Candle Announces Solution Partnership With Compaq to Address Enterprise Application Integration Marketplace.SANTA MONICA Santa Monica (săn`tə mŏn`ĭkə), city (1990 pop. 86,905), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on Santa Monica Bay; inc. 1886. Tourism and retailing are important, and the city has motion-picture, biotechnology, and software industries. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 2, 1999-- Compaq to Incorporate Candle's Roma Technology into its NonStop eBusiness Integration Framework; Will Port Roma to its Leading Computing Platforms Candle Corporation, the leading independent developer and supplier of Enterprise Application Integration (EAI (Enterprise Application Integration) Refers to various techniques used to share data and business processes in large enterprises. When companies acquire another organization, disparate information systems have to be made to work together. ) solutions, today announced a solution partnership with Compaq Computer Corp. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : CPQ CPQ Compaq CPQ Conseil du Patronat du Québec (Canada) CPQ Configure-Price-Quote CPQ Conseil de Presse du Québec (Québec Press Council, Canada) CPQ Companion Parrot Quarterly ) targeting the burgeoning EAI marketplace. Under the terms of the agreement, Compaq will leverage Candle's Roma EAI technology within the Compaq NonStop(R) eBusiness (NSeB) Integration Framework. The explosive growth in the EAI market is being driven by the need for enterprises to integrate disparate applications to support new business initiatives critical to maintaining their competitive advantages. Enterprises are turning to industry leaders such as Candle and Compaq to provide solutions that offer speed, flexibility, ease of integration, and lower costs - and the critical element of high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. . This strategic relationship supports Compaq Services' leadership position as a systems integrator in a fast growing Businessware market, pegged to reach $5.3 billion by 2003 according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. IDC. "The teaming of Roma - along with Candle's expertise in the development of advanced EAI technologies - and Compaq's market presence will be a major plus in delivering high quality integration solutions to the marketplace," said Ed Acly, middleware analyst, IDC. "Compaq customers can look forward to the added benefit Roma will bring to users of its NonStop eBusiness Integration Framework by providing enhanced integration and management capabilities." Candle and Compaq offer leading EAI solutions designed to accelerate an IT organization's response time in its effort to meet corporate demands, which is an important requirement as companies strive to improve business agility and build competitive advantage. As a result of this relationship, the two companies are enhancing the flexibility and availability of their respective offerings. Specifically, Compaq will incorporate Candle's Roma architecture to add flexibility and improved availability features for customers using its NonStop eBusiness Integration Framework. Consequently, Compaq's integration framework now supports best-in-breed messaging transports - BEA BEA - Basic programming Environment for interactive-graphical Applications, from Siemens-Nixdorf. MessageQ, 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) MQSeries, and Microsoft MSMQ See Microsoft Message Queue Server. - for EAI. In addition to providing greater transport independence, Compaq's integration framework will take advantage of and augment Roma's availability features. In addition, Compaq will port Candle's Roma BSP BSP Bromsulphalein, a dye used in the study of liver function. See also sulfobromophthalein clearance test. to its Tru64 UNIX The 64-bit Unix operating system for HP's AlphaServers. Formerly Digital Unix when Alpha was a product family from Digital Equipment Corporation, it was renamed Tru64 Unix in 1999 by Compaq (HP acquired Compaq in 2002). , Windows NT/Alpha, and OpenVMS operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. , providing Candle and Compaq customers a greater variety of hosting options for their EAI needs. "With this relationship, our customers can reduce overall costs and dramatically increase the speed of development and deployment of complex back-end integration projects," said Steve Mahoney Steven W. Mahoney, PC (born July 18, 1947 in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario) is a Canadian politician. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1987 to 1995, and a member of the Canadian House of Commons from 1997 to 2004. , vice president, Architecture and Application Integration Services, Compaq Enterprise Solutions and Services Group. "In particular, those customers looking to integrate, change, and manage applications - now and in the future - can count on us for end-to-end solutions based on industry-leading technology and our proven track record in delivering systems integration services in large, complex customer environments." Added Mahoney, "Compaq is aligning its professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. organization to plan, design, implement, and manage NonStop eBusiness Solutions for enterprise customers. By making Candle's leading-edge technology available within our NonStop eBusiness Integration Framework, we can offer customers even more adaptable, extensible, and scalable enterprise application integration solutions." "This partnership reinforces Candle's commitment to delivering EAI technologies for enterprise systems integrators like Compaq, enhancing their ability to rapidly deliver flexible EAI solutions to customers," said Steve Craggs, vice president, Enterprise Application Integration, Candle Corporation. "Roma's business process integration and management capabilities enhance Compaq's solution capabilities with a strong and unique EAI flexibility. The synergies with Compaq's proven track record for offering world-class systems and services put customers in the fast lane to integrating their internal and inter-enterprise applications." Candle's Roma Roma is a complete suite of product and services for the integration and management of applications and business processes across disparate enterprises, platforms, and transport mechanisms. Offering the only proven EAI solution designed to address three different kinds of EAI challenges - including message broker-, component-, and process-based EAI - Roma's flexibility and extensibility enables companies to automate distributed processes that span complex, heterogeneous environments using a common interface. Besides integrating and managing these upper layers of the EAI infrastructure, Roma also provides a common API for integrating across different brands of Message Oriented Middleware (MOM). At this level, products such as IBM MQSeries and Microsoft MSMQ are commonly used for the transport and queuing of messages - in which case, Roma provides transport independence by enabling users to write their applications only to the Roma API without having to worry about the underlying transport mechanism. About Candle Candle Corporation of Santa Monica, California For other uses, see Santa Monica (disambiguation). Santa Monica is a coastal city in western Los Angeles County, California, USA. Situated on Santa Monica Bay of the Pacific Ocean, it is surrounded by the City of Los Angeles — Pacific Palisades and Brentwood on the north, , is a leading independent developer and supplier of EAI solutions. To help customers connect, integrate, and manage their applications, Candle also offers products, solutions, and services in the areas of application and response time management, messaging middleware, and performance and availability management. For more information on Candle Corporation and its Roma family, visit www.candle.com/roma, or call (800) 843-3970. Candle, the Candle logo, Solutions for Networked Businesses, Roma and Roma BSP are trademarks or registered trademarks of Candle Corporation. Other products mentioned herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective owners. |
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