Attunity Web Services Standardizes Legacy Integration; The Attunity Web Service Gateway is Now Generally Available.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

WAKEFIELD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 22, 2003

Attunity Ltd. (NASDAQ: ATTU), a leading provider of standards-based integration middleware for accessing mainframe, enterprise data sources and legacy applications, today announced the general availability of the Attunity Web Services Gateway, a powerful solution to easily expose legacy applications as reusable and standard Web Services.

The Attunity Web Services Gateway provides simple definition and seamless deployment of legacy functions as standard Web Services. The Web Services Gateway is an integrated component of the Attunity Connect product family and works with all the Attunity Adapters to provide a single, unified solution.

Features and benefits of the Attunity Web Services Gateway include:

-- Automatic Web Service Generation. The Attunity solution

simplifies the generation of Web services by providing a Web

Services Deployment Wizard that automatically deploys Attunity

adapters into the Web Service Gateway. The Wizard leverages

the Attunity adapter XML-based metadata, and generated

standard Web services with no coding required.

-- Prebuilt Adapters to Legacy Systems. Built on the Attunity

Adapter Framework, the Gateway works seamlessly with all

Attunity Connect adapters, offering a single solution for any

legacy system including IBM Mainframe (CICS, IMS/TM, IMS/DB,

Adabas, DB2, Cobol), IBM iSeries (RPG, DB400), HP NonStop

(Pathway, Enscribe, SQL/MP), OpenVMS (RMS, Oracle Rdb, DBMS),

Unix and Windows (Tuxedo, Adabas, ISAM, and any RDBMS).

-- SOAP, WSDL and UDDI Standards. The Web Services Gateway is

based on the standards underlying the Web services

architecture, including XML (eXtensible Markup Language), SOAP

(Simple Object Access Protocol), WSDL (Web Services Definition

Language) and UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery and

Integration of Web services). Legacy functions are defined as

standard Web services with WSDL definition, can be activated

using standard SOAP messages and exchange XML based data. The

services can be registered in any UDDI registry for look-up

and discovery.

-- Simplify Federated Data Access. Attunity provides a powerful

capability to expose any corporate data through a federated

data model, transparently mapping the request to one or more

actual databases while maintaining data integrity. Coupled

with Web Services standard interfaces, Attunity reduces the

complexity for new application development and integration.

-- Complete Life-Cycle Management for Web Services Integration.

The Attunity Studio is an integrated toolset for managing the

life cycle of all Attunity adapters, from metadata import, to

configuration, to deployment and runtime management. The Web

Services Gateway plugs-in to this integrated GUI, providing a

unified user experience and increased productivity.

"The Attunity Web Services Gateway significantly reduces the cost and complexity of legacy systems interoperability," said Dan Potter, vice president of marketing at Attunity. "Our comprehensive adapter library, together with our new ability to generate Web services with a few simple mouse clicks, enables enterprises to begin to enjoy the benefits of Web services with minimum investment and risk."

For more information on the Attunity Web Services Gateway and the Attunity Connect product family, contact Attunity at [e-mail] or visit the Attunity Website at http://www.attunity.com.

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, 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 [e-mail].

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.)