Outlines strategy for building Intelligent, Integrated Enterprises
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced its vision and strategy for service-oriented
architecture (SOA) and business process management (BPM) technologies
acquired from FuseSource and Polymita. The strategy is designed to
optimize future product line integration, community expansion and
partner enablement to further empower organizations to become
Intelligent, Integrated Enterprises.
SOA and BPM have matured and reached a high level of acceptance in
critical, fast-moving industries such as financial services and
healthcare, where evolving market dynamics and regulatory mandates
require seamless integration capabilities to connect processes in hybrid
cloud scenarios and rapid iteration of business rules.
"Integration remains a primary driver of middleware technology adoption,
and its role and importance are changing. The industry is facing a
perfect storm of forces, such as global mobile connectivity, cloud and
hybrid infrastructures, and the explosion of business events and data,
all of which are driving new requirements for integration technology and
putting tremendous stress and pressure on existing systems," said Craig
Muzilla, vice president and general manager, Middleware, Red Hat. "Red
Hat's vision can help address these new needs and we're accelerating our
ability to do so by leveraging strong technologies and communities
through these acquisitions."
The opportunity for integration middleware software is evolving from
traditional solutions that focus on foundational integration
capabilities to higher-level integration capabilities that include
business rules management and BPM. Red Hat already provided a
foundational integration offering with its JBoss Enterprise SOA
Platform, as well as a business rules management offering via JBoss
Enterprise BRMS. Complementing these existing products with additional
technologies and talent acquired from FuseSource and Polymita will help
significantly enhance Red Hat's position in the enterprise middleware
marketplace and raise the company's profile and ease of use among
business users.
Product Line Integration
Red Hat plans to open source Polymita's technology and integrate BPM
tooling and functionality with its JBoss Enterprise Middleware runtimes
and engines. This additional functionality is designed to enable users
to quickly and effectively define and modify automated business
processes through modeling standards such as BPMN2, business activity
monitoring, process modeling and a rich, coherent user interface. The
open source solution will be offered as an additional JBoss Enterprise
Middleware on-premises BPM platform.
Red Hat continues to sell FuseSource ESB Enterprise and MQ Enterprise
products today. Over the coming months, Red Hat plans to roll these
technologies into the JBoss Enterprise Middleware portfolio as Red Hat
branded products. Simultaneously, key technologies including Camel and
Active MQ are slated to be combined with JBoss community technologies,
such as SwitchYard and Overlord, to bolster Red Hat's flagship SOA
platform.
Community Expansion
FuseSource has been a strong presence and driver in key Apache
integration projects that boast a dynamic and active community of
developers. Red Hat remains committed to investing and fostering
innovation in this community. As technology from Polymita is
transitioned to open source, Red Hat expects this technology will
organically diffuse into existing community projects, as well as evolve
into new independent projects.
Partner Enablement
The planned addition of new SOA and BPM technologies to Red Hat's JBoss
Enterprise Middleware product portfolio will broaden the scope of
opportunities for partners of all types and levels. The technologies
extend the existing JBoss Enterprise Middleware products with powerful
capabilities that together will enable Red Hat and its partners to
deliver an agile and unified integration platform that is well-suited
for embedded and cloud-based integration scenarios.
"From our perspective, Red Hat is taking proven technologies and merging
them into already successful product lines," said Joe Dickman, senior
vice president, Vizuri. "Our team has collaborated with Red Hat for many
years through a number of high-profile SOA deployments. With the
technologies acquired from FuseSource and Polymita, Red Hat has made
serious moves this year to take its integration technologies to the next
level."
For more information on Red Hat's integration technology strategy, join
Red Hat executives for a virtual press conference webcast announcement
at 11 a.m. ET on October 10. The webcast will also be available for
replay. To register for the live broadcast or to access the replay,
visit https://vts.inxpo.com/Launch/QReg.htm?ShowKey=11079.
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