fremantle headquarters united states number of locations usa mountain view ca uk london brazil s o paulo and sri lanka colombo jaffna 1 key people sanjiva weerawarana phd founder ceo & chief architect ; paul fremantle co founder & cto ; james clark director number of employees 470 website http wso2.com wso2 sometimes stylized as wso2 is an open source technology company providing service oriented architecture soa middleware . it is best known for its enterprise service bus api management governance and analytics offerings some of which are notably used by ebay boeing experian and others . wso2 was founded by dr. sanjiva weerawarana and paul fremantle in august 2005 and has been backed by investment from intel capital toba capital pacific controls and others . as of 2015 wso2 has offices in usa mountain view ca ; bloomington in uk london and sri lanka colombo with the bulk of its research and operations being conducted from its main office in palm grove colombo . the company rose to prominence after ebay revealed that a key element of their transaction processing software used the open source wso2 esb . 2 wso2 products are released under the apache license version 2 . 3 like the apache project itself wso2 follows open development principles and airs architecture and development discussions public mailing lists . the company is noted by gartner 4 as being one of the leading competitors in the application infrastructure market . contents 1 history 2 products 2.1 api management 2.2 integration 2.3 analytics 2.4 identity management and security 2.5 management and governance 2.6 mobile and iot 2.7 foundation servers and frameworks 3 online services 4 see also 5 references 6 external links history edit the wso2 office at palm grove colombo wso2 was set up by sanjiva weerawarana 5 an ibm researcher who was one of the founders of the web services platform . citation needed sanjiva led the creation of ibm soap4j citation needed which later became apache soap and went to architect other notable projects including apache axis apache wsif the ibm web services gateway and ibm bpws4j . he was joined by paul fremantle one of the authors of ibm s web services invocation framework and the web services gateway . citation needed paul an apache member since the original apache soap project oversaw the donation of wsif and wsdl4j to apache and led ibm s involvement in the axis c c project . he became wso2 s cto in 2008 . 6 paul was subsequently named one of infoworld s top 25 ctos in 2008 . 7 wso2 s first product was code named tungsten and was meant for the development of web applications . tungsten was followed by wso2 titanium which would later become wso2 enterprise service bus . 8 in 2006 intel capital invested 4 million in wso2 9 intel would continue to invest over the years . in 2010 godel technologies also invested in wso2 for an unspecified amount 10 and in 2012 they raised a third round of 10 million . 11 12 official wso2 records point to this being from toba capital cisco and intel capital . 13 in august 2015 a funding round led by pacific controls and toba raised another 20 million . 14 15 a subsidiary wso2mobile was launched in 2013 with harsha purasinghe of microimage as the ceo and co founder . 16 in march 2015 wso2.telco was launched in partnership with malaysian telecommunications company axiata 17 with axiata holding a majority stake in the venture . 18 wso2mobile has since been re absorbed into its parent company . historically wso2 has had a close connection to the apache community with a significant portion of their products based on or contributing to the apache product stack . 19 likewise many of wso2 s top leadership have contributed to apache projects . in 2013 wso2 donated its stratos project to apache in 2013 . 20 21 products edit wso2 products make heavy use of java technology and are built on top of carbon the company s soa middleware platform . carbon makes use of apache axis2 and encapsulates soa functionality 22 such as data services business process management esb routing transformation rules security throttling caching logging and monitoring . wso2 products are built on top of this platform . api management edit api manager api management platform for creating deploying and managing apis to expose data and functionality of backend systems api cloud hosted api management service integration edit enterprise service bus allows developers to connect and manage systems and software in accordance with soa governance principles . data services server provides a web service interface for data stores . message broker translates validates and routes messages between systems . business process server a graphical console to manage business processes and human tasks business rules server a platform for implementing and managing business services analytics edit data analytics server real time batch interactive and predictive analytics using enterprise data . formerly wso2 business activity monitor . complex event processor real time event processing and detection . uses wso2 siddhi and apache storm . machine learner explorative data analysis using models to generate predictions . uses apache spark . identity management and security edit identity server connects and manages multiple identities management and governance edit app manager facilitates the process of creating deploying and managing applications governance registry storage cataloging indexing managing and governing metadata related to enterprise assets mobile and iot edit iot server internet of things platform enterprise mobility manager device management and business policy enforcement for mobile devices foundation servers and frameworks edit enterprise store asset storefront publishing and asset lifecycle management capabilities storage server multi tenant structured and unstructured data storage to development projects user engagement server a platform for creating dashboards and microsites for visualizing data not all components are used as stand alone implementations ; many are used to supplement the capabilities or add functionality to an implementation of the enterprise service bus . wso2 s business model is based on the provision of support and engineering services for solutions implementing any of the above . online services edit in june 2015 wso2 launched wso2 cloud online portal with saas versions of its open source products . 23 the following services are currently available api cloud api management service to develop host and administer api programs . app cloud application hosting service . customers can host their apis in the following regions 24 us east us west brazil s o paulo eu ireland eu frankfurt singapore japan tokyo australia sydney south korea seoul india mumbai china beijing . see also edit apache software foundation amazon web services google app engine azure services platform information technology in sri lanka references edit wso2 contact us . retrieved 27 september 2016 . open source helps ebay process 2000 per second informationweek . informationweek . retrieved 2015 11 12 . the apache software foundation jan 2004 . apache license version 2.0 . . retrieved 2011 08 29 . comparing comprehensive application infrastructure vendors 2014 . www.gartner.com . retrieved 2015 11 12 . wso2 ten years it takes two to tango the source . wso2.com . retrieved 2015 11 12 . sanjiva weerawarana s blog paul becomes cto of wso2 . sanjiva.weerawarana.org . retrieved 2015 11 12 . the best ctos of 2008 . infoworld . retrieved 2015 11 12 . wso2 10 years and flying high . www.ft.lk . retrieved 2015 11 12 . ws02 success stories . www.intelcapital.com . retrieved 2015 11 12 . godeltech invests in wso2 godel technologies wso2 inc . wso2.com . retrieved 2015 11 12 . sec form d . www.sec.gov . retrieved 2015 11 12 . funding daily a truly black friday . venturebeat . retrieved 2015 11 12 . wso2 attracts 10 million in funding following 220 % year over year growth in new customer adoption of wso2 s cloud and enterprise middleware wso2 inc . wso2.com . retrieved 2015 11 12 . sec form d . www.sec.gov . retrieved 2015 11 12 . open source cloud and middleware company wso2 attracts 20 million in funding led by pacific controls global provider of internet of things managed solutions . yahoo finance . retrieved 2015 11 12 . wso2 launches wso2mobile subsidiary to focus on enterprise mobile applications and device management wso2 inc . wso2.com . retrieved 2015 11 12 . wso2 axiata group partner to launch open source api platform . www.ft.lk . retrieved 2015 11 12 . axiata to invest 2.6 m in us based wso2 telco inc for 70 % stake . dealstreetasia . retrieved 2015 11 12 . wso2 and the apache way wso2 inc . wso2.com . retrieved 2015 11 12 . avram abel 24 june 2013 . wso2 donates stratos to the apache foundation . infoq . retrieved 21 september 2016 . mayer chris 25 june 2013 . wso2 s diy cloud stratos welcomed into apache incubator . jaxenter . retrieved 21 september 2016 . c1 control character in title at position 5 help david worthington 2009 02 09 . wso2 launches platform built on osgi spec . sdtimes . retrieved 2011 08 29 . avram abel 3 june 2015 . wso2 announces api cloud and app cloud . infoq . retrieved 27 september 2016 . wso2 cloud pricing and availability . retrieved 27 september 2016 . external links edit wso2 home page wso2 cloud services api cloud and app cloud wso2 product documentation retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title wso2 & oldid 741652734 categories software companies of sri lankasoftware companies of the united stateshidden categories cs1 errors invisible charactersall articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from august 2016 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store 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