Corporate Users Now Able to Tap Into Mainframe Data From The Palm of Their Hands.Business Editors & High-Tech Writers CUPERTINO, Calif. & SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 22, 2001 NetManage and Sentica Team to Offer Access to Legacy Data and Applications from Any Wireless or Mobile Device NetManage (Nasdaq:NETM), a leading supplier of e-business access and application integration solutions, and Sentica, a leader in wireless convergence, announced today that they are partnering to offer a software platform that enables wireless devices to access data and applications stored on mainframe, midrange and UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). computers. Under the terms of the agreement, NetManage will offer Sentica's interactive wireless communications wireless communications System using radio-frequency, infrared, microwave, or other types of electromagnetic or acoustic waves in place of wires, cables, or fibre optics to transmit signals or data. platform, SenticaXchange(TM), to its leading customers that are seeking to extend their back-office legacy systems to a variety of wireless devices including cellular phones, personal digital assistants and pagers. Sentica will also offer its clients and partners NetManage's robust suite of e-business solutions for access to mainframe, midrange AS/400 and UNIX systems. The result of the agreement would allow, for example, an automobile manufacturer to arm salespeople with immediate access to vehicle inventory and availability information while out on a test drive, or allow private banking representatives to access historical data for important clients while on personal visits. "This partnership underscores the growing demand for the extension of enterprise applications to wireless devices," said Ashok Babbar, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. and founder of Sentica. "SenticaXchange goes to the heart of any application and enables the distribution and interaction with that information to any wireless device in the world." "This partnership allows both NetManage and Sentica customers to extend their legacy information assets with a bridge to the wireless world," said Zvi Alon, CEO and president of NetManage. Sentica's convergence engine, SenticaXchange, goes beyond today's limited rendering technologies for mobile devices, which only allow crude, unreliable, non-scalable and one-way transmission of web sites. SenticaXchange is the first platform software that captures data from the heart of any application (enterprise application, Internet and Intranet), and provides a full mix of media communication interaction, including m-commerce, to any wireless device (voice phones, WAP phones, SMS (1) (Storage Management System) Software used to routinely back up and archive files. See HSM. (2) (Systems Management Server) Systems management software from Microsoft that runs on Windows NT Server. devices, PDAs, pagers and future devices such as network appliances, java devices, multimedia devices and video devices). NetManage's OnWeb(R) application integration software is the backbone of this solution. The OnWeb solution consists of the OnWeb Server running on Microsoft Windows See Windows. (operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then. 2000 or Microsoft Windows NT 4.0, maximizing scalability and performance capabilities, and the OnWeb Designer and Administrator components that run on virtually any Windows platform, including Windows 95 and Windows 98. Using the features in OnWeb, Sentica customers can leverage the investments they have in their legacy information assets by converting existing screen-based applications to HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. or WML (Wireless Markup Language) A tag-based language used in the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP). WML is an XML document type allowing standard XML and HTML tools to be used to develop WML applications. It evolved from Openwave's HDML, but WML is not a superset of HDML. on-the-fly, or by creating and publishing entirely new e-business applications using legacy data sourced from multiple data stores. About NetManage Founded in 1990, NetManage, Inc. (Nasdaq:NETM) delivers information access, publishing, integration, and support solutions and services that maximize a company's investment in existing information systems and provide the bridge to the new Internet See Web 2.0 and Internet2. economy. Award-winning NetManage products and services offerings include a comprehensive portfolio of application integration software, host access software, centralized cen·tral·ize v. cen·tral·ized, cen·tral·iz·ing, cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To draw into or toward a center; consolidate. 2. management, and live interactive support solutions that transform corporate information assets into powerful e-business solutions. NetManage sells and services products worldwide through its direct sales force, international subsidiaries, and authorized channel partners. For more information, visit http://www.netmanage.com, send e-mail to pr@netmanage.com or call 408/973-7171 (Pacific Time). About Sentica Sentica is a global leader in interactive wireless convergence. SenticaXchange(TM) offers the first global infrastructure that enables end-to-end interactive communication from any back-office, Internet or Intranet application to any mobile device. It delivers content and m-commerce capabilities from text, voice, image or video. Sentica provides a key competitive advantage in the wireless arena by helping deliver time-critical information to customers or users through whatever wireless device they use while providing the means for them to respond in real-time, independent of the device. Founded in 1999, Sentica is headquartered in San Jose, California San Jose (IPA: /ˌsænhoʊˈzeɪ/) is the third-largest city in California, and the tenth-largest in the United States. It is the county seat of Santa Clara County. , with offices or partners in Asia, Europe and other markets around the world. For more information about Sentica, visit www.sentica.com. Note to Editors: NetManage, the NetManage logo, the lizard-in-the-box logo, RUMBA, ONESTEP ONESTEP Ontario Network of Employment Skills Training Projects (Ontario, Canada) , ViewNow, SupportNow, and OnWeb are either trademarks or registered trademarks of NetManage, Inc., its subsidiaries, and affiliates in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and/or other countries. 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