webMethods and Informatica Expand Partnership

Tuesday, July 23, 2002

webMethods and Informatica Expand Partnership
To deliver business activity monitoring solution.

Abstract
WebMethods and Informatica have teamed to help customers achieve real-time access to critical business indicators. The companies' vision for business activity monitoring builds upon the traditional capabilities of data and application integration to power the analysis and monitoring of a complex network of applications and their interactions.

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webMethods and Informatica have expanded their relationship to make business activity monitoring (BAM) an easily attainable reality. The companies have agreed to bring to market seamless connectivity between the webMethods integration platform and Informatica's data integration platform and analytic applications. In support of the partnership, the companies have committed to a co-marketing and co-selling relationship whereby each company can promote the products of the other to both new customers and their installed customer bases.

"Business activity monitoring represents one of the most promising technological developments to allow companies to optimize most aspects of their operations," said Phillip Merrick, chairman and CEO for webMethods. "By offering our customers a BAM solution that combines the webMethods integration platform and enterprise Web services offerings with Informatica PowerCenter, the enterprise standard for data integration, we can offer Global 2000 companies the tools necessary to achieve the highest levels of business visibility and return on their IT investments."

"BAM is the natural result of combining real-time application integration, zero-latency data integration and business analytics," said Gaurav Dhillon, CEO of Informatica. "The result is the ability to apply analytics to information spanning multiple applications, databases, and the business processes that manage the interrelationships of those resources. The combination of Informatica's analytics products and webMethods' application integration software will help provide our joint customers with unprecedented visibility by combining real-time information and alerts with sophisticated historical metrics."

In addition, webMethods and Informatica will work to define the enterprise requirements necessary to turn BAM into a technical reality for corporate customers. They will jointly engage customers to address their BAM needs, recommending each other as their preferred partner to complete the BAM offering.