AmberPoint Demonstrates Live Cross-Platform Management Capabilities for IBM, Microsoft, Iona, eXcelon and The Mind Electric.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers OAKLAND, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 9, 2002 AmberPoint(TM), Inc., today announced successful demonstration of cross-platform interoperability for its Web services management solution. Through a live, cross-vendor demo at last week's 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. Web Services One conference, AmberPoint showed how its AmberPoint Management Foundation provides essential Web services management, monitoring and security capabilities across federated Connected and treated as one. See federated database and federated directories. , heterogeneous Web services environments. Conference attendees saw how AmberPoint transparently manages Web services built on any platform and provides real-time insight into business activities by inspecting XML message content across diverse Web services environments. Cross-Vendor Business and System Visibility Together with 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) (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :IBM), Microsoft (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :MSFT MSFT Microsoft (stock symbol) MSFT Movimento Sociale Fiamma Tricolore (Italy) MSFT Multi-Stage Fitness Test MSFT Master of Science in Family Therapy MSFT Macalester Students for Fair Trade ), IONA (NASDAQ:IONA), eXcelon and The Mind Electric, AmberPoint showed Web services integration in action based on a realistic business scenario. In the Web Services Interoperability The Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) is an industry consortium chartered to promote interoperability amongst the stack of web services specifications. Demonstration (WSID WSID Western Sydney International Dragway (Australia) WSID What Should I Do? WSID Workstation Identification WSID Wlan Specific Identifier ), customers, suppliers, warehouses and banks transacted business across a variety of technology platforms. The scenario illustrated the ease with which organizations can achieve benefits from Web services standards already in place. AmberPoint Management Foundation extracted information from the Web services traffic between participating software vendors. For example, the AmberPoint dashboard showed real-time information on the total and average dollar amounts of all orders placed in the demonstration. The system also tracked business volume broken down by individual vendor. Additionally, AmberPoint was able to monitor the overall health of the demonstration, showing system availability, throughput, and performance. Seamless Integration Each of the participating vendors developed their end-points independently and without regard to the AmberPoint management system. AmberPoint was immediately able to extract detailed information from the running system without requiring coding or system changes to the vendors' Web services. "Cross-vendor SOAP, WSDL (Web Services Description Language) An XML-based language for defining Web services. Developed by Microsoft and IBM, WSDL describes the protocols and formats used by the service. and UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery and Integration) An industry initiative for a universal business registry (catalog) of Web services turned over to the stewardship of OASIS in 2002 as the version 3 specification of UDDI was released. interoperability is a present-day reality," said Tony Hong, co-founder of XMethods and a producer of the demonstration. "The live demonstration showcases the viability of cross-platform Web services integration. AmberPoint integrated seamlessly into our heterogeneous environment, providing real-time insight into the entire system without requiring any of the participants to change their Web services." "Organizations require standards-based products that interoperate across complex, federated systems in order to realize the full potential of Web services," said John Hubinger, 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 AmberPoint. "The interoperability demonstration shows just how far the industry has come. Thanks to our flexible, distributed architecture, AmberPoint delivers key features such as system-wide monitoring and management, access control, versioning and the tracking of business use, making diverse Web services environments production ready." A live version of the interoperability demonstration will be available over the Internet in mid-September and will be accessible from the AmberPoint homepage, www.amberpoint.com. About AmberPoint AmberPoint, Inc., a pioneer in Web services management, offers the most comprehensive solutions for making Web services production-ready, business-ready and easily manageable. With its modular, architecture-independent design, AmberPoint radically simplifies the management and evolution of business solutions built on Web services. AmberPoint's Customer Experience Group delivers services to ensure successful deployment and use of all AmberPoint software. Founded in 2001, AmberPoint is privately held with venture backing from Sutter Hill Ventures and Norwest Venture Partners. AmberPoint corporate headquarters are located in Oakland, California. For more information, contact AmberPoint at 510/663-6300 or info@amberpoint.com, or visit the company website at www.amberpoint.com. |
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