IBM buys AptSoft

IBM has acquired AptSoft, a privately held business event processing software provider, reports CampusTechnology.

The acquisition enhances IBM's current business process management (BPM) and service-oriented architecture (SOA) solutions, according to Ed Lynch, product manager and transition executive for IBM's business integration portfolio.

"We see this as completely complementary to what we're doing with SOA," Lynch said. "So this will be extending capability that we already have in our SOA platform and it further helps in the BPM-enabled-by-SOA effort by providing this line-of-business tooling and allowing the line of business to express."

Vital Path and Purdue Pharma have won a 2007 Process Innovation Award for the creative deployment of PathBuilder, reports EMC Connection.

The Process Innovation Awards programme presents innovation solution honours to companies that focus on the return of significant business benefit and effectiveness of their technology solutions.

To date, document management systems have traditionally been departmental solutions operating as islands of information spread over several locations. However, in pharmaceuticals, it is vital that the various departmental solutions function as one comprehensive store-room of information.

Metastorm has released a New Account On-Boarding Process Pod for the financial services industry, according to PR NewsWire.

The Metastorm New Account On-Boarding Process Pod is a packaged solution framework that when set up on the Metastorm BPM software suite enables financial services organisations to electronically collect applicant details.

As well as automatically run required background checks, it establishes a centralised new account, and updates existing client accounts to reflect new services or financial products.