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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