According to the privately held CommerceQuest, KMG’s software was aimed at business users, whereas its own data integration offerings were aimed more at IT departments, and at solving machine-to-machine integration problems.
The two companies, which have been long-term partners, said that integration between their respective products has already been achieved, making it one of the few companies able to offer both lower level enterprise application integration (EAI) – such as legacy application access applications – as well as higher level workflow and BPM tools aimed at less technical users.
KMG’s products, Traxion Process Modeler, Traxion Organization Modeler and Traxion Process Engine, are integrated into CommerceQuest’s component-based integration platform, enableNet Enterprise. CommerceQuest said that it is working on rebranding the KMG software along its own product family lines.
CommerceQuest tends to garner less attention than rival, publicly held companies in the data integration space such as Tibco Software Inc, SeeBeyond Technology Corp and webMethods Inc, but claims to be profitable and growing. It says it made revenue of over $30m in fiscal 2002.
CommerceQuest’s Data Integrator product is resold by IBM Corp, rebadged as Data Exchange, and CommerceQuest claims to be the only third-party integration software sold by IBM. In the last two years IBM has also upped its own ante in the data integration space by acquiring both CrossWorlds Software Inc and Holografix Inc.
Founded in 1991, Tampa, Florida-based CommerceQuest is a member of the Nasdaq-listed Internet Capital Group’s network of so-called partner companies. Internet Capital Group also put up the cash for the KMG acquisition. CommerceQuest claims 500 customers, including six of the top 10 global retailers, including Walmart, Ahold and Carrefour. In the UK it cites Dixons, HSBC and Home Depot among its client list.
As well as numerous competitors – including IBM – in the data integration space, in the BPM arena CommerceQuest competes with the likes of Filenet Corp, Documentum Inc, Savvion Inc, WindFire Technology, and Staffware Plc.
