Brixlogic Releases its Free, 30-Day Trial Version of the IFX Edition of its XML Services Builder Software.

SAN MATEO, Calif. -- After a year of collaboration with leading companies incorporating support for IFX in their packaged or custom applications, Brixlogic releases its 30-day trial version of IFX Services Builder, a zero-code 4GL to create IFX services that are interoperable, dependable, reusable, upgradable and adaptive by design.

The trial version includes a guided tour featuring some of the main capabilities of IFX Services Builder:

--Contract-driven development methodology generating services that are syntactically and semantically well formed.

--Real-time validation of services against the IFX standard's constraints at implementation time.

--Remote debugging of deployed services.

--Automatic change impact analysis and dependencies tracking when the processing logic, the schema or the data model is modified.

The IFX standard is both a business data model expressing the needs and constraints of the business, and a technology data model able to drive technical implementations. IFX Services Builder's native XML engine dynamically leverages the IFX schema, hiding the complexity of XML and its related technologies and removing code from the development of services.

IFX Services Builder also brings the well-known benefits of model-driven development with the advantage that professionals do not have to create a model from scratch, but can instead, leverage a standard governing model. "IFX has come a long way since its creation in 1998. Today IFX is an evolved set of banking transaction and object definitions that encompass customers' touch points critical to service-oriented retail banking, ATMs, point of sale devices, Web, branches, wireless, interactive voice response, or call centers," says Rich Urban, the President of the IFX Forum. For XML-based implementations, the IFX schema formalizes a large number of services that can be easily customized to fit the particular needs of virtually any retail banking establishment. "Brixlogic's IFX Services Builder enables banks to jumpstart their service-oriented architecture (SOA) and benefit quickly from the IFX Forum's rich business message specification," Mr. Urban adds.

As Web services are passing the experimental stage to become the cornerstone of enterprise application integration and new application development, the quality of those services is a top priority: services must never crash, must interoperate across platforms and languages, behave as expected and support evolution cost-effectively. "IFX Services Builder allows companies to rely on well-designed services in major areas: life extension of legacy systems, systems integration, real-time operations, operational costs reduction, improved underwriting, channel coordination, unification, or extension, faster introduction of new offerings, or compliance with regulations," says Guillaume Lebleu, VP of Products at Brixlogic.

"The IFX standard delivers the common information model that lets the business DNA permeate throughout the infrastructure, powers effective component re-use, and is able to support the Lean Six Sigma quality revolution and continuous improvement methodology that forward-thinking companies have initiated for operational efficiency and effectiveness," concludes Guillaume Lebleu.

About Brixlogic

Brixlogic heralds a new era in services' development, bringing consistency and simplicity. Its XML Services Builder's line of products currently includes IFX Services Builder, ACORD Services Builder, and Cisco IP Phone Services Builder. Brixlogic provides the first graphical, native XML, flow-oriented 4GL approach to the creation, testing, deployment, maintenance and upgrade of solutions aligned with a governing model expressed as an XML schema. It removes code from the development of services, eliminating reliability, interoperability and reusability issues, and produces contract-driven services that are correct by design. By enforcing compliance to the original or custom service interface semantics, Brixlogic's patent pending technology enables companies to expand the value of Web services, and transparently establish the architectural discipline necessary to successfully jumpstart and scale service-oriented initiatives. www.brixlogic.com

About the IFX Forum

Membership in the IFX Forum is open to anyone interested in contributing to the development of open financial standards that harness the power of XML. The IFX Forum is currently organized into the following Working Groups: ATM/POS; Business Banking; Branch Banking Services; and Web Services. IFX Forum Working Groups, in concert with an Architecture Committee to coordinate their efforts, develop open Internet-compatible messages for all sectors of the financial services industry. To learn more about IFX Forum standards or the benefits of IFX Forum membership, please visit www.IFXForum.org