Tuesday, August 16, 2005
Ipedo Wins SOA Contest
Under the Radar held a SOA [service oriented architecture] contest last Tuesday between 4 intriguing companies in the SOA space. The companies competing were IPedo [the one that took home the prize for top innovator], Blue Titan, Reactivity, and Appistry. Of these, I'd give the best name prize to Appistry. Their name implies they're integrators of applications and just rolls off the tongue quite nicely. Congrats to their founders on choosing such a smart name.The VC judges were Venky Ganesan of Globespan Capital Partners, Evangelos Simoudis of Trident Capital, and Bill Burnham of Celsius Capital. Steve Fox, the editor in chief of InfoWorld was the moderator and the consensus was that he was great.
From the under the radar blog...
"Turns out, Tim Matthews of Ipedo took the VC vote for Top Innovator. Make sure you check out Tim's blog, "Integration Insider", too. Blue Titan's Frank Martinez (a very illustrious character), got the audience's vote for Top Innovator. It is very rare that the VC and audience outcome match, which is not all that surprising. Frank managed a few more votes than Reactivity's Glenn Osaka, also very dynamic. Glenn was last to present, and came straight out of the gate with sample use cases of Reactivity's applications that prove its value and cost savings for customers. Kevin Haar of Appistry was also amongst the contenders and pitched their Appistry Enterprise Application Fabric."
I don't currently have the time to break down what each company competing actually does but it appears their main product enables companies to use relational databases such like SQL & Oracle or an XML database seamlessly. I'm guessing they do the integration to and from into a web service and distribute the data for reporting and such via encryped & secure web services but I'm just guessing after glancing at their site briefly.
Posted By Jason Dowdell at 10:18 AM
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