Vitria Technology Inc will next week add the Martini real-time analyzer to its event process engine, enabling users to make queries against data as it is collected, processed against rules and distributed to subscribers (CI No 3,245). The analyzer can provide continuously updated views of data that joins the real-time data with information stored in back-end systems. Vitria will offer Martini within version 2.0 of is BusinessWare suite which includes core system software plumbing or infrastruct ure services such a message broker/communicator (Velociti) and connectors to messaging and distributed components environments third party applications. What sits above the operating system (AboveWare in its parlance) are the services which form Vitria’s value proposition going forward. They include the Agiliti process automator and Martini, with additional pre-configured application templates expected to follow shortly. BusinessWare offers graphical interfaces to model information flows that c an be executed on the fly, an administration system and a viewer. Vitria’s aim is to deliver a zero programming interface enabling users to perform all tasks within a graphical environment requiring minimal hard or command-line coding. It’s got communicator modules for IBM MQ and SQL with SAP, Clarify, Peoplesoft, Oracle, MSMQ and CICS connections due now or next quarter. No Baan yet. Denying charges from its competitors that it’s largely a Trojan horse for consulting (CI No 3,395), Vitria sa ys 80% of its revenue is from products and 20% from services. It doesn’t deny it’s targeting ERP and database applications integration. Like everyone else it sees it sees a pot of gold in those markets. It claims much of its competition – Tibco, Talarian, Active Software, BEA – is more interested in plumbing and infrastructure technologies than the end-user services and dismisses nearest rival, the much bigger Crossworlds Software Inc and its Processware product as a proprietary, fixed function environment that can’t match the Java-based BusinessWare’s data integration functions. Vitria is still spending its way through the $9.5m venture funding it raised last year and claims to be beating its business plan (which was to break even by the end of this calendar year) by between 300% and 400%. It claims 20 customers and half a dozen production environments and says it’s now working on $8m and $9m deals. BusinessWare prices start at $60,000. It’s got no OEM deal yet but hints that it’s c losing in on SAP AG. It claims it has OEMs in hand; one database vendor and two system vendors.
