[0] Actional To Work With Oracle To Deliver High-Performance e-Business Integration; Actional Adapters Extend the Integration Capabilities of Oracle9i Application Server.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 19, 2001 Actional(TM) Corporation, the leading provider of Control Broker integration solutions for e-Business, today announced that its adapters will be used to extend the integration capabilities of Oracle9i Application Server (Oracle9iAS) as part of a licensing agreement signed by the two companies. The adapters are based on Actional's high-performance Control Broker Integration Engine, and will provide the robust connectivity that Oracle9i Application Server uses to access legacy and packaged applications like Siebel, PeopleSoft and CICS (Customer Information Control System) A TP monitor from IBM that was originally developed to provide transaction processing for IBM mainframes. It controls the interaction between applications and users and lets programmers develop screen displays without . Additionally, Oracle and Actional plan to work together on the development of adapters using the Actional Control Broker Software Developer Kit (SDK (Software Developer's Kit) See developer's toolkit and Windows SDK. SDK - Software Developers Kit (or "Software Development Kit"). ) to accelerate integration of packaged applications. The integration features of Oracle9i Application Server provide a complete business-process-driven integration solution to efficiently integrate data, enterprise applications, Web services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term. , directories and users as well as to coordinate and manage business processes. They help eliminate the need for costly and complicated piecemeal multi-vendor solutions. "Actional enables us to extend our reach beyond the Oracle(R) environment with real-time end-to-end integration that is both fast to deploy and easy to use," said Rene Bonvanie, vice president of Oracle9i Marketing at Oracle. "The resulting Oracle9iAS Integration will help decrease the complexity of connecting a diverse and distributed IT environment, enabling Oracle customers to get their integration projects completed in weeks, rather than months." "Actional's innovative open platform architecture represents the next generation of high return, high performance integration -- a growing need in the Fortune 1000 customer base served by both Actional and Oracle," said John Orcutt, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Actional. "We are extremely pleased to see a market leader like Oracle support our Control Broker approach as a foundation for Oracle9i Application Server." About Actional Control Broker Actional delivers high-performance integration that works with existing systems and applications, without adding new middleware Software that functions as a conversion or translation layer. It is also a consolidator and integrator. Custom-programmed middleware solutions have been developed for decades to enable one application to communicate with another that either runs on a different platform or comes from a and software modification. Actional Control Broker platform enables deployment of enterprise services across hundreds of applications with broad support for industry standards such as XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. , Java, EJB (Enterprise JavaBeans) A software component in Sun's J2EE platform, which provides a pure Java environment for developing and running distributed applications. EJBs are written as software modules that contain the business logic of the application. , COM (1) (Computer Output Microfilm) Creating microfilm or microfiche from the computer. A COM machine receives print-image output from the computer either online or via tape or disk and creates a film image of each page. and CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) A software-based interface from the Object Management Group (OMG) that allows software modules (objects) to communicate with each other no matter where they are located on a private network or the global . The Actional Control Broker product line was designed to provide the utmost in performance, scalability, reliability and security. Representing an innovative approach to adaptive e-business application integration, Actional Control Broker provides the ability to control and access business services from any enterprise application. About Actional Actional is the market leader in adaptive integration architectures. The company's customers include leaders in the Global 2001, across financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. , communications, utilities, manufacturing and travel. Actional is backed by NeoCarta Ventures, New Enterprise Associates, and International Capital Partners. Actional can be contacted at 800/609-3301 or info@actional.com. More information about the company can be found at www.actional.com. Note to Editors: Actional and Control Broker are trademarks of Actional Corp. All other names mentioned above may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. Oracle is a registered trademark and Oracle9i is a trademark or registered trademark of Oracle Corporation. |
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