PALO ALTO, Calif. — Mar. 19, 2008 — Intalio, Inc., the Open Source Business Process Platform Company, today announced support for the Business Process Modeling Notation™ version 1.1 (BPMN™ 1.1), which was recently ratified by the Object Management Group™ (OMG™). Intalio|Designer™ is the first process modeling tool to support the new notation. The latest version of Intalio|Designer can be downloaded from the Intalio Community Website at bpms.intalio.com.
"As an Open Source vendor of BPM and SOA platforms, it is imperative for us to adhere to industry standards," noted Intalio Founder and CEO Ismael Ghalimi. "Standards present Open Source companies with a way to tap into a larger community that brings weight to its initiatives. Standards also give companies using these tools an insurance policy that any development investments can be maintained throughout the foreseeable future. For an Open Source company to be the first to support BPMN 1.1 is further evidence of Intalio's leadership in the space."
BPMN 1.1 provides several benefits over the previous version, clearing up ambiguities between throwing and catching events, and adding new notation specifications, such as the Signal event. Signal increases efficiency and loose coupling by broadcasting the event to any event listener, either within the process or in another process. Previously, the process designer had to send a separate message or error event for each specific target. Now, that can be taken care of with a single call. Ambiguities with previous versions of BPMN are also cleaned up, thereby reducing the number of errors that could be coded into the process.
“Most BPMS vendors are scrambling to catch up to BPMN 1.0,” said Bruce Silver, founder of the BPMN training firm BPMessentials.com. “By supporting BPMN 1.1, including the powerful new Signal event, Intalio has taken a clear leadership position.”
"Intalio is an acknowledged leader in BPM implementation and understands the value of the marriage between open standards (like BPMN) and open source," said Richard Mark Soley, Ph.D., chairman and CEO, Object Management Group. "Having Intalio stand behind us on this key business process initiative will help drive adoption of BPMN and many other OMG business modeling standards."
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About Intalio, Inc.
Intalio is the Open Source Business Process Platform Company. Our standards-based products empower organizations of all sizes to develop process driven applications and service oriented architectures faster, better, and cheaper than traditional alternatives. Intalio supports over 300 enterprise customers in 36 countries around the world. Founded in July 1999, Intalio is a privately-held, venture-backed company located in Palo Alto, California, with offices in Geneva, London, and Singapore. For more information on Intalio, please call 650-596-1800 or visit www.intalio.com.
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