webMethods Acquires Cerebra's Semantic Metadata Management Technology

webMethods Inc., a provider of integration and optimization solutions, has revealed via a press release that it has acquired all Cerebra Inc. assets related to semantic metadata management technology. WebMethods emphasized Cerebra's technology integration in the future variants of its own Fabric product suite.

"webMethods Fabric brings together advanced business integration and business process management (BPM) technologies within a proven service-oriented architecture (SOA) infrastructure to help enterprises continually improve their most critical processes. Cerebra's technology will serve as webMethods' federated metadata repository. It will provide users with greater visibility and a richer understanding of available software assets and their associated metadata histories," stated the press release.

Semantic metadata administration translates into improved accessibility and interoperability of SOA and BMP assets, while delivering a structural comprehensive and dynamic integration metadata process and synchronous business vocabulary. The technology will also act as common ground for automated semantic metadata maintenance.

"webMethods has long recognized the opportunity for enterprises to extend reuse to their entire portfolio of IT assets, including services, business rules and processes, data and infrastructure. This is in sharp contrast with our competition's more limited view of reuse," said David Mitchell, president and CEO, webMethods, Inc. "This acquisition advances our vision for reuse by enabling us to offer our customers the most advanced, standards-based technology for managing the underlying metadata that is essential to the reuse of all IT assets."