webMethods, Inc. provides business integration and optimization software worldwide. It offers webMethods Fabric, a business integration and optimization product suite that comprises four product groups: enterprise services platform, business process management, business activity monitoring, and composite application framework. The company also provides packages and project implementations, advisory services, product training, and ongoing outsourced maintenance and operational support. In addition, it licenses its software and sells its services primarily through its direct sales organization, as well as through other sales channels, including its strategic software vendor partners, systems integrators, other partners, distributors, and resellers. As of March 31, 2006, the company had approximately 1,400 customers in various industries, including manufacturing, chemicals, oil and gas, life sciences, metals, paper and plastics, financial services, consumer goods manufacturing and retail, government, and telecommunications. It has strategic relationships with Accenture, Atos Origin, BearingPoint, Capgemini, CGI-AMS, Crowe Chizek, Computer Sciences Corporation, Deloitte, Electronic Data Systems Corporation, Global eXchange Services, Hewlett-Packard, and Tata Consulting Services. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia. As of June 1, 2007, webMethods, Inc. is a subsidiary of Software AG.