Acta Expands Real-Time Data Integration Usage With Release of ActaWorks 5.0.MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 2, 2001 Enterprises Can Now Rapidly Deploy Multiple Business Initiatives by Leveraging Acta's Enterprise-Wide Data Integration Capabilities with ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. , Oracle, SAP, Legacy and Other Operational Systems Acta Technology, Inc., provider of the first real-time data Real-time data denotes information that is delivered immediately after collection. There is no delay in the timeliness of the information provided. Some uses of this term confuse it with the term dynamic data. integration platform that makes enterprise data analytic an·a·lyt·ic or an·a·lyt·i·cal adj. 1. Of or relating to analysis or analytics. 2. Expert in or using analysis, especially one who thinks in a logical manner. 3. Psychoanalytic. and e-commerce e-commerce, commerce conducted over the Internet, most often via the World Wide Web. E-commerce can apply to purchases made through the Web or to business-to-business activities such as inventory transfers. ready, today announced the availability of ActaWorks 5.0, the latest version of its award winning data movement and management server, and two new software development kits (SDKs). The combined offerings will enable Fortune 2000 companies to realize quick return on investment by more rapidly deploying real-time data integration between any back-office sources -- Oracle, ERP, SAP and Legacy -- and any analytic, supply chain management (SCM (1) (Software Configuration Management, Source Code Management) See configuration management. (2) See supply chain management. ), customer relationship management (CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. ) or other business application. "Enterprise resource planning See ERP. (application, business) Enterprise Resource Planning - (ERP) Any software system designed to support and automate the business processes of medium and large businesses. , customer relationship management, and supply chain management are complex, so interacting and leveraging the full spectrum of data they contain usually means spending large amounts of time and money," said Barry Wilderman, Senior Vice President of META Group's Application Delivery Strategies service. "Working with leading vendors can help customers integrate application data into business processes and analytics without the high costs of custom programming." ActaWorks 5.0 Delivers Broad Access to Data from any Source ActaWorks 5.0, the core component in the Acta Data Integration Platform, includes a new messaging architecture and adapter A device that allows one system to connect to and work with another. An adapter is often a simple circuit that converts one set of signals to another; however, the term often refers to devices which are more accurately called "controllers. framework for enterprise-wide extensibility. Among the new features is a Web-based administration tool that enables monitoring, scheduling and recovery of data movement jobs. This enables flexible deployment for the enterprise, reducing administration costs, improving efficiencies, increasing productivity, and providing remote administration capabilities for better data management. In addition, ActaWorks 5.0 includes significant batch and real-time 1. real-time - Describes an application which requires a program to respond to stimuli within some small upper limit of response time (typically milli- or microseconds). Process control at a chemical plant is the classic example. performance enhancements for data flows, and a robust multi-user environment that allows developers to share and leverage their work in multiple projects across the enterprise. ActaWorks delivers a quick return on investment (ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). ) for analytic and integration projects by providing a single platform for rapid deployment. Companies require fewer resources to develop code, and there are no wasted costs associated with duplicated efforts. The result is companies can leverage their applications and information more quickly to help them become more efficient-for example, minimizing their operational costs and reducing overall supply chain costs. SDKs Extend Enterprise Assets Acta is also announcing the availability of the ActaWorks Adapter SDK (Software Developer's Kit) See developer's toolkit and Windows SDK. SDK - Software Developers Kit (or "Software Development Kit"). and the ActaWorks eCache SDK. The new ActaWorks Adapter SDK utilizes the extended framework of ActaWorks 5.0 to enable development of messaging interfaces for any data source. The new ActaWorks eCache SDK provides a best-practice methodology and process to design, develop and deploy data caches for any data source. The SDKs enable companies, or their system integrators See systems integrator. , to extend the use of their enterprise data assets, regardless of the data source, for a wide variety of real-time or batch uses. With these SDKs, Acta ensures that their customers can meet future data integration needs arising from deployment of new applications, implementation of new business processes, or through mergers and acquisitions. ActaWorks 5.0 and the SDKs together provide the first batch and real-time integration platform for quickly building cached data applications, greatly expanding an enterprise's use of real-time data. Data Integration: Emerging Component for Enabling eBusiness Data integration has been identified as a rapidly emerging component of eBusiness integration. True data integration requires intelligent caching caching - cache that blends batch extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) The functions performed when pulling data out of one database and placing it into another of a different type. ETL is used to migrate data, often from relational databases into decision support systems. ) technology with real-time bi-directional data flow across multiple applications for the extended enterprise. Industry analysts have sized the data integration market at $15B (cumulative) by 2005-a market that is being driven by the growing need to provide information-rich data both inside and outside the extended enterprise. With the addition of the latest release of ActaWorks 5.0 and the two new SDKs, Acta continues to set the standard for data integration platforms. The Acta Data Integration Platform consists of ActaWorks(TM), an award-winning data movement-and-management server, and eCaches(TM), a suite of packaged data caches that speed the delivery and integration of back-office data in the areas of sales and marketing, finance and operations, inventory and purchasing, as well as manufacturing and distribution. Pricing and Availability ActaWorks 5.0 is available today, starting at $50,000. The ActaWorks Adapter SDK and ActaWorks eCache SDK are individually priced. About Acta Technology, Inc. Acta provides the industry's first and only real-time data integration platform to drive today's new generation of real-time analytic, supply chain management and sell-side eCommerce applications. With Acta's highly scalable data platform, enterprises can maintain a real-time, online dialogue with customers, suppliers, employees and partners, providing them with the critical information they need for transactions and business analysis. Acta partners with system integrators and leading vendors offering enterprise resource planning (ERP), sell-side eCommerce, analytic and enterprise application solutions. The company's 200+ customers include IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Hewlett-Packard, Chevron, Shell, Monsanto and other leaders in the Global 1000. Headquartered in Mountain View, CA, Acta has international offices in London, Frankfurt, Paris, Stockholm, the Netherlands and Zurich. Sales and partnership inquiries should be directed to Acta's toll-free phone number 888/613-3282. For more information, visit the company's Web site at www.acta.com. Note to Editors: eCaches and ActaWorks are trademarks of Acta Technology, Inc. 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