For comprehensive list of vendors please see:

Ab-initio's mPower

Actional

ActiveWorks Integration System (now Webmethods)

Affinity Media, Inc. (Adventive Technologies)

Ajillus

Alier (now Webmethods)

Allaire

ASG Suite

Baan (Data Navigator)

BEA

BizTalk

Bluestone

BMC (PATROL for MQ)

Candle

CNT now Propelis

Computer Associates' Jasmine ii

Concentus' MetaExpress Process Engine

Concept5

Constellar

Crossworlds

Convoy/DM

COOL from Sterling/CA  

DataGate from Software Technologies Corp. (now SeeBeyond)

DataMirror

E.piphany e.4

Encina; Encina PPC Gateway

ETI•EXTRACT Tool Suite

File-AID/Express

Forte (Sun)Java tools 

FpML

GE's Application Integrator

IBM MQ Series

Neon

Merant EnterpriseLink

SterlingCommerce

Tibco

SeeBeyond

Vertel e*ORB^TM

Vitria

Websphere

ebiz - this is an excellent site for EAI/XML professionals

BPMI  - BPMI.org (the Business Process Management Initiative) is a non-profit corporation that empowers companies of all sizes, across all industries, to develop and operate business processes that span multiple applications and business partners, behind the firewall and over the Internet. The Initiative's mission is to promote and develop the use of Business Process Management (BPM) through the establishment of standards for process design, deployment, execution, maintenance, and optimization. BPMI.org develops open specifications, assists IT vendors for marketing their implementations, and supports businesses for using Business Process Management technologies.

From InformationWeek Jan. 8, 2003 "Blurring The Boundaries" by By Bill Chambers, Gautam Desai, and Pat Turocy (info@doculabs.com)

Implementation Costs

"There isn't a huge difference in implementation costs between business-process management products from workflow vendors and integration server vendors."

> "Typically, expect to pay $250,000 to $600,000 in software licensing costs depending on the number of users

> Expect maintenance costs to be 18% to 25% of licensing costs.

> For services, you'll shell out anywhere from 1.5 to 4 times the software price."

Our note: Education was not discussed in the article, and typically remains the "monkey on the proverbial clients back", constant use of consulting resources is a drain on any IT budget, and typically has corporate mission impacts when goals are not attained by using such software. Make sure you train your staff how to use these products, otherwise you are missing the true benefits of the "follow through" of your intellectual capital and your investment.

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