Attunity Offers Rapid and Standard Connectivity for Microsoft BizTalk Server and Legacy Systems; Attunity Adapter Suite 1.1 for Microsoft BizTalk Server Now Available.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers WAKEFIELD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 17, 2002 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 leader in business process, application and data integration solutions for the extended enterprise, today announced the general availability of Attunity Adapter Suite 1.1 for Microsoft BizTalk Server Microsoft BizTalk Server, often referred to as simply "BizTalk", is a business process management (BPM) server. Through the use of "adapters" which are tailored to communicate with different software systems used in a large enterprise, it enables companies to automate and integrate , a comprehensive connectivity solution for enterprise data and legacy applications. As one of the first to bring to market adapters for users of BizTalk Server, Attunity now offers an enhanced Adapter Suite for BizTalk Server that plugs-in as a native extension of BizTalk Server. The Attunity Adapter Suite for BizTalk Server facilitates integration with legacy data and systems by supporting all the recommended interfaces to BizTalk Server and by offering an extensive adapter library to over 20 computing platforms. "Attunity brings a significant contribution to the BizTalk Server library of adapters, which is one of the largest in the industry," said Eric Swift, group product manager for .NET Enterprise Servers at Microsoft Corp. "Attunity's comprehensive suite of adapters enables customers to quickly and easily connect legacy systems with BizTalk Server. With this capability, companies get the full use of their legacy systems and have no need to rip and replace in order to update their IT solutions." Attunity Adapter Suite for BizTalk Server provides market leading and unique capabilities including: - Configuration Console Provides Native Extension to the BizTalk Server Tool Suite Attunity Adapter Suite for BizTalk Server provides an easy to use, GUI based configuration and management application that facilitates the process of defining Adapters and Receive Functions for integration with BizTalk Server. By using an easy configuration tree and active wizards, users locate adapters, generate ports and channels for BizTalk Server and deploy them seamlessly into BizTalk Server. The Microsoft Management Console A Windows NT/2000 feature that provides a common environment for running management software from Microsoft and third parties. Any type of administration service such as network management, antivirus management, disk management and authentication can be created as a Microsoft Management -based application offers a native and intuitive environment for Microsoft software users, improving productivity and shortening development time. - Prebuilt pre·built adj. Of, relating to, or constituting a structure or a portion of a structure that is constructed or assembled before being transported to its site of installation; prefabricated: a prebuilt home. Adapter Library - Plug In Adapters to Legacy Data and Systems The Adapter Suite seamlessly integrates with any of the native adapters in the comprehensive adapter library that Attunity provides. For data connectivity Attunity offers proven adapters for relational and legacy data sources including DB2, Oracle, Sybase, Informix, RDB See Oracle Rdb. 1. Rdb - Oracle Rdb 2. rdb - A roll-your-own database, created in the Unix toolkit philosophy. It appears to be written in the awk language, and is very compatible with awk. It uses awk's syntax and can be combined with awk commands. , Non-Stop SQL/MP, 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 , ADABAS A database management system (DBMS) from Software AG, Reston, VA (www.softwareagusa.com) for IBM mainframes, VAXes, Unix and Windows. It is an inverted list DBMS with relational capabilities. C, C/D-ISAM, IMS/DB, ENSCRIBE and RMS. For legacy system integration Attunity offers proven adapters for transaction systems and 3GL code including 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/TM, Pathway, COBOL COBOL: see programming language. COBOL in full Common Business-Oriented Language. High-level computer programming language, one of the first widely used languages and for many years the most popular language in the business community. , Fortran and C. - Support for BizTalk Server Interfaces and Recommended Integration Architecture Attunity supports a wide range of integration interfaces including ADO, COM (1) (Computer Output Microfilm) Creating microfilm or microfiche from the computer. A COM machine receives print-image output from the computer either online or via tape or disk and creates a film image of each page. and AIC AIC Association des Infermières Canadiennes. . With this range of interfaces, users have the flexibility to design the best integration architecture. - Meta Data Integration and Management Attunity XML based meta-data management facilitates the integration of meta-data from legacy systems to BizTalk Server. Attunity Adapter Suite for BizTalk Server seamlessly and automatically converts legacy meta-data into BizTalk Server-based document schemas, shortening integration projects and making it easier to change and maintain the system over time. - Events Routing Between BizTalk Server and Legacy Systems Attunity's event routing mechanism enables legacy systems to generate XML based events that will be routed to BizTalk Server (i.e. a CICS transaction sends a notification to BizTalk Server). With this capability, users have complete, bi-directional legacy system integration, enabling to reliably integrate business processes. "BizTalk Server customers expect to leverage the ease of use and rapid delivery timeframes typical to Microsoft tools, in order to bring down costs and dramatically shorten development time. With our enhanced offering for BizTalk Server customers, we now provide users with the ability to more easily standardize on BizTalk Server for enterprise wide integration." said Dan Potter, Vice President of Marketing at Attunity. "Our continued success in helping customers integrate BizTalk Server with their legacy data, transactions and business processes shows us that rapid and cost effective business integration is possible, and actually available today". Attunity Adapter Suite for BizTalk Server is part of the Attunity Connect product line that allows organizations to build, repurpose and reuse applications, business processes and legacy data by making them accessible using a variety of standards interfaces such as AIC, COM, ADO, 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. , OLE-DB, 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 (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 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 . With a distributed architecture and native platform support, Attunity Connect provides higher levels of reliability and performance versus traditional integration middleware solutions. More information about the features and benefits of Attunity Adapter Suite for BizTalk Server can be found on Attunity's website under the product section at http://www.attunity.com/products/ConnectBizTalk.htm. The Attunity product family is available for download on the Attunity Developer Exchange at http://www.attunity.com/devX where additional documentation can be found. 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 distributors in Japan, S.E. Asia, Europe and Latin America. For more information, visit www.attunity.com or send email to info@attunity.com. Copyright (c) 2002 Attunity Ltd. All rights reserved. Attunity, the Attunity logo, Application Adapter Framework, Attunity AAF AAF abbr. Army Air Forces , 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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