Intalio

Intalio is a BPM vendor and also stands for this company's open-sourced products, Intalio|BPMS.

Company
Intalio provides open-sourced BPM products. Besides, it offers software products, business consulting services, support services and other business for establishment of IT systems worldwide.
 * Foundation: July 1999
 * Head Quarters: Palo Alto, California
 * CEO：Ismael Ghalimi
 * 500 customers across 45 countries
 * 20 SI partners
 * unlisted company

Product
BPM suite provided by Intalio is Intalio|BPMS. This is integrated into Europa　(Eclipse 3.3),　which is supported by many users as open-sourced development environment, and also approved as official BPEL process engine by Apache Foundation,　which offers popular server software, Apache.

Version-up

 * 00/2006 ： Release Intalio|BPMS V4
 * 10/2007 ： Release Intalio|BPMS V5
 * 12/2007 ： Release Intalio|BPMS V5.1
 * 08/2008 ： Release Intalio|BPMS V5.2

Features

 * available for design and operation of processes
 * compliant with BPMN1.1 and BPEL2.0 as BPM-related standards
 * open-sourced products
 * user interface enhancement such as graphical tool for Zero Code
 * possible for process analysts to have an access to not only performance indicators as system-level but KPI as business-level and analyze the results.
 * Intalio|BPMS V5.2 has been equipped with BAM function for corporations.

Intalio|Designer
This is a modeling tool supporting BPMN1.1 and plug-in for Eclipse as standard IDE　(Integrated Development Environment) for programmers.

Intalio|Server
This is BPEL process execution engine supporting BPEL2.0. The operation of BPEL codes developed by other systems is possible. This server works on J2EE application server, which incorporates a set of necessary functions in corporate operation system. Therefore, it's possible to develop a large-scale computer system.

Intalio|Workflow
This supports BPEL4People,　which is extended BPEL for describing human tasks. Therefore, this has a feature to incorporate human activities and system activities.

Future work
According to Intalio|BPP 6.0　（release October.2008),　Intalio's future works are as follows.
 * Expansion of Intalio Enterprise Edition
 * Development of Intalio Developer Edition compatible to Web 2.0
 * Development of Intalio on Demand Edition compatible to next generation SaaS

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 * BPM
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 * BPMN
 * BPEL
 * BAM
 * KPI