Contivo Awarded Patent for Semantic Integration Technology that Lowers EAI Project Costs by up to 60%.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Contivo, the leading provider of automated data integration solutions, today announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) has granted the company a patent for a critical technology that enables true semantic integration. US Patent #6,757,739 protects the technology that enables semantics-driven association between data elements and is at the heart of the Contivo Vocabulary Management System (VMS). It empowers organizations to drastically reduce the time, efforts and costs incurred in data mapping across intra-enterprise (EAI) and inter-enterprise integrations (B2B).

Mapping of data elements from disparate enterprise applications forms the most time consuming and error-prone part of large integrations. More importantly, companies spend time and money on data mapping for every new integration effort. This lack of automation is a roadblock to delivering integrations on time and under-budget.

The patent awarded to Contivo addresses this specific pain area and allows users to automate the data mapping process using a "concept-synonym" methodology. Information represented by a particular field in a document is termed a "concept" and the relationship between the specific field in the document and its concept is termed a "synonym." This allows users to model documents by relating document locations to concepts, thus relating the semantics of the data once and re-using it for modeling related interfaces and for current and future integrations. It also enables auto-mapping between two application interfaces that can be further tweaked by the users. Additionally, the invention also provides ways for the user to "tweak" the mapping, analyze reports about what parts of large interfaces are applicable to specific situations, identify items that will be affected by an upgrade (impact analysis), and leverage the semantic understanding captured within the "concept-synonym" methodology.

"Contivo has been focused on delivering the most effective data mapping and integration solution to enterprises to optimize their integration implementations so they can save costs and reduce delivery times. This patent is a key accomplishment as we build stronger semantics-oriented features within Contivo VMS to automate the data integration process," said Dave Hollander, Chief Technology Officer of Contivo.

Contivo helps enterprises integrate data faster and more effectively than traditional hand-coded, manual methods. The Contivo Vocabulary Management Solution provides tools, infrastructure, and code generators that automate data transformation for application integration across multiple platforms. Contivo's recently expanded capabilities and platform support enable data integration across the enterprise, extending to legacy systems and Web services.

About Contivo

Contivo provides solutions that enable enterprises to dramatically reduce implementation and maintenance costs of enterprise-wide integration projects. Contivo provides integration architects and developers with a centrally managed repository and tools that dramatically increase leverage, bringing repeatability and parallelism to a task that was previously one-off, serial, and manual.

Contivo was founded in 1998 and has forged significant relationships with strategic partners and customers, including Hewlett Packard, Agilent Technologies, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Bearing Point, and CGEY. Investors include industry leaders BEA Systems, TIBCO Software, and webMethods and investment bankers BA Venture Partners, Voyager Capital, and MSD Capital LP. Contivo is privately held and headquartered in Mountain View, CA. For more information, go to www.contivo.com.

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