Avaki 6 Delivers EII Plus to Simplify Data Integration and Facilitate Enterprise Data Abstraction Layer.

BURLINGTON, Mass. -- New Eclipse-based Avaki Studio Radically Streamlines Distributed Data Integration, Creates Integrated Views for Broad Range of Application Types and Data Sources

Avaki Corporation, a leading provider of enterprise information integration (EII) software, today announced the availability of Avaki 6, the newest version of its flagship product. Avaki 6 extends the company's aggressive development of a solution that provides EII Plus(TM), delivering not only the core data federation capability of an EII solution, but also unprecedented flexibility in data integration and a scalable distributed architecture that supports an enterprise-wide data abstraction layer. Avaki 6 features Avaki Studio(TM), the company's new Eclipse-based data integration modeling environment that streamlines data integration by enabling point-and-click creation of integrated data views.

Unlike other EII solutions that focus narrowly on distributed query and do not scale beyond a single project, Avaki's EII Plus capabilities provide the data integration flexibility to address a broad-range of projects and the scalability to extend a single data layer across a distributed enterprise. With Avaki, customers leverage an enterprise data abstraction layer (also known as enterprise data services layer) that delivers fresh data to a variety of operational and decision support applications, while reducing the complexity and cost of developing and deploying data-intensive applications.

Wayne Kernochan, President, Infostructure Associates, said, "Avaki is in the forefront of today's enterprise efforts to extend EII strategically, globally, and outside the enterprise. Avaki's 'EII Plus' provides a high degree of flexibility plus exceptional support for distributed caching and distributed architectures, which makes Avaki highly scalable and robust."

Avaki Studio(TM) Enhances Integration Productivity

Avaki 6 enhances productivity for application developers, data architects and other IT professionals whose projects require integration of data from multiple sources. Based on an intuitive and highly productive data integration modeling environment, Avaki Studio enables data integrators to define integrated views based on metadata from existing data sources. These integrated views of data represent data from multiple data sources as a single database or data source. In addition, Avaki Studio provides a library of integration "building blocks" that supports the rapid creation of integrated views using a graphical, point-and-click approach.

With Avaki Studio, data can be integrated from any number of sources distributed across the organization, including relational databases, files, application data and Web services. Once the model for the integrated view has been defined, Avaki Studio automatically creates the data services or virtual tables that efficiently execute the desired integration on demand. With Avaki Studio, application teams can efficiently create reusable integrated views that bring together data from many parts of the organization and help deliver the fresh information that applications and users need. The result is a more responsive, real-time enterprise.

Avaki Studio is based on Eclipse, an open source development platform now receiving widespread acceptance in the developer community. Avaki integration with Eclipse allows users to work in a familiar, extensible development environment while they complete a broad range of data integration tasks.

Avaki 6 Optimizes Data Delivery and Performance

Avaki 6 introduces several other enhancements that provide developers and administrators with greater flexibility in optimizing performance of data access and integration and delivering fresh data efficiently to enterprise applications.

--A wider variety of scheduling options - makes it easier to schedule execution and caching of integrated data views based on business requirements

--Enhanced data streaming - speeds delivery of data to applications

--Improved query optimization - promotes efficient execution of queries that must draw data from multiple distributed databases.

--Additional runtime monitoring features - make it easier for administrators to monitor Avaki servers at runtime, balance execution load across multiple servers, and adjust capacity as needed 

EII Plus: Flexibility and Scalability

"Customers tell us their current needs go well beyond just a point solution to one data integration challenge. Instead they are looking for a data integration solution that can ultimately scale across the enterprise, enabling access and reuse of any data source by any application in a cost-effective manner," said Tim Yeaton, Avaki President and CEO. "Avaki's EII Plus solution answers this need, breaking down the old integration silos with a federated solution that is flexible and scalable enough to make enterprise-wide data integration practical."

Avaki supports a wide range of data sources and provides multiple ways for applications to interact with data through SQL, Web Services (SOAP) and procedure calls. With Avaki's Enterprise Data Integration Framework, companies can break down the barriers between integration silos by creating one data abstraction layer that supports diverse integration projects--even those utilizing custom integration code or third-party tools for ETL, data cleansing, data profiling and application integration. The ability to employ a variety of integration approaches gives application and data architects unprecedented freedom to choose the right tool for the project at hand. Avaki's Enterprise Data Integration Framework helps companies realize the full potential of their investments by providing the best of both worlds: the flexibility of multiple approaches and tools, with the control provided by a single data abstraction layer.

Avaki was designed from the ground up to scale one data abstraction layer across a large enterprise with a modular, distributed architecture. A single Avaki data layer supports any number of data sources and applications, vastly simplifying the data integration process by enabling applications to go to one virtual data source for access to any data. Avaki's ability to cache data throughout the network of Avaki servers and also balance integration execution load across multiple servers means that Avaki can scale to virtually any capacity. Finally, Avaki operates seamlessly across firewalls, locations, and company divisions - facilitating data access and integration within and across enterprises.

Mitchell Kramer, Senior Analyst, Patricia Seybold Group, said, "Avaki's EII Plus data integration capabilities provide the flexibility to address a broad-range of application requirements and the scalability to create an abstraction layer that can extend across all of the data sources in a distributed enterprise. This flexibility, scalability, abstraction, and leverage can add up to reduced complexity, cost, and risk for developing and deploying data-intensive applications."

Pricing and Availability

Avaki 6 is available immediately. Pricing starts at the workgroup level, and scales for enterprise-wide deployments. More information about Avaki Corporation and its solutions is available on the Web at www.avaki.com.

About Avaki Corporation

Avaki Corporation provides enterprise information integration software that helps companies in data-intensive industries deploy business information systems faster and at lower cost through better data integration. With software from Avaki, companies such as Pfizer, Aventis, and Pacific Capital Bancorp are delivering applications faster, reducing data management costs, and making enterprise data more widely available within and beyond corporate boundaries. Backed by Polaris Venture Partners, General Catalyst, and Sofinnova Partners, Avaki is located in Burlington, Mass. www.avaki.com.