webMethods, was founded in 1996 and is now the webMethods product suite, offered by Software AG which acquired the company in 2007 for $546 million. The webMethods suite is software for process improvement, SOA enablement, IT modernization and business and partner integration.
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| Company type | Product Line of Software AG |
|---|---|
| Industry | Computer software |
| Founded | webMethods founded 1996 |
| Headquarters | Reston, VA |
Key people | Karl-Heinz Streibich, CEO Software AG |
| Products | webMethods Business Process Mgmt webMethods Business Activity Monitoring webMethods SOA Governance webMethods ESB & Integration webMethods Application Modernization webMethods Portal (see company website) |
| Revenue | Not applicable |
| Parent | Software AG |
| Website | [1] |
History
- 2009 A leader in the Forrester Wave for Enterprise Service Buses, Q1, 2009
- 2008 A leader in the Forrester Wave for Integration-Centric BPM Suites, Q4 2008
- 2008 Placed in the Gartner Leaders Quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for B2B Gateway Providers
- 2008 Placed in the Gartner Leaders Quadrant for the Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for SOA Composite Application Projects
- 2008 Placed in the Gartner Leaders Quadrant for the Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for Back-End Application Integration Projects
- 2008 Placed in the Gartner Leaders Quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Business Process
Management Suites BPM
- 2008 Placed in the Gartner Leaders Quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Integrated SOA Governance Technology Sets
- 2007 webMethods products become the webMethods product suite of Software AG.
- 2007 June 1 - Closing of the acquisition by Software AG.
- 2007 April 5 - Software AG to acquire webMethods.[1]
- 2007 Fabric 7 released
- 2003 Added JBoss to the product suite as a bundled solution for EJB support and released webMethods Portal
- 2001 First Integration vendor to add EDI support and business process modelling to their platform.
- 1999 Partnership with SAP to provide integration capabilities for SAP as OEM Product SAP Business Connector
- 1998 partnership with Microsoft to develop XQL[2]
- 1996 Company founded by Phillip Merrick[3]
Acquisitions
- 2006 Acquired Infravio[4] and products from Cerebra[5]
- 2003 Acquires The Mind Electric - Products: webMethods ServiceNet (SOA)
- 2003 Acquires Dante Group - Products: webMethods BAM
- 2003 Acquires former DataChannel assets from Netegrity[6] - Products: webMethods Portal
- 2001 Acquired IntelliFrame [7] Products:webmethods Workflow
- 2000 Acquired Active Software [8] and partnership with J. D. Edwards for OEM Product JDE XPI. Gets EAI/A2A capabilities, Products: webMethods Broker and Adapters
- Active Software acquired Alier Inc., TransLink Software Inc. and Premier Software Technologies Inc.
Products/Tools
- webMethods Business Activity Monitoring
- webMethods Business Process Management
- webMethods SOA Governance
- webMethods ESB
- webMethods Master Data Manager
- webMethods Application Modernization
- webMethods B2B & Integration
See also
References
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
SAGAcquisitionwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ webMethods and Microsoft XQL Article
- ^ business week interview with webMethods CEO, 2000
- ^ webMethods to acquire infravio article
- ^ eweek article on webMethods acquiring Cerebra
- ^ webMethods to acquire technology from Netegrity article
- ^ webMethods acquires IntelliFrame
- ^ infoworld article about webMethods acquiring Active Software