The first three and most crucial of the modules in the suite are the business process engine, integration server, and composite application development environment. They are all in beta but should hit the streets by the end of July.
There are six more modules in the suite which should reach general availability by September, though details of those are sketchy. The suite as a whole will be aimed at large enterprises that need enterprise-scale end-user applications assembled from existing applications spanning multiple, cross-organizational business processes.
SeeBeyond said ICAN 5.0 is the only comprehensive suite to enable the rapid development, deployment, execution and management of composite applications based on an open, standards-based, and service-oriented architecture. The claim has some merit as SeeBeyond’s ICAN Suite was recently certified as compliant with J2EE 1.3, the current standard for developing enterprise-scale, Java-based applications.
SeeBeyond is hailing the forthcoming ICAN 5.0 launch as the most significant software event in Enterprise Integration since SeeBeyond released our fully distributed integration architecture in late 1999. The company certainly needs a boost. For the first quarter ending March 31, SeeBeyond reported revenue down 12.4% at $35.8m. The net loss for the quarter was $6.1m, compared with net income of $2.9m a year ago.
The company, which is headquartered in Monrovia, California, said it closed 80 new deals in the quarter, three of which were worth over $1m, taking its total customer base to 1,800.
Source: Computerwire
