Active Endpoints has been named to the SD Times 100 list for 2009. Our press release announcing this honor is attached to this post.

This award validates the both the market acceptance of our ActiveVOS business process management system (BPMS) and the thought-leadership that Active Endpoints has achieved with its vision of a BPMS that development teams will love.

Instead of me going on and on about why we cherish this recognition, I’ll just quote Alan Zeichick’s take on what the award is and what it signals to development teams that are considering a BPMS:

Unlike other awards programs, we don’t benchmark application servers, or count defects in operating systems, or consider annual sales values, or ask companies to submit flattering essays about themselves and their customers. The SD Times 100, in fact, isn’t a product award or a marketing award.

Instead, we work hard to identify—and highlight—where the “buzz” is. What are development managers thinking about? What are the talking heads talking about? What are competitors sweating about? What is the industry focused on? That’s the SD Times 100.

Thank you, SD Times and also a big thank you to our customers, who have made our BPM system such a success.

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ActiveVOS named to SD Times 100

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Active Endpoints Ships ActiveVOS 6.2 MultiSite BPMS

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Active Endpoints Receives $5M in Funding

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ActiveVOS Experiences Rapid Growth in Q1 2009

In our latest podcast, I sat down for a quick chat with Active Endpoints’ CEO Mark Taber to recap our recent attendance at Gartner’s BPM Summit and the company’s approach to the BPMS marketplace. Mark detailed the reasons for the success ActiveVOS BPM had in Q1, despite these challenging economic times. Note to competitors (yes, we know you’re listening (-: ): you will squirm more than a little as Mark details how customers are able to get into production with ActiveVOS BPM with only modest levels of professional services billings.

And a special treat: I got Mark to spill the beans about some of the future plans for ActiveVOS. A must-listen podcast for anyone interested in using BPM to improve their business results.

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VOSibilities podcast #29: CEO Mark Taber on Gartner BPM Summit, the BPMS market and ActiveVOS in Q1

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New SOA white paper issues a “call-to-action”

To view selected content about the release, visit our What’s New page on our product website. And, don’t forget to listen to Michael Rowley and Luc Clément discuss the themes and objectives for ActiveVOS 6.1 in this podcast.

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Active Endpoints Announces ActiveVOS 6.1

It’s my great pleasure to post a conversation with my colleagues here at Active Endpoints, Michael Rowley, director of technology and strategy and Luc Clément, senior director of products in which they discuss the themes and features in our new release, ActiveVOS 6.1.

Michael and Luc detail how ActiveVOS 6.1 has masked the complexity of BPEL, allowing developers to work more naturally to create advanced SOA-based BPM applications. Luc and Michael also discuss the capabilities of a new feature in ActiveVOS 6.1 called “process rewind” which permits new levels of control over running processes.

And, Michael and Luc give a sneak peak at what’s next for ActiveVOS 6.1, discussing how a BPMN-style canvas can improve collaboration in the development of BPM applications. You may also find the the What’s New in ActiveVOS 6.1 document we posted earlier this week on the blog informative as well.

Whether you are a current user of ActiveVOS or you are evaluating BPM systems, I hope you will find this podcast an informative update. As I am posting this podcast before ActiveVOS 6.1 is officially released, I do not yet have direct links to the new content on our website. But if you visit our home page starting March 10, 2009, you will be able to quickly find updated samples, documentation, demonstrations and, of course, a free trial of ActiveVOS 6.1.

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VOSibilities podcast #28: ActiveVOS 6.1

We plan to have ActiveVOS 6.1 available on March 10, 2009. But for BPM developers and business analysts longing for a simpler, more intelligent, easier-to-use BPM system, there’s no need to keep our new release secret. ActiveVOS 6.1 is precisely what you have been waiting for. And, if the vicissitudes of QA testing cooperate, you can have it next week.

The PDF attached to this post, authored by our Director of Products, Luc Clément and our Director of Strategy and Technology, Michael Rowley, is a great overview of what’s in ActiveVOS 6.1.

Check out the very sophisticated control of in-flight processes via our new “process rewind” capability in ActiveVOS 6.1. And, for those of you who a) know that BPEL is the core language for SOA and b) have thought BPEL is too complex, be sure to read up on how ActiveVOS 6.1 automatically generate BPEL assigns and the WSDL’s necessary to create compelling BPM applications.

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What’s New in ActiveVOS 6.1

Selected from hundreds of entries, the three winners were chosen based on creativity, thoroughness and quality of work:

1st place: Brian Carey, President, Simple Empowerment of BPMS, Inc. (client project: Perot Systems)

2nd place: Ervin Nemesszeghy, Software Architect/Java EE Developer, Hardcomsoft

3rd place: Karl Geppert, CTO, Chemwatch

Wanna win some cool prizes?  Enter our current contest BPM in a Bottle for your chance to win either a T-Mobile® G1™ smart phone with Google™ or a Logitech® Squeezebox™ Boom network music player. Contest ends March 27 so don’t delay!

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Congratulations to the “Bring SOA Home for the Holidays” contest winners

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Active Endpoints announces ActiveVOS is part of Seros’ offerings

Read all the details in the press release attached to this post. Enter at www.absolutebpm.com — and good luck!

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Active Endpoints announces “BPM in a Bottle Contest”

The press release and accompanying white paper are attachments to this post.

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Commodities Trader Trafigura Redesigns Core Systems with ActiveVOS

This Wednesday, January 21, at Wednesday, January 21 at 2pm ET, 11am PT, 18:00 GMT, we will be presenting a free webinar (register here) in which we will “open the hood” and take a detailed look at a reference BPM and SOA application we call “Vintage Old Stock.” This webinar promises to be an excellent way for you to learn some of the latest techniques for creating BPM applications in a services-based environment.

Our ActiveVOS product manager, Mike Moniz, will detail how this fully featured business process was built using the latest SOA techniques and open standards. At the end of the demo, Mike will be taking your questions.

We encourage you to download a fully-configured version of the application, complete with extensive documentation, as a way to cement the very exciting things you will learn in this webinar.

Once again, here’s the registration link. We hope you can join us.

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Webinar: Lifting the Hood on BPM

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Active Endpoints Reports Record Growth in 2008

Details are in the press release attached below as well as in Luc’s previous pre-holiday post about the demo. Included in the press release are instructions on how you can download a customized version of the ActiveVOS demo to experiment with the application on your own machine.

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Active Endpoints Announces New Learning Tool for Java Developers

‘Twas the night before New Year’s and all through the house
Not a process was broken, not even a browse.

The ActiveVOS users sat by their computers with anticipation
In hopes that the “Bring SOA Home for the Holidays” judges would like their contest submission.

When out in the judges’ office there arose such a clatter
Every Active Endpoints employee wondered what was the matter.

And what to their wondering eyes should appear
But the judges with the list of three lucky winners of some really cool Lenovo gear!

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I hope you enjoyed reading this little parody of “The Night Before Christmas” as much as I enjoyed writing it. Seriously, we have some good news. Because of the great response to our contest “Bring SOA Home for the Holidays,” we have extended the submission deadline to New Year’s Eve – December 31, 11:59pm.

It’s easy and fun! Download a supported 30-day trial of ActiveVOS, the world’s leading visual orchestration system, and tell us how you would use it in your SOA, BPM, BPEL or BPMN projects. Make this holiday season a winner for you and your company. Try ActiveVOS…win a Lenovo netbook! Visit www.soaholiday.com for details and contest rules.

Happy Holidays!

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“Bring SOA Home for the Holidays” contest extended to 12/31

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Active Endpoints Joins Web Services Test Forum

Also, there’s still time to enter the Bring SOA Home for the Holidays contest. Simply by downloading ActiveVOS and submitting your good ideas, you could win a very, very cool Lenovo netbook.

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Active Endpoints ships ActiveVOS 6.0.2

Active Endpoints is very pleased to announce a contest for the 2008 holiday season: Bring SOA Home for the Holidays. Details are in the press release attached to this post. Three winners will receive a very cool Lenovo netbook. (I wish I had one!)

It’s an easy contest to enter: all you have to do is register to download a copy of ActiveVOS at www.soaholiday.com. To win, all you have to do is submit something that shows what you did with your free, supported 30-day trial of ActiveVOS. Complete rules are at the contest mini-site at www.soaholiday.com.

Thanks for entering, and good luck!

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Announcing the “Bring SOA Home for the Holidays” contest

Have you ever wished you could sit back, pop open a beverage of choice and have a stimulating technical discussion about SOA, ESBs and the latest in enterprise application development with the leading experts driving these technologies? A talk with no marketing agenda…no sales pitch…a place to really learn something new without having to separate the chaff from the wheat?

Well, wait no longer. On Wednesday, 12 November, 2008, at 9am ET, 6am PT, 14:00 GMT, Active Endpoints and WSO2 are holding a live, free call-in and online chat conference at http://www.talkshoe.com/tc/31357 in which their technical leaders will discuss the future of SOA development and take questions from attendees. TalkShoe allows people anywhere to participate in a group meeting using call-in phone on landlines or VoIP. Attendees can also use chat to participate in the group discussion. Active Endpoints and WSO2 are hosting this call-in as a way to bridge the gap between our software companies and our users because with today’s social networking technologies, the era of big, remote, you’ll-use-what-we-ship software is over.

Our guests will include:

• Paul Fremantle, CTO, WSO2
• Michael Rowley, Director of Strategy and Technology, Active Endpoints
• Luc Clement, Director of Product Management, Active Endpoints

These three distinguished technologists will discuss any number of topics, including:

• How Java developers can leverage their current skills in the new world of web services
• Why an open-source ESB is a fundamentally smart way to integrate many different services
• What, exactly, is “orchestration” and why do I care about it?

But the real beauty of this call-in show is that the discussion will go wherever the attendees take it. So, please join us with your questions at http://www.talkshoe.com/tc/31357.

How to join a TalkShoe call-in:

Dial this number: +1 724 444 7444 (long distance and/or toll charges apply); then enter this call id when prompted: 31357, then the # key, OR

Go to http://www.talkshoe.com/tc/31357 15 minutes before the start time and a web chat client will automatically start, OR

For VoIP users:

a. Download and install TalkShoe Live Pro here: http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/tscmd/download/1 and search for call id 31357 OR
b. Use any SIP-standard softphone including Gizmo, SJphone, and X-Lite. Skype is not SIP-compliant but you can use SkypeOut to call 724-444-7444 (note: Skype charges for this). The address for Gizmo is 123@66.212.134.192; the address for SJphone and most other VoIP clients is 66.212.134.192.

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Active Endpoints and WSO2 to host joint webinar

Details are in the press release attached to this blog post.

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CERN succeeds with ActiveVOS

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ActiveVOS announces UK reseller

We are proud to be able to help Fastenal achieve its objectives and thank them for allowing us to tell this story.

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Fastenal Succeeds with ActiveVOS for its SOA applications

Yesterday, the SOA Consortium announced that long-time Active Endpoints customer Synovus Financial won its prestigious case study competition.

Everyone here at Active Endpoints wants to congratulate the Synovus team for their impressive achievement. And we also want to thank them for being a long-time customer and using ActiveVOS as the foundation for the web services used in their winning entry.

I am including in this post a PDF that describes how Synvous built up their web services infrastructure using ActiveVOS, which I think everyone in the financial industry will want to read given the importance today of improving efficiency and making every IT dollar count.

Once again, hats off to our colleagues at Synovus!

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Synovus Financial Wins SOA Case Study Competition

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Active Endpoints to Sponsor BriefingsDirect Analyst Insight Podcasts

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Active Endpoints Announces ActiveVOS 6.0

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ActiveVOS selected to orchestrate FBI’s Next Generation Identification system

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Toyota Motor Europe Orchestrates Learning Management with ActiveVOS

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Active Endpoints Announces the Java Advancement Kit

As they say in the TV commercials, this changes everything about SOA. From capabilities, to pricing, to performance, to support for standards, ActiveVOS changes it all…for the better.

We hope you will become part of the revolution.

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Active Endpoints Ships ActiveVOS 5.0

Also today, OASIS announced the formation of a technical committee focused on finalizing the BPEL4People specification. We are participating in this technical committee and look forward to BPEL4People once and for all eliminating proprietary workflow from enterprise applications.

You can read more about Community Edition in our press release, attached to this post.

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Active Endpoints releases milestone 1 of ActiveBPEL Community Edition with BPEL4People

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Active Endpoints to Drive Mass Adoption of Services-based Applications

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Mark Taber Appointed CEO

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ActiveBPEL Designer Voted Best Integration Tool in SOA World Reader’s Choice Awards

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Active Endpoints Announces General Availability of ActiveBPEL for People

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Software AG and Fujitsu launch CentraSite Community

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Active Endpoints and IONA Announce Strategic Alliance

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iWay Software and Active Endpoints Announce Reseller Agreement

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Active Endpoints and Softrax Announce Alliance

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Active Endpoints and Action Technologies Announce Alliance

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Active Endpoints Announces Strategic Alliance with Industria

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Software AG uses ActiveBPEL for SOA

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Active Endpoints Announces Open-source BPEL Initiative

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