DataPower and Contivo offer complete standards-based XML integration solution.

DataPower Technology, Inc., the leading provider of intelligent XML-aware network infrastructure, has announced a joint marketing and development agreement with Contivo, Inc. to integrate the Contivo Enterprise Integration Modeling (EIM) solution with the DataPower XA35 XML Accelerator. The joint solution provides enterprise customers with a complete standards-base XML integration solution providing unparalleled data modeling and the world's fastest XML data transformation technology to significantly reduce time and money spent on integration services.

"XML has changed the way enterprises integrate disparate applications," said Eugene Kuznetsov, Chief Technology Officer at DataPower. "The partnership with Contivo allows DataPower customers to easily create and manage very complex data-mappings between previously incompatible schemas. The result is a radically faster, cheaper and more scalable way of doing XML-based integration."

In the past, for every $1 Million spent on integration software, another $3-5 Million was spent on customized services. XML provides an open, standards-based approach to inter- and intra-enterprise integration that promises to alleviate the costs of customized coding and integration. Contivo's platform-independent model-based semantic server automates the design and management of data integration. By enabling model reuse and collaboration across the enterprise, Contivo removes the need to repeatedly hand-code transformations or become locked into proprietary systems. But the complex data transformations required for XML-based integration are very resource-intensive when utilizing software-based XSLT products, and can create serious performance bottlenecks.

"By combining our model-based data design environment with DataPower's XA35 XML Accelerator, we are enabling our joint customers and prospects to leverage the best of today's XML transformation design environments with a hardware-based transformation appliance", said Dave Hollander, Chief Technology Officer at Contivo. "Current software-based XSLT transformation engines can create serious performance bottlenecks that hinder our customers' efforts to fully leverage XML in their complex, business transformations."

DataPower's XA35--based on its patent-pending XG3 XML processing technology--provides the world's fastest XML data transformation engine. In a jointly conducted test, the XA35 was able to execute Contivo transaction mappings over 15 times faster than transactions attempted in general-purpose software. In addition to its performance edge, the XA35 is very easy to setup and manage. While Contivo's product helps enterprises scale their data mapping projects, DataPower's XA35 helps them scale the actual XML processing. The combined scalability solution announced recently means that enterprises can easily, quickly and affordably model, design and run complex business integration projects with the full benefits of XML without performance or complexity barriers.

DataPower XA35 XML Accelerator and Contivo EIM Solution 3.0 are available for purchase immediately.