Holosofx was a privately held company based in El-Segundo, California, United States, that worked in the field of

Business Process Management Business process management (BPM) is the discipline in which people use various methods to discover, model, analyze, measure, improve, optimize, and automate business processes. Any combination of methods used to manage a company's business pro ...

(BPM). IBM acquired Holosofx in 2002. The software department of Holosofx was based in

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. Holosofx was founded in 1990 by Hassan Khorshid who is originally from

What does ''Holosofx'' mean?

Holosofx (h ôl ` ô säf ` eks), is derived from the

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term ''holop'' and the

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term ''sophic'', meaning whole and wisdom, respectively. This name was chosen because its products and services empower corporations to better understand their

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es, the cumulative wisdom of the organization.

Products

Started in 1990, Holosofx provided

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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 portfolio with its BPM Monitor product At the time of the acquisition of Holosofx by IBM, Holosofx had a portfolio of three products:IBM Redbooks. . Continuous Business Process Management with Holosofx BPM Suite and IBM. Preface and Section 1.4 (Product information)

* BPM Workbench Used for modeling and analysis and composed of the Business Modeler as the core with the Unified Modeling Language, UML Transformer (Modeler), Xform Designer, and

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Mapper as extensions. * BPM Monitor Used for monitoring business processes in real time * BPM Workbench Server Used to share process information via the

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Acquisition by IBM

Holosofx was acquired by IBM on September 12, 2002. IBM intended to strengthen its

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business integration infrastructure software by acquiring Holosofx which provides business process management software to

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companies. Holosofx has had a business relationship with IBM since 1998.

Notes

References

*IBM. IBM Acquires Holosofx to Extend WebSphere Business Integration Software Portfolio. September 12, 200

*IBM Redbooks. {{ISBN, 0-7384-2555-9. Continuous Business Process Management with Holosofx BPM Suite and IBM

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