IBM Acquires Bowstreet, Inc.
IBM today announced the acquisition of Bowstreet, Inc., a Massachusetts-based provider of portal-based tools and technology that helps companies bring together corporate applications, documents, databases and other enterprise information into a single, integrated portal application, without requiring significant technical skills. By bringing together assorted data and information into a single “composite” application, businesses can more easily share and connect their data with customers, partners and suppliers, which increases collaboration and leads to increased organizational productivity.
Bowstreet will help further IBM’s strategy around service oriented architectures (SOA), a standards-based framework that enables enterprises to more effectively integrate data and applications with customers, partners and suppliers. Bowstreet will enable customers to more easily combine a wide variety of pre-existing data and enterprise applications seamlessly with their WebSphere Portal environments and leverage the benefits of an SOA architecture.
“For a global corporation with offices in many countries it is a challenging task to coordinate all aspects of its business operations. It soon became obvious that we needed a centralized, portal-based framework that would allow groups around the world to easily access and share business data,” said Thomas Berrang, vice president of eBusiness Enabling at Bayer Business Services. “We chose a combined WebSphere Portal and Bowstreet solution to build a secure standardized and adaptable framework. It provides a common user interface and includes tools to create customized workplaces that may integrate all kinds of systems and applications. This solution helped to significantly accelerate processes within the company and increase efficiency, particularly in the area of customer service. Today, employees at Bayer can easily access important information and are thus able to react with greater flexibility to the needs of their customers.”
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