Maximise web use without buying new technology

Web services strategy allows businesses to rapidly and easily publish complete processes, sub-processes, or activities as Web Services without the need for additional technology.

Fuego, a global leader in business process automation and integration software, today launched its Web Services strategy with the release of Fuego 4 version 4.5.

Now, businesses can rapidly and easily publish complete processes, sub-processes, or activities as Web Services without the need for additional technology.

"Web Services and the use of standards such as XML/SOAP are experiencing wide spread adoption.

However, the deployment of mission critical processes over the web is still in its infancy" said Gordon Sellers, VP, Marketing at Fuego.

"Today, our customers can create automated process models and orchestrate the underlying applications, people and partners.

When they are ready to expose these as web services, Fuego 4 can now accommodate them with nothing more than a mouse click." "Businesses today are dealing with complex processes, business models and IT environments.

Unfortunately, many software vendors have compounded that complexity with their piecemeal approach to integration.

Companies want faster ROI and lower TCO.

The only way to do that is to reduce complexity," said Fuego CEO Mark Theilken.

"Fuego 4 is the only product that provides cross platform application integration, workflow, and web services on a single engine." Among the many new features included within the latest version of the Fuego 4 packaged offering are: Expose Processes via Web Services, including process creation, process notification, execution of a task, process notification wait, grab node (allows a human to grab a process instance and reroute it) and others as a WSDL web service.

Fuego Directory Interface (FDI), which makes the Fuego engine both directory and authentication-server independent and provides both Secured Socket Layer (SSL) security and a single sign-on.

HTML presentation for Xobjects, which allow the creation of services through application layer components.

This new feature adds self-generating HTML for a business object that is easier to read for the non-IT user.

Ubiquitous XML Objects (UXOs), which are executable objects that allow integration without extensive IT infrastructure.

Roughly 80 percent of all business-to-business transactions are done with companies that do not have the infrastructure needed to support Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) or Web Services.

UXOs can be used off-line via e-mail, providing a simpler solution for these companies.

" Trading Partner Provisioning Process (TPPP), a feature that facilitates the incorporation of B2B participants in all of Fuego processes through simple, administrator-driven configuration steps.

This allows EDI, Web Services and UXO partners to be dealt with transparently from the process logic.

An AMR Research Alert by Research Director Eric Austvold published on June 12, 2002, states, "A recent AMR Research survey of technology buyers indicated that while 38 percent of organizations are implementing a Web services pilot project in 2002, those plans increase dramatically to 90 percent of companies in 2003." The report continues, "As Fuego customer references have confirmed, if you are evaluating technologies for orchestrating and managing your Web services, put Fuego on your short list.

Clients have been impressed with its seamless approach to integration and the ability to manage business processes that include Web services." Fuego's flagship software suite, Fuego 4, integrates and orchestrates business services; while at the same time reduces the cost and complexity of integrating, designing, deploying and evolving them.

About Fuego - by ensuring that your business applications and systems work the way your business does, Fuego dramatically lowers the total cost of integrating related IT assets, increases the productivity of legacy applications, provides the context for continuous business innovation, and produces a measurable and accelerated return on investment.

The Company is at the forefront of transforming how CIOs, IT managers and LOB decision makers from any enterprise can effectively orchestrate services from people, applications and internal or external organizations into executable business processes and Web services.

Fuego's flagship software, Fuego 4, allows companies to finally overcome the business integration challenge that has traditionally been attempted through some combination of Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), Business-to-business Integration (B2Bi) and Business Process Management (BPM) offerings.

Fuego is privately held with headquarters in Dallas and offices in New York, Denver, Chicago, Raleigh, Houston, Buenos Aires, and Mexico City.

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