Cordys

CORDYS

Industry	Software
Founded	2001
Headquarters	Putten, Gelderland, The Netherlands
Key people	Jan Baan, Founder & Chairman, Chief Innovation Officer Per Jonsson, Chief Executive Officer Theodoor van Donge, Chief Technology Officer Hans de Visser, Chief Marketing Officer Wouter van Grootheest, Chief Financial Officer Agalya Kitherian, Senior Vice President, Product Delivery
Products	Cordys Business Operations Platform, Cordys Process Factory
Employees	550
Website	Cordys.com

Cordys is a software company providing a unified cloud platform solution based on Service-oriented architecture, Business process modeling and composite applications development to different enterprises. The Company is headquartered in Putten, The Netherlands, and has other offices across the Americas, Europe and Asia with the key research and development operations in The Netherlands, India and Israel.

History

The origin of Cordys goes back to 1978 and development of Baan company, one of the early developers of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software. Jan Baan decided to move to beyond the ERP space and founded Cordys in 2001.

Jan Baan, the Founder & Chairman, Chief Innovation Officer of the company, identified that ERP systems no longer justified the costs, and lacked flexibility and agility. With globalization and the increasing popularity of the World Wide Web, there was a demand from different enterprises to solve specific business problems. Baan argued in an interview that it is difficult to address problems of a world driven by the Internet with ERP systems as they were made long before the Internet became a part of daily business.^[1]

From 2001, Cordys started research into combining the elements of existing ERP and the upcoming internet-based cloud technology. The company realized that ERPs serve very specific and valuable goals and that many companies have invested large amounts of money in them,^[2] so the company started developing a platform that encapsulates some of the elements of existing ERP “behind the scenes” and simultaneously makes use of what the Internet has to offer as the “front end”.

The company has launched a platform called Cordys Business Operations Platform. Cordys operates in different industry verticals like Communication, Energy and Utilities, Insurance, Manufacturing, Banking and Financial services, and Government.

Products

Cordys has two offerings based on a single platform: the Cordys Business Operations Platform, and the Cordys Process Factory. Cordys Business Operations Platform and Cordys Process Factory are complementary products.

The Cordys Business Operations Platform is a single platform, which allows organizations to design, execute, monitor, change and optimize critical business processes and operations. It is a combination of Business process management system, Service-oriented architecture/Enterprise service bus functionality, composite applications development, and Cloud technology.

The Cordys Business Operations Platform is a software stack that consists of Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), Business Process Management, Workflow, Master Data Management, Business Activity Monitoring, and enterprise mashup framework. The entire platform is based on Service-Oriented Architecture. Cordys also uses web services and XForms standards.

Developed by André Colosso Batista

Cordys Process Factory

Main article: Cordys Process Factory

The Cordys Process Factory offers a solution to create new business processes and web-based, process-centric applications. Users of Cordys Process Factory can create customized mash-up applications or MashApps by combining standard business applications like Google Apps and commercially available services, with Web services from anywhere.

Cordys Process Factory is powered by Cordys and provides many of the Cordys Business Operations Platform capabilities in a SaaS model. The online modeling environment is built on top of the Cordys Business Operations Platform.

Cordys Process Factory also supports community building by offering a community Portal, where users can come together and share their MashApps and exchange ideas. Cordys Process Factory also provides an online marketplace for different categories of ready to use MashApps. Some of these MashApps are paid while some of them are free.^[3] products include

Partnerships

As a policy, Cordys has its sales and delivery cycles executed either with a partner or through a partner. The Cordys partner network includes system integrators, application service providers, ISVs and resellers. Some of their partners are Accenture, Capgemini, CSC, Fujitsu,^[4] Wipro, Emergent, and Hewlett Packard.^{[citation needed]}

Cordys and Google partnership

Cordys is also an official Google Enterprise Partner.^{[5] [6]} Cordys Process Factory for Google Apps is a hosted development environment for building business applications in the cloud with integrated BPM. Based on a Platform as a Service (PaaS), this process orchestration solution helps companies build mashup applications or MashApps for the business.

See also

• Service-oriented architecture
• composite applications
• Platform as a Service
• Software as a Service
• XForms

Reference

1. ^ Interview of Jan Baan
2. ^ ZDnet CEO Interview
3. ^ Cordys Process Factory MashApps Marketplace
4. ^ Scott, Jennifer (2011-09-14). "Cordys set to join cloud forces with Fujitsu". Cloud Pro. http://www.cloudpro.co.uk/paas/1721/cordys-set-join-cloud-forces-fujitsu. Retrieved 2011-10-15. 
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