Beyond Software announces the general availability of enterprise application transformation products.KANSAS CITY Kansas City, two adjacent cities of the same name, one (1990 pop. 149,767), seat of Wyandotte co., NE Kansas (inc. 1859), the other (1990 pop. 435,146), Clay, Jackson, and Platte counties, NW Mo. (inc. 1850). , Mo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 15, 1997--Beyond Software Incorporated, the leader for providing enterprise application transformation solutions, today announced at the IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) VM/VSE Conference in Kansas City, Missouri Kansas City is the largest city in the state of Missouri. It encompasses parts of Jackson, Clay, Cass, and Platte counties and is the anchor city of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area, the second largest in Missouri, which includes counties in both Missouri and Kansas. , the general availability of three new Web enabling products in Beyond Software's legacy access initiative. They include Enterprise View(TM), EnterpriseWeb Calendar(TM), and EnterpriseWeb/MVS(TM), and enable companies to further leverage their existing investments in hardware, software and training while providing access to key intranet applications and the Internet. "At Beyond Software, our goal is to meet the needs of our current and future customers," said Brian Reaves, Beyond Software President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "Based on their input and the talents of our Beyond Software team, we have developed three exciting new products which truly benefit our customers and give them the application transformation capabilities they require. With these additions, we firmly believe we have a product set which remains unrivaled in enabling companies to webify their legacy systems." Enterprise View benefits customers who have numerous 3270 terminals or desktop systems running 3270 emulators, and need access to important intranet applications, or to the Internet. As a native VM/CMS VM/CMS - Virtual Machine/Conversational Monitor System text browser, Enterprise View is centrally installed, and can easily be integrated with existing security and application management systems. In addition, it allows 3270 users access to the same Web page text as PCs and other desktop browser users and to data displayed in tables and forms. Pricing starts at $15,000 for 1,000 users. EnterpriseWeb Calendar enables customers to easily deploy an enterprise-wide corporate calendar solution for all users, even those without VM user IDs. It updates the current OfficeVision calendar interface with a graphical Web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. interface so users can easily view their calendars by day or month, find available meeting times, and schedule meetings times and conference rooms. EnterpriseWeb Calendar is a "plug-in" enhancement product to EnterpriseWeb/VM, Beyond Software's Web server for the VM operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. , and supports HTML-compliant browsers such as Netscape Navigator An earlier Web browser for Windows, Macintosh and X Windows from Netscape that provided secure transmission over the Internet. Soon after its introduction in 1994, Navigator, or just "Netscape," as it was commonly called, quickly became the leading browser on the Web. and Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Pricing is based on machine model group. A model group 30 is priced at $4,725. Entry level server pricing is also available. EnterpriseWeb/MVS is a World Wide Web server for the MVS/ESA See MVS. MVS/ESA - Multiple Virtual Storage and OS/390 operating systems. Customers can now easily turn their OS/390 system into a powerful Web server for intranet applications. Because EnterpriseWeb/MVS runs in native mode under MVS (Multiple Virtual Storage) Introduced in 1974, the primary operating system used with IBM mainframes (the others are VM and DOS/VSE). MVS is a batch processing-oriented operating system that manages large amounts of memory and disk space. , it is easy to install, and customers can quickly Web-enable their legacy applications. Like EnterpriseWeb/VM, pricing is based on machine model group. A model group 30 is priced at $ 18,900 and entry level server pricing is also available by contacting Beyond Software. Both EnterpriseWeb/MVS and EnterpriseWeb/VM, exploit the unique strengths of their respective operating systems. They are based on similar architectures, and support deployment of common Web services. For example, Common Gateway Interfaces (CGI's) written on one platform will execute with little or no changes on the other platform. Customers using both MVS and VM operating systems benefit from this flexibility when designing Internet and intranet services. All products include 24-hour technical support, and are available through Beyond Software and authorized resellers. About Beyond Software Beyond Software Incorporated is the leader in providing enterprise application transformation solutions. Combining both legacy systems and Internet expertise, Beyond Software delivers technically-superior, easy-to-use, cost-effective solutions. The privately-held company, first to develop a commercial web server for the System 390 platform, is based in San Jose, California San Jose (IPA: /ˌsænhoʊˈzeɪ/) is the third-largest city in California, and the tenth-largest in the United States. It is the county seat of Santa Clara County. . For more information, visit the company's Web site at http://www.beyond-software.com . -0- Note to Editors: Beyond Software, EnterpriseWeb, EnterpriseWeb/VM and EnterpriseWeb/MVS are trademarks of Beyond Software Incorporated. All other company and product names are registered trademarks of their respective owners. CONTACT: Beyond Software Todd Gebhart, 408/436-5900 toddg@beyond-software.com |
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