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SeeBeyond Technology Corp.
800
E. Royal Oaks Drive
Monrovia, California 91016
(626) 471-6000
www.seebeyond.com
Sales
$138
million
Business Description
MSeeBeyond Technology Corporation (the "Company" or "SeeBeyond") is a
leading provider of business integration software that enables the real-time
flow of information within the enterprise and among customers, suppliers and
partners. We believe we offer the only comprehensive business integration
solution in our industry, architected from a single, internally developed
software code base, encompassing application-to-application integration,
business-to-business integration, business process management along with
integrated human work flow, portal, ETL and business activity monitoring
capabilities. The SeeBeyond® Integrated Composite Application Network ("ICAN")
Suite 5.0 builds upon more than thirteen years of continuous development of
business integration solutions within and among enterprises. As of December
31, 2003, we had licensed our products to over 1,880 customers worldwide.
Today's business and economic environment presents organizations with a wide
range of challenges. Competitive pressures, macroeconomic volatility,
corporate mergers and acquisitions, the ubiquity of the Internet, shortened
development and production cycles, shifting supplier relationships and
diverse customer demands are forcing organizations to adapt in numerous ways
to lower costs and increase revenue. In response, most organizations have
implemented aggressive e-Business initiatives, whereby business transactions
and relationships are conducted electronically among enterprises. These
e-Business initiatives have been adopted in an attempt to operate more
efficiently and communicate better with suppliers, customers and partners.
To this end, organizations have made significant investments in a range of
custom and packaged software applications such as Enterprise Resource
Planning ("ERP"), Supply Chain Management ("SCM"), Customer Relationship
Management ("CRM"), decision support and e-Commerce technologies. However,
these applications generally were not designed to interact with each other,
and the proliferation of these diverse technologies has resulted in highly
disconnected and disparate information technology infrastructures. These
diverse systems and applications often reside on different hardware
platforms with varying and incompatible data formats and communication
methods. As a result, information remains trapped within isolated systems.
To enable truly automated business processes, these isolated systems must be
seamlessly integrated. As organizations seek enhanced profitability,
integration solutions that enable dynamic and real-time connections across
systems, applications and enterprises, and allow for the automation and
active management of business processes, known as business process
management, have become critical.
Organizations have historically tried to bridge disparate systems and
applications through in-house or third-party custom development of
point-to-point interfaces. This approach is no longer viable for many
organizations given the large and growing number of applications and the
cost, time and resources required to create and maintain integration in a
rapidly changing environment. Additionally, when large numbers of
applications and systems are linked through point-to-point interfaces,
organizations can find it difficult to respond quickly to business changes.
Integrating with external systems—including those of its suppliers,
customers and partners—presents an additional challenge that requires
expertise in Internet technologies and a solution that is reliable, secure,
centrally managed and scalable to a very large number of disparate users.
The integration demands of e-Business present major technical challenges. In
an attempt to address these challenges, organizations have implemented
various ERP, e-Business Application Integration ("eAI"), and Electronic Data
Interchange ("EDI"), technologies. However, these solutions each have their
own limitations in terms of time-to-market, cost, performance or
flexibility, and no one approach fully addresses the entire e-Business
integration challenge.
We have developed a comprehensive solution for business integration,
enabling the seamless flow of information across systems, applications and
enterprises in real-time on a global basis. The SeeBeyond ICAN Suite 5.0
provides organizations with a flexible and easily configurable software
platform to connect applications and systems within an organization and
among geographically dispersed enterprises, allowing for continuous and
reliable information exchange to meet today's fast-paced business demands.
In contrast to other eAI approaches, we are the only provider in our
industry of a comprehensive solution for business integration where all key
integration technologies, including application-to-application,
business-to-business, business process management, human work flow, portal,
ETL, and business activity monitoring are seamlessly integrated. Because we
have architected all of our products from a single, internally-developed
code base, our solutions are fully integrated to deliver faster
time-to-market, improved performance and higher reliability for our
customers.
Our application-to-application integration capability provides extensive
pre-built application interfaces and facilitates rapid connectivity to
packaged applications, legacy applications, web and object technologies and
industry standard relational databases. Our business-to-business integration
capability supports various trading partner business models, including
direct partner-to-partner integration, trading exchange or marketplace
integration, as well as more traditional EDI integration. Our business
process management capability enables our customers to model, monitor and
manage business process flows of business activities in real-time.
Our solution provides business benefits in such areas as: single customer or
single patient view; multi-channel/multi-product application integration;
real-time stock management and vendor-managed inventory. In addition our
products allow organizations to unite their IT infrastructure (rather than
continually adding to it) in a gradual, controlled way that is not
disruptive to an organization's core business processes. To help our
customers achieve this end, our products are designed for rapid deployment,
enterprise scalability, operational efficiency and are designed to be open,
standards-based and portable.
Our objective is to provide the leading business integration solution to
manage the real-time, seamless flow of information across an enterprise and
among customers, suppliers and partners. Our strategy for achieving this
objective includes providing a comprehensive integrated suite of products
and services which has been organically developed on one code base,
capitalizing on our integrated solutions and technology leadership,
enhancing our presence in targeted vertical markets such as financial
services/insurance, manufacturing, healthcare,
telecommunications/energy/utilities, government and retail, becoming the
preferred integration standard for large global entities and continuing to
enhance our existing product lines, as well as develop new product
offerings.
Products
We have been an innovator in enterprise integration solutions since 1989,
introducing our first commercial product in 1991. We believe our SeeBeyond (ICAN™)
Suite 5.0, released in October 2003, is the most usable, scalable and open
platform for developing, executing and managing end-to-end integrated
business processes as composite applications. The SeeBeyond ICAN Suite 5.0
provides a process-driven integration platform that is completely unified,
extremely scalable and fully open with support for leading industry
standards, technologies, architectures and programming languages to connect
applications, systems and processes. Additionally, the SeeBeyond ICAN Suite
5.0 represents the next generation of open integration bringing
Application-to-Application ("A2A") integration, Business-to-Business ("B2B")
integration, and Business Process Management ("BPM") together with Web
services, System-Oriented Architecture ("SOA"), Java 2 Enterprise Edition
("J2EE") Application Servers, Extract, Transform and Load ("ETL")
capabilities, Business Activity Monitoring ("BAM") capabilities, Data
Quality Management, Composite View Generation, Indexing, Workflow and
Portals.
The SeeBeyond ICAN Suite 5.0 is comprised of the following components:
eGate™ Integrator 5.0 provides a J2EE compliant and Web services-based
distributed integration platform for application connectivity, data
transformation, and guaranteed transactions and messaging.
eInsight™ Business Process Manager 5.0 automates and orchestrates complex
business processes and workflows that span Web services, systems, people,
and companies.
eInsight™ Enterprise Service Bus is a rapidly implemented, limited edition
version of eInsight BPM natively utilizing BPEL4WS (a.k.a. WS-BPEL) and UDDI
to coordinate enterprise Web services.
eVision™ Studio 5.0 creates composite Web applications to provide end users
with rapid access to business processes and backend systems.
ePortal™ Composer 5.0 aggregates, personalizes and manages access to
composite applications for end users.
eTL™ Integrator 5.0 provides extraction, transformation and loading services
for bulk data between files and databases.
eXchange™ Integrator 5.0 automates B2B interactions through Web-based
trading partner and protocol management, message handling, message tracking
and security.
eView™ Studio 5.0 generates tailored single-view applications that cleanse,
match and index data to enable a single view of data entities such as
businesses, persons and products across the enterprise.
eIndex™ Global Identifier 5.0 is an Enterprise Master Patient Index ("EMPI")
solution. eIndex creates a cross-reference of patient information kept
current by rules that healthcare organizations define to identify, match and
update patient data originating from multiple source applications.
eBAM™ Studio 5.0 generates tailored Business Activity Monitoring
applications with executive dashboards that track key performance indicators
and provide exception alerting and management for proactive business
actions.
eWay™ Intelligent Adapters 5.0 accelerate Integration with Web services
enabled, JCA-based connectivity. We provide over 80 packaged eWay™
intelligent adapters that expose JCA and Web services compliant interfaces
for the purpose of application / business integration.
Professional Services
Our customers typically purchase consulting services from us to support
their implementation activities. We offer professional services with the
initial deployment of our product, as well as on an ongoing basis to address
continuing customer needs. Our consulting services range from architectural
planning to complete development and deployment of our products. In each
case, these services are tailored to meet each customer's needs. Our
professional services organization also provides comprehensive education at
our new, state-of-the-art training facility, as well as on-site courses for
both customers and partners. Many of our professional services employees
have advanced degrees and/or substantial industry experience in systems
architecture and design. We expect the number of service professionals and
the scope of the services we offer will increase as we continue to address
the expanding enterprise infrastructure needs of large organizations.
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