IBM acquires Webify  

NEW DELHI: IBM has acquired Webify Solutions, an

Austin, Texas-based, privately held provider of industry-specific software and

services for building service oriented architectures (SOA).






IBM's acquisition of Webify strengthens its leadership in service oriented
architecture, which helps a company reuse existing technology to more closely

align it with business goals, resulting in greater efficiencies, cost savings

and productivity. By bringing together IBM's development and use of open

industry standards with Webify's expertise in semantics, IBM can better solve

common business problems in a given vertical industry.






Webify technology will be immediately integrated into IBM Software Group under
the WebSphere brand, which has experienced 32 consecutive quarters of revenue

growth and double-digit revenue growth for the first two quarters of 2006. The

development arm in Mumbai will integrate with the IBM India Software Lab.






Webify software helps accelerate the development and deployment of applications
that business users need to quickly respond to market and competitive pressures.

It provides hundreds of industry-specific, pre-built standards-based

accelerators, tools and frameworks. Webify's offerings help solve business

problems that are specific to a given industry such as HIPAA compliance for

healthcare companies and ACORD standards in the insurance industry.






Robert LeBlanc, general manager, IBM WebSphere Software, said, “Webify's
industry-specific tools, models and frameworks will complement IBM's industry

leading WebSphere software and the deep industry expertise of IBM Global

Services to better help insurance and healthcare customers use SOA to solve

business problems unique to their industries.”






Manoj Saxena, Webify, chairman and CEO, “Joining IBM will help propel our vision
of helping clients achieve SOA-based business transformation and it provides an

accelerated path to market for our best-in-class products and technology.”






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