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New Excelon, New Platform


Company creates way to manage processes, create apps

By David Rubinstein
November 1, 2001 — 
Moving quickly after its merger with C-bridge, the new Excelon Corp. last week released a new software suite, called Universal Platform, which is designed to help developers define, automate and measure business processes and then create composite applications to take best advantage of those processes.

The platform consists of Excelon's Business Process Manager, a workflow engine based on ebXML to support collaborations within an organization or with its outside partners, and the Extensible Information Server (XIS), which allows high-performance, recoverable business services to be deployed across the Internet, according to Larry Alston, Excelon's CTO and vice president of product management. BEA Systems' WebLogic J2EE-compliant application server executes above the platform and is compatible with all Java development environments. The Stylus Studio XML-to-XML mapping tool is included to help developers manipulate XML to define interoperability between XML dialects.

C-bridge's history is in business processes, while Excelon (www.exceloncorp.com) was an early player in the XML database market, so the platform was a natural extension of the synergies between the companies, claimed Joe Bellini, Excelon's new CEO. A J2EE application server and the XML database tools are the key pieces that enable the close tying of business processes to these composite applications, he said, which are assembled from Web services.

"People truly will retool back ends using the Internet," Bellini said. "This platform is designed to help them do it incrementally" by being fully recoverable and auditable. Business processes can be measured against each service created against the platform, letting companies streamline and improve the processes.

Alston detailed an architecture that has data storage at the foundation, processes as a middle layer and collaboration at the top, and explained that these were not flexible enough to allow companies to capitalize on changes in the market. XML, he explained, is critical for the kind of content getting shipped around an organization, and the XIS server, he added, can store extended information in the format in which it comes. Business rules can then be based on how that information is retrieved to improve a company's return on investment on its enterprise software initiatives and allow it to take advantage of new opportunities.

"We call it leveraging something you built yesterday to build something new today," Bellini said.

On top of the platform, Excelon also announced a series of Business Excelerators, which are industry-specific services and processes, Bellini said. "They provide a head start" in creating composite applications, he added. Pricing had not been determined at press time, though Bellini said the company was leaning to a per-server charge plus additional fees based on the number of interactions with external systems.


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