12/09/2003

SeeBeyond, provider of what it calls “the world's first integrated composite application network built on a comprehensive integration platform,” unveiled its eInsight Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) 5.0 offering. The vendor depicts it as “a cost effective, rapidly implemented, limited edition of SeeBeyond's eInsight Business Process Manager 5.0.”

“This Enterprise Service Bus offering provides a lower-cost alternative to orchestrate enterprise Web services, providing an upgradeable alternative for deploying integrations and composite applications built upon a services-oriented architecture,” SeeBeyond explains.

“From small start-up companies to Global 2000 organizations, IT decision makers are beginning to see the dramatically improved operational efficiencies made possible by maturing software standards for integration and business process management (BPM),” SeeBeyond says. “Leveraging such standards, the recently popularized Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) facilitates the deployment of a flexible SOA (services-oriented architecture) and signals one of the most significant milestones in Web services' evolution. In response to this evolution, SeeBeyond offers a lightweight ESB edition focused exclusively on Web services integration.”

As the head of Global Strategy and Architecture for Syngenta, an early adopter of eInsight technology, Jeff Brown notes, "At Syngenta we are planning to implement a services-oriented architecture encapsulating business logic as a set of services that need to be orchestrated through a business process. Web services enable a streamlined and standard approach to the generation and management of these services and eInsight will allow us to orchestrate and streamline these processes and services resulting in increased efficiency and customer satisfaction. Our goal is to make IT an enabler, not an inhibitor, ultimately driving velocity and improving bottom line results."

According to SeeBeyond, “For companies that can't wait to integrate, eInsight ESB has many technical advantages over conventional ESB products; but the most important advantage is the 14-year heritage of integration success that SeeBeyond has built into the ICAN Suite 5.0. Support for XML alone is not well suited for all integration challenges, and there are many additional essential integration functions that ESB products from other vendors do not offer. As ESB solutions grow to meet full, enterprise-class integration requirements, eInsight ESB can naturally incorporate any component of the full-featured ICAN Suite 5.0 without the delays and expense of integrating third party products into the solution.”

David McCoy, vice president and research area director, Gartner, says, "Used together, business process management and service-oriented architecture can form a dynamic combination that leverages the agility and extends the capabilities of both technologies."

“With state-of-the-art business process management functions, eInsight ESB provides the necessary functionality for companies that wish to make SOA a reality by starting with an ESB approach,” SeeBeyond maintains. “In addition, with access to a comprehensive set of eWay Adapters all within a J2EE-certified, application server-neutral platform, eInsight ESB alone provides more functionality than the aggregate of what multiple competitor products offer.”

"eInsight ESB is ideal for organizations of any size that want to deploy integrated business processes with ready reusability and scalable ROI. eInsight ESB streamlines basic integration services cost effectively for Web services as well as for proprietary or legacy applications," said Alex Demetriades, senior vice president of Products for SeeBeyond. "Most importantly, all of the advanced integration capabilities of ICAN 5.0 are at the fingertips of eInsight ESB users. The days of integrating your integration products are over."

The pricing for eInsight Enterprise Service Bus starts at $10,000, which SeeBeyond points out is “four-to-five times less expensive than competitive offerings.”

eInsight ESB is currently available for a wide variety of platforms and operating systems, including Windows, Solaris, AIX, HP/UX, HP Tru64, and Linux.