Tokyo Star Bank Selects webMethods to Enable Agile Enterprise and Improved Customer-Oriented Services

FAIRFAX, Va., Nov. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- webMethods, Inc. (Nasdaq: WEBM), a
leading business integration company, today announced that Tokyo Star Bank,
Limited, a Tokyo-based regional bank with funds totaling more than 1 trillion
yen (over $9 billion), recently selected webMethods Fabric to enable an agile
enterprise and build an IT infrastructure that will help the firm offer
improved customer-oriented services.
Tokyo Star Bank's new offerings are focused around building robust
relationships with customers, while providing corporate growth and
differentiating its business through process efficiencies. The bank selected
webMethods Fabric for its IT infrastructure backbone in order to deliver the
new customer-oriented offerings because webMethods' vision of integrating,
assembling and optimizing business processes falls directly in line with the
bank's executive management philosophy.
"Tokyo Star Bank is building its information systems around answering a
variety of customer needs and keeping pace with rapidly changing market
demands," said Mr. Yutaka Murayama, executive officer and CIO, Tokyo Star
Bank. "webMethods provides Tokyo Star Bank with the agile IT system
infrastructure required to maximize return on investment and cope with the
constantly changing dynamics of the financial services environment."
Through the implementation of webMethods' Web services-based integration
solution, Tokyo Star Bank can fully leverage current IT assets, realize
flexible and low-cost operations, reduce development time and costs, and
quickly adapt to changing financial market conditions and customer needs.
Tokyo Star Bank expects webMethods Fabric will enable it to reduce business
process and associated IT system development and maintenance costs by 60%. » Tokyo Star Bank Selects webMethods to Enable Agile Enterprise and Improved Customer-Oriented Services