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Accelerates the Realization of SOA Strategies and Delivers Competitive Business Advantages Sooner ATLANTA, March 17, 2008 – OpenSpan, Inc. today announced the OpenSpan Platform SOA Desktop Edition, a new version of its flagship product that accelerates the realization of SOA strategies by enabling the rapid integration of desktop, legacy, virtualized and rich Internet applications and the expression of those integrations as Web services. As a result, enterprises can SOA-enable more of the enterprise infrastructure faster so that they achieve the intended business benefits of SOA more rapidly. The OpenSpan Platform SOA Desktop Edition allows enterprises to rapidly consume Web services within legacy applications or business process automations and, for the first time ever, to service-enable desktop and other legacy applications as well as the business process automations that span these applications. Effectively, the OpenSpan Platform SOA Desktop Edition enables enterprises to more quickly roll out Web services to business users as well as to expose application functionality and business process automations as Web services for consumption within SOA environments. “As a leading property appraisal firm, we have used the OpenSpan Platform to integrate a number of closed legacy applications and to automate processes to drive efficiencies in our contact center organization,” said Martyn Wells, group IT director, Shepherd Chartered Surveyors LTD. “We are excited about the SOA Desktop Edition because it will allow us to service-enable our automations for easy consumption by our clients. With OpenSpan, we were able to more quickly reach our goal of a true service-oriented architecture that is expected to save us upwards of 20 percent on operating costs in less than 12 months.” Accelerating consumption of Web services
The OpenSpan Platform SOA Desktop Edition allows enterprises to integrate disparate applications and Web services, automate processes across applications, extend legacy applications by adding Web services functionality, and expose automations as Web services on the desktop. Common uses of the OpenSpan Platform SOA Desktop Edition include: - Integrate a new Web service with an existing application—Add new business functionality to virtually any legacy application by allowing applications to call Web services. For example, ensure data accuracy within a CRM application by invoking an address verification Web service whenever a customer address is entered.
- Expose legacy application functionality as Web services—Extend your service-oriented architecture by exposing legacy application functionality as Web services. Specifically, service-enable desktop and other legacy applications including host, Windows, Java and Web applications; even DOS or other applications without an available API.
- Expose business process automations as Web services—Rapidly create automations within an application or that span applications and expose that functionality as a Web service.
- Extend Enterprise BPM to the desktop—Enable enterprise workflows to call a service on each user’s system that can span all applications, not just Web-based applications.
- Support virtual environments—Overcome the hurdle of integrating data between virtualized and non-virtualized applications or between two virtualized applications operating in different virtualized “bubbles” beyond copy-and-paste. Expose functionality from virtualized applications as services consumable by desktop and other legacy applications.
- Sanction peer-to-peer communications—Permit client systems to communicate directly with each other by publishing and invoking services. For example, enable a “warm transfer” between a customer service agent and their manager whereby customer data and status is transferred to ensure a smooth transition for the customer.
“OpenSpan can be best described as a SOA ready development environment that can integrate all the desktop and browser components with Web services and server based applications to extend the capabilities of SOA directly to the users’ working environment,” writes Robin Bloor, analyst for Hurwitz and Associates, in the white paper “SOA and the Last Mile.” “It extends SOA to the place where a business process is actually implemented and executed. You can think of the OpenSpan Platform as delivering ‘the last mile’ of SOA.” OpenSpan will be demonstrating the new features of the OpenSpan Platform SOA Desktop Edition as part of a free Webinar, “Accelerating Your SOA Strategy with OpenSpan,” on April 2, 2008 at 12:00 p.m. EDT. For more information or to register for this free Webinar, please visit www.openspan.com/webinars.asp. The OpenSpan Platform SOA Desktop Edition will be generally available during March 2008. About OpenSpan, Inc.
Global 2000 enterprises leverage the OpenSpan Platform to integrate applications, automate business processes, extend functionality and build new composite applications in order to realize immediate value on their IT investments. OpenSpan and its partners utilize the company’s unique approach to integration to accelerate service-oriented architecture (SOA) deployments and increase enterprise desktop productivity. The award-winning OpenSpan Platform received the 2007 Product of the Year Award from Technology Marketing Corporation’s (TMC®) Customer Interaction Solutions magazine as well as the 2008 Editors’ Choice Award from Redmond magazine, the authoritative, independent voice of the Microsoft IT community. A venture-backed company, OpenSpan is headquartered in Alpharetta, GA. More information about OpenSpan is located online at www.openspan.com.
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