Actional Wins eAI Journal "Product of the Year" Award.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 17, 2001 Panel of Top Industry Analysts Acknowledges Innovation, Market Impact and Technical Excellence of the Actional Control Broker Integration Platform Actional(TM) Corp., the leading provider of adaptive integration solutions for e-Business, Thursday announced that its Actional Control Broker (ACB ACB American Council of the Blind ACB Asia Commercial Bank ACB America's Community Bankers ACB Adjusted Cost Base ACB Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay ACB Amphibious Construction Battalion (US Navy) ACB Australian Cricket Board ) has received the eAI Journal Award for Product of the Year. The annual eAI Journal Awards recognize products, solutions and vendors that demonstrate innovation, maturity, and market impact and acknowledge excellence in enterprise e-Business technologies. Actional was named "Product of the Year" based on its adaptive integration framework that integrates front-end, back-end and legacy applications without inserting 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 or a centralized cen·tral·ize v. cen·tral·ized, cen·tral·iz·ing, cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To draw into or toward a center; consolidate. 2. EAI infrastructure. ACBs offer point and click simplicity for linking business services across and beyond the enterprise, without the need to modify existing infrastructure or applications, allowing enterprise services to appear as native modules of any other application. ACB represents a new approach to user-to-system integration by allowing the controlling application to act as its own integration hub, while delivering massive improvements in performance, scalability and throughput across both synchronous Refers to events that are synchronized, or coordinated, in time. For example, the interval between transmitting A and B is the same as between B and C, and completing the current operation before the next one is started are considered synchronous operations. Contrast with asynchronous. and asynchronous Refers to events that are not synchronized, or coordinated, in time. The following are considered asynchronous operations. The interval between transmitting A and B is not the same as between B and C. The ability to initiate a transmission at either end. connections. Actional's integration approach is a breakthrough in three ways: -- ACBs enable customers to build comprehensive e-Business services with real-time performance. Actional has a patented direct connect technology that achieves high performance by directly linking applications without any added middleware. -- Actional's approach adapts to the customer's existing software infrastructure. Investments both in legacy and newer applications can be carried forward well into the future, while implementation time and expense are minimized. -- As a server-less integration solution, Actional provides customers with true platform independence. In addition to being able to use the existing application infrastructure, customers need not purchase or be locked into a single integration server platform. In addition, Actional's integration platform is complementary to traditional EAI architectures designed for process automation. As a result, Actional's technology is licensed by leading EAI vendors and e-Business applications developers to extend their architectures and to offer end users personalized per·son·al·ize tr.v. per·son·al·ized, per·son·al·iz·ing, per·son·al·iz·es 1. To take (a general remark or characterization) in a personal manner. 2. To attribute human or personal qualities to; personify. , real-time access and control over businesses' integrated data. "Our Product of the Year category is always strongly contested," commented Tony M. Brown, editor-in-chief, eAI Journal. "We believe the award is one of the most prestigious in the IT industry because it is chosen by an independent panel of top analysts from Aberdeen, Gartner, Giga, Meta, and Patricia Seybold. "Actional is entitled to feel very proud -- its Control Broker was chosen by these leading experts as the best e-Business and application integration product of the year from among its peer group." "Actional is honored to receive this esteemed award from eAI Journal," said John Orcutt, chief executive officer of Actional. "eAI Journal is a highly respected publication in the integration space and its credibility in the industry adds additional recognition of Actional across the market." eAI Journal is a website and monthly magazine focusing on e-Business and application integration. It provides unrivalled analysis of business in the IT-driven economy, providing insight into such areas as B2B e-commerce (Business to Business Electronic-COMMERCE) Refers to one business selling to another business via the Web. See e-commerce. , m-commerce, 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. integration and middleware. About Actional Control Broker Actional is the only company today that offers adaptive integration for high transaction e-Business. Actional delivers high-performance integration that works with existing systems and applications, without adding new middleware 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 market touchpoint. 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 products are also licensed by leading EAI vendors, platform partners and e-Business application developers. Actional is backed by New Enterprise Associates, NeoCarta Ventures, and International Capital Partners. Actional can be contacted at 800/808-2271 or info@actional.com. More information about the company can be found at www.actional.com. [pilcrow (paragraph sign)] Actional and Control Broker are trademarks of Actional Corp. All other names mentioned above may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. |
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