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ActiveVOS

ActiveVOS is the industry's first complete, integrated, standards-based visual orchestration system.

ActiveVOS allows enterprises and developers to automate business processes, collaborate across IT and business boundaries, control the overall state of the business and adapt rapidly and easily to change.

With ActiveVOS, project teams and individual developers easily create compelling, scalable applications in ways never before possible. ActiveVOS revolutionizes the design, development, testing, deployment and maintenance of services-based applications.

Automate

With ActiveVOS, developers and enterprises can finally achieve the kind of modern applications development that has until now eluded them. The promise of reusing current systems, combining them with new services and responding rapidly to the needs of the business has largely been expensive -- and proprietary -- "marketecture" forced on users by enterprise software companies.

Based 100% on open standards and proven through in the largest deployments, ActiveVOS makes creating, managing, deploying running and changing services-based applications attainable. ActiveVOS delivers everything you need...and nothing you don't...to revolutionize application development.

Using ActiveVOS, it's easy to automate core business processes -- the lifeblood applications of your enterprise -- and truly implement business process management (BPM) without being held hostage to proprietary systems. ActiveVOS delivers automation by enabling developers with a high-productivity, completely visual environment coupled to a scalable, proven and manageable execution server. And those developers have access to services developed in-house as well as the expanded universe of web services from partners and vendors.

Collaborate

ActiveVOS promotes collaboration among IT, business and management users in ways never before possible. Using rigorously standards-based implementations of the most modern technology like the Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN), ActiveVOS permits business users to document business processes using a number of different modeling tools -- from UML to Microsoft® Visio® -- as well as directly in BPMN. Processes are then validated in ActiveVOS Designer, deployed on the ActiveVOS Server and directly executed "on the metal" via a 100% standards- and XML-based executable language. This unprecedented path directly from business concept to executable process is unique to ActiveVOS and permits teams to create and implement their ideas quickly and easily while at the same time ensuring that core business processes remain accessible to management, not buried under layers of proprietary server technologies.

Another form of valuable collaboration is among IT developers and IT systems staff. BPM implies long-running and long-duration processes. This makes rapid response to mission-critical applications a priority. ActiveVOS permits everyone involved in problem determination to share a common, graphical view. ActiveVOS Server administration displays the process status in exactly the same graphical representation the developer used in ActiveVOS Designer. IT staff responsible for the availability and performance of applications can now collaborate with IT developers in common terms about problems and performance, leading to substantially higher levels of service and availability.

Control

Automation of business processes can lead to an unintended consequence: a "micro" view of the enterprise. Is that process (or set of processes) running OK? How many processes have we completed of this or that type?

Focusing on this IT-imposed granular view can obscure the true state and condition of the business, something that BPM systems should deliver as a natural by-product of the automation of business processes.

ActiveVOS solves this problem with dashboards, the ability to inject human tasks into running processes and reporting that aggregates the sum total state of the business. Using ActiveVOS Server, it is possible to know not just "how many" but to answer important macro questions like "why is it suddenly taking longer" and "why are we doing more (or less) of these compared to previous times?"

For processes that fail or run into unanticipated issues, ActiveVOS makes it easy to use human activities to recover and restart processes. No other system so deftly combines automation and human participation in that automation to deliver enhanced control of the overall state of the enterprise.

Adapt

Much has been made of self-healing and autonomic systems. But until ActiveVOS, implementing an enterprise-wide system that actually responded to external events was exceptionally difficult. Because ActiveVOS is designed from the ground up for flexibility, it can easily permit multiple versions of business processes to exist simultaneously. No longer is it necessary to "throw away" what could potentially be weeks worth of work by both automated systems and humans simply to implement a slightly changed version of an automated process. Now, you now longer need "cutover" dates or mass training of people who must all adapt to a changed process on a specific date or time. Instead, ActiveVOS adapts to your business, flexibly and compatibly.

Even more importantly, ActiveVOS makes it possible to dynamically change business processes in the face of external events -- anything from market changes to regulatory conditions. This permits enterprises to actually change the flow of the process -- to alter what it does, including dynamic addition of a human task -- in response to constantly changing conditions.

ActiveVOS Designer

ActiveVOS Designer is a rich productivity tool that incorporates the BPEL and BPEL4People open standards and a set of advanced wizards that make easy it to create orchestrations quickly. Some of ActiveVOS Designers important capabilities include:

ActiveVOS Server

ActiveVOS Server easily scales to meet the needs of enterprises of any size and can be rapidly incorporated into a production J2EE execution environment to meet rigorous performance and availability requirements. With ActiveVOS Server, teams can leverage existing skills and collaborate to develop, deploy and run production business process management applications.

With ActiveVOS Server you can: