Cape Clear said the program is built around its enterprise service bus (ESB) technology, which it says introduces a new, lower cost means of integrating applications and processes or providing new online services.
The ESB approach is ideally suited to the specific challenges found in government-to-government (G2G), government-to-business (G2B), and government-to-citizen (G2C) initiatives, according to the company.
Cape Clear’s Joe Lichtenberg, VP of marketing, said its ESB, Simplifies the integration of the wide range of heterogeneous applications and data prevalent within the government sector, and enables the rapid delivery of new online services – at a fraction of the time and cost of traditional EAI.
Existing government customers include Santa Clara County, Northrop Grumman, Halton Borough Council (London), North Carolina Department of Transportation and the Swedish Election Authority. The State of Wisconsin also recently chose Cape Clear’s ESB for statewide IT integration.
Wisconsin State CIO Matt Miszewski explained the choice by saying that, The ESB provides us with a single bus that we can plug our applications into, it supports the systems and skills we already have, and gives us the flexibility to deliver new services.
As part of its government initiative Cape Clear has introduced a number of packaged solution sets for service oriented architecture (SOA), voter registration, an integrated justice information solution (IJIS) and a government-to-citizen portal.
Privately held Cape Clear is based in Dublin, Ireland, with US headquarters in Waltham, Massachusetts. Competitors in the ESB space include the likes of Sonic Software, SeeBeyond, Iona, Software AG, Fiorano Software, IBM and BEA.
