The Day Ahead: WebMethods serves up hot B2B IPO with XML twist
News The initial public offering of webMethods should sizzle Friday courtesy of the buzz surrounding XML, an emerging standard for sharing data over the Internet. For starters, webMethods could be dinged by long sales cycles.
[February 11, 2000, 12:42]
Software trio teams on e-commerce security tech
News Microsoft, VeriSign and WebMethods said Wednesday they have developed technology designed to make it easier to use digital signatures and other online security tools with e-commerce applications. Both WebMethods, which assists companies in setting...
[November 29, 2000, 14:41]
Sun's a late riser on WS-I board
News The Web Services Interoperability Organisation (WS-I) on Wednesday announced that Sun Microsystems and integration software company WebMethods have been elected on its board of directors. Sun's chief Web services strategist, Mark Hapner, will serve...
[March 26, 2003, 17:06]
Why SOA is the 'perestroika of IT'
News SOA is a business value architecture and capability, and that's what has been put into WebMethods. A major move was the $546m (£350m) purchase of integration specialist WebMethods last year. WebMethods now acts as the company's SOA and BPM business...
[November 28, 2008, 14:34]
SAP, Microsoft tighten Web services partnership
News Tighter bonds between Microsoft and SAP could cut into the market for third-party integration software from WebMethods and other companies, Schmelzer said, since those products won't be as necessary as a result of the deal.
[May 12, 2004, 13:50]
The Day Ahead: Sequoia Software hopes XML = hot IPO
News In fact, WebMethods' IPO success could be one of the main reasons Sequoia is making it out the door. WebMethods currently trades around 95, up more than 140 percent from its February offering price of $35.
[May 8, 2000, 12:12]
Reduce Development Costs by 50 Percent
White Papers Oni wanted to replace its existing webMethods middleware solution which no longer responded to the telco provider's business requirements. Oni is the fixed network telecommunications market leader in Portugal.
[September 1, 2009, 1:23]
Firm changes mind on SOAP patent
News Both Epicentric, a subsidiary of Vignette, and WebMethods, which makes integration software, said in earlier statements that they may have patents that cover the technology used in the SOAP 1.2 specification and that they would only make those...
[November 7, 2002, 15:14]
Ten Points to Consider in a Business Integration Vendor
White Papers As the leading independent integration vendor, webMethods has considerable experience in helping people select an integration solution and then take that solution to production, where the true returns on investment are realized.
[November 16, 2006, 0:00]
Verisign aims to make Web services trustworthy
News Other companies backing VeriSign's technology include BEA Systems, Hewlett-Packard and WebMethods. VeriSign's new software tools, unveiled on Tuesday, allow companies to add authentication services for online bill payment or financial data exchange...
[February 20, 2002, 14:39]
The Day Ahead: 1Q IPO hits and misses
News WebMethods hit just about every buzzword you can hit -- customer relationship management, extensible markup language and B2B. Among the winners tracked by IPO research firm Renaissance Capital, webMethods was the big star, gaining 594 percent...
[April 3, 2000, 11:52]
Second half outlook: Five business models to watch
News Companies to watch include webMethods and Vignette, which recently bought OnDisplay for its XML B2B expertise. If the first half of 2000 taught investors anything, it taught them that some businesses flop.
[July 10, 2000, 13:11]
The Bank of Dell is now open
News For instance, MSD has purchased stakes in e-commerce start-up BeFree, which helps electronic retailers increase revenue by adapting the store-within-a-store concept to the Web; and webMethods, which helps businesses build electronic links to...
[August 26, 1999, 16:15]
AT&T teams with Siebel for CRM push
News Siebel Systems and fellow software vendors PeopleSoft, Sybase and WebMethods have recently issued warnings about their first-quarter results, blaming uncertain global politics and the nation's floundering economic growth.
[April 9, 2003, 9:55]
BEA at the crossroads
News In the emerging area of integration software, BEA again faces entrenched competitors such as SeeBeyond, Tibco and WebMethods. At its annual customer conference in Orlando, the Java server software company will debut new products that are part of...
[March 3, 2003, 11:32]
Staffware bought by Tibco
News The merged company will compete with other established integration software companies that offer business process management capabilities, including WebMethods, SeeBeyond, IBM, BEA Systems and several smaller specialised workflow companies.
[April 22, 2004, 15:50]
Sun gets closer to Web services elite
News Besides Sun, sources have said about a dozen other companies are quietly lobbying to join the board, including Ariba, Cisco Systems, Compaq Computer, Iona Technologies, KPMG International, Novell, Reed Business Information, Reuters, Tibco...
[June 20, 2002, 12:29]
The Day Ahead: Companies hope pricing is right as IPO window opens
News We were pricing to the valuations on the market," said Faint, who referred to WebMethods as a valuation benchmark. Simply put, if the company isn't a high-flying Net infrastructure company it has to come down on its IPO pricing.
[May 22, 2000, 12:55]
Sun to step aboard Web services group
News These companies include Ariba, Cisco Systems, Iona Technologies, KPMG International, Novell, Reed Business Information, Reuters, Tibco, VeriSign and WebMethods. Sun Microsystems said on Thursday that it plans to join the Web Services...
[October 25, 2002, 7:48]
IBM customises integration software
News IBM also competes with application integration specialists such as Tibco Software and WebMethods. IBM is trying to expand its reach in the so-called integration software market with new editions of products geared at specific industries.
[May 19, 2003, 8:20]



