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| Founded: 2002 | |||
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| Location: Headquarters in Redwood City, CA | |||
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| Solution: Business Integration Software | |||
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| Category: Composite Applications | |||
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| Investors: JP Morgan, Greylock, Granite Ventures, Adobe | |||
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| Customers: Global 2000 | |||
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Above All Studio 1.0 Delivers on the Promise of Service Oriented Architectures to Transform Both Application Development and Application Integration
"Above All Software was selected from the hundreds of companies and technologies that applied to our show because of its innovative approach that both accelerates composite application development and makes the underlying application integration much easier," said Chris Shipley, Executive Producer, DEMO 2004. "Above All's new product has great potential to significantly speed up an enterprise's ability to apply technology to rapidly changing business needs."
"I consider Above All Studio the combination of everything I have done in my career in enterprise software," said Above All Founder & CEO Roger Sippl, whose previous companies, Informix, Vantive and Visigenic, pioneered relational database, three-tier application and application server technologies. "Our new product enables companies to address a much wider range of integrated application needs because we've made it cost effective to deliver any new composite application in days, not the months previously required by traditional technologies."
Several companies are already using Above All Studio to assemble composite applications. One of those companies is Patient Care Inc.; a New Jersey-based home health care corporation that spans seven states.
"Above All Studio sits above Patient Care's applications and helps us insulate our users from the turmoil in the application portfolio," said Martin Howard, Senior VP & CIO at Patient Care. "The composite applications we've assembled match the way users do their work and is logical and intuitive to use. It's reduced our training costs, reduced error rates, and enabled us to be more efficient getting data into the different underlying systems."
"Overall, Above All allows us to support our application portfolio with a lot fewer IT resources and a lot fewer dollars. That adds value to the corporation," says Howard.
About Above All Studio 1.0
Above All Studio is a complete solution that reduces cost and development time through the rapid assembly of composite applications. Composite applications deliver application integration by combining functionality from multiple existing application silos. They provide users with a single interface to complete business tasks and offer 360-degree access to key business entities such as customers or suppliers. With composite applications, users save time and efficiently complete their tasks without having to navigate multiple applications, repeatedly enter the same data, or wait on co-workers to provide needed information or coordination.
According to Gartner there is a .7 probability that "adoption of composite applications will grow from fewer than 15% of enterprises in 2003 to at least 60% of enterprises by 2008." [Massimo Pezzini, Vice President, Gartner Research, Composite Applications Head Toward the Mainstream, October, 2003.]
Above All Studio's visual assembly environment enables application developers, business analysts, and even power users to assemble new applications with no programming required. Above All Studio leverages a wide variety of existing software services across an enterprise including Web services, database stored procedures, application programming interface calls, Microsoft Office COM operations, and ODBC database access.
Key capabilities of Above All Studio include:
Dynamic Meta Data Repository
Above All Studio automatically discovers, catalogs, and organizes meta data regarding existing raw services in its dynamic repository, which is called the Application Dictionary. Whenever the meta data of a raw service is refined or enhanced using Studio's visual tools, those changes are dynamically recorded and added to the repository. The Application Dictionary is the critical piece of infrastructure for enabling the assembly of new composite applications, since it maintains and provides current views of all the building blocks that are available to Studio's visual assembly environment.
Refining Services
Above All Studio automatically refines all raw services in the Application Dictionary repository into a common business object format that is easy to understand - a format that is based on both Web services standards and the principles of object-oriented design. From there, Studio provides visual tools for simplifying service interfaces, or combining multiple services into composite services. These further refinements create more easily used building blocks that are also automatically cataloged and organized in the Application Dictionary.
Defining Interoperability
Above All Studio provides visual tools that automatically capture any implicit relationships between the services from different application systems. Those tools also assist in defining new interoperability relationships between radically disparate applications, and those new relationships become part of the meta data about the services in the Application Dictionary repository. [The underlying technology that enables this crucial capability to define and leverage interoperability is Above All Software's patent pending Application Algebra.]
Assembly with No Programming
Above All Studio's easy-to-use visual tools and wizards for application assembly enable a variety of personnel from both IT and business functions to create new composite applications without requiring any programming. With refined components available and interoperability relationships pre-defined, the Application Dictionary repository hides the technical complexities of the underlying systems so that assemblers can focus on the business need of the composite application.
Above All Studio 1.0 is available immediately.
About DEMO 2004
The annual DEMO 2004 conference focuses on emerging technologies and new products, which are hand-selected by executive producer Chris Shipley from across the technology marketplace. The DEMO conference has earned its reputation as the singular event that consistently identifies tomorrow's leading edge technologies. Top executives from the leading hardware and software technology companies, venture capitalists, journalists from key industry publications and industry analysts attend DEMO 2004 to preview the most promising products and technologies for the coming year. For more information, visit www.demo.com.
About Roger Sippl
Roger Sippl is the founder and CEO of Above All Software. Over the past 25 years in Silicon Valley, Roger has built an impressive track record of founding, running, and investing in successful software companies. He was founder of Informix Software, Inc. in 1980. Under his direction, Informix pioneered SQL relational databases, 4GL application development tools, and OLTP database technology. Roger was co-founder and chairman of The Vantive Corporation, a CRM leader and successful public company now part of PeopleSoft. He founded Visigenic Software in 1993 and helped pioneer application servers in enterprises. During the nineties, Sippl invested privately in several successful software companies, including Illustra (acquired by Informix), Broadvision, SupportSoft and Red Pepper (acquired by PeopleSoft).
About Above All Software
Above All Software is based in San Mateo, California and backed by a leading group of investors that include Greylock, JPMorgan Partners, Granite Ventures, Adobe and Sippl Macdonald Ventures.
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Above All Software
650.341.4600 ext. 105
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