Attunity And IBM Partner to Provide Adapters for WebShpere Application Server.Business Editors WAKEFIELD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 12, 2003 Attunity Brings J2EE (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition) A platform from Sun for building distributed enterprise applications. J2EE services are performed in the middle tier between the user's machine and the enterprise's databases and legacy information systems. Standard Integration to Mainframe and Legacy Attunity Ltd. (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 : ATTU Attu, island: see Aleutian Islands. ), a leading provider of standards-based integration middleware for accessing mainframe, enterprise data sources and legacy applications, today announced a cooperative sales and marketing initiative for Attunity Connect adapters for IBM WebSphere Application Server This article or section needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. . The Attunity Adapter Suite for 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) WebSphere allows enterprises to seamlessly integrate with existing systems (e.g. 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 , 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. , VSAM (Virtual Storage Access Method) An IBM access method for storing data, widely used in IBM mainframes. It uses the B+tree method for organizing data. VSAM - Virtual Storage Access Method , NonStop SQL) by exposing their functions and data as reusable services. The suite includes a comprehensive prebuilt adapter library, support for WebSphere interfaces including J2EE Connector Architecture (JCA (1) (Java Cryptography Architecture) An umbrella term from Sun for implementing security functions for the Java platform. It includes Sun's Java Security API as well as the Java Cryptography Extension (JCE), which adds more programming interfaces for encryption ), and the Attunity Studio plug-in to IBM WebSphere Studio to increase user productivity and easy of use. "Attunity has been at the forefront with our support for the J2EE Connector Architecture standard and we are pleased to be recognized by IBM as a WebSphere Application Server Adapter Partner," said Dan Potter, vice president of marketing and business development at Attunity. "The combination of IBM WebSphere and the Attunity adapters offers enterprises with an end-to-end solution for legacy integration." Attunity Connect for WebSphere provides standards-based integration middleware for accessing mainframe, enterprise data sources and legacy applications. Attunity's prebuilt adapter library includes adapters to all the common enterprise data sources, transaction systems and 3GL based legacy applications. Attunity Connect offers a real-time, direct integration solution, providing SQL SQL in full Structured Query Language. Computer programming language used for retrieving records or parts of records in databases and performing various calculations before displaying the results. and XML-based access through WebSphere supported standard interfaces. For data integration, Attunity offers clients with SQL based drivers including JDBC (Java DataBase Connectivity) A programming interface that lets Java applications access a database via the SQL language. Since Java interpreters (Java Virtual Machines) are available for all major client platforms, this allows a platform-independent database and 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. . For application integration, Attunity offers clients with XML based APIs including JCA and SOAP. For more information on the Attunity Connect for WebSphere, contact Attunity at info@attunity.com or visit the Attunity website at http://www.attunity.com/products/ConnectWebSphere.asp About Attunity Ltd. Attunity(TM) is a leading provider of standards-based integration middleware for accessing mainframe, enterprise data sources and legacy applications. Founded in 1987 and traded on the NASDAQ exchange, Attunity's worldwide operations support over 1,000 direct end-users including many of the Fortune 1000. Through distribution and OEM agreements with global-class partners such as Oracle and HP, Attunity-based solutions are deployed on tens of thousands of systems worldwide. The Attunity Connect product family provides standards-based access to over 35 data sources on 20 different computing platforms. Attunity Connect adapters reside natively on each target platform and provide enterprise-class integration capabilities such as real-time read/write access, distributed transaction management, heterogeneous joins between relational and non-relational data sources, and optimized query execution. Attunity Connect makes legacy systems accessible through SQL and XML based interfaces including JDBC, ODBC (Open DataBase Connectivity) A database programming interface from Microsoft that provides a common language for Windows applications to access databases on a network. , JCA, COM and SOAP. Attunity's products are available through direct sales and support offices in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Israel, the People's Republic of China, and Australia, as well as distributors in Japan, S.E. Asia, Europe and Latin America. For more information, visit www.attunity.com or email info@attunity.com. About IBM WebSphere IBM is the world's largest information technology company, with eighty years of leadership in helping all types of computing platforms, allowing customers to take full advantage of the new era of e-business. IBM WebSphere is the market-leading Internet infrastructure software, or middleware, for creating, running and integrating e-business applications across a variety of computing platforms. Built on open standards such as J2EE(tm), XML and the new Web services standards, and endowed with IBM's core strengths of reliability, scalability and security, WebSphere server software and development tools are used by tens of thousands of customers and have shown fourteen consecutive quarters of double-digit sales growth. For more information, visit www.ibm.com/websphere Copyright (C) 2003 Attunity Ltd. All rights reserved. Attunity, the Attunity logo, Application Adapter Framework, Attunity AAF, Attunity Connect and Web Services Process Integration are trademarks of Attunity Ltd. All other marks are the property of their respective owners. (Except for the historical information contained herein, the matters discussed in this news release include forward-looking statements that may involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Actual results may vary significantly based upon a number of factors, including but not limited to risks and product technology development, market acceptance of the products and continuing product demand, the impact of competitive products and pricing, changing economic conditions, both here and abroad, release and sales of new products by strategic resellers and customers, and other risk factors detailed in the company's most recent annual report and other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.) |
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