ZDNet

ZDNet: WebEx Connect lost the Cordys-powered integration bus and workflow engine  (July 1, 2009)
Phil Wainewright of ZDNet posted an article entitled WebEx augurs ill for Cisco's cloud ambitions. In the article, he discusses the new web-based solutions from Cisco Systems Inc. and mentions Cordys as a key missing element of their WebEx Connect platform.
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Computer Business Review Online

Cloudy Skies? (June 2, 2009)
The trouble with new paradigms in IT is usually the same: finding a consensus on what the new term really means. Vendors jump on the bandwagon as fast as they can get their marketing ready, giving rise to numerous definitions of the term as they tweak it to suit their own solutions and services. Cloud computing is no exception. So what on earth is cloud computing? Read the full article.

Forbes.com

Google’s Enterprising Moving (June 2, 2009)
The Internet giant's recent partnerships provide real support for enterprise computing. It seems that the good ship Google Enterprise is striking out on a new course to dramatically increase its relevance to IT. Read the full article.

Computer Business Review Online

Cordys targets Google Apps users. By Jason Stamper (May 8, 2009)
Business process management maven Cordys has joined the Google Enterprise Partner program, and is delivering structured workflow capabilities to the Google Apps suite of communication and collaboration tools. Read the full article.

Computer Business Review Online

The Process Factory can mash cloud apps, today. By Jason Stamper (April 22, 2009)
For a charge of $50 per user per year, The Cordys Process Factory is said to enable users to create composite applications, otherwise known as mashups or as The Cordys Process Factory calls them, MashApps. Read the full article.

BPTrends

The Business Process Platform in the Sky – by Peter Fingar (March 3, 2009)
By embracing “the Cloud” (Cloud Computing infrastructures, platforms, and services), a company can have choices over the best way to implement and manage Private, Public, and Collaborative process types, some being handled by industry-specific Business Process Utilities (BPUs). Read the column as published on BPTrends.com

CRN Channelweb

Evolution in the cloud (January 29, 2009)
Trouble is on the horizon for businesses that turn a blind eye to software-as-a-service.
Read the full article on CRN Channelweb.

Financial Times

Look to the clouds as the perfect storm rages (January 14, 2009)
The change that the world is currently going through is what recessions are all about. Fast, inevitable and unavoidable. But we do not have to be passive onlookers while these forces do their worst. To lead in this business environment is to embrace change. That means the underlying business processes and operations must be both thorough and quickly adaptable. It is no longer just what you do that counts, it is how you do what you do – and how quickly you can modify your methods to take on new opportunities and challenges.
Read the full article on the Financial Times Website.

eBizQ

BPM Viewpoint: 2009 – The year of the Process Factory. Dennis Byron (January 9, 2009)
Leo Apotheker, incoming CEO of SAP was interviewed in November 2008 in a session that appeared on U.S. television January 6. The business process management (BPM) angle was the frequent mention by both Apotheker and Harvard professor McAfee of business processes and the specific reference by both speakers to "business process factories”. If SAP is talking about it, it's time has arrived. 2009-the year of the process factory. Read the full BPM Viewpoint here.

Business Review Online - Jason Stamper's Blog

What are the 10 most recession-proof IT sectors? (January 08, 2009)
Jason’s personal pick for the BPM company to come through is Cordys: “going great guns with a new version of its Business Operations Platform and a hosted BPM tool that can help companies develop ‘MashApps’ (mashed up applications, don’t you know)”.

JDJ – The World’s leading Java Resource

Are These the Top 100 Cloud Computing Companies in the World? (December 8, 2008)
SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Journal Expands Its List of Most Active Players in the Fast-Emerging Cloud Ecosystem, and Cordys is one of them!

Internetnews.com

The Key to Rapid Apps Development? Processes (Jon Pyke) (December 1, 2008)
Saving money with a cloud computing strategy is not enough; innovating and building new capabilities will take enterprises to the next level.

Insurancenews.com

Building business agility into processes; Cordys and AEGON Religare highlight the strategic value of next generation BPM at the Butler BPM and SOA Symposium (Nov 26, 2008)
“Organizations must be operationally efficient and agile to thrive in this environment and BPM is a key technology that can help businesses achieve this. In combination with SOA it helps businesses become more flexible -able to adapt business strategy and processes on the fly and implement the changes immediately, without the need to rip and replace existing systems," says Jon Pyke, Chief Strategy Officer of Cordys.

TMCnet.com

Demand for Business Process Management Solutions at All-Time High (Nov 25, 2008)
“Platforms such as enterprise resource planning and customer relationship management software are not showing enough flexibility to facilitate the rapid change in operations management required in this situation and that has transformed the business landscape in recent months, says Jan Baan, chief executive officer and founder of Cordys.”

eBizQ

Total BPM: a talk with Cordys (quoting Jon Pyke) (October 17, 2008)
eBizQ Managing editor Peter Schoof talks to Chief Strategy Officer Jon Pyke about the great things going on with Cordys. Listen here to the podcast

CIO Magazine

A revolution for the business (June 2008)
CIO Magazine speaks with Cordys Founder and CEO Jan Baan about technology trends Collaboration, SOA, Process modeling, Software as a Service, and the benefits for the business

eBizQ

Jan Baan on Realizing the Full Potential of BPM (June 24, 2008)
eBizQ analyst Dennis Byron talks to Cordys Founder and CEO Jan Baan about the direction of BPM software.

Data Monitors' ComputerWire

Baan’s Cordys Acquires German BPM Expertise (November 07, 2007)
Cordys, a business process management company co-founded by Jan Baan of Baan Software fame, has announced the acquisition of vertical German BPM player abaXX.

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eBizQ

Cordys Acquires abaXX (November 06, 2007)
Cordys, a leading provider of Business Process Management Suite (BPMS) technology, today announced the acquisition of abaXX Technology AG, a leading German-based provider of BPM and vertical industry process-enabled solutions.

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Computing

Working together: The need for organisations to connect their internal systems is driving the take-up of integration technologies (November 01, 2007)
Offering comprehensive business process management and service-oriented architecture (SOA) capabilities, Cordys BPMS is a single toolset built from scratch to give business managers direct control over their processes.

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WebitPR

Cordys Targets The UK - Industry Veteran Jan Baan Driving Force For Change. (October 3, 2007)
A new name has entered the UK IT market with one of the best known names in the industry at the helm. Cordys is a leading Business Process Management Suite (BPMS) provider established in 2001 by industry veteran Jan Baan.
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The Register®

Database legend Jan Baan is a man on a mission to kill old software business models and shake up IT departments everywhere. (October 3, 2007)
Baan, who describes the database business as "the mother of all complexity", has for the past few years been working on a new project. Putting his money where his mouth is, he has pumped €200m into Cordys, a firm he co-founded with Theodoor van Donge in 2001.
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Computer Business Review (CBR) Online

Q&A: Jan Baan on the demise of Baan and the birth of Cordys. Part 1 (September 27, 2007)
People buying workflow think they are buying human interaction management or case management but they are not. What they want, though, is one environment in which to build the [BPM] model and also execute it. With Cordys, the business user, and the IT guy, and the chief process officer, can sit together and bridge that gap. But also, it can be completely web-based.
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The Cable360.net

Read the article 'Geographical Information Systems: A Call for an HFC Standard' by Sean Bristol, Director of Engineering, Seattle market, Comcast (September 1, 2007)
Sean Bristol in his article:  "What makes Network Heath (NHX) concept possible is standardized plant data stored in an open data model and rules-based, service oriented architecture (SOA), such as Cordys technology.."
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Business Standard

“Cordys was more product driven and now we have changed the model to a service and market-driven organisation” – Jan Baan
Jan Baan, the founder of Baan Company — that in the late 90s almost become synonymous with enterprise resources and planning (ERP) — feels that ERP was not his vision, but came to him by accident.
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BusinessWire

Cordys Secures $80 Million Investment to Meet Fast-Growing Market for Business Process Management Suite (BPMS) Software
Start-up Secures Single Largest Investment in an Independent BPMS Company, Establishes New U.S. Business Operations
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The Daily Deal

Cordys adds record $80M
Dutch software maker Cordys Holding BV raised $80 million in a first outside equity round led by Tulsa, Okla.-based Argonaut Private Equity, in one of the largest growth capital investments on record for a software company.
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TheRegister.com

Jan Baan's latest company, Cordys, has scored $80m from the VC house Argonaut to build itself a US sales empire. (April 23, 2007)
Cordys, Dutch-owned - just like Baan (the software company) was - has been around in Europe since 2001 and in the US since last year. It is a combatant in the BPMS or Business Process Management Suite market, an emerging sector that should be worth $1bn worldwide by the end of the year and $2.6bn by 2011, according to Gartner. The analyst firm names Cordys as one of five BPMS companies to watch in 2007, but some rivals such as IBM and Tibco, are much, much bigger.
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Internetnews

Cordys Holding B.V. just closed an $80 million round of equity financing. (April 18, 2007)
The investment, led by Argonaut Private Equity's $67 million and minority stake, is the largest funding round ever for a private provider of BPM software. The company will use the equity financing to further penetrate the competitive business process management (BPM) software market in the United States.
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Business Journal

Cordys Holding BV completed an $80 million round of equity financing and established its U.S. headquarters in the Silicon Valley. (April 17, 2007)
Cordys, which is based in the Netherlands and focuses on business process management suite enterprise software, said its new offices will be in San Jose.
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Reuters

Argonaut Private Equity gained a significant minority stake in Cordys (April 17, 2007)
Cordys Holding B.V. founded by Jan Baan has secured $80 million in private equity funding.
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eBizQ

Cordys Wins $80 Million Round of Funding for BPMS Development (April 17, 2007)
Cordys Holding B.V., provider of business process management suite (BPMS) enterprise software, announced today the successful completion of an $80 million (Euro 60 million) equity financing.
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A quick peek at Cordys BPM (March 05, 2007)
eBizQ’s Sandy Kemsley takes a look at Cordys '  BPMS at the Gartner BPM Summit.  She believes that browser-based process modeling/design are the key to widespread collaboration across all stakeholders of a process
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Read ebizQ review on Cordys and SOA Software Announce Global Partnership (September 26, 2006)
ebizQ: "SOA Software, a provider of comprehensive SOA and Web services management, security, mediation and run-time governance solutions, and Cordys, a provider of next generation SOA technology, today announced a global partnership. The companies will work together to bring the most comprehensive SOA solutions possible to their respective worldwide audiences. ."
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BPM Business

Cordys is one of five companies on Gartner’s watch list (February 27, 2007)
BPM Business provides an overview of the latest happenings at the Gartner BPM Summit and mentions that Cordys is one of five companies on Gartner’s watch list for their updated BPMS magic quadrant
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SOA Web Services

SOA Web Services features Cordys’ appointment of Howard Green as Senior Vice President of Market Development (February 26, 2007)

SearchWebServices.com

SearchWebServices.com: Cordys Inc.'s President, Dado Vrsalovic, gives his views.(January 18, 2007)
In this coverage, SearchWebServices’ Rich Seeley asks vendors in the SOA space if they feel it is harder for bigger companies to compete with the leviathans in the marketplace.
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SearchWebServices.com: ‘Cordys’ SOA implementation generates savings for hydroelectric company in China’. (August 02, 2006)
In this article, SearchWebServices.com writes about the remarkable achievements of Cordys’ implementation of its integrated Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) platform at the Chinese Ertan Hydropower Development Company, Ltd. These achievements include:

50% faster decision making

10% reduction in procurement costs

50 % improvement in the availability, accuracy and presentation of information

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Government Technology

Business process management (January 12, 2007)

Cordys is a leading specialist of business process management software for the public sector. The company’s mission is to use its world class software solutions and expertise to help its customers adapt to an ever changing business environment  

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InfoWorld

Read InfoWorld review on WebEx to launch AppExchange rival (September 26, 2006)
InfoWorld : "WebEx, a forerunner of on-demand Web conferencing and interactive online products, launched its WebEx Connect Platform in an event Monday night, following SaaScon -- a software as a service conference. It allows existing software to be integrated with a variety of on-demand collaboration and business applications.."
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Red Herring

Read Red Herring review on Webex Takes on Salesforce (September 25, 2006)
Red Herring: "Webex has introduced Webex Connect, a service aimed at helping knowledge workers collaborate better while working and performing their tasks. ."
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ZDNet

Read ZDNet review on WebEx expands platform with workflow and apps (September 26, 2006)
WebEx is pushing beyond the boundaries of its Web conferencing, adding a custom workflow engine and composite application framework to its collaborative environment. The new service, called WebEx Connect, is due for release in Q1 2007, and is built on the company’s on-demand MediaTone network.
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Read ZDNet review on WebEx enters the Web 3.0 ecosystem wars (September 25, 2006)
ZDNet: "Salesforce.com’s AppExchange ecosystem is an attractive prospect for ISV partners, with 25,000 customers and half a million users to target. What then will on-demand ISVs make of the new ecosystem opportunity announced today by WebEx, which offers access to 25,000 customers and two million registered users?."
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CRN

Read CRN’s review on Cordys: “Cordys 4.2 Is All-You-Can-Eat BPM Suite For The Enterprise” (July 11, 2005)
CRN: " Cordys 4.2 is one of the most unique business process management (BPM) servers on the market today." "Beyond BPM, Cordys also arrives with integration services and integrated tools to develop composite applications that ride on top of its main services. Cordys ESB facilitates services-oriented-architecture-driven applications, and its enterprise services suite helps customers build applications without having to rely on multiple vendors."
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CXO

Read the roundtable interview of the leading US magazine for Chief Exectives, CXO America, with Cordys' CTO Theodoor van Donge on Enterprise Integration challenges
With an increasing number of publications focusing on the technical challenges and benefits of Enterprise Integration and Service Oriented Architectures (SOA), CXO America recognizes that organization and planning are key requisites for successful integration projects. In this article, CXO is turning to three chief executives for their practical advice on integration challenges..
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Read the editorial 'United we stand' by Cordys' CTO Theodoor van Donge and learn how Service Oriented Architecture could help drive your business
Cordys' CTO Theodoor van Donge: "How can you turn the challenge of integration into an opportunity, charting the fastest, most cost-effective course toward the kind of architecture that will enable your business to meet the challenges of today's rapid, competitive, global business landscape?". "There are a few basic guidelines and suggestions you should consider."
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InformationWeek

InformationWeek on Cordys Business Collaboration Platform (July 08, 2005)
Cordys software rated with 8 stars! CRN Test Center recommends Cordys as one of the most unique business process management (BPM) servers on the market today...
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WebServices

Read the WebServices Journal review on the Cordys platform in ‘Cordys BCP – True Collaboration SOA Web Services; Building collaborative systems at the business level’.(September 7, 2005)
In this article, WebServices Journal focuses on the Business Process Management and System Integration components of the Cordys platform. WebServices Journal: "The Cordys platform is a solid solution that can address the challenge of business collaboration. It allows business partners to visualize their relationship at the highest levels, understand the key functions and strengths of each business, and then model and integrate the individual business processes appropriately."
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