AgilePoint Announces the First BPM PaaS for Windows Azure, Mobility Support with REST, and Business Critical SharePoint (BCSP) at Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2012

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Oct. 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- — AgilePoint BPM PaaS for Windows Azure — Today at the 2012 Gartner Symposium and ITxpo, AgilePoint, announced the immediate availability of AgilePoint BPM Platform as a Service (BPM PaaS) for Windows Azure, enabling companies to automate business processes and workflows with the powerful combination of the AgilePoint BPMS and Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Azure cloud platform.

AgilePoint BPM PaaS for Windows Azure is a powerful business process management solution built for the Windows Azure cloud platform, enabling customers to implement AgilePoint for Windows Azure immediately without having to build a BPM infrastructure.

AgilePoint's stateless architecture is the key to enable a true REST-based BPM solution which will not only serve traditional Web or SharePoint solutions but also includes mobile and Web 2.0 application requirements. "Our REST API enables platform independent access of AgilePoint using JavaScript, JQuery, etc. from IOS, Android, and Web 2.0 applications and lessens the dependency on .NET skills," said Jesse Shiah, CEO at AgilePoint. "Azure coupled with AgilePoint's true model-driven, metadata-based SOA composition environment enables you to build and deploy multiple end-to-end solutions through a unique and agile Shared Services infrastructure."

One of the key benefits of AgilePoint BPM PaaS for Windows Azure is its ability to integrate secure, scalable and robust BPM capabilities across multiple LOB systems (either on premise and/or in the cloud). This enables a company to quickly create composite production-grade, business-critical applications, integrated with all of their business systems, regardless of where they reside.

The combination of AgilePoint BPM PaaS and Azure allows you to elastically scale with demand, which is typically not possible with legacy on-premise BPM engines. Jesse Shiah went on to add, "BPM PaaS delivered through Azure not only provides the more traditional VM-based roles but also what Microsoft is calling a Web Worker role. This is more like a usage-based configuration that is capable of dynamically provisioning more or less computing resources allocation based on demand. In either case, our combined solution dramatically reduces the time and expense associated with a thriving BPM initiative."

AgilePoint BPM PaaS for Windows Azure features the same great benefits as the entire line of AgilePoint products, including intuitive and easy-to-use design and deployment environment, comprehensive set of workflow models, library of over 100 pre-built workflow components, and scalability to meet the demanding needs of the Global 2000.

About AgilePoint, Inc.
AgilePoint is an industry leader in delivering business process management (BPM) solutions to the Global 2000 companies, many in the Regulated, Utility, Manufacturing, and Professional Services industries. AgilePoint uniquely places business process design and deployment in the hands of knowledgeable business users and enables them to respond rapidly to the needs of the business without the need of custom code by IT. 

Founded in 2003 and privately held, AgilePoint is the founding core partner of Microsoft's Business Critical SharePoint (BCSP) program and not only were we instrumental in crafting this program and bringing it to reality since 2011 but are the most active promoter of BCSP. This is primarily due to its alignment with the support for end-to-end BPM and the focus on SharePoint's role in helping companies with accelerating and realizing the promise of BPM.

SOURCE AgilePoint, Inc.