Holosofx
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| Holosofx, Inc. | |
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| Type | Privately held company (Acquired by IBM in 2002) |
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| Founded | 1989 |
| Headquarters | El-Segundo, CA, USA |
| Key people | Hassan Khorshid, Chairman & CEO |
| Employees | 45 (2002) |
| Acquired by IBM in 2002 | |
Holosofx was a privately held company based in El-Segundo, CA that worked in the field of Business Process Management (BPM). IBM acquired Holosofx in 2002. The software department of Holosofx was based in Cairo, Egypt.
Holosofx was founded in 1989 by Hassan Khorshid who is originally from Egypt.
[edit] What does Holosofx mean?
HOLOSOFX (h ôl ` ô säf ` eks), derived from the Latin term holo and the Greek term sophic, meaning whole and wisdom, respectively. The founder of Holosofx chose this name because its products and services empower corporations to better understand their business processes, the cumulative wisdom of the organization.
[edit] Products
Started in 1989, Holosofx provided Business Process Reengineering and consultation services.
The first software product from Holosofx was a modelling tool originally called BPR and then later re-named to WF-BPR, and finally BPM Workbench.
In 1997, Holosofx extended its portifolio with its BPM Monitor product
At the time of the acquisition of Holosofx by IBM, Holosofx had a portifolio of 3 products:
- BPM Workbench
Used for modeling and analysis and is composed of the Business Modeler as the core with the UML Transformer (Modeler), Xform Designer, and XML Mapper as extensions.
- BPM Monitor
Used for monitoring business processes in real time
- BPM Workbench Server
Used to share process information via the intranet/Internet.
[edit] Acquisition by IBM
Holosofx was acquired by IBM in September 12, 2002.
Big Blue intended to strengthen its WebSphere business integration infrastructure software by acquiring Holosofx which provides business process management (BPM) software to Fortune 1000 companies.
Holosofx has had a business relationship with IBM since 1998.
