Draft:Stonebranch

Stonebranch, Inc is a privately held software company with headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. The company offers a service orchestration and automation platform. , and works in the areas of job scheduling and workload automation, cloud computing automation, IT infrastructure automation , data pipeline orchestration, and orchestration (computing)

Stonebranch's global headquarters are in Atlanta, GA. Their European headquarters are based out of Frankfurt, Germany. Employees are distributed across the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia.

History:

Stonebranch was founded in 1999. Their initial product offering was Indesca, which was re-branded as the Universal Agent. In 2003, Stonebranch launched Infitran, which was rebranded as Universal Data Mover.

In 2011, Stonebranch merged with OpsWise. The OpsWise Automation Center was a job scheduling and workload automation platform. Opswise Automation Center was re-branded as the Universal Controller.

In 2014, the Stonebranch portfolio of applications were brought together as an integrated platform called Universal Automation Center (UAC).

In 2017, Stonebranch acquired Daring*

In 2021, Stonebranch launched the Universal Integration Platform.

In 2022, Stonebranch launched the Universal Data Mover Gateway

Products:

Stonebranch is a platform intended to support automation and orchestration of IT processes. The platform uses integrations to connect with third-party applications. Integrations are developed using a mix of agent technology, APIs, and web hooks. Stonebranch is categorized as a Service Orchestration and Automation Platforms (SOAP). According to Gartner, SOAPs enable I&O leaders to design and implement business services. These platforms combine workflow orchestration, workload automation and resource provisioning across an organization’s hybrid digital infrastructure. Additionally, Gartner recognizes Stonebranch as a representative vendor in the DataOps software category and the Infrastructure Automation and Orchestration software category

The product line consists of:


 * Universal Automation Center (UAC): Stonebranch platform, which includes the below components.
 * Universal Controller (initially released as Automation Center in 2008) - Web-based application that manages and automates workloads.
 * Universal Agent (UA) (initially released as Indesca in 1999) - Application designed to connect and control automation within third-party applications.
 * Universal Data Mover (UDM) (initially released as Infitran in 2003) - A sub-component of the Universal Agent, UDM is a managed file transfer (MFT) solution.
 * Universal Integration Platform (UIP) (initially released in 2021) - A platform used to connect UAC with third-party applications.
 * Universal Data Mover Gateway (UDMG) (initially released in 2022) - provides B2B managed file transfers (MFT) between trading partners.