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Attunity Helps Houston Museum of Natural Science Launch Online Ticket Sales Program.


Business/Technology Editors

BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 26, 2001

Attunity eBusiness Integration Suite Enables Museum to Provide

Web Site for Real-Time Ticket Sales

Attunity Ltd. (NASDAQ NASDAQ
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: ATTU Attu, island: see Aleutian Islands. ), a leader in business process, application and data integration solutions for the extended enterprise, today announced that the Houston Museum of Natural Science The Houston Museum of Natural Science is a science museum located on the northern border of Hermann Park in Houston, Texas, USA. The museum was established in 1909 by the Houston Museum and Scientific Society  has deployed Attunity in its new e-commerce application.

With the Attunity eBusiness Integration Suite, the Museum was able to transform its existing legacy ticket management application to a new Web-based system to deliver real-time ticket availability, purchasing and registration. This represents the first time a live box office has been integrated with an online ticketing application to allow customers to purchase tickets in real-time.

"Our challenge to provide this new functionality included both leveraging our existing legacy application and also providing real-time access to five different databases used to support our distributed operations Distributed Operations (DO) is a new warfighting concept being adopted by the United States Marine Corps and is being developed by their Warfighting Laboratory as a response to the changing environment of the Global War on Terror. ," said Leslie Forestier, controller of the Houston Museum of Natural Science. "Attunity has enabled us to rapidly deploy this project, and with their service-oriented approach to integration, we are better prepared to respond to new business opportunities going forward."

The Attunity eBusiness Integration Suite delivers the most comprehensive solution for integrating and transforming legacy applications for eBusiness initiatives. Organizations can now create, share, automate and manage distributed business processes. Through Attunity's service-oriented approach, enterprises can incorporate any internal business process or service as well as external web services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term.  in a seamless manner. Attunity also provides real-time access to applications and data from 30 data sources on 20 different computing platforms including 0S/390, 0S/400, Tandem, OpenVMS, 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.

"Attunity provides a faster return on investment by enabling companies to transform their legacy applications for eBusiness initiatives," said Dan Potter Dan Potter is an American businessman.

He started Cryptic Allusion around 1995 for the purposes of web design consulting. Since that area of the business world began to take off on its own and become crowded, the purpose of the group has been redefined several times over the
, vice president of Worldwide Marketing at Attunity. "In addition, Attunity's service-oriented architecture helps forward-thinking companies, such as the Houston Museum of Natural Science, to leverage their new technology investments through the creation of reusable services."

About The Houston Museum of Natural Science

The Houston Museum of Natural Science, a private, non-profit organization, is located in Hermann Park across from Miller Outdoor Theatre The Miller Outdoor Theatre is the premier outdoor theatre for the performing arts in Houston, Texas. Located on approximately 7.5 acres of land in Hermann Park, at 100 Concert Drive, the theatre offers a diverse range of professional entertainment, including classical music, jazz,  in Houston, Texas. The Museum consists of a state-of-the-art planetarium planetarium, optical device used to project a representation of the heavens onto a domed ceiling; the term also designates the building that houses such a device. A modern planetarium consists of as many as 150 motor-driven projectors mounted on an axis. , environmentally-controlled butterfly center, off-site observatory, advanced IMAX IMAX
Noun

a film projection process that produces an image ten times larger than standard
 theatre and outstanding temporary and permanent exhibit halls. Museum exhibits are open Monday through Saturday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Admission to Museum exhibits is free to members; $4 for adults; and $3 for children under 12. With more than 2.3 million visitors in 1998, the museum was ranked the second most attended entertainment venue in Houston and fourth most visited museum in the United States.

For more information call 713-639-4629, 713-639-4603 (Spanish), TTY (TeleTYpewriter) See teletypewriter and TDD/TTY.

(hardware) tty - /tit'ee/ (ITS pronunciation, but some Unix people say it this way as well; this pronunciation is not considered to have sexual undertones), /T T Y/

1. teletypewriter.

2.
 713-639-4687 (hearing impaired) or visit the Museum Web site at http://www.hmns.org.

About Attunity Ltd.

Attunity(TM) is a leading provider of eBusiness solutions that deliver dynamic business process, application and data integration within and across enterprises. Attunity gives organizations the power to leverage their IT investments by automating and managing business processes within the enterprise and with partners, suppliers and customers over the Internet.

The company's portfolio of software and services work in concert. Its eBusiness Integration Suite utilizes the standards-based technologies of Attunity Connect(TM) and Attunity BPI(TM) to insure rapid ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot).  while maintaining business agility for the future.

Attunity delivers production-proven software and services to more than 1,000 companies worldwide and has strategic alliances with Oracle, Compaq and other world-class partners. Attunity products are available through direct sales and support offices in the United States, Israel, the United Kingdom, France, the People's Republic of China and Australia, as well as a full-service distributor, Mitsui, in Japan. For more information, visit www.attunity.com or send email to info@attunity.com.

Copyright (c) 2001 Attunity Ltd. All rights reserved.

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, Attunity B2B (Business to Business) Refers to one business communicating with or selling to another. See B2B e-commerce, B2C and B2G.

B2B - business to business
, Attunity B2BEngine, Attunity B2Bdesigner, Attunity Connect and Web Services Process Integration are trademarks and "This Way to B2B" is a service mark 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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