Casahl Technology Announces Release of Replic-Action 5.0; New features, capabilities enhance development of business-critical applications in Lotus Notes.DANVILLE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 31, 1998--Casahl Technology, Inc., the leading provider of software for integrating groupware with relational database relational database Database in which all data are represented in tabular form. The description of a particular entity is provided by the set of its attribute values, stored as one row or record of the table, called a tuple. and corporate database systems, announced the release of Replic-Action version 5.0, a major upgrade to its popular award-winning software. Replic-Action 5.0 provides new features and improvements to its already powerful data integration and synchronization system. Customers are creating business-critical applications on their groupware infrastructure that rely on Replic-Action to integrate with data from their corporate and legacy systems. Long regarded as the industry leader in replication between corporate databases and groupware systems, this latest upgrade to Replic-Action proves once again why Casahl maintains an overwhelming majority of market share. Replic-Action is a server-based data replication, migration and integration tool. Replic-Action is used to access, transform, migrate and synchronize data between Lotus Notes Messaging and groupware software from IBM Lotus that was introduced in 1989 for OS/2 and later expanded to Windows, Mac, Unix, NetWare, AS/400 and S/390. Notes provides e-mail, document sharing, workflow, group discussions and calendaring and scheduling. and multiple external databases. Replic-Action provides conflict detection, notification and resolution during synchronization and provides industrial-strength server technology such as load balancing The fine tuning of a computer system, network or disk subsystem in order to more evenly distribute the data and/or processing across available resources. For example, in clustering, load balancing might distribute the incoming transactions evenly to all servers, or it might redirect them , fault tolerance See fault tolerant. (architecture) fault tolerance - 1. The ability of a system or component to continue normal operation despite the presence of hardware or software faults. This often involves some degree of redundancy. 2. , performance monitoring, archiving, server auto shut-down and restart, and remote administration. Replication jobs can be scheduled, using Replic-Action's flexible scheduler or can be run on an ad-hoc basis. Replic-Action also provides real time data access which allows users to access and manipulate data from back-end database A back-end database is a database that is accessed by users indirectly through an external application rather than by application programming stored within the database itself or by low level manipulation of the data (e.g. through SQL commands). systems directly from a Notes or web client interface. Replic-Action is the only product with a feature like Real Time Query by Form, that provides the ability to query back-end data from and return records to a Notes or web client in real time. Replic-Action is also the only product that enables users to run SQL SQL in full Structured Query Language. Computer programming language used for retrieving records or parts of records in databases and performing various calculations before displaying the results. requests as part of replication without any scripting. Replic-Action is the most popular data integration solution, used by over fifty percent of Fortune 500 companies and was recently awarded the Lotus Notes and Domino Advisor Magazine Gold Medal gold medal traditional first prize. [Western Cult: Misc.] See : Prize for replication products (see May 98 issue). "We faced a major task of evaluating and recommending a middleware product to handle the enormous amounts of legacy data for a major energy company," said Gregory L. Schulte, Deloitte & Touche / DRT DRT Dead right there Medtalk A macabre adjective referring to a Pt who has been clinical kaputt long enough to minimize the likelihood of resuscitation Systems. "We found that in an evaluation of Notrix, NotesPump, InfoPump and Replic-Action, Replic-Action exceeded the others based on speed, flexibility, integrity, reliability and ease when tested against live data on DBMS (DataBase Management System) Software that controls the organization, storage, retrieval, security and integrity of data in a database. It accepts requests from the application and instructs the operating system to transfer the appropriate data. platforms including SQL, Oracle, DB2 and Access." New Features in Replic-Action 5.0 Replic-Action 5.0 provides many new features and improvements, including: -0- -- Web-based remote administration -- Web-based Composer -- Rule-based replication -- Replication using stored procedures -- Data Archiving -- Scheduled Data Transfer jobs -- Stored Requests which can be used to execute SQL requests, pass-thru requests, Notes agents, system commands, and user programs -- JAVA support -- Multi-value list collapse/expand in real-time -- Improvements to user interface Replic-Action Family of Products Replic-Action 5.0 is one of a family of products under the Replic-Action name. Within this family of products, customers can integrate their groupware applications with ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. systems such as SAP, or even synchronize between two different DBMS systems (e.g. Oracle to SQL Server An earlier relational DBMS from Sybase and from Microsoft. Sybase introduced SQL Server in 1988 for various Unix versions. In that same year, with help from IBM, Sybase created an OS/2 version that Microsoft licensed and branded as Microsoft SQL Server. ). One product in the Replic-Action family, GroupwareLink, enables companies that have different groupware systems, such as Notes and Microsoft Exchange, to coexist with each other or to migrate from one to another. Tools, such as a mailbox converter, form converter and database/folder analyzer, are available with GroupwareLink to assist in migration projects. Casahl Technology, Inc. Casahl Technology, Inc. is headquartered in Danville, California and is a Lotus Premium Business Partner and a Microsoft Certified Solution Provider. Founded in 1992, Casahl has been focused on the integration of groupware products. Its first product was licensed to Lotus as NotesSQL, an ODBC (Open DataBase Connectivity) A database programming interface from Microsoft that provides a common language for Windows applications to access databases on a network. driver for Notes, which is still shipping with each copy of Notes. Replic-Action, Casahl's flagship product, began shipping to customers three years ago and quickly became the leader in the industry. Casahl has maintained this leadership. In mid-1997, Casahl began shipping a version of Replic-Action specifically for Microsoft Exchange users. Information regarding Replic-Action 5.0 may be obtained by contacting Casahl at 925/736-7704 or casahl_sales@casahl.com. Casahl can be reached on the World Wide Web at http://www.casahl.com. -0- Note to Editors: Replic-Action is a trademark of Casahl Technology. Lotus and Lotus Notes are registered trademarks and Notes and Domino are trademarks of Lotus Development Corporation (company) Lotus Development Corporation - A software company who produced Lotus 1-2-3, the Symphony spreadsheet and Lotus Notes for the IBM PC. Disliked by the League for Programming Freedom on account of their lawsuits. Quarterly sales $224M, profits $10M (Aug 1994). . All other company and product names may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated. CONTACT: Casahl Technology, Inc. Ken Wilson, 925/736-7704 ext. 127 ken_wilson@casahl.com |
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