Bowstreet Launches Bowstreet Portlet Factory 5.9.

TEWKSBURY, Mass. -- New Release Makes It Fast and Easy To Create, Customize, Deploy, and Maintain Robust Portlets that Leverage Existing Siebel and SAP Business Warehouse Data

Bowstreet(TM), the leading provider of application development tools for portals, today announced the availability of Bowstreet Portlet Factory version 5.9. This new release features the Siebel Extension, which allows users to rapidly create Siebel portlets without any knowledge of Siebel's application-programming interface (API). The release also includes an SAP Builder(TM) that allows users to access SAP Business Warehouse data.

Bowstreet's Siebel Extension augments Portlet Factory with easy-to-use, automation components, called Builders, to rapidly deploy Siebel portlets to IBM WebSphere or any JSR-168 compatible portal, and strategically distribute business and customer data throughout a portal community. With the SAP Business Warehouse Builder, users can rapidly create portlets that access SAP's Business Warehouse using the XMLA protocol.

"Bowstreet's recently announced Enterprise Portal Solutions currently support SAP, and it is our plan to extend the solution set to provide data access to multiple back-ends. With this new release we've added SAP Business Warehouse and Siebel to our list of supported integrations, which includes Lotus Domino, SAP R/3, and PeopleSoft," said Rose O'Donnell, vice president of engineering, Bowstreet. "With Bowstreet Portlet Factory, our customers can not only tap into each of these back-end systems, they can easily combine functionality and data from these systems into a single portlet."

With Bowstreet Portlet Factory, developers rapidly build portlets by pulling together Builders, a sequence of highly adaptive, reusable software components, and assembling them into models. These models are then executed at runtime to dynamically generate application code, including JSP's, Java classes, and XML documents, as well as all of the low-level artifacts that make up the portlet application. This allows developers to capture and automate the process of building dynamic portlets instead of explicitly coding each portlet. In addition, developers can quickly and easily create multiple, highly customized portlets from one code base, without requiring additional code changes or redeployment.

Bowstreet Portlet Factory 5.9 also supports Eclipse 3.0, IBM Portal Toolkit, Apache Axis, and JBOSS 4.0, and is available immediately.

About Bowstreet Portlet Factory

Bowstreet Portlet Factory greatly reduces the complexity of J2EE development. Developers are able to quickly and easily leverage their company's core assets to build applications as sets of adaptive portlets. Unlike portlets created with RAD or "clipping" tools, Bowstreet-powered portlets are dynamic, robust J2EE applications that adapt automatically to change, and can be further modified by business users in real time, to meet changing business requirements.

About Bowstreet

Bowstreet is the leading provider of application development tools for portals, and is leading the industry transition to pre-packaged composite applications and distributed web-based services. Bowstreet-built applications are all powered by Bowstreet's proven Factory technology, which provides a highly flexible application development framework for assembling data and processes from disparate systems into dynamic applications that can adapt, on-demand, to unique and constantly changing business requirements. Solutions powered by Bowstreet Factory technology can be deployed in a portal, on the web, on a wireless device, or distributed as a service. Bowstreet technology is used by industry leading companies, including Amerijet, Allmerica, Cardinal Health System, Caterpillar, Cisco, Crossrail, DuPont, Fidelity Information Services, Gillette, ImClone, IT Factory, John Crane, Kroger, Mayo Clinic, Northwestern Mutual, Ogilvy & Mather, Sheetz, Tufts Health Plan, UNICCO, and Vormittag. Bowstreet is headquartered in Tewksbury, Massachusetts and has offices in Boston, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Minneapolis, and London. www.bowstreet.com.

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