Cordys
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Cordys is a software company providing a unified cloud platform solution based on Service-oriented architecture
Service-oriented architecture
In software engineering, a Service-Oriented Architecture is a set of principles and methodologies for designing and developing software in the form of interoperable services. These services are well-defined business functionalities that are built as software components that can be reused for...
, Business process modeling
Business process modeling
Business Process Modeling in systems engineering is the activity of representing processes of an enterprise, so that the current process may be analyzed and improved. BPM is typically performed by business analysts and managers who are seeking to improve process efficiency and quality...
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
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
and Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
.
History
The origin of Cordys goes back to 1978 and development of BaanBaan
Baan was a vendor of enterprise resource planning software that is now owned by Infor Global Solutions.Baan or Baan ERP was also the name of the ERP product created by this company.-History:...
company, one of the early developers of Enterprise Resource Planning
Enterprise resource planning
Enterprise resource planning systems integrate internal and external management information across an entire organization, embracing finance/accounting, manufacturing, sales and service, customer relationship management, etc. ERP systems automate this activity with an integrated software application...
(ERP) software. Jan Baan
Jan Baan
Jan Baan is the Founder & Chairman, Chief Innovation Officer of Cordys. He has over 25 years of entrepreneurial and business experience in the software sector and is internationally recognized for his key role in creating a worldwide market for Enterprise Resource Planning software.- Overview...
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
World Wide Web
The World Wide Web is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet...
, 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.
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, 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
Energy industry
The energy industry is the totality of all of the industries involved in the production and sale of energy, including fuel extraction, manufacturing, refining and distribution...
, Insurance
Insurance
In law and economics, insurance is a form of risk management primarily used to hedge against the risk of a contingent, uncertain loss. Insurance is defined as the equitable transfer of the risk of a loss, from one entity to another, in exchange for payment. An insurer is a company selling the...
, Manufacturing
Manufacturing
Manufacturing is the use of machines, tools and labor to produce goods for use or sale. The term may refer to a range of human activity, from handicraft to high tech, but is most commonly applied to industrial production, in which raw materials are transformed into finished goods on a large scale...
, 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
Business process management
Business process management is a holistic management approach focused on aligning all aspects of an organization with the wants and needs of clients. It promotes business effectiveness and efficiency while striving for innovation, flexibility, and integration with technology. BPM attempts to...
system, Service-oriented architecture
Service-oriented architecture
In software engineering, a Service-Oriented Architecture is a set of principles and methodologies for designing and developing software in the form of interoperable services. These services are well-defined business functionalities that are built as software components that can be reused for...
/Enterprise service bus
Enterprise service bus
An enterprise service bus is a software architecture model used for designing and implementing the interaction and communication between mutually interacting software applications in Service Oriented Architecture...
functionality, composite applications development, and Cloud technology.
The Cordys Business Operations Platform is a software stack that consists of Enterprise Service Bus
Enterprise service bus
An enterprise service bus is a software architecture model used for designing and implementing the interaction and communication between mutually interacting software applications in Service Oriented Architecture...
(ESB), Business Process Management
Business process management
Business process management is a holistic management approach focused on aligning all aspects of an organization with the wants and needs of clients. It promotes business effectiveness and efficiency while striving for innovation, flexibility, and integration with technology. BPM attempts to...
, Workflow
Workflow
A workflow consists of a sequence of connected steps. It is a depiction of a sequence of operations, declared as work of a person, a group of persons, an organization of staff, or one or more simple or complex mechanisms. Workflow may be seen as any abstraction of real work...
, Master Data Management
Master Data Management
In computing, master data management comprises a set of processes and tools that consistently defines and manages the non-transactional data entities of an organization...
, Business Activity Monitoring
Business activity monitoring
Business activity monitoring is software that aids in monitoring of business activities, as those activities are implemented in computer systems....
, and enterprise mashup framework. The entire platform is based on Service-Oriented Architecture
Service-oriented architecture
In software engineering, a Service-Oriented Architecture is a set of principles and methodologies for designing and developing software in the form of interoperable services. These services are well-defined business functionalities that are built as software components that can be reused for...
. Cordys also uses web services and XForms
XForms
XForms is an XML format for the specification of a data processing model for XML data and user interface for the XML data, such as web forms...
standards.
Developed by André Colosso Batista
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
Mashup (web application hybrid)
In Web development, a mashup is a Web page or application that uses and combines data, presentation or functionality from two or more sources to create new services...
or MashApps by combining standard business applications like Google Apps
Google Apps
Google Apps is a service from Google providing independently customizable versions of several Google products under a custom domain name. It features several Web applications with similar functionality to traditional office suites, including: Gmail, Google Groups, Google Calendar, Talk, Docs and...
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.
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 AccentureAccenture
Accenture plc is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company headquartered in Dublin, Republic of Ireland. It is the largest consulting firm in the world and is a Fortune Global 500 company. As of September 2011, the company had more than 236,000 employees across...
, Capgemini
Capgemini
Capgemini is a French global IT services company, one of the world's largest management consulting, outsourcing and professional services companies with a staff of 114,274 operating in 40 countries. It is headquartered in Paris and was founded in 1967 by Serge Kampf, the current chairman, in...
, CSC
Computer Sciences Corporation
Computer Sciences Corporation is an American information technology and business services company headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia, USA...
, Fujitsu
Fujitsu
is a Japanese multinational information technology equipment and services company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. It is the world's third-largest IT services provider measured by revenues....
, Wipro
Wipro
Wipro Limited formally Western India Products Limited is a global IT services and consulting company headquartered in Bangalore, India. As of 2011, Wipro is the second largest IT services company by turnover in India and employs more than 120,000 people worldwide as of March 2011...
, Emergent, and Hewlett Packard.
Cordys and Google partnership
Cordys is also an official Google Enterprise Partner. 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
Platform as a service
Platform as a service is a category of cloud computing services that provide a computing platform and a solution stack as a service...
(PaaS), this process orchestration solution helps companies build mashup applications or MashApps for the business.
See also
- Service-oriented architectureService-oriented architectureIn software engineering, a Service-Oriented Architecture is a set of principles and methodologies for designing and developing software in the form of interoperable services. These services are well-defined business functionalities that are built as software components that can be reused for...
- composite applications
- Platform as a ServicePlatform as a servicePlatform as a service is a category of cloud computing services that provide a computing platform and a solution stack as a service...
- Software as a ServiceSoftware as a ServiceSoftware as a service , sometimes referred to as "on-demand software," is a software delivery model in which software and its associated data are hosted centrally and are typically accessed by users using a thin client, normally using a web browser over the Internet.SaaS has become a common...
- XFormsXFormsXForms is an XML format for the specification of a data processing model for XML data and user interface for the XML data, such as web forms...