Blueway Software

Blueway sells Phoenix, a single data platform that is meant to replace the usual patchwork of separate tools for process modeling, data quality, system integration and interface management. The company, which is French, argues that a business process with weak ties to the information system is little more than a chain of screens, and that processes and data therefore have to be designed together.

How Phoenix is split into modules

The site names five parts. MyDataCatalogue maps data and metadata so that a company can see what it holds and where. Process Governance models and automates business processes. Data Foundation deals with the structure of the information system itself, linking applications to one another. Data Governance is where reference data sets are created and their quality is managed. API Governance covers the life cycle of APIs and how they are exposed to other systems.

Behind these modules sit four disciplines: business process management, master data management, an enterprise service bus for moving data between applications, and API management. The pitch is that one platform covering all four stops companies from buying a new tool each time a new need appears, and the firm calls itself the only platform able to support the permanent transformation of companies and public bodies.

Why the firm says projects fail

Blueway's own reading is that change management and user adoption, rather than technology, are the first cause of failed IT projects. It therefore asks business teams and IT teams to agree on a process model first, and builds the integration and automation work on that shared model. The company says this reduces the tunnel effect, where a project is delivered to a specification that nobody revisits, and makes later changes easier to anticipate. The same logic applies to data: collecting, transporting, enriching and delivering it are treated as actions that can be automated and supervised, so that data serves business questions instead of being bound to a particular application.

Public bodies and mid-sized firms

Examples on the site come from local government and from smaller companies: a county department improving its dealings with mayors, a combined view of the people a public body serves, and a company streamlining the handling of incoming requests. The site also advertises webinar replays on data lineage, on governance and compliance across a data life cycle, and on AI agents.

A recent change of ownership

The site reports that SoftProject has acquired Blueway, describing the aim as building a European leader in data and process. It also notes that SoftProject has since acquired another company, dataspot.