their KPIs in Intalio|BPMS 5.2 for real-time analyses of the data necessary to run core business functions. Dashboard components can be configured to track that information in easily understood data visualization tools such as charts and graphs. The reports can also be exported and shared via PDF documents and spreadsheets.

“Intalio|BPMS is standards-based and brings with it a solid architectural foundation required to implement robust process solutions,” commented Sashi Varanasi, enterprise architect for product architecture at Travelocity. “The built-in support for W3C standards such as XSD, XML, XPath and others has given us the ability to solve complex problems easily.”

Enterprise companies rely on standards to ensure that work done on BPM projects is interoperable between different systems. Business Process Management Notation (BPMN) is the standard adopted by most BPM vendors. BPMN creates a common language for designing processes. Intalio is the first BPMS company to support the latest version of that standard — BPMN 1.1. Using BPMN 1.1 allows companies freedom from getting locked into vendors selling proprietary applications. Intalio is also the first BPMS company to provide native support for HTTP and REST protocols. What this means is that companies developing BPM projects in Intalio|BPMS 5.2 have built-in capabilities to integrate Web 2.0 applications into their processes such as Google, Amazon, or Salesforce — applications that are increasing in adoption throughout the enterprise. Legacy applications can now co-exist with new cutting edge technologies in a single business process.

“We are using Intalio|BPMS integrated with our product, intra-martv7.0, which provides regulatory compliance for Japanese companies,” stated Hideaki Tanaka, senior executive manager of corporate strategy planning for NTT Data Intramart. “The equivalent to SOX regulations for Japan has been enforced since April 2008. With the new extensions for the user interface we were able to easily implement our own look and feel, which our customers are used to with the powerful BPMS engine Intalio provides. The reaction of our users for v7.0 is great, and we look forward to significant growth in the near future.”

Intalio|BPMS 5.2 is now certified on over 300 combinations of hardware, operating systems, application servers, and databases — the most widely certified BPMS in the industry. Internationalization has enabled global adoption throughout the enterprise. Integration with other applications via web services has been simplified through automatic importing of the code that defines the service, the Web Services Definition Language (WSDL). In addition to the largest deployment of a BPM project in existence, with 250,000 steps over a five-year process, the latest release offers stability increases; making Intalio|BPMS more ready for the enterprise than ever before.

For more information on Intalio, please visit www.intalio.com or subscribe to the RSS feed at www.intalio.com/site/feeds.

Recent News

Intalio Hosts First User Conference June 17-18 in San Francisco, CA;
http://www.intalio.com/news/intalio-hosts-first-user-conference-
june-17-18-in-san-francisco-ca/

Intalio|On Demand Launched, First Ever Open Source BPM Suite as Service;
http://www.intalio.com/news/intalioon-demand-launched-first-ever-
open-source-bpm-suite-as-service/

Intalio Announces Support for BPMN 1.1;
http://www.intalio.com/news/intalio-announces-support-for-bpmn-11/

Intalio Launches Worldwide Partner Program;
http://www.intalio.com/news/intalio-launches-worldwide-partner-program/

About Intalio, Inc.

Intalio is the leading vendor of Open Source BPM and SOA software. The Intalio Business Process Platform™ empowers organizations of all sizes to develop process-driven applications faster, better, and cheaper. Founded in July 1999, Intalio is a privately-held, venture-backed company located in Palo Alto, California. For more information on Intalio, please call 650-596-1800 or visit www.intalio.com.

The Intalio Business Process Platform is a trademark of Intalio, Inc. All other names, brands or products may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

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Intalio Award from InfoWorld

2008-11-10T21:17:54Z

IDG's InfoWorld announced the winners of its Best of Open Source Software Awards. We are honored to see that Intalio was named best Open Source BPM in the Enterprise Application category.

It was also great to see some of our friends and partners mentioned as well. Orbeon was included with their XForms offering. Alfresco was picked for Enterprise Content Management and Liferay was tops in Enterprise Portals. It just goes to show we know how to pick good friends;).

All in all a very auspicious list, and one in which we are extremely gratified to be included.

Intalio Partners w/ WiTech-Leading Italian Telco Solutions Co.

2008-11-10T21:13:27Z

Recently we signed on WiTech as a partner to help us grow our already increasing (and impressive) list of telco companies adopting Intalio|BPMS. WiTech is a leading Italian telecommunications consulting & engineering and solutions company with deep knowledge of NGN/NGS (Next-Generation Networks/Next-Generation Services). They focus on BWA (Broadband Wireless Access) and standard technologies like WiFi/HiperLAN, 3.5G/LTE and WiMAX.

WiTech provides a wide range of services from strategic consulting on investment plans to engineering services for network design and network planning. On the solution side, the company is engaged in the development of specialized decision support tools, capable of performing comprehensive technical-economic analyses of wireless initiatives in an integrated manner. They are also working with Intalio to develop and integrate BPM-enabled NGOSS/BSS frameworks and components (Business Process Management-enabled Next-Generation Operation Support System/Business Support System). These tools will allow more automation and better control of key telecommunications processes.

Claudio Adriani, WiTech's CTO, had this to say about the partnership, "at WiTech, we have been engaged in the development and integration of key OSS/BSS systems in Open Source environments since our foundation in 2003. When we started to work at our “BPM-enabled Next-Generation OSS/BSS” value proposition, we searched extensively for best-of-breed technologies in the Open Source, Java-based segment and found the Intalio|BPMS platform to be the best and most compelling choice for us. It provides the breadth and width we need in terms openness, flexibility, scalability, and reliability. Intalio and its network of technology partners supply a great foundation to address the evolving requirements of today’s Telecommunications service providers, especially when coping with the challenge posed by the introduction of new network technologies like, for example, WiMAX, and new services."

For my part I am really thrilled to work with Witech as their offering for network operators is truly unique. Their platform provides automation of support services processes within their platform. This allows operators to become more and more efficient in shorter time spans. This is very important for new operators adopting WiMAX licenses. WiTech is expanding the Intalio|BPP to provide what we are confident our customers will find a compelling solution.

Standalone BPMN modeler, now packaged with Ganymede

2008-11-10T21:35:22Z

We are proud to offer you a packaged version of the open source BPMN modeler along with the latest and greatest of Eclipse.

You can grab the bits here !

Feedback is welcome.

Cross-posting from the SOA Tools blog...

Neville Bradburry presents Intalio at ACS - Sydney

2008-11-10T21:11:12Z

Neville Bradbury, managing director of OpenSoft Australia our partner and friend, is showing off Intalio|BPMS at an event hosted by the Australian Computer Society in Sydney. If you are in the area you should definitely register for this free event.

Neville has over 20 years experience leveraging Open Source Software in the Enterprise. The session will include a demonstration of how Intalio can use process management workflows across systems as well as providing project management a tool for collecting and management a business (i.e. a simple example of a prince2 workflow).

IUC 2008 Sessions: Doug Neal - BPM–Green & Global

2008-12-16T00:51:10Z

In continuing my series wrapping up our Intalio User Conference 2008 today's article will focus on Doug Neal, Research Fellow at the Leading Edge Forum – Executive Programme of CSC. His session charted new courses for BPM - New Aspirations for BPM – Green and Global. (Other presentations from the conference are available on our forum.)

Before I get to the notes on the session itself I wanted to discuss an article I found today on InfoWorld. It was actually a study that Rackspace did of its user base on IT and the Green issue. The article found that "a large number of IT shops aren't willing to sacrifice performance even if it would help the environment, according to a new survey." The problem with this is that the survey and perceptions of the IT folks included in the survey are calculated as if in a vacuum. As Doug points out in his presentation (and is noted somewhat in the article) there are many benefits to going Green that do affect the bottom line - energy savings, marketing benefits, sustainability. The article points to an apparent conflict between green and the bottom line where there are in fact a lot of synergies.

James Taylor also posted an article on Ismael's talk over at his blog - Smart (enough) Systems. And Mauricio added his comments (in Portuguese)

Here are some points Doug made during his talk:

Doug went down memory lane, to his beginnings in BPM in 2001.
Before BPM solutions were baked in concrete, no flexibility.
BPMS lead to a change in the way we manage all the aspects of our business - people, systems, organizations.
Intalio BPMS designed for Federated Deployment - seamless access of various services independently provided throughout the enterprise.
Without Federated Deployment, you lose the ability to measure across the business.
Without significant measurement, there is no way to improve efficiencies to become greener or go global (collaboration and social network monitoring) .
Rising prices, concerns, and regulations are driving technology greener.
IT usage of energy far outweighs energy used in production of IT.
However, Moore's law has an environmental downside. Things that have short life cycles require more energy in production, have high toxins, and are bad for landfills. IT driving the short life cycle products.
Lots of room for improvement - energy lost: as heat, during transmission, only 22-30% reaches point of use.
Greenwashing by corporations has been found out and put them on the defensive.
Measurement is key to providing intelligence in time to do something about it.
Lots of great examples of measurements used in companies to reduce carbon footprint.
Technology used as alternatives to travel.
He predicted a carbon footprint label on product something akin to the nutritional labels now used on food.
Projects for: Green IT, Green Supply Chain, Social Network Monitoring, Identification and Authentication all benefit from Federated Deployment, BPM, and ability to track across the enterprise.

If you saw the presentation I would love to hear what you got out of it. If you have any notes on any of the other sessions feel free to send them to me crow [at] intalio [dot] com and I will include them in future posts.

01Informatique Review

2008-11-10T19:48:54Z

Last week 01Informatique, the number one IT publication in France, wrote an article in their magazine comparing Intalio to Sun.

The article describes the parallels and differences between how both companies have built and designed their BPM suites. On one hand you have an aggregation [and development] of open source software (Intalio). And on the other you have a company largely trying to build it themselves (Sun). The articles mentions that 01Informatique likes the drag-and-drop functionality along with the standards-based technology of Intalio. And we come off well against jBPM.

IUC 2008 Sessions: Ismael Ghalimi - Intalio State of the Union

2008-12-16T00:51:31Z

In continuing my series wrapping up our Intalio User Conference 2008 today's article will focus on Ismael Ghalimi, our beloved CEO and co-founder. His session amounted to a State of the Union address for Intalio. (Other presentations from the conference are available on our forum.)

James Taylor also posted an article on Ismael's talk over at his blog - Smart (enough) Systems.

Here are some points Ismael made during his talk:

Impressive growth (35k strong community in 40 countries).
COSMO - Commercial Open Source Model - has been receiving positive traction in the industry, and built an incremental sales process.
Intalio manages the largest process in the world.
Brought up the D3 model (another session discussed in more detail) which has reduced Intalio's costs and made the company more responsive the customer needs.
Ismael outlined exit paths for:
- BEA Fuego, to be discontinued by Oracle.
- Tibco Staffware, disappointing results last quarter
Iona will be acquired in 2008 [well that was quick, it happened in the week since the conference]. The buyer seems lukewarm to open source.
Intalio will support ServiceMix ourselves.
Key growth in a number of verticals: Finance, Government, Telecommunication, along with horizontal growth in the area of Globalization
Ismael put out a call to spread the word. Intalio finally has a marketing staff which is actively collecting use cases and success stories [to let us know about your use case you can contact me - Jonathan Crow].

IUC 2008 Sessions: Janelle Hill - Linking Bussiness and IT

2008-12-16T00:51:49Z

After Intalio User Conference 2008 wrapped up last week I was able to get most of the presentations posted to our forum. But, I wanted to put the presentations in some sort of context. I have notes from some of the sessions and will be posting them over the coming weeks.

First off I wanted to highlight Janelle Hill from Gartner and her presentation on Business Processes: The Foundation Linking Business and IT.

Mauricio Bittencourt posted a little blurb about the session. But as my Portuguese isn't so good I will leave it untranslated. James Taylor also posted an article on his blog over at Smart (enough) Systems.

Here are some points Janelle made during her talk:

Intalio is the only credible open source BPM vendor. jBPM is only a low-level BPM engine.[Ed. note: remember these are her words;)].
Companies should use BPM as tool to achieve visibility to improve business decision making. Don't run businesses on guts/instincts/past history as things are changing too fast.
Janelle cited a mortgage company as an aggressive adopter of BPM technology. Processes are well documented and transparent and metrics are clearly defined and collected such that the company feels very comfortable letting employees telecommute.
SAP has not decided to adopt SAP NetWeaver BPM to drive internal business processes.
BPM has about 7-year cycles. Last one started in 2000. We are at year 8, the beginning of a new cycle.
The BPM hype peaked. Disillusion is now setting in. There is no magic bullet. Companies need planning, training, and execution to ensure a successful BPM deployment.
Major industries adopting BPM:
- Insurance (claim management)
- All top banks
- Mortgage firms
- Government
Some of the most common BPM deployments are customer-facing and self service
The average commercial BPM deployment costs USD $500K to $800K. One company paid 2 million euro. [Ed. note: no wonder or customer acquisition rate is looking very hockey puck-ish these days].
None of the major SIs are credible vendors in the BPM space at this point in time.
There is a major opportunity for BPM SIs to step because:
- Customers are jaded with spending large sums of money
- Companies need to focus on process re-engineering and business transformation

Intalio/Liferay Cocktail Party in Singapore

2008-11-10T19:46:06Z

Intalio and Liferay, our Enterprise Portal partner, will jointly host a cocktail on July 8th, 6:30pm at the Hilton on Orchard.

Last week at our user conference Joe Shum, Liferay's Principal Architect, co-presented the integration between our two products with our own Nicolas Modrzyk. Now it is our chance to take the message to Singapore and show off Intalio|BPMS and Liferay to a whole new audience. Liferay will provide strategic insights into their latest 5.0 release amidst the fast-changing global portal market and the recent strategic alliance with SunMicrosystems. All of you in the Southeast Asia, and beyond, are invited to attend. The cocktail party is free upon registration. For more info, please see the Liferay blog article announcing the event.

For those of you not in the area there is another opportunity coming up as well. Nicolas will be presenting at the Liferay meetup on Friday, August 1 in the Liferay offices near Los Angeles, CA. This is also a free event.

Images from Intalio User Conference 2008

2008-11-10T19:45:15Z

I finally got around to putting up some of the images taken during Intalio User Conference 2008 on a Flickr group. Thanks to Agathe Azzis, www.asmaart.com, for some great shots. If you have more, please share! Hopefully tomorrow I can start putting some commentary up regarding the individual sessions.

Intalio User Conference 2008 - Wrap-up

2008-11-10T19:33:00Z

Well, Intalio User Conference 2008 is in the books for this year. I put up a number of presentations already and will add more as they become available.

You can access the presentations and get notified of new postings on our community forum. In the coming days I will also be posting notes that were taken during the conference to give a broader context for the presentations.

We also have a Flickr group set up to share images. Hopefully I can add some more images very soon.

From the feedback I received people seemed to get a lot out of the conference. Enough so that we have already started preparations for next year and have added a conference for Europe. So, please share feedback - dates, locations, what you want to see, etc. - so that we can build an even better event next time.

Thanks again to everyone who participated for their energy and enthusiasm and hope to see you soon.

Jonathan

SOA Tools BPMN modeler in Ganymede

2008-11-10T19:31:58Z

The SOA Tools BPMN modeler is mentioned in this Infoworld article as part of the Ganymede release. We are going 1.0 this year ! That means the BPMN modeler is now a stable and mature project.

You can enjoy the latest of the BPMN modeler coupled with 5.2 beta available on our community website.

Intalio User Conference sneak peek

2008-11-10T19:31:01Z

Here is a sneak peak of all the things you will see during our user conference, coming up just next week!

Intalio User Conference Highlight - David Lyle, Informatica

2008-11-10T19:27:00Z

Fresh from Informatica World 2008 held last week, David Lyle will present a panel discussion on BPM Is Missing the Data. One of the points he will make is that data drives BPM. And he is absolutely right, without the data there is nothing to act on. But too often the data quality and data integration components are left out of the equation assuming that SOA can do everything that is needed.

What people are learning in real world implementations is that when data quality and integration are left out of the SOA discussion the project is at the mercy of dirty data.

At Informatica World 2008, Informatica announced some major updates to PowerCenter, its data integration platform. A big part of this announcement was the bundling of BPMN and BPEL. Any guesses who may have provided the engine behind that? hint

Intalio User Conference Highlight - Daniel Oneufer

2008-11-10T19:26:04Z

Work for the government? Directly or indirectly? Many challenges face developers when building solutions across government institutions. Everything from Red Tape, to policies, and idiosyncrasies. Many large corporations fall into this category too.

What are the benefits of BPM in this particular instance? How do you implement it? Daniel Oneufer explains in Case Study: Using Intalio BPMS in Pennsylvania's Criminal Justice Systems, June 17-18, at our User Conference in San Francisco.

Intalio User Conference Highlight - Tom Debevoise

2008-11-10T19:25:02Z

Sun Tzu once said 'All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.'

BPM, ESB, SOA, EAI... Whether they integrate at the services level or not, the software integration industry is not only quite an alphabet soup, each technology also claims to hold the most value in the stack. That means 'consolidate around me' in business parlance. But the industry too often forgets that the goal is operation agility at reduced cost. And technology ends up the driving force - on tactical grounds and strategy is a casualty.

Tom Debevoise will take a step back and discuss, the driving consolidation forces in industry software integration, taking a look at the main technologies, on his panel BPM, SOA, ESB, Data (technology/management): Who's Driving?, June 17-18, at our User Conference in San Francisco

Also of interest is Workshop 13: SOA Services and People and this article from Dennis Byron (free registration required).

Cronos-The Business Analysts is now a partner

2008-11-10T19:23:17Z

System Integrators tend to realize more and more these days the importance of joining the Intalio Partner Network. Intalio is now getting partnership requests every single day and it is important for us to work with people we can trust.

I am happy to announce that CRONOS-The Business Analysts has just joined our Partner Network which makes it our first partner in Belgium.

"A thorough understanding of customers' business needs and a continuous quest for innovation, combined with a consistent but flexible attitude towards excellence, have made our decision to use Intalio as the tool for describing the business needs in BPMN and later in execution to BPEL."

Welcome to Christian Gijsels and his team. You will probably hear soon about our new implementation in Belgium :)

Intalio User Conference Highlight - Bruce Silver

2008-11-10T19:22:33Z

We are genuinely thrilled to announce Bruce Silver at the Intalio User Conference, June 17-18, San Francisco.

He will be at the conference the opening day, presenting BPMN and Business-Empowered Implementation on a Panel Session at 4:45 to 6:00 PM just before the cocktail reception starting at 6pm.

Intalio follows his blog at brsilver.com/wordpress, and highly recommends it.

Top Ten Reasons to Attend Intalio User Conference 2008

2008-11-10T19:21:45Z

Why the Intalio User Conference Is a Must Attend Event

Intalio User Conference 2008 provides you with great opportunities to build connections with our developers, partners and other Intalio users.

We know your time and resources are limited. So, here are the
Top Ten Reasons why you can't afford to miss the Intalio User Conference 2008:

Network with attendees representing the leading edge in BPM from all over the world and learn from their experiences working with Intalio|BPMS.

Hear industry experts such as Janelle Hill from Gartner, Doug Neal from CSC, James Taylor and Neil
Raden (authors of Smart (Enough) Systems: How to Deliver Competitive Advantage by Automating Hidden Decisions) discuss trends in BPM.

Listen to customers like Coghead and the State of Pennsylvania talk about best practices, tips and tricks.

Save money on training and grow your skills through over 16 hours of workshops at the event (worth $2,000 at the regular training price).

Find out how our Open Source partners are working with us to extend Intalio|BPMS to Enterprise Portals (Liferay), Identity and Access Management (OpenIAM), Document Management (Alfresco) and much more.

Be the first to find out about Intalio|BPP (Business Process Platform) – the next evolution of BPMS

Go in depth into the new features of Intalio|BPMS 5.2 featuring Business Activity Monitoring.

Spend time with Intalio product gurus and experts to help maximize your investment in your BPM project.

Discover the traits of successful BPM projects.

Influence future Intalio product development by sharing your ideas.

What's more you get to meet our CEO, Ismael Ghalimi, a future inductee into the BPM Hall of Fame;).

User Conference Discussion Forum

2008-11-10T19:20:14Z

We created a space on the community forums to discuss the Intalio User Conference, it is available here: discuss on the community forums.

So far there is a section to discuss the sessions, meet up with fellow developers, and find what to do in San Francisco.

See you on the forums!

Intalio User Conference Highlight - Janelle Hill

2008-11-10T19:19:28Z

At Intalio, we've been pushing towards bridging the gap between IT and Business Analysts. This is because whenever there is lack of strong communication between the people defining the requirements and the people building the system the result is a dysfunctional process.

We find that the people who come to our training are a good mix between the business side and the technology side. Our tool is designed from the ground up to be used by both camps, and to provide common ground on which the two sides can work. That is why we felt that Janelle Hill's presentation of BPM as the Foundation Linking Business and IT would be a great addition to our Intalio User Conference, June 17, in beautiful San Francisco.

Any person interested in this keynote will likely be interested in Workshop 8: How to Run a Successful BPM project as well.

Other BPM Training is to Intalio as…

2008-11-10T19:18:17Z

I just read a review of Intalio training from Gary Gilbert. In it he makes a great comparison.

Other BPM training is to Intalio training as go-kart racing is to Formula 1. Hmm, maybe we need to buy Jason Howlett a new racing outfit?

Intalio User Conference Highlight - James Taylor & Neil Raden

2008-11-10T19:00:23Z

James Taylor and Neil Raden are giving a talk at our user conference called Applying Decision Management to Make Processes Smarter, Simpler and More Agile. But we are happy to tell you that not only did we get the authors of the book Smart (Enough) Systems: How to Deliver Competitive Advantage by Automating Hidden Decisions, we also got the book!

That's right, we will be giving attendees a free copy of their book which provides insight into how companies can combining existing technologies to make huge differences in improving decision making processes. It also provides concrete examples throughout multiple verticals of Enterprise Decision Management in action. In some ways you could think of this as even better than getting to see them in person. The book you get to take home with you;).

Here is what Dr. Hugh J. Watson, C. Herman and Mary Virginia Terry Chair of Business Administration, University of Georgia said about the book: "James Taylor and Neil Raden are on to something important in this book - the tremendous value of improving the large number of routine decisions that are made in organizations every day. While experienced business intelligence professionals may recognize the individual pieces, the authors do a wonderful job of integrating the component parts and providing frameworks, concepts, technology discussions, examples, and implementation guidelines to help companies make the potential a reality."

Intalio User Conference Highlight - Jason Woodruff

2008-11-10T18:59:15Z

With the wave of discussions going on right now about BPM + REST, we are excited that we were we able to get Jason Woodruff to come to our user conference and moderate a panel called Restful BPM – the elephant in the room?.

The session addresses the impact of restful, resource-oriented architecture on the rationale for BPM. It's a question that is getting asked more and more often right now. John Mettraux writes about restful bpm and asks:

RESTful orchestration

Has it been reached ? By adding the HTTP verbs to a business process definition language ?

Isn’t that a kind of specialization ? BPEL was born with a similar specialization a few years ago.

Christina Lau at IBM wrote an article BPM and RESTful SOA in which she stated that RESTful SOA is "a key enabling technology that makes [getting into BPM without a huge investment] possible."

Our own CTO, Assaf Arkin, addresses what Intalio is doing with REST in his session Deep Inside the Minds at Intalio|Labs. With all this momentum for REST + BPM I think Jason and his panel will have a lot to discuss.

Intalio User Conference June 17-18, San Francisco, CA

2009-01-11T23:38:09Z

INTALIO HOSTS FIRST USER CONFERENCE JUNE 17-18 IN SAN FRANCISCO, CA
Highlights New Business Process Platform (BPP)

PALO ALTO, Calif. — May. 21, 2008 — Intalio, Inc., the leading Open Source BPMS company, today announced its first user conference to be hosted on June 17-18, 2008 at the W Hotel in San Francisco, CA. The event will bring together key players in the BPM field, partners, and customers from Intalio’s broad community base; including users from large and small enterprises in industries such as government, finance, utilities, health, and insurance. Registration information and details of the conference can be found at http://intaliocon.com.

Intalio developers and process experts have organized over 16 hours of in-depth training in workshops ranging from performance tuning of your Intalio|Server to “How to Run a Successful BPM project.” Industry experts such as Janelle Hill from Gartner, Doug Neal from CSC, and James Taylor and Neil Raden, authors of “Smart (Enough) Systems: How to Deliver Competitive Advantage by Automating Hidden Decisions,” will discuss trends in BPM. Customers like Coghead; Thames University in the UK; and TAS3, a European Union consortium, will be there to talk about best practices, tips and tricks.

Intalio will also address the latest features in the upcoming release of Intalio|BPMS 5.2. The conference will highlight Open Source partners working with Intalio to extend Intalio|BPMS into something larger, a Business Process Platform (BPP). BPP uses a Business Process Management engine integrated with various enterprise applications to create process driven applications. These integrated applications include Enterprise Portals (Liferay), Identity and Access Management (OpenIAM), Document Management (Alfresco) and much more.

“Liferay is excited to engage the Intalio open source community at their inaugural user conference,” commented Liferay CEO Bryan Cheung. “Intalio is an excellent example of leading-edge open source software outpacing incumbent vendors while delivering value and control to customers. In the BPP, customers now have a single integrated package that multiplies the value of traditional enterprise application integration through Liferay Portal by adding the orchestration and automation capabilities of Intalio|BPMS. Combined with Liferay's native content management and social computing capabilities, enterprises have tremendous value with minimal integration pain.”

Recent News

Liferay Portal and Intalio Partner;
http://www.intalio.com/news/liferay-portal-and-Intalio-partner/

Intalio|On Demand Launched, First Ever Open Source BPM Suite as Service;
http://www.intalio.com/news/intalioon-demand-
launched-first-ever-open-source-bpm-suite-as-service/

Intalio Announces Support for BPMN 1.1;
http://www.intalio.com/news/intalio-announces-support-for-bpmn-11/

Intalio and Alfresco Integrate BPM Suite with Enterprise Content Management;
http://www.intalio.com/news/intalio-and-alfresco-
integrate-bpm-suite-with-enterprise-content-management/

Intalio Launches Worldwide Partner Program;
http://www.intalio.com/news/intalio-launches-worldwide-partner-program/

About Intalio, Inc.
Intalio is the leading vendor of Open Source BPM and SOA software. The Intalio Business Process Platform™ empowers organizations of all sizes to develop process-driven applications faster, better, and cheaper. Founded in July 1999, Intalio is a privately-held, venture-backed company located in Palo Alto, California. For more information on Intalio, please call 650-596-1800 or visit www.intalio.com.

The Intalio Business Process Platform is a trademark of Intalio, Inc. All other names, brands or products may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

Media Contact:
Dottie O’Rourke
TECHMarket Communications
650-344-1260
dottie@techmarket.com

Company Contact:
Jonathan Crow
Intalio, Inc.
650-596-1800
crow@intalio.com

Welcome to NSI from Italy

2008-11-10T18:57:03Z

Even though May is traditionnally announcing the coming slow months of the summer, it proves to be quite busy for us especially in EMEA. Among the various projects we have started, I am pleased to announce that a second partner is joining us in Italy.

Welcome to Giuseppe Frangiamone and his team at NSI - NIER Soluzioni Informatiche.NSI specializes in building web based applications in the healthcare sector for clinics and hospitals

You may wonder why a system integrator should consider joining our Partner Network, here is the answer according to Giuseppe:

"We have chosen Intalio BPMS for the project we are starting to develop because it is very standards compliant and because it is quite easy to integrate with other forms technologies."

We look forward to working with you!

Intalio User Conference Highlight - Doug Neal

2008-11-10T18:55:52Z

The Intalio User Conference is now just a little over a month away. In the coming weeks I will be posting notices highlighting some of the sessions featured in the conference. Today we serve up Doug Neal from the CSC: Leading Edge Forum. He co-authored the book The Networked Supply Chain: Applying Breakthrough BPM Technology to Meet Relentless Customer Demands.

Recent projects have included Green IT – Moving Beyond the 2% Solution, Harnessing Web 2.0 – Enterprise Strategies for Living on the Web, theConsumerization of IT, Developing Employee Responsibility and Trust, TheUse and Misuse of Collaborative Technologies, The Emergence of Business Process Management, and Business Process Management: Delivering on the Promise.

So, based on these recent works it probably comes as no surprise that his talk will be - New Aspirations for BPM – Green and Global.

Some of the questions he will be asking are:

How do you do global business collaboration among hundreds of companies who never shake hands?
How do you put mashup/process tools in the hands of employees so they can safely solve problems themselves?
How do you do Green IT processes and measurement that help deal with the 98% of energy use that is outside the datacenter and the desktop?

We believe these are things that BPM is especially adept at addressing. But then, we might be a little biased.

Discover BPM advantages with Intalio

2008-11-10T18:54:36Z

One Process Analyst from Belgium who attended one of our first training session in Europe has decided to share his experience with processes by writing two books. Indeed Patrice Briol gives a very good BPMN introduction in ‘BPMN: the Business Process Modeling Notation’ as well as a good overview on the BPM world today in ‘Ingenierie des processus metiers, de l’elaboration a l’exploitation’ (in French). What is even more interesting is that he provides examples built with Intalio|BPMS. You can check out his website at http://www.ingenieriedesprocessus.net

Intalio User Conference - training for less

2008-11-10T18:53:25Z

I just did the math. I added up the workshops we are going to be doing during the Intalio User Conference and it turns out we will have over 16 hours of in depth training on everything from the newest features of Intalio|BPMS and what we are working on in the deep dark recesses of the Intalio|Labs, to performance tuning your Intalio|Server.

If you compare that with our 3 hour online training course, we are talking about training worth almost $2,000. And you get that with a regular attendee pass for only $500 - a savings of $1,500. Pretty great savings in and of itself, but throw on tips and best practices from the Intalio|Community, industry trends from keynote speakers, and well just hanging out with us and how can you resist?

For more information or to register please visit the Intalio User Conference website.

Intalio Training + User Conference Package

2008-11-10T18:52:29Z

Hopefully by know you have heard that Intalio is hosting our first ever user conference on June 17-18 in San Francisco.

We have also organized a training session after the event, June 19-20 in Palo Alto. The great news is that now, users who sign up for the training by Friday May 23 also get a free pass to the user conference.

For details you can email sales@intalio.com, or contact us by phone at 650-596-1800 and press 3 for sales.

First partner in India and Singapore

2008-11-10T18:51:45Z

I am really proud to announce that ITCInfotech has decided to join the Intalio|Partner Network as well as Genoko.

ITCInfotech is our first partner in India. For those of you who may not be familiar with the Indian market, ITCInfotech is the IT arm of ITC, one of the largest company in Asia. Genoko has now signed on as a Silver partner in Singapore. They bring their expertise in Document Management systems and office processes built around the FujiXerox environment.

Both companies made their decisions after seeing the potential of our product and its maturity during our first training class in Singapore.

We really look forward extending our activities in APAC thanks to our partners. Several key projects are already in the pipeline, so it looks to be a promising year.

Process Solutions Day in Frankfurt

2008-11-10T18:50:12Z

Our German friends will be interested in knowing that there is a Process Solutions Day in Frankfurt, on May 27th. Our trusted partner AncudIT has written an article on it.

We will be unveiling our Intalio|Business Process Platform (Intalio|BPP) there, too: "We are taking our BPMS solution to the next level, a Business Process Platform – creating an environment where enterprise applications can be tied together through process management enabling what I like to refer to as process driven applications." says Arnaud Blandin, our Business Development Director. "BPP goes beyond just integrating an ECM, ESB, IAM, Enterprise Portal, ERP and other mission critical applications. Intalio|BPP combines all those functions in one package and we provide support for all those applications. We have chosen Process Solution Day to unveil and demonstrate Intalio|BPP for the first time in Europe."

If you are interested, check out the complete agenda.

Architecting Enterprise BPMS - Presentation from Dr. Samarin

2008-11-10T18:46:17Z

A good friend of mine, Dr. Alexander Samarin gave a presentation at the Architecture and Process Conference last week in Washington DC.

The sildes, titled "Architecting Enterprise BPM Systems for Optimal Agility" are available below:

Architecting Enterprise BPM Systems for Optimal Agility

View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: bpm architecture)

Particularly check out slides 17-18;).

But what I found very useful about this slide deck was the appreciation of how complex it is to build optimal agility throughout the enterprise. The good news, I am now paraphrasing, is that BPM can be done incrementally, is appreciated by the various stakeholders and all participants can, in effect, mark off their own territory in the sandbox.

Alexander already demonstrated it with several of our customers in Switzerland. He is also putting together a book explaining how to improve BPM systems with the help of Intalio|BPMS: "Improving business process management systems" (www.improving-BPM-systems.com)

Intalio at JavaOne - Update

2008-11-10T18:38:29Z

Small update on our presence at the JavaOne conference announced here.

Come visit us at JavaOne for free, using the one-day pass print out.

We are located at booth 539 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.

Intalio at JavaOne

2008-11-10T18:36:35Z

Yours truly will be exhibiting at Sun's JavaOne Conference next week. Hurrah!

This is a great occasion to come see us in person, ask questions, and get product demos, as well as meet the members of the engineering team Alex Boisvert, Hugues Malphettes, and Matthieu Riou.

World’s First Intalio User Conference!

2008-11-10T18:19:08Z

Registrations are now open for Intalio User Conference, the first conference to bring together Intalio Partners, customers, and users from all around the world.

Intalio User Conference will feature world class speakers such as Janelle Hill, Doug Neal, and Joe McKendrick. Intalio CEO Ismael Ghalimi will address Intalio's State of the Union as well.

The complete Agenda is currently being put together, and will be available shortly - we are all ears however, and are open for input from you. If you have a suggestion for a topic, speaker, or workshop, please email us at intalio-conf-08@intalio.com. What kind of sessions would you like to see?

Liferay Portal and Intalio Partner

2008-11-10T18:17:33Z

LIFERAY PORTAL AND INTALIO PARTNER

Leading Open Source Vendors Integrate to Offer Business Friendly Process Management from the Web

LOS ANGELES and PALO ALTO, Calif. — April [23], 2008 — Liferay, Inc., creators of Liferay Portal, the world’s leading open source portal, and Intalio, Inc., the leading vendor of open source business process management solutions, recently announced a new integration partnership. Together, the products allow employees to have a common interface to manage their daily workload. The portal enables a single integrated view of the user’s calendar, email, task list and whatever other functions the employee or IT department includes.

Intalio|BPMS offers a one-click, zero code means of designing and implementing business processes suitable for even the least technical of users. Under the new partnership, Intalio’s Enterprise Edition offers an optional module, called Intalio|Portal, which gives users access to Intalio’s Task Manager as an integrated portlet within a Liferay-powered portal framework. From there, users can make decisions to approve insurance policies, review expense reports, or input data on a loan request.

“The partnership bridges the gap between real business needs and IT,” said Brian Chan, Liferay Portal’s chief software architect. “It provides an extra degree of agility for enterprises that need to react quickly to changes.”

“Intalio|Portal’s use of Liferay Portal also allows users to integrate our process management tools with any number of other applications that may be valuable for an enterprise,” added Ismael Ghalimi, CEO and founder of Intalio. “We think this integration will greatly increase efficiency in the workplace. Users can easily see and act on the information they need to get their job done, all in one central location.”

The integration of Liferay Portal and Intalio is already being leveraged at Lucca Consulting of Sydney. OpenSoft, Intalio’s System Integrator partner helping with the project, assisted in creating a bureau reporting service for credit score carding and recovery agency performance based on Liferay Portal, the Intalio platform and CAS Security server. The integrated offering is sold as a chargeable service to individual financial institutions. “Liferay and Intalio were selected because they provided a cost-effective and flexible solution for adapting the service to specific customer needs,” commented Chris Waldron, CEO of Lucca Consulting. “OpenSoft was selected because of its proven ability to integrate and support commercial open source solutions.” A debt collections software product is also currently being developed.

In its ninth year of development, the award-winning Liferay Portal provides enterprises with shared space for sharing and managing content as well as a full suite of collaboration tools. Its flexible SOA framework allows standards compliant applications and technologies to be easily accessible via the web.

For more information and an online demo, visit www.liferay.com. For more information on Intalio, please visit www.intalio.com or subscribe to the RSS feed at http://www.intalio.com/blog.

About Liferay, Inc.
Liferay, Inc. is the provider of Liferay Portal, the world’s leading enterprise open source portal framework with Fortune 500 clients world-wide. Liferay Professional Services offers technical support, custom development and professional training to ensure successful deployment of its flagship product in the most demanding IT environments. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles. For more information, please visit www.liferay.com.

About Intalio, Inc.
Intalio is the leading vendor of Open Source BPM and SOA software. The Intalio Business Process Platform™ empowers organizations of all sizes to develop process-driven applications faster, better, and cheaper. Founded in July 1999, Intalio is a privately-held, venture-backed company located in Palo Alto, California. For more information on Intalio, please call 650-596-1800 or visit www.intalio.com.

The Intalio Business Process Platform is a trademark of Intalio, Inc. All other names, brands or products may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

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Intalio, Inc.
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Intalio|Partner: Ancud IT Wins Ingres Partner Excellence Award

2008-11-10T18:13:36Z

We certainly hope that people judge us by the company we keep.

We just found out that one of our partners, Ancud IT won the Ingres Partner Excellence Award for best contribution to open source. The award was announced in Prague at the Ingres Partner Summit.

Ancud IT integrated the Ingres Open Source Database with Alfresco's Enterprise Content Management to create an enterprise portal. With some projects already in the pipeline things are looking good for them.

Congratulations!

Q1 from this side of the pond

2008-11-10T18:11:04Z

Not to be outdone by Arnaud's post about the State of the Union for Intalio in EMEA and APAC, I thought I would let everyone know about what is going on with Intalio in my neck of the woods.

We trained 18 new people

Signed 2 new subscription customers: A major US government agency (can't say which yet) and IT Frontier

The US government agency is in using BPM for a funds approval process.
In Feb. we made an announcement about IT Frontier heading up our community in Japan. They continue to be a major driving factor in Japan for us.

Renewed 2 subscription customers: France Telecom (California) and DIP (formerly known as DLGPSR, in Australia)

The R&D division of France Telecom in California is experimenting with BPM, tying in a SaaS front end to see what they can do with it. Who knows where this could lead in the broader FT worldwide.

Brought on 2 new partners: Borealis (Silver, Canada) and eVision (Platinum, Canada)

Borealis develops a product for mining firms to manage everything around the preperation and management of a new mine, including the geological data used to determine optimal placement.
We are working with eVision to organize our first training in Montreal next week

Renewed 2 partners: Modus21 (Gold, US) and SIG SA (Gold, Mexico)

Modus21 is a business and technology consulting firm that specializes in Business Process Management and Systems Interoperability.

3 new OEM customers: ABIT (Croatia), NTT DATA Intramart (Japan) and Brickell Research (US)

ABIT is an OEM customer of ours in Croatia that does builds an ECM for the banking industry
NTT DATA Intramart (we just talked about in a press release this week) integrated Intalio into their Web platform
Brickell Research is an OEM Customer based in Florida that sells solutions for small and medium Healthcare centers everywhere in the US.

Now on to 5.2 and Q2!

SOA = Boring?

2008-11-10T18:06:44Z

Tony Baer recently wrote an article entitled "Is SOA Getting Boring? Tony Baer's Report from IBM IMPACT" concluding that "From a technology standpoint, SOA might be getting a lot more boring. However, impacts to vendor business relationships are for now anything but."

I couldn't agree with him more. But, I am a marketing guy so I figured I should shut up about the technology being boring so as not to offend the developers, without whom I really have nothing to market;). But, now that someone else is saying it... yippee!

But the most important aspect of his comment is the last bit - what businesses are doing with SOA (and I would lump BPM in as well) is terribly exciting. And that is my job, right? Explaining to everyone whose eyes roll back in their heads when I say that I work for a BPM company (because to them BPM=Technology for technologists) what is so cool about BPM, in other words how it affects companies and the interesting ways companies are using it to make the world safe for democracy. Ok, well at least pretty darn interesting. So, look for more of those stories from me over the coming months. It is also the reason our CEO, Ismael Ghalimi, is sexing up BPM. Check out his article on "Process Discovery".

Gartner ITXpo: The IT vs. Business Strategy Discussion

2008-11-10T18:05:27Z

We've been here at the Gartner ITXpo Emerging Trends conference in Las Vegas this week. The show has been very well attended and exceeded my expectations. But, I wanted to take a moment out of our time pitching to attendees to talk about some of the conversations that are being had here.

First off, in one session Andy Kyte talked about why leaders place IT Strategy before Business Strategy. This is a conversation near and dear to to our hearts. What we have been preaching is better collaboration between the business and IT groups. And the fact is that we provide the tools to facilitate that collaboration - a single tool that can be used by both to build and deploy processes.

Andy Kyte talked mostly about IT assets and how decisions are made within the organization to spend money on IT resources. But I found a lot of what he was saying applies to how decisions are made within the organization about Business Processes.

Some very provocative and interesting comments (and humorous, he really was quite entertaining):

It is exceptional to find people at the top of the org chart who are leaders.

The cultural myth is that bad cheese is the starting point for good strategy (leader gets up in the middle of the night because of the bad cheese and the muse gives him/her the inspiration to build the strategy). Moses comes down from the mountain to bring strategy to the masses. Obviously it doesn't happen in the real world.

Waiting for the business strategy doesn't work, but going on with IT strategy in the lead doesn't work either.

So, what do you do? We need a new vision for how IT and Business leaders collaborate. There is an assumption by the Business world of how agile the IT world is, and how fast the technology can change to match what the vision is. The gap between the assumption and reality is what kills us. While Kyte was discussing, in the main asset planning, we find this equally true in the BPM space. In traditional BPM tools when the tech staff develops the process, because they are using different tools than the ones used by the business analyst, there is a disconnect. When the process is developed in Intalio both groups use the same tool. We have seen cases when the techie went to the business user and showed where the the process was defined, and where there is a break in the process because, for example, the data is not there to support the process. So, instead of showing the underlying gobbledygook code the business user sees the graphical tool for mapping data and can clearly understand the disconnect.

Businesses go through customization and integration for applications that are about to go through upgrades, all because of the budget cycle. We in the business community are very bad at terminating bad applications. The equivalent in the business process world is how processes are defined, written in stone, transformed into code for execution and locked into deployment. What is needed is flexibility in being able to design and deploy on the fly (hmm, how coincidental is it that we do that?).

There is a need to create a well defined knowledge base used to support the decision making processes a living strategy that informs the realities of the business vision and where we are in relationship to the vision and is continuously revised. A longer term view gives us a better understanding what is possible and what is desired and limits the gap between the two. Create a shorthand notation which is digestible by all not something pulled out once a year that is monolithic. In the BPM space there can be a huge disconnect between the business users and the IT analysts. Having people work within the same tools gives each group visibility into what is desired and what is possible. Within our modeling tool we give ability to annotate the various steps within a process, or even attach documents. This allows both camps to build a common language, in essence a living knowledge base of the process that can be easily modified.

There is conflict between stakeholders. There is nothing wrong with conflict. There is everything wrong with undocumented conflict. Understand the wants demand and needs of the stakeholders, but also understand that it is impossible to fully satisfy everyone. We should follow the Japanese model of arguing before the decision and agreeing after the decision is made, instead of the model here of letting one side dominate and ignoring the decision after. Well, not sure how to rectify the cultural aspects in a BPM tool;) but good advice.

So what have you seen? Is there a disconnect between Bus. and IT in your organization? How have you handled it? Are there ways we could better address the issue?

Look for more discussions at Gartner ITXpo on the blog tomorrow.

Intalio/NTT Data Intramart Automate Risk Management w/BPM

2008-11-10T17:25:58Z

INTALIO AND NTT DATA INTRAMART AUTOMATE RISK MANAGEMENT WITH BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT
J-SOX Compliance Applications Configurable by Business Analysts
Gartner Symposium ITxpo 2008 — LAS VEGAS and PALO ALTO, Calif. — April 8, 2008 — Intalio, Inc., the leading Open Source BPMS company, today announced an agreement with NTT Data Intramart [NTTDIM: TSE] to integrate Intalio products into Intra-mart, its Web platform. The announcement was made during the Gartner Symposium ITxpo 2008 in Las Vegas, Nevada this week where Intalio is exhibiting.

In conjunction with this integration NTT Data Intramart will also add 2 new applications to the Intra-mart Web platform, a Risk and Control Matrix(RCM) and a Form Relation Editor(FRE).

RCM provides companies with tools to assist with auditing, compliance, and governance issues. RCM is especially important in dealing with J-SOX, the Japanese equivalent to the US Sarbanes-Oxley act, which regulates the disclosure of financial and accounting information. The integration allows companies to attach data from the RCM application into a process in Intalio|BPMS by simply dragging and dropping.

“Because of the architecture behind Intalio|BPMS, it was easy for us to plug our user interface into the underlying engine,” commented Tanaka of NTT Data Intramart. “We didn’t have to spend a lot of time re-building a key part of our product, and our customers didn’t need to relearn a whole new way to do business.”

FRE empowers users to connect their forms, built in Java with Intalio|Server to automate processes having to do with human workflow. FRE makes it easy for business analysts to simply put in the data needed for the form. The Editor generates the necessary code which users can then drag and drop into the process box in Intalio|Server, reducing the time projects are completed and allowing business users to modify the applications involved in the process.

“NTT Data Intramart is the perfect partner for us,” stated Ismael Ghalimi, founder and CEO of Intalio. “They had the development skills to take what we gave them and modify it without any input from us. They are taking us into key markets in Japan and will add instant credibility for local projects. This is also the first solution to integrate a localized version of Intalio in Japanese.”

For more information on Intalio, please visit www.intalio.com or subscribe to the RSS feed at http://www.intalio.com/blog.

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About NTT Data Intramart
Founded in 2000 NTT Data Intramart is the leading vendor of web platforms in Japan. Their flagship product, Intra-mart, provides an application server, a J2EE framework, many business components, and an Integrated Development Environment to help users and engineers build Web systems. Located in Tokyo, NTT Data Intramart has 89 partners, over 1900 customers, and is a subsidiary of NTT Data Co. the largest system integrator in Japan. NTT Data Intramart was listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Mothers market in June, 2007 as NTTDIM. For more information on NTT Data Intramart, please call +81 3 5549 2821 or visit http://www.intra-mart.jp.

About Intalio, Inc.
Intalio is the leading vendor of Open Source BPM and SOA software. The Intalio Business Process Platform™ empowers organizations of all sizes to develop process-driven applications faster, better, and cheaper. Founded in July 1999, Intalio is a privately-held, venture-backed company located in Palo Alto, California. For more information on Intalio, please call 650-596-1800 or visit www.intalio.com.

The Intalio Business Process Platform is a trademark of Intalio, Inc. All other names, brands or products may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

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