| Industry | Software |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2001 |
| Headquarters | Putten, Gelderland, The Netherlands |
| Key people |
Jan Baan, Founder & Chairman, Chief Innovation Officer |
| Products | Cordys Business Operations Platform, Cordys Process Factory |
| Employees | 450 |
| Website | Cordys.com |
Cordys is a global provider of software for business process innovation. Cordys provides a unified platform which combines the world of integration, Business Process Management , and composite application development. The Company is headquartered in Putten, The Netherlands, and has other offices across the Americas, EMEA and Asia-Pacific with the key research and development operations in The Netherlands and India.
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In 1978, the Baan company was created, it was one of the early developers of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software. In 2001, Jan Baan founded Cordys.
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, there was a demand from different enterprises to solve specific business problems. Baan argued in his book “Business Operations Improvement – The new paradigm in enterprise IT” 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 ERP serves very specific and valuable goals and that many companies have invested large amounts of money in them,[2] 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 Cordys Business Operations Platform (BOP) consists of a suite of Business Process Management, Integration and Composite Applications Development. The platform allows organizations to design, execute, monitor, change and optimize critical business processes and operations. This platform consists of three layers: a SOA Grid which makes integration with legacy IT systems available; a BPMS (Business Process Management Suite) for modelling and executing of critical business processes, and a Composite Application Framework to build rich internet applications . The platform is available both on-premise or as a PaaS (Platform as a Service) in a public, private or hybrid cloud.
Cordys Process Factory is a platform to create light weight business processes and web-based, process-centric applications. Users of Cordys Process Factory can create customized mash-up applications or MashApps by combining standard business applications like Google Apps and commercially available services, with Web services from anywhere. The online modelling environment is built on top of the Cordys Business Operations Platform.
Cordys Process Factory contains a MashApps Composer, an online modeling environment built on top of the Cordys Business Operations Platform. From the MashApps Composer, a business user can start with Cloud Application Development. The MashApps Composer allows the user to use the different features and graphical modeling. With the MashApps Composer, business users can create applications. Next to that, ISVs (Independent Software Vendors) can create and sell applications in the cloud marketplace of Cordys Process Factory.
Cordys has a growing customer base of organizations across the globe in different industry verticals like Communication, Energy and Utilities, Insurance, Manufacturing, Banking and Financial services, and Government. Key customers include Fujitsu , KPN , Netherlands Ministry of Defence , ING Vysya, AEGON Religare , Schneider Electric and Mercer . As a policy, Cordys has its sales and delivery cycles executed via direct sales or through a partner. The Cordys partner network includes system integrators, application service providers, ISVs and resellers. Some of their partners are CSC, Atos, Capgemini, Cognizant, Accenture and Wipro.[1] Cordys is also an official Google Enterprise Partner.
Cordys is recognized as a leading Business Process Platform by analyst firm IDC. In the report, titled: "IDC MarketScape: Business Process Platforms 2011 Vendor Analysis”, IDC mentions that “Cordys BOP is suitable for process projects ranging from the simple to the most sophisticated.”
Gartner - October 2011 Fujitsu to OEM Cordys for its Global Platform-as-a-Service Offering.
IDC - June 2011 IDC MarketScape: Business Process Platforms 2011 Vendor Analysis
Forrester - May 2011 Forrester's Platform-as-as-Service (PaaS) Wave 2011:
Ovum - January 2011 Technology Audit Cordys Business Operations Platform:
Forrester - January 2011 The Forrester Wave™: Dynamic Case Management:
Analysis Mason - October 2010 “Getronics’ partnership with Cordys delivers a strong Cloud platform for enterprises.
Gartner - October 2010 Visionary vendor in the Magic Quadrant for Business Process Management Suites.
Gartner - October 2010 Cordys is included in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for Systematic Application Integration Projects.
Forrester - September 2010 Forrester did a SWOT analysis of the Specialized Business Process Platform Vendors. In the report, Forrester notes that Cordys have “developed a comprehensive yet still compact and technically consistent business process platform.
Gartner - July 2010 The BPM Consulting and System Integration Capabilities of the Top BPMS Vendors