Holosofx

Holosofx, Inc.
Privately held company (Acquired by IBM in 2002)
Founded 1990
Headquarters El-Segundo, CA, USA
Key people
 Hassan Khorshid, Chairman & CEO
Number of employees
 45 (2002)
Footnotes / references
Acquired by IBM in 2002

Holosofx was a privately held company based in El-Segundo, California, USA, 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.[1]

Holosofx was founded in 1990 by Hassan Khorshid [2] who is originally from Egypt.

What does Holosofx mean?

HOLOSOFX (h ôl ` ô säf ` eks), is derived from the Latin term holop and the Greek term sophic, meaning whole and wisdom, respectively.[3] This name was chosen because its products and services empower corporations to better understand their business processes, the cumulative wisdom of the organization.

Products

Started in 1990, Holosofx provided Business Process Reengineering and consultation services.

The first software product from Holosofx was a modelling tool originally called BPR, later renamed 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 three products:[4]

Used for modeling and analysis and composed of the Business Modeler as the core with the UML Transformer (Modeler), Xform Designer, and XML Mapper as extensions.

Used for monitoring business processes in real time

Used to share process information via the intranet/Internet.

Acquisition by IBM

Holosofx was acquired by IBM on September 12, 2002.

IBM intended to strengthen its WebSphere business integration infrastructure software by acquiring Holosofx which provides business process management software to Fortune 1000 companies.

Holosofx has had a business relationship with IBM since 1998.

Notes

  1. ↑ IBM Acquires Holosofx to Extend WebSphere Business Integration Software Portfolio. September 12, 2002. Last Paragraph.
  2. ↑ IBM Acquires Holosofx to Extend WebSphere Business Integration Software Portfolio. September 12, 2002. The paragraph before the last.
  3. ↑ IBM Redbooks. ISBN 0-7384-2555-9. Continuous Business Process Management with HOLOSOFX BPM Suite and IBM. Section 1.3 - HOLOSOFX company overview.
  4. ↑ IBM Redbooks. ISBN 0-7384-2555-9. Continuous Business Process Management with HOLOSOFX BPM Suite and IBM. Preface and Section 1.4 (Product information).

References

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