Kinexis is a consulting organization that works with enterprises and software vendors.

Chief consultant John Tibbetts, himself an active developer, provides clients with an architect's eye for solid system design, a familiarity with emerging technologies, and an acute sense of how to best use -- and avoid misusing -- popular techniques and components.

He frequently advises technical architecture teams as they come to strategic decisions. He also works in-the-trenches with development teams, advocating strict adherence to design principles, iterative development, constant testing, and programming for reuse. He offers training, technology recommendations, due-diligence evaluations, research services, and even hands-on programming. He has a special knack for making complex software issues comprehensible to senior management.

Clients have included IBM, Netscape, DTEEnergy, Sprint, Eastman Chemical, The University of California at San Francisco, USAA Insurance, Puget Power & Light, Asyst Technology, and Norwest Venture Capital.

Kinexis is a leader in the emerging category of "collaborative transactions." It has devised and implemented an integrated, single-metaphor develoment approach that brings together workflow, business-rule processing, access control, and in-context collaboration. This approach is captured in the open-source WorkThru Framework, a Java-based platform that uses middle-tier objects to hold and manipulate individual pieces of long-running work-in-progress.