CERN Orchestrates Thousands of Business Services with ActiveVOS

Business Wire, Oct 21, 2008

Visual Orchestration System Integrates Diverse Systems for More Effective Mobile Workforce

WALTHAM, Mass. -- Active Endpoints, Inc. (www.activevos.com), the inventor of visual orchestration systems (VOS), today announced that CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, of Geneva, Switzerland, has successfully deployed ActiveVOS[TM] to orchestrate and manage its core technical and administrative business services. As one of the world's largest and most respected centers for scientific research, CERN is the nucleus of an extensive community that includes over 2,500 on-site staff, and nearly 9,000 visiting scientists. These scientists principally work at their universities and laboratories in over 80 countries around the world. Using ActiveVOS, CERN has now integrated and automated all its core processes as well as integrated those processes with the many external systems required by this dispersed workforce.

"Automating all of the essential business processes such as arranging travel, ordering materials, authorizing access to controlled areas for our 11,500 users from all over the world was a complex challenge," said Derek Mathieson, section leader, CERN. "Using ActiveVOS's capabilities including process versioning, retry policies, error and exception handling, integrated debugging and support for open standards, we now have completed over 1,200,000 process instances. We add, on average, approximately 12,000 new BPEL processes every day. ActiveVOS has also automated internal administrative processes, such as annual performance reviews and safety alarm activation. We are now able to support our large community of scientists and our staff, ensuring they spend their time on research and not administrative tasks."

ActiveVOS is the first 100% standards-based, complete visual orchestration system for creating true services-oriented architecture (SOA) based applications. With ActiveVOS, business analysts, developers, managers and end users use a single, integrated system to design, deploy and manage business processes.

"CERN's experience shows the value of creating true SOA-based service orchestrations," said Eric Egertson, vice president, sales, Active Endpoints. "In addition to its history of invention and its core scientific mission, CERN operates in a massively complex, worldwide collaboration. By using ActiveVOS to tame this complexity, CERN has demonstrated, once and for all, the value of 100% standards-based SOA technology. We are honored to have been the platform of choice for such a broad and fundamental implementation."

About Active Endpoints, Inc.

Active Endpoints (www.activevos.com) is the leading developer of visual orchestration systems. VOS empowers line of business project teams to create applications using services and industry standards, making their businesses more agile and effective. Active Endpoints' ActiveVOS promotes mass adoption of SOA-enabled applications by focusing on accelerating project delivery time with a standards-based, easy to use system. Active Endpoints is headquartered in Waltham, MA with development facilities in Shelton, CT.

ActiveVOS is a trademark of Active Endpoints, Inc. All other company and product names are the property of their respective owners.