Plumtree software is poised to take the wraps off the latest version of its portal platform featuring expanded web services capabilities and a unified code base for windows and java. Plumtrees software is used to develop portals for workers on corporate networks. Plumtree this week will introduce a new version of its portal and will outline a strategy designed to port its technologies across a wide. Its first portal release in 1998 preceded the merrill lynch report defining the enterprise information portal eip space, and brought to the marketplace a yahoolike hierarchical, navigationenabled interface to content and data stores for both. Its corporate portal provides the framework for applications, supports virtual community workspace, and integrates them into a cohesive web work environment. Its first portal release in 1998 preceded the merrill lynch report defining the enterprise information portal eip space, and brought to the marketplace a yahoolike hierarchical, navigationenabled. Plumtree software is a former software company founded in 1996 by product managers and engineers from oracle and informix with funding from sequoia capital. Plum today announced the release of a new addon to its enterprise web development kit edk, for creating interactive portlets using microsoft. Benchmark data for portal server capacity in a windows deployment337.
It is the framework for planning, directing, contracting for, and managing a program. Bea aqualogic bpm albpm, based on the acquisition of bpm pureplay. Software acquisition planning guidelines 3 acquisition strategy. Plumtree technology partner program master agreement.
Plumtree suite a peachy deal plumtree software doesnt want to be known for portals any longer. Plumtree software inc securities registration statement. Deployment guide for plumtree enterprise web suite. Plumtree pushes web services connectivity computer weekly. Plumtree software is poised to take the wraps off the latest version of its portal platform featuring expanded web services capabilities and a. The plumtree deal was designed to allow bea customers to build web interfaces for java and microsoft. Plumtrees product suite includes a portal designed for nontechnical business users and related products for collaboration, search, analytics, and content management. Oracle buys fatwire, can now offer a complete customer. I certainly have thoughts and comments about this event, but moreover i have several open questions that i want to ask plumtree, bea and the community of. Paul ciandrini employment agreement august 6th, 2004. My take on the acquisition of plumtree by bea several colleagues, coworkers, customers and other plumtree partners have asked me for my opinion on the buyout of plumtree by bea systems.
The acquisition of the plumtree portfolio will make bea the leading provider of the most open, extensible and standardsbased j2ee. As a result of the acquisition, the plumtree product suite is now called bea aqualogic user interaction. John hogan has been vice president of engineering since march 1998. Kelman was a senior product manager at informix software, a company he joined via the acquisition of stanford technology group, from 1995 to 1997.
The air force is deploying perpetual licenses of the plumtree corporate portal in. Plumtree sells inwardfacing portal software designed to allow employees of an enterprise to work collaboratively via the web. Bea systems acquired plumtree on october 20, 2005, and oracle subsequently acquired bea. Within 30 days, the companies will begin to jointly market a portal solution that. In 1998, prior to xoom, john was president, chief executive officer and a member of the board of directors of plumtree software, inc. Oracle is mapping out two upgrades to the enterprise portal software package acquired when the company bought bea systems.
It provides a master schedule for research, development. Plumtree software continues to innovate, offering rich serviceoriented environments to deliver composite applications that give customers the freedom and flexibility to support advanced user needs and business processes. Plumtree software, engages in the development, marketing, and sale of a suite of software products for deploying web applications. Its corporate portal provides the framework for applications. As a founding member of the portal market, plumtree remains a perennial favorite in terms of mindshare at least and, despite growing competition, typically ends up on many rfp short lists. Performing organization name and address mitretek systems 600 maryland ave sw ste 755 washington, dc 20024 10.
Veritas to acquire troubled mzm private equity firm veritas capital fund lp of new york has made its third move in. Its portfolio features the industrys only crossplatform portal, running on both j2ee and. Plum tree is the result of this experience combined with the latest innovations in software development technologies and methodology. The information retrieval software shall meet the desired capabilities defined in table 1. The software acquisition capability maturity model sacmm has been developed to provide such a framework. This list is used to check the capabilities of a crawl provider. Firestone if it may be said that a single company originated the enterprise portal space, plumtree software is that company. Bea systems acquired plumtree on october 20, 2005, and oracle. The fuego deal is part of an aggressive acquisition. More specifically, the plumtree process server product has been renamed aqualogic interaction process. This agreement is entered into as of the date that this agreement is fully executed by both company and executive the effective date, by and between plumtree software, inc. The suite consists of tools aimed for line of business personnel for creating business process models aqualogic bpm designer.
Microsoft and plumtree software form global strategic. Plumtree software has added a wireless server and network search functions to its enterprise portal. The procurement described in this soo is an acquisition focused on delivery. Plumtree software, ibm, and microsoft are leading the way. The deal finally removes from the market a struggling company analysts long expected. John kunze svp, global consumer product and technology. Highlighted at the oracle openworld 2008 conference in. Plumtree software is a technology leader, providing enterprise solutions to bridge disparate work groups, it systems and business processes with its crossplatform portal. Oracle eyes improvements to enterprise portal package cio. The companys enterprise web suite combines portal, content management, collaboration, integration, and search technologies. Developer of software products for deploying web applications.
If it may be said that a single company originated the enterprise portal space, plumtree software is that company. This new version incorporates change requests that have been received, as well as the results of lessons learned from conducting appraisals and from the use of version 1. Plumtree technology partner program master agreement this plumtree technology partner program master agreement the agreement is between plumtree software, inc. The addition of bea is expected to accelerate innovation by bringing together two companies with a common vision of a modern serviceoriented architecture soa infrastructure and to further increase the value. The user interface has also been redesigned as part of a host of other enhancements. A business and technical management approach designed to achieve program objectives within the resource constraints imposed. Software acquisition capability maturity model sacmm. Kelman was involved in designing and launching a major release of informix software s online analytical processing product line. Its offer is limited by less capability of its tools for creation of composite applications using the ses as a platform. Bea plans to marry its application server and middleware with plumtrees tools for building portals.
Information retrieval software common isea tools statement of. The acquisition will immediately bring advanced portal capabilities such as security, central role management, presentation management and targeted content delivery to vignettes content management suite vignette v7, which the company announced last week. We want you to get exactly what you want from us and our software, this is why we use agile scrum as our methodology for all we do. Bea expects the acquisition will close in the fall of this year. According to the company, this engine processes user requests for corporate information and applications from a wide variety of computers in parallel, offering customers improvements in scalability, openness, and faulttolerance. Plumtree software, the strongest of the pure play portal vendors also makes a strong showing, but lags somewhat as a result of its lesser scale.
Bea aqualogic bpm suite, a set of business process management bpm tools. Enterprise infrastructure software provider bea systems and plumtree software have entered into a definitive agreement under which bea will. As a product manager for online analytical processing software following informix software s acquisition of stanford technology group, mr. Oracle buys web experience management vendor fatwire software. Plumtrees former portal product continues as part of oracles product line. The company was a pioneer of extending the portal concept popularized by yahoo. The road to successful its software acquisition volume ii. It combines workflow and process technology with enterprise application integration functionality.
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