Attunity eBusiness Integration Suite Synchronizes Mercury's CRM And Sales Applications Across the Extended Enterprise.Business/Technology Editors BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 14, 2001 Attunity Delivers Real-Time Integration and Extends the Life of Legacy Systems 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 that Mercury Interactive For another company with a similar name, see Mercury Computer Systems. HP Mercury (formerly Mercury Interactive) is a subsidiary of Hewlett-Packard that is a market leader in automated software quality assurance and offers products in other areas such as diagnostics, Corp. (NASDAQ:MERQ MERQ Mercury Interactive Corp (stock symbol) ), the leading provider of enterprise testing and performance management solutions, selected Attunity to unite mobile sales and office-bound telesales teams across Europe and the Middle East, providing real-time customer and sales data access. Mercury Interactive successfully implemented the Attunity eBusiness Integration Suite to provide complete integration between Mercury's Siebel CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. system and a Lotus-based sales application. Through Attunity, Mercury Interactive has integrated and transformed its legacy systems, maximizing the value of its existing IT investments. Using the Attunity eBusiness Integration Suite, Mercury Interactive can now deliver real-time sales data regardless of what application the sales team uses, eliminating the need for double entry of customer data and increasing overall operational productivity. Using the Attunity eBusiness Integration Suite's intuitive drag and drop A graphical user interface (GUI) capability that lets you perform operations by moving the icon of an object with the mouse into another window or onto another icon. For example, files can be copied or moved by dragging them from one folder to another. environment, a set of pre-built services and the high reusability of business processes, Mercury was able to move to production quickly and easily. "Whether our employees are on a laptop on the road or working on a desktop system at our telesales office, using either Lotus Notes Messaging and groupware software from IBM Lotus that was introduced in 1989 for OS/2 and later expanded to Windows, Mac, Unix, NetWare, AS/400 and S/390. Notes provides e-mail, document sharing, workflow, group discussions and calendaring and scheduling. or Siebel's suite of CRM products, they can all access the same sales data, in real time, regardless of the source of the information," said Baruch Elgar, director of European IT at Mercury Interactive. "Simply eliminating the need to enter all transactions on both systems will save us time and money. Attunity has increased our operational efficiency and reduced overall costs. When you consider the benefits of providing everyone immediate access to the most recent and accurate sales data, the Attunity eBusiness Integration Suite proves to be a great solution for Mercury Interactive." "Leading companies realize that in order to remain competitive in the current market, you must efficiently integrate applications and business processes across the enterprise as well as among partners and customers," said Paul MacKay, chief executive officer of Attunity. "The Attunity eBusiness Integration Suite is providing Mercury Interactive with the real-time data Real-time data denotes information that is delivered immediately after collection. There is no delay in the timeliness of the information provided. Some uses of this term confuse it with the term dynamic data. access that is critical to its competitive success. It is the best option for companies looking to integrate, while realizing maximum productivity and cost reductions." The Attunity eBusiness Integration Suite delivers the most comprehensive solution for integrating and transforming legacy applications for eBusiness initiatives. With the suite, organizations can 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 OS/390, OS/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. About Mercury Interactive Corporation Mercury Interactive is the leading provider of enterprise testing and performance management solutions. The company's automated software and managed services An umbrella term for third-party monitoring and maintaining of computers, networks and software. The actual equipment may be inhouse or at the third-party's facilities, but the "managed" implies an ongoing effort; for example, making sure the equipment is running at a certain quality help companies deliver and maintain high-performance applications. Customers worldwide use Mercury Interactive solutions across their application and technology infrastructures to minimize hardware and operational expenses, protect revenue streams and enhance their competitive positions. Mercury Interactive was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif. The company has over 1400 employees with offices in more than 20 countries. Further information is available at www.mercuryinteractive.com or by phone at 408-822-5200. 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 BPI(TM) and Attunity Connect(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 United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , 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. Attunity, the Attunity logo, Application Adapter Framework, Attunity AAF AAF abbr. Army Air Forces , Attunity BPI, Attunity Connect and Web Services Process Integration are trademarks and "This Way to 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 " 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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