Ardent Software and NEON Systems Partner to Provide Broadest Mainframe Data Access Options; Ardent Extends DataStage Suite with NEON Systems' Shadow Direct.WESTBORO, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 13, 1999-- Ardent Software, Inc. (Nasdaq:ARDT ARDT Asset Redeployment Team ARDT After Receipt of Downtime ARDT Age Replacement during Delay Time ), a leading global data management software company, today announced that it will partner with NEON Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:NESY), a leading provider of enterprise access and integration software products. This partnership complements Ardent's DataStage Suite(TM) by providing customers with direct access to DB2 for OS/390-MVS through NEON's Shadow Direct(TM) middleware. Shadow Direct provides direct access to mainframe-based data from client/server and n-tier environments such as 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). and Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. . Together with NEON, Ardent now offers the data warehouse market's most comprehensive selection of mainframe data access options. "Despite the phenomenal acceptance of client/server solutions during the past decade, a very large number of Global 2000 companies maintain a significant amount of information in DB2 databases on their mainframes," said Mikael Wipperfeld, vice president of data warehouse marketing at Ardent Software. "These systems are the heart of many mission-critical applications, and end-users want the ability to rapidly incorporate this mainframe data into business intelligence and analytical applications. Ardent is committed to providing our customers with a wide range of data acquisition options, and NEON Systems' Shadow Direct does this by providing direct, high performance access to DB2." "With the introduction of the DataStage Suite, Ardent is providing a comprehensive information management solution to meet enterprise business intelligence needs," said Jonathan Reed Jonathan Reed was Davey Hansen's close friend in the Lutheran stop action animation cartoon Davey and Goliath. As an African-American he was perhaps the first African-American character to appear in a television cartoon, and one of the first African-American characters to , vice president, marketing at NEON Systems, Inc. "NEON's Shadow Direct plays a key role in providing DataStage Suite applications with high performance, transparent access to DB2." Ardent Software provides the information infrastructure for customers around the world, in applications including e-business, data warehousing See data warehouse. data warehousing - data warehouse , business intelligence, and enterprise portals See corporate portal. . Ardent's DataStage Suite includes a complete data movement and integration solution with native access to data from mainframe, Unix, and Windows NT environments; data quality assurance capabilities; and full lifecycle meta data management; all complemented by industry-leading professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. . NEON's Shadow Direct provides direct access to mainframe data in DB2 as well as the ability to invoke DB2 stored procedures. NEON's Shadow Direct simplifies and optimizes DB2 connectivity, thus eliminating the traditional performance bottlenecks and points of failure typical of other access methodologies. About Ardent Software Ardent Software is a leading global data management software company. Ardent develops and markets data integration software for data warehouse and analytical applications, and embedded databases and tools for developing and deploying packaged operational applications. With worldwide sales and service operations, and 1,000 resellers in more than 50 countries, Ardent is one of the top software companies in the world. More than 60,000 customers and 2.2 million users in virtually every aspect of business and government use applications powered by Ardent's products and technologies to solve their complex data management problems. Ardent is headquartered in Westboro, Massachusetts. The company's common stock trades on the Nasdaq National Market under the symbol "ARDT." For more information, visit Ardent's web site at www.ardentsoftware.com. Statements expressing the beliefs and expectations of management regarding future performance are forward-looking and involve risks and uncertainties, including, but not limited to, quarterly fluctuations in results and other risks. These risks are detailed from time to time in the Company's Securities and Exchange Commission filings, including the Company's Form 10-K Form 10-K A report required by the SEC from exchange-listed companies that provides for annual disclosure of certain financial information. Form 10-K See 10-K. for the year ended December 31, 1998. Actual results may differ materially from management's expectations. DataStage, Iterations, O2 Technology, Prism, RedBack, System Builder  This article's grammar usage needs improvement. Please edit this article in accordance with Wikipedia's . , UniData, UniVerse and wIntegrate are registered trademarks of Ardent Software, Inc. Other trademarks and registered trademarks are property of the respective trademark holders. About NEON NEON Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:NESY) is a leading provider of Enterprise Access and Integration, Security, and Subsystem Management software products for all industries. NEON Enterprise Access and Integration software products deliver rapid and cost-effective access to and connectivity between enterprise data, transactions, and applications. NEON Enterprise Security Management software products help companies protect valuable information with encryption/decryption technology for the Internet and password synchronization Password synchronization is defined as any process or technology that helps users to maintain a single password that is subject to a single security policy, and changes on a single schedule across multiple systems. for interoperable computing environments. NEON Enterprise Subsystem Management software products economically enhance and maintain the high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. , integrity and performance of key 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 (R) 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. mainframe environments as the demand for existing and new applications increases. Headquartered in Sugar Land (Houston), Texas, NEON has sales, support, and distributor offices covering 25 countries around the world. NEON's website can be visited at www.neonsys.com. NEON, Shadow, and Shadow Direct are registered trademarks of NEON Systems, Inc. Other trademarks and registered trademarks are property of the respective trademark holders. |
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