Technology >> CEO Interviews >> March 2, 2000
JoMei Chang, PhD founded Vitria Technology in 1994 to help companies
automate and optimize their extended enterprise of business partners and
customers. This is now known as eBusiness. The goal was to have huge
business impact and to help businesses achieve a thousand-fold
improvement in their speed and flexibility of business execution. Under
her leadership, Vitria has delivered a software platform for eBusiness
that automates the business processes within the extended enterprise and
gives them unprecedented levels of visibility into, and control of,
their internal and external interactions. Ms. Chang is firmly focused on
building a long-term company that delivers enduring value to customers.
She eschews, for example, the popular approach of announcing products
when they are still on the drawing board preferring instead to announce
them after they have been built and successfully deployed. Ms. Chang's
unusual approach to building a company has received wide acclaim. In
1998, Forbes magazine called her "a woman of substance." Also in 1998,
Red Herring magazine highlighted Ms. Chang as one of their top 10
entrepreneurs of the year, and named Vitria as one of the top 50 private
technology companies. Ms. Chang is frequently invited to speak at
industry and business events. She recently spoke at the 1999 PC Forum,
and was invited by the Smithsonian Institution to serve as a judge for
the 1999 ComputerWorld Smithsonian Awards Program. Prior to Vitria, Ms.
Chang co-founded a company where she pioneered the development of the
digital trader workstation, which transformed securities and bond
trading around the world and created the first commercial market for
high performance workstations from vendors like Sun and Hewlett-Packard.
Previously, Ms. Chang served as a senior engineer at Sun Microsystems,
and was a senior research scientist at AT&T Bell Laboratories, where she
developed and patented the first reliable multicast protocol for
efficient, scalable information distribution across communication
networks. Ms. Chang's seminal work laid the foundation for 15 years of
research and development in the area of reliable multicast, a technology
that has risen to prominence for its ability to address congestion
problems on the Internet. Ms. Chang received her PhD in Database
Management Systems from Purdue University, and her BS in Computer
Science from ChiaoTung University, Taiwan. Profile
just to set the stage?
Ms. Chang: Vitria is the leading eBusiness platform provider. We are a
five-year-old software
