Partners
ActiveVOS provides a highly extensible and modular architecture allowing seamless integration with the tools you already own or plan to purchase so that they can be leveraged in the design, development, testing, deployment and/or maintenance of service orchestrations. To make sure ActiveVOS continues to be the most compatible system in the market, Active Endpoints has established strategic alliances with leading technology partners who offer complementary, best-of-breed solutions.
Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)
ActiveVOS can leverage the power of the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) to provide core services such as connectivity and integration logic to service orchestrations. Being able to provide transformations to and from EDI/CSV/Java/XML and provide sophisticated content-based routing are some of the features which allow for a more flexible solution.
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"Artix Orchestration, powered by ActiveVOS, provides IONA's customers and partners with the most effective means for developing composite services and deploying them across a distributed, heterogeneous SOA environment. Larry Alston, vice president, Marketing and Product Management, IONA |
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“Organizations have recognized that solutions based on services-oriented architectures (SOAs) enable their IT systems to closely support their business functions. Service orchestration and mediation based on the BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) standard will allow our customers to create high value business services from their fine grained service landscape, reducing their integration costs and significantly increasing the value they can derive from their IT investments. |
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“Active Endpoints continues to extend industry expectations for what can be accomplished for project teams, and expand what its customers can achieve within their time, expertise and budget constraints.This has been true over the entire history of the company and as a long-term partner of Active Endpoints, we have great expectations for the company’s new initiatives.” Pierre Fricke, director, product line management, SOA Products, JBoss, a division of Red Hat |
Business Rules Management System (BRMS)
ActiveVOS can leverage investments in business rules management systems by being able to rapidly interact with frequently changing business logic at key decision points in a service orchestration. These decision services allow service orchestrations to become highly dynamic, allowing non-technical people to modify the business rule constraints to effect outcome of the service orchestration without re-deploying.
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JBoss Rules is an open source and standards-based business rules engine for easy business policy access, change, and management. JBoss Rules is a fast, highly efficient rules engine that makes it easy for a business analyst or auditor to view business rules, as they are encoded in your IT application infrastructure, to verify that the encoded rules indeed implement the documented business policies. |
Modeling
ActiveVOS can participate in an end-to-end development lifecycle starting from initial business requirements, to more formal business process modeling, to full-out executable process orchestrations. ActiveVOS can leverage process models developed using the Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) as input for further definition and to address the executable requirements with the ability to provide synchronization between the two model definitions.
Connectivity
ActiveVOS can utilize core connectivity/integration technologies to gain access to legacy yet core, mission critical applications which do not natively support service interfaces. Applications such as CICS transactions, terminal screens, RDBMS, etc. can be rapidly modernized and are able to participate as equal partners in service orchestrations.
Governance
ActiveVOS processes and their artifacts can be managed utilizing enterprise registries and repositories enabling their re-use throughout the organization and as part of a larger business governance initiative.
Application Server
ActiveVOS leverages existing investments in application server infrastructure by utilizing the same familiar management and configuration services such as deployment, clustering, load-balancing, fail-over, etc.
Databases
In support of long-running service orchestrations, ActiveVOS requires connectivity to a persistent store for recovery of process state. ActiveVOS supports a wide selection of some of the most popular databases.
Business Activity Monitoring/Business Intelligence (BAM/BI)
Service orchestrations typically contain valuable information which can be used by the business in support of process improvements and measuring key performance indicators. Using the business information captured during process execution and a wide variety of integrations with BAM/BI tools are possible.
User Interface Tools
ActiveVOS includes the ability to model people as first-class citizens in a service orchestration. This allows work to be performed by a person to be represented as a task and appear within an inbox application. ActiveVOS provides a comprehensive Web services based API to allow developers to create innovative rich internet application using technologies such as Adobe Flex, Tibco GI, GWT, etc.
Standards Bodies
Active Endpoints is working hard with other technology providers to unlock business processes through standardized nomenclature and interoperable tools and infrastructure.
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The OASIS WS-BPEL Extension for People (BPEL4People) Technical Committee will expand the capabilities of WS-BPEL to support a broad range of human interaction patterns, allowing for additional modeling of business processes within the language. "Active Endpoints looks forward to participating in the OASIS BPEL4People Technical Committee and contributing to the extension of BPEL to include human tasks. As one of the authors of BPEL4People, we very strongly believe that no visual orchestration system is complete without the ability to flexibly integrate people as part of the overall application. By formalizing the BPEL4People specifications, OASIS is ensuring that BPEL itself will continue to be the most effective way to drive services-based application adoption." Chris Keller, founder and vice president of engineering, Active Endpoints, Inc. |
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The OASIS Service Component Architecture/BPEL (SCA-BPEL) Technical Committee specifies how SCA component implementations for SOA can be written using BPEL. |
