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OpenConnect Systems, Inc.

Product Name

soaComprehend

Market Segment

Enterprise IT infrastructure

Funding

OpenConnect Systems is majority owned by Goff Moore Strategic Partners. Goff Moore Strategic Partners assumed a controlling ownership interest in 1999, and increased its percentage of ownership in 2000. Since that time the company has been consistently profitable, and not required external financing.

Competitors

No direct competitors. Other companies that provide Web-enabling technologies for mainframes include attachMateWRQ, IBM, Jacada, NetManage and Seagull.

Product Description

soaComprehend is the only product that is able to automatically identify business process improvement by analyzing everyday user interactions with mainframe assets, exposing and capturing the latent business process knowledge utilized daily by the true business process experts - the end user community. Business processes are automatically identified and both the potential and actual value creation of service-oriented architecture services quantified providing both an ROI road map as well as dashboard.

Market Opportunity

IDC estimates that spending on systems management and infrastructure is going to grow dramatically over the next four years, growing from $606.6 million in 2005 to over $2.5 billion in 2009.

Demo Says

OpenConnect's novel approach to service-oriented architecture development starts with the user experience and business process to understand transaction flow. From this base of knowledge, the tools encapsulate real processes into Web services. Perhaps most importantly, though, this approach allows SOA to tap into