Candle and Staffware Strike Alliance Bridging Enterprise Application Integration and Workflow.PALM SPRINGS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 24, 1999-- Reinforces Candle's Roma as First EAI (Enterprise Application Integration) Refers to various techniques used to share data and business processes in large enterprises. When companies acquire another organization, disparate information systems have to be made to work together. Solution to Address Three Different Types of EAI Problems; Empowers Organizations to Leverage Staffware Workflow for Improved Integration and Management of Business Processes Candle Corp., the leading independent developer and supplier of Solutions for Networked Businesses(tm), Monday announced a partnership with Staffware plc, the leading provider of process workflow technology Workflow technology is a new field of software products designed to improve the design of information systems. It involves use of workflow engine to execute models of processes. The models can be edited by persons not experienced in programming (e.g. worldwide. The alliance will deliver advanced, process-based Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) capabilities offered by Candle's Roma(tm) product suite, and enable Staffware users to leverage the industry's most-sophisticated EAI capabilities from its leading workflow solution. The development agreement with Staffware underscores Candle's commitment to deliver the market's first EAI solution that incorporates message broker-based, component-based and process-based integration capabilities. The new functionality will enable customers to combine Roma's flexible process integration with Staffware's workflow management to more easily manage complex business information systems. The agreement has already resulted in the development of the forthcoming product and has been demonstrated at recent Staffware user group conferences. "Forced to re-invent IS in real-time to maintain and enhance competitive positioning, organizations are utilizing EAI to improve business agility, speed to market and reduce programming requirements," said Steve Craggs, vice president, enterprise application integration, Candle Corp. "Process-based EAI allows organizations to integrate and manage applications and processes at a business level. Changes are automatically executed across the underlying technology levels -- a critical consideration when leveraging Roma to simultaneously accomplish complex development, connectivity and integration functions." "Candle's focus on offering its customers an open, component-based Business Service Platform is a natural fit for extending Staffware's workflow capabilities beyond the traditional message broker model," said John O'Connell John O'Connell may refer to:
"Candle's approach is unique in its ability to integrate and manage all three types of EAI. We look forward to working with Candle, and to offering customers a more comprehensive and extensible solution that will easily accommodate future application development and reduce management overhead." "Hurwitz Group believes the industry is moving to second- generation EAI solutions," said Dave Kelly, vice president of application strategies, Hurwitz Group Inc. "These second-generation solutions combine traditional first-generation EAI functionality -- which includes messaging, transformation, rules and adapters -- with more-advanced technologies. "This includes component development to accommodate new functionality, business process and workflow capabilities to enable business-level changes, a rich array of communication options for both enterprise and Web-based business-to-business deployment and an integrated management platform." This partnership will offer organizations a way to more-easily define, monitor and change business processes. By combining the functionality of Candle and Staffware software products, customers can leverage inter-application workflow, across enterprise and business- to-business relationships. Staffware's workflow solutions provide the infrastructure for distributing work among people and departments. Candle's Roma allows organizations to integrate and manage applications and business processes in a distributed environment. This provides a unique capability for workflow interaction with legacy and new applications. It allows customers to define criteria at a business level. Staffware's workflow engine Workflow engine is a software application meant to manage and execute modeled business processes. It is a key component in workflow technology. It will typically make use of a database server. greatly enhances the process-based EAI capabilities in Roma. Roma provides Staffware users with the underlying integration services for more effective and simpler business process integration and management. By using the Roma Directory to register reusable re·use tr.v. re·used, re·us·ing, re·us·es To use again, especially after salvaging or special treatment or processing. re·us business components, as well as processes that may utilize Staffware's workflow engine, organizations can create and automate To turn a set of manual steps into an operation that goes by itself. See automation. distributed processes Distributed Processes - (DP) The first concurrent language based on remote procedure calls. ["Distributed Processes: A Concurrent Programming Concept", Per Brinch Hansen CACM 21(11):934-940 (Nov 1978)]. that span heterogeneous platforms and disparate applications. The ability to reuse reuse - Using code developed for one application program in another application. Traditionally achieved using program libraries. Object-oriented programming offers reusability of code via its techniques of inheritance and genericity. business components provides a flexible integration environment, which typically reduces new application development time and costs by 30-70 percent, while lowering project risks. In addition, because Roma is a network-based system (as opposed to server-based), the resulting "component flow" processes can execute on an "n-tier" basis, making it a highly scalable solution. Roma will provide the ability to integrate Staffware procedures with a wide range of applications, both new and legacy, with minimal custom programming overhead. Levels of integration, include: -- Automatic initiation of Staffware procedures -- Invocation invocation, n a prayer requesting and inviting the presence of God. of external applications from within a procedure -- Receipt of events from external applications. Staffware Automates Business Processes Staffware offers an integrated portfolio of tools enabling the rapid development of robust workflow applications A workflow application is where various applications, components and people must be involved in the processing of data to complete an instance of a process. For example, consider a purchase order that moves through various departments for authorization and eventual purchase. scaling from departmental to the enterprise level, using both client/server and thin client/Web-based architectures. Flexible and easy to use, Staffware automates the execution, co-ordination and control of rules-based procedures with pre-defined objectives no matter how complex the business process. The latest version of Staffware's market-leading workflow product, Staffware 2000, enables the effective deployment of workflow technology throughout the enterprise (independent of computing computing - computer environment) while ensuring inherent flexibility and scalability. Staffware Global is a unique, pure Java-based client solution that provides full participative workflow through a Web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. . Staffware Global can be used to implement workflow more easily both within and between enterprises, allowing organizations to integrate their business partners, customers and suppliers directly in their business processes, streamlining activities and shortening process times dramatically. Roma -- Unique Three-Level Approach to EAI Roma is the only EAI solution that addresses the discipline at all three levels -- message broker, component and process. The typical EAI infrastructure often includes a message broker component that is tasked with providing the transformation and flow control functionality needed to perform translation among dissimilar message formats and content-based routing. Roma provides a choice of message brokers through its resale resale n. selling again, particularly at retail. In many states a "resale license" or "resale number" is required so that the state can monitor the collection of sales tax on retail sales. RESALE. partnerships with the leading message broker vendors such as IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) (MQ Series Integrator (1) In electronics, a device that combines an input with a variable, such as time, and provides an analog output; for example, a watt-hour meter. (2) See systems integrator. ), Neon (NeoNET) and TSI TSI Total Solar Irradiance (sum solar light in energy per unit of time) TSI Trading Standards Institute (UK) TSI Transportation Safety Institute (US DOT) (Mercator). Beyond message brokering, Roma addresses component-based EAI. With its component-based, service-oriented architecture See SOA. , Roma provides a higher level of flexibility and integration that allows its users to integrate and manage not only the underlying EAI infrastructure, but the application layer as well. With support for both legacy and newer pre-packaged applications, Roma treats these elements as business components that can be reused in support of varying business services or processes. Advanced intelligence for application integration is provided through process-based EAI -- the third level of the EAI problem addressed by Roma. Business process automation is achieved at this level as well as workflow management. Roma performs business process automation through application and process integration. The Roma/Staffware partnership will enable organizations to graphically view and reconfigure To change the status of something. systems infrastructures without being concerned about the linkages between graphical processes and the underlying technologies. Availability Currently in development, the Roma/Staffware interface will be available in Q4 1999. About Candle Corp. Candle Corp. of Santa Monica Santa Monica (săn`tə mŏn`ĭkə), city (1990 pop. 86,905), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on Santa Monica Bay; inc. 1886. Tourism and retailing are important, and the city has motion-picture, biotechnology, and software industries. , Calif., is the leading independent developer and supplier of Solutions for Networked Businesses. To help customers connect, integrate and manage their applications, Candle offers products, solutions and services in the areas of application integration, application management, messaging middleware Software that provides an interface between applications, allowing them to send data back and forth to each other asynchronously. Data sent by one program can be stored in a queue and then forwarded to the receiving program when it becomes available to process it. , and performance and availability management. About Staffware plc Staffware is the founder of the independent workflow industry. With more than 500,000 users worldwide, it is also the market leader for installed seats, with a 25 percent global market share. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. recent independent surveys, Staffware is one of the top 50 software companies in Europe and one of the top 200 globally. It is also the fastest growing organization in the workflow/document management sector worldwide. Staffware is available at www.Staffware.com. For more information on Candle Corp. and Roma Business Services Platform, visit www.candle.com, or call 800/843-3970. Note to Editors: Candle, Solutions for Networked Businesses and Roma Business Services Platform are trademarks or registered trademarks of Candle Corp. Staffware plc, Staffware 2000 and Staffware Global are trademarks or registered trademarks of Staffware plc. 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