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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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New product line rapidly assembles SOA-based integration solutions to bridge business-IT gap
“If enterprises hope to be more competitive in today’s rapidly changing markets, they need to move beyond silos of data or hard-wired integrations. They need real-time, dynamic interaction with their customers and suppliers that is based on a flexible architectural foundation,” said Jon Temple, President and CEO of Above All Software. “With Above All 4.0, we’re helping companies see integration as a key to business agility. We’re allowing functional and IT teams to collaborate in a common language and rapidly deploy solutions that impact business performance in a matter of weeks, not months or years.”
Above All 4.0 enables enterprises to simplify their service-oriented architecture (SOA) initiatives to more easily integrate information assets into cross-functional business processes. The foundation for this agility is the notion of business services – services that are specifically created to support a set of business tasks or processes. Above All 4.0 simplifies the process of mining services, data and business logic from different systems and then visually refining these elements into business services.
By creating a “virtual application portfolio” that is constructed from business services, Above All allows companies to react instantaneously to shifts in the business environment without the constraints typically imposed by stove-piped applications. The flexibility generated through re-usable composition drives significant decreases in operational costs as well as improved business effectiveness.
According to leading analyst firm Forrester Research, “SOA designs services that are meaningful at a business level. Business services are designed to perform complete business units of work... As a lead architect at Standard Life puts it, “It’s not a business service if the business doesn’t understand it.” (Does SOA Make Applications Obsolete?, Forrester Research, Inc., August 1, 2025)
A key benefit of an SOA-based application is that companies can deploy it to multiple end-user interfaces with virtually no incremental effort. Above All 4.0 expands on this multi-channel deployment capability by now allowing enterprises to expose business services to third party development tools including Eclipse, Visual Studio.Net, or BPM solutions. With the new Above All Composite Server, business services that are rapidly refined and assembled in Above All Studio can now be exposed as WS-I compliant Web services to be consumed by any third-party product. This gives IT teams a great amount of flexibility to create new user interfaces or additional business logic within the context of their favorite tool and programming language.
“The Above All Composite Application Platform lets us look at development and integration projects in a new light – as an enabler of business agility rather than as a major disruption in our business and IT systems,” said Olivia Dillan, Group Vice President, Technology, PGP Corporation. “Above All has allowed us to significantly improve key sales and operations processes without re-training our internal staff or being invasive with our application portfolio.”
The Above All Composite Application Platform is made up of the following integrated components:
• Above All Knowledge Packs™— Semantic service components that mine specific applications, databases and registries to automatically generate business services from the underlying systems. Above All 4.0 expands on its current offering with new Knowledge Packs for SAP and Siebel.
• Above All SOA Repository™— a dynamic repository to store and manage metadata about Web services, business services and the composite applications, enabling re-usable composition.
• Above All Studio™ — a visual environment for further refining business services for the specific business task or process and assembling them into new composite applications.
• Above All Multi-channel Deployment— enables the composite applications to be deployed to a broad range of end-user and 3rd party tool environments.
Platform support, availability and pricing
The Above All Composite Application Platform 4.0 is available immediately on the .NET platform through Above All and authorized resellers. In addition, Above All will support the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition specification in Q4 2005.
Pricing starts at $7500 for development licenses. For more sales information, contact Above All at 800-819-5530 or go to aboveallsoftware.com/contact.asp.
About Above All Software
Above All Software provides award winning business integration software that enables customers to leverage service-oriented architectures to meet ever-changing business needs. With Above All’s Composite Application Platform™, customers transform existing IT investments into rapidly assembled, high-impact business solutions that can be deployed to multiple environments. This new, flexible service-level approach simplifies and reduces the cost of business integration. Headquartered in San Mateo, CA, Above All Software is a privately held company founded in 2002. For more information about Above All Software, visit our Web site at www.aboveallsoftware.com or call 800-819-5530.
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