Axway Launches Synchrony 4
Type: Competitive Intelligence Report
Analyst: B. Shimmin
Report Date: August 3, 2007
Module: Application Infrastructure
ID: CIR25038 |
Current Perspective: Positive
Vendor Importance: High
Market Impact: Moderate |
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Summary
Event Summary
July 31, 2007 -- Axway announced the launch of Synchrony 4.0, the latest version of its flagship solution, which allows businesses to efficiently manage and control business-critical information. Synchrony 4.0 tightly integrates technology Axway acquired from Cyclone Commerce to offer enhanced service-oriented architecture (SOA) capabilities and continued excellence in business activity monitoring and usability. By taking advantage of this solution, businesses across many industries are poised to improve value chain efficiency, regulatory compliance, and quality of service.
Analytical Summary
• Current Perspective: Positive on Axway’s release of Synchrony 4.0, which marks a substantial revision to its core, foundational technology used across ten products covering integration, B2B collaboration, managed file transfer, partner management, and business activity monitoring (BAM). These enhancements also extend to the company's vertical market solutions including healthcare, financial, and aviation. With Synchrony 4.0, Axway has kept its core technology relevant and competitive to stave off displacements and to retain its existing customer base.
• Vendor Importance: High to Axway, which needed to prove its commitment to a combined customer base (Cyclone Commerce and Axway) through continued integration and rationalization efforts across disparate product lines. The company also needed to make good on its stated support for a broad suite of SOA standards and practices, which it has accomplished in this release.
• Market Impact: Moderate on the integration software and services market, because all competing vendors carry forward integrated technologies through rationalization and integration efforts. Also, support for SOA standards and improved performance and scalability have fast become a standard requirement among customers. However, Axway’s continued investment in vertically oriented solutions will help the company stay relevant in a market that is being framed by both hosted integration providers and broader SOA suite vendors.
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