Appian and iWay Software Announce Strategic Partnership; Partnership Combines Power and Agility of Appian Enterprise BPM Suite with iWay's 280+ Industry-Leading Adapters.VIENNA, Va. -- Appian Corporation, the first Business Process Management (BPM) company to deliver advanced process, knowledge management, and analytics capabilities in a fully integrated suite, and iWay Software iWay Software, an Information Builders subsidiary, makes over 300 software-based adapters that access data from applications such as SAP, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards and Baan as well as databases such as Adabas, DB2, SQL Server and Oracle and deliver these data to other systems and , an Information Builders (Information Builders, Inc., New York, www.informationbuilders.com) A software company founded in 1975 by Gerald Cohen that specializes in enterprise business intelligence and real time Web reporting. company, today announced a strategic partnership which will focus on providing intelligent integration adapters to the Appian Enterprise BPM Suite. Through this partnership, Appian is expanding the reach of its BPM solution into existing legacy and commercial enterprise applications, while significantly reducing the costs and complexities typically associated with integrating multiple, disparate information systems. Using iWay Software's comprehensive Universal Adapter Framework, Appian customers can leverage the scalability and flexibility of Appian Enterprise to rapidly integrate third-party applications into their business processes. iWay's 280+ Intelligent integration adapters plug seamlessly into Appian Enterprise, providing its high-performance process engine with fast, efficient, and reusable tools to connect to virtually any legacy system, mainframe, database, and commercial enterprise without any custom coding. "As organizations deploy enterprise-wide Business Process Management solutions, they often need to leverage critical information assets across highly distributed, heterogeneous environments," said George Barlow, vice president of Strategic Alliances at Appian. "Appian's partnership with iWay provides a cost-effective alternative to expensive, full-blown integration solutions for customers who need to simply and rapidly connect their business processes to third-party business applications and proprietary systems." Appian Enterprise 4 ships with a standard interface to the iWay Universal Adapter framework and includes step-by-step integration wizards that allow users to create reusable connections to the most commonly used business applications, including PeopleSoft, Oracle, and SAP. These integrations can be saved and reused in any Appian Enterprise process diagram. Appian Enterprise Developer's Edition ships with a plug-in to Eclipse, the popular open source integrated development environment See IDE. integrated development environment - interactive development environment (IDE), allowing developers to easily customize any integration of their components. iWay Adapters for Appian Enterprise More than 280 Adapters for Appian Enterprise are currently available, including: --Packaged Application Adapters for Appian Enterprise--Enables organizations to tap into APIs and data structures of popular business packages, including SAP, PeopleSoft, Siebel and Oracle, so they can expose the business logic and data of their packaged applications across the Appian Enterprise BPM suite. --Mainframe and Legacy Adapters for Appian Enterprise--Provides connectivity with mainframes and legacy business systems, proving access to information storehouses that would otherwise be underutilized. The adapters provide access to relational, hierarchical, network, and OLAP (OnLine Analytical Processing) Decision support software that allows the user to quickly analyze information that has been summarized into multidimensional views and hierarchies. OLAP tools are used to perform trend analysis on sales and financial information. databases, as well as file structures and enable mainframe connectivity --B2B Adapters for Appian Enterprise--Supports transformation of non-XML formats, such as SWIFT, FIX, HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act of 1996, Public Law 104-191) Also known as the "Kennedy-Kassebaum Act," this U.S. law protects employees' health insurance coverage when they change or lose their jobs (Title I) and provides standards for patient health, , HL7, and EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) The electronic communication of business transactions, such as orders, confirmations and invoices, between organizations. Third parties provide EDI services that enable organizations with different equipment to connect. (X.12 and EDIFACT (Electronic Data Interchange For Administration Commerce and Transport) An ISO standard for electronic data interchange (EDI) that was proposed to supersede both X12 and TRADACOMS as the worldwide standard. See EDI. ), to XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. to be used within Appian Enterprise and then to any target system --Data and Technology Adapters for Appian Enterprise--Supports bi-directional integration between transaction systems, such CICS (Customer Information Control System) A TP monitor from IBM that was originally developed to provide transaction processing for IBM mainframes. It controls the interaction between applications and users and lets programmers develop screen displays without and Tuxedo. iWay adapters for Appian Enterprise are available immediately. Prices vary by adapter. For more information please visit Appian's Web site at www.appiancorp.com. About iWay Software iWay Software, an Information Builders company and the world's leading adapter vendor, accelerates business integration by providing tools that make service-oriented architectures easy to implement. Clients achieve short-term ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). by using iWay to reduce custom programming and to solve problems quickly, while incrementally creating anarchitecture that supports long-term projects. The biggest names in software, including BEA BEA - Basic programming Environment for interactive-graphical Applications, from Siemens-Nixdorf. and Microsoft, use iWay adapters to simplify access to ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. and CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. systems, messaging, legacy systems, e-business protocols like AS2 and ebXML, and more. Additional message transformation and data integration make iWay a natural integration choice - standalone or with other middleware. For more information visit www.iwaysoftware.com. About Appian Appian is the first business process management (BPM) company to combine process, knowledge management, and analytics capabilities in a comprehensive suite. Extending the value of existing systems, Appian's award-winning software aligns business strategy and execution, delivering greater operational control over strategic business processes. Founded in 1999, Appian is headquartered in Vienna, VA and has received numerous accolades and awards for technology and business leadership. In addition to being named the fastest growing software company in the Washington DC region by the Washington Business Journal, Appian was recognized as the sixth fastest growing software company in the 2004 Inc. 500 ranking of the fastest growing private companies in North America. Appian was also recognized as a 2003 Rising Star in Deloitte's Technology Fast 50 program for Virginia. Appian's customers include Fortune 500 companies, government agencies and non-governmental organizations. |
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