Active Endpoints Rolls-Out Latest Version of ActiveVOS BPMS

Active Endpoints, a Waltham, Mass.-based developer of visual orchestration systems, recently announced that it has started shipping ActiveVOS 6.2, the latest version of company’s business process management suite (BPMS) featuring ActiveVOS MultiSite.

Active Endpoints’ ActiveVOS is a business process management suite (BPMS) -- a suite of integrated technologies that enable businesses, governments and organizations to create end-to-end applications in areas like product manufacturing, customer order processing or insurance policy underwriting. Some of the technologies used in BPMS include workflow engines, graphical business process modelers, document and content management, middleware and an execution engine, which is at the center of the BPMS and executes the model on the computer.

Active Endpoints’s BPMS enables developers, business analysts, operations staff as well as managers to design, build, manage, deploy and maintain services-based applications including standards-based BPM applications, affordably and quickly. The company officials say that it is the only BPMS to provide seamless replication and scaling of business processes across multiple data centers.

The latest version features ActiveVOS MultiSite, which builds on ActiveVOS’s previously-available clustering capabilities as well as extends those capabilities to multiple ActiveVOS clusters running across geographically distributed network of sites. It protects important, long-running business processes from interruption or termination that can be caused due to a major hardware failure or site failure.

Allowing users to flexibly scale their BPM environments, the ActiveVOS MultiSite leverages Master-Master database replication and an efficient communications protocol, thereby resulting in a more efficient use of computing resources, said the company.

“As business process management (BPM) becomes an increasingly critical part of companies’ core operations, the need to ensure uninterrupted service grows, “said Simon Holloway, practice leader, process management and RFID, Bloor Research. “Solutions that assure end users that long-running and high priority work will never be lost make it easier for companies to adopt modern BPMS technologies.”

Active Endpoints said that its ActiveVOS BPM is available as a perpetual license for use in either an internal development environment or a deployment environment. ActiveVOS is $5,000 per CPU socket in an internal development environment, while in a deployment environment it is $12,000 per CPU socket. The CPU socket represents the physical processor on a system. The company will be providing annual support and maintenance as well, which is 20 percent of total license fees. ActiveVOS is free of cost for current customers.

ActiveVOS also promotes mass adoption of SOA (service-oriented architecture)-enabled BPM applications by focusing on accelerating project delivery time with a complete, affordable and easy-to-use system, said Active Endpoints.