Active Software Selects Insession's TransFuse Accessware Technology for Mainframe Integration; TransFuse Expanded to Include Event-Based Integration Technology.BOULDER, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 10, 1998--A strategic partnership agreement Wednesday announced will position Insession Inc.'s TransFuse trans·fuse v. To administer a transfusion of or to. trans·fus  a·ble adj. accessware as mainframe integration technology for Active Software Inc.'s Integration System, a network-based suite of software products for the enterprise application integration market. TransFuse component technology supports interoperability between distributed systems and transaction processing (TP) environments. It simplifies the task of distributing transactions and messages and is independent of server type, network protocols, object technology, TP monitors and messaging systems. The agreement heralds a new utilization of TransFuse in the event-based integration technology field, known as "publish and subscribe (1) To provide a source of information that users select from and then receive on a regular basis or when certain events occur. The service can be public or private, free or paid, and information can be provided via e-mail and the Web or by means of proprietary applications. ," according to Mark Phillips, Insession chief technical officer. With TransFuse embedded in Active Software's Mainframe Adapters, TP applications such as IBM's 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 and IMS (1) See IP Multimedia Subsystem. (2) (Information Management System) An early IBM hierarchical DBMS for IBM mainframes. IMS was widely implemented throughout the 1970s under MVS and continues to be used under z/OS. , Tandem's Pathway and BEA's Tuxedo can either respond to (subscribe) or initiate the transfer of data (publish) to other applications, making mainframe resources available on demand to distributed enterprise systems. "In practice, applications integrated with Active Software's Integration System can now subscribe to TP monitor applications. These applications, including MVS (Multiple Virtual Storage) Introduced in 1974, the primary operating system used with IBM mainframes (the others are VM and DOS/VSE). MVS is a batch processing-oriented operating system that manages large amounts of memory and disk space. batch applications, will be able to either publish or subscribe to Active Software events," Phillips said. Active Software's Integration System is the first product to significantly reduce the complexity of integrating computing resources, such as packaged and custom applications, databases, Internet applications and legacy systems. The system is based on events-messages that reflect a customer's business processes. The company offers specific integration solutions for major markets, such as 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. (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. ), supply chain management, customer service, e-commerce and many others. "The ability to develop support for Active Software's Integration System in a very short time is more proof of the inherent adaptability of TransFuse," Phillips said. "It can be part of any solution requiring program-to-program communication between mainframe content and client/server applications." About Insession Insession, based in Boulder, develops, sells and supports software products in the enterprise application server and networking marketplace. It specializes in both distributed and large-scale computing environments, particularly those involved with Internet access to traditional mainframe computers. The company provides software products that enable access, interoperability and integration of new technologies, such as those associated with the Internet, with existing systems and their content as represented by large 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) , Tandem and UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). computers. Insession has strategic partnerships with a number of companies including Netscape, Inprise Corp. (formerly Borland), NetDynamics and Sybase. In addition, Insession is an OrbixWise partner of Iona and an Alliance partner of Tandem. Additional information about Insession can be obtained at http://www.insession.com. CONTACT: Lages & Associates Paula Brici Bordigon, 949/453-8080 paula@lages.com |
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