Corporate Profile for NEON Systems Inc, dated Sept. 8, 2000.Business Editors --(BUSINESS WIRE) The following Corporate Profile is available for inclusion in your files. News releases for this client are distributed by Business Wire and also become part of the leading databases and online services, including all of the leading Internet-based services.
Published Date: Sept. 8, 2000
Company Name: NEON Systems Inc.
Address: 14100 Southwest Freeway, Suite 500
Sugar Land, TX 77478
Main Telephone
Number: 800/505-NEON
Internet Home
Page Address
(URL) www.neonsys.com
Chief Executive
Officer: Joe Backer
Chief Financial
Officer: John Reiland
Investor Relations
Contact: John Reiland
Business number: 281/491-4200
E-mail address: jreiland@neonsys.com
Public Relations
Contact: Heather Howard
Business number: 281/634-8357
E-mail address: hhoward@neonsys.com
Industry: Software -- eBusiness Integration, Subsystem
Management, and Security
Trading Symbol/
Exchange: Yes
Market Makers: Nasdaq:NESY
Company description: NEON Systems is a leader of eBusiness exchanges in complex computing environments for Global 2000 companies. The NEON Systems eBusiness Integration solution enables businesses to manage critical business areas that operate across multiple platforms -- including mainframes, Windows NT and 2000, Linux, and Unix systems -- and across firewalls with customers, vendors, and partners. The NEON eBusiness Integration solution provides integration without barriers across the value chain for Web-to-host data access, legacy application renewal, application development, 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. ), and B2B (Business to Business) Refers to one business communicating with or selling to another. See B2B e-commerce, B2C and B2G. B2B - business to business integration. The iWave product group offers the blending of EAI and B2B integration from one, integration infrastructure and provides the most comprehensive support in the industry today for the integration of data, applications, and business processes. The Shadow product group delivers direct and transparent access to System/390 mainframe data and transactions from the Internet or client/server environments. Eliminating the need for a gateway or custom coding, the Shadow product group leverages existing hardware, software, and personnel to provide access to DB2, CICS (Customer Information Control System) A TP monitor from IBM that was originally developed to provide transaction processing for IBM mainframes. It controls the interaction between applications and users and lets programmers develop screen displays without , IMS (1) See IP Multimedia Subsystem. (2) (Information Management System) An early IBM hierarchical DBMS for IBM mainframes. IMS was widely implemented throughout the 1970s under MVS and continues to be used under z/OS. , VSAM (Virtual Storage Access Method) An IBM access method for storing data, widely used in IBM mainframes. It uses the B+tree method for organizing data. VSAM - Virtual Storage Access Method , and ADABAS A database management system (DBMS) from Software AG, Reston, VA (www.softwareagusa.com) for IBM mainframes, VAXes, Unix and Windows. It is an inverted list DBMS with relational capabilities. data and transaction sources. NEON Systems is committed to open industry standards and supports ODBC (Open DataBase Connectivity) A database programming interface from Microsoft that provides a common language for Windows applications to access databases on a network. , HTML/HTTP, JDBC (Java DataBase Connectivity) A programming interface that lets Java applications access a database via the SQL language. Since Java interpreters (Java Virtual Machines) are available for all major client platforms, this allows a platform-independent database , EJBs, XML, Linux, and CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) A software-based interface from the Object Management Group (OMG) that allows software modules (objects) to communicate with each other no matter where they are located on a private network or the global . Additionally, the company participates in product research and development supporting commonly used and emerging standards. Taking advantage of eBusiness strategies places greater demands on the mainframe. NEON Systems' Enterprise Subsystem Management product family works behind the scenes 24 hours a day, seven days a week to provide quick reliable access to mission-critical information. For the fiscal year ended March 31, 2000, total revenues increased 48% to $29.7 million, compared to prior year total revenues of $20.0 million. Excluding amortization of goodwill and certain other acquisition-related charges, net income and diluted earnings per share diluted earnings per share An earnings measure calculated by dividing net income less preferred stock dividends for a period by the average number of shares of common stock that would be outstanding if all convertible securities were converted into shares of increased 125% to $5.1 million and 60% to $0.48, respectively, compared to net income and diluted earnings per share of $2.3 million and $0.30, respectively, for the prior fiscal year. The diluted earnings per share calculation for the fiscal year ended March 31, 1999, includes only a partial weighting for the approximately 3 million newly issued shares in the Company's March 1999 initial public offering. |
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