Growing Community of Business Partners Support IONA Orbix E2A; Fourteen New Companies Join IONA's Partner Program and Incorporate Orbix E2A Into Their Offerings.Business/Technology Editors WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 21, 2002 IONA(R), the leading e-Business Platform provider for Web Services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term. Integration (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : IONA), today announced the addition of fourteen new companies to the IONA E2A E2A End to Anywhere (Orbix platform) Partner Program. These companies illustrate the growing community of partners that are utilizing IONA's Orbix E2A(TM) as a means to enhance their businesses by integrating and extending their offerings to new customers. "IONA's partner program continues to expand because companies in increasing numbers see the value in running their businesses on Orbix E2A," said Ed Gaudet, vice president of worldwide marketing at IONA. "Orbix E2A delivers the application development and integration solutions necessary to support all of the industry's standards and service-oriented architectures See SOA. in one, integrated platform. More than 5,000 companies utilize IONA's integration and development technology, and we're pleased to welcome today's new editions to the IONA family." Participants in the IONA Partner Program choose to follow either the Solution Provider Program or the Technology Provider Program and begin at the Associate level. Partners can advance to the Premier or Strategic levels and gain access to additional benefits and IONA investment upon meeting certain performance requirements. The expansion of benefits and requirements encourages a joint commitment between IONA and it's partners for a long-term working relationship. In support of its Partner Program efforts, IONA has developed a series of flexible programs to help partners grow their business, accelerate time-to-market, and increase profitability. The IONA Technology Providers Program is designed for independent software vendors (ISVs), Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), and other technology firms that provide platform and other specialized components that complement IONA solutions. IONA's newest Technology Provider Partners include: --Assured Technologies, Inc. provides software and professional consulting services for e-business solutions. --Exact-Solutions, Inc. provides software for real-time application performance and activity monitoring for high-transaction mission critical client/server environments typically found in financial, tele-communication and e-commerce industries. --Indura Software Corporation offers software that provides business managers with real-time analysis on business activities, user experiences and quality control for e-business applications. --Intigma provides Artificial Intelligence software for converting information into highly structured data, which can then be used for product comparisons, and for the management and maintenance of e-catalogs. --jDeploy provides deployment and hosting services, staging facilities and optimization techniques for organizations implementing J2EE applications and web services. --NeuVis Software provides an e-business development platform for creating 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 collaborative commerce applications, Web-enabling legacy systems and creating Web services. --Total Transaction Management provides middleware products and services for the design, development, marketing and support of distributed computing (1) The use of multiple computers networked throughout a wide geographical area, or the world via the Internet, in order to solve a single problem. See grid computing. (2) The use of multiple computers in an enterprise rather than one centralized system. solutions. The IONA Solution Providers Program is designed to promote and assist system integrators that focus on providing customers with a complete solution for end-to-end business integration both inside and outside the firewall. The program targets system integrators that rely on IONA products and services as part of their e-business practices. IONA's new Solution Provider Partners include: --COM-Creation, Inc. provides a variety of software solutions including e-business and m-business consulting and systems integration services for e-business integration and games development on mobile devices and wireless handsets. --IngenSoftware, Inc. provides tailored software solutions spanning multiple platforms Refers to two or more operating environments, which typically include the CPU family and operating system. For example, if versions of a program run on Windows and the Macintosh, the software is said to support multiple platforms. and development languages that adapt technology to meet their clients' business needs. --Lightship, Inc. provides object technology and hardware/software integration services for growing e-commerce companies and large Global 1,000 clients. --Matricis Informatique, Inc. is a Montreal-based provider of 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. ) offerings for companies in the manufacturing, public services Public services is a term usually used to mean services provided by government to its citizens, either directly (through the public sector) or by financing private provision of services. , distribution, financial and health industries. --SofThemes, based in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , provides vertical software themes oriented towards the entertainment, manufacturing, medical technology, food, consumer products and aerospace industries. Their horizontal/functional software themes are focused on business processes (modeling, integration, management, automation, etc.), EAI and B2Bi infrastructure, supply chain design, distribution and materials management Materials management is the branch of logistics that deals with the tangible components of a supply chain. Specifically, this covers the acquisition of spare parts and replacements, quality control of purchasing and ordering such parts, and the standards involved in ordering, . --SSG, Ltd. is software engineering and professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. company focused on providing leading edge technology solutions. --Symbiant Group provides Peer-to-Peer, Web services and GRID based technologies, designed to make person-to-computer, and computer-to-computer collaboration more efficient. Symbiant serves several business sectors including financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. , life sciences, industrial design, transportation, aerospace/defense and communications companies. Orbix E2A Product Lines The Orbix E2A Web Services Integration Platform - which combines business-to-business, enterprise integration, and application development functionality - is built on Web services standards and a service-oriented architecture to cut the cost of application integration both inside and outside the firewall. The Orbix E2A Web Services Integration Platform provides all the tools and the management services required for reliable, scalable, and secure dynamic data exchange, business process automation, and composite applications. The Orbix E2A Web Services Integration Platform is available in three editions: XMLBus, Partner and Collaborate. The Orbix E2A Application Server Platform is the most deployed, heterogeneous application server in the industry. Orbix E2A Application Server Platform combines the scalability of 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 and the productivity of J2EE (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition) A platform from Sun for building distributed enterprise applications. J2EE services are performed in the middle tier between the user's machine and the enterprise's databases and legacy information systems. , with Web services standards and integration adapters for the most widely used platforms and applications. The Orbix E2A Application Server Platform provides the management services required for reliable, scalable, and secure applications. The Orbix E2A Application Server Platform is available in three editions: J2EE Technology, Standard and Enterprise. About IONA IONA is a leading e-Business Platform provider for Web Services Integration. IONA Orbix E2A(TM), which consists of the Orbix E2A Web Services Integration Platform and Orbix E2A Application Server Platform, enables the flow of information across disparate systems and the liberation of application assets for new business opportunities. Founded in 1991, IONA(R) (NASDAQ: IONA) is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, with U.S. headquarters in Waltham, Massachusetts One of the early centers of the Industrial Revolution in northern America, Waltham is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 59,226 at the 2000 census. . The company had revenues of $153 million in 2000 and employs more than 850 people in 30 offices worldwide. For additional information about IONA, visit our Web site at http://www.iona.com. IONA, IONA Technologies IONA Technologies, NASDAQ: IONA, began life as a campus company in Trinity College, Dublin and was founded by Chris Horn, Annrai O'Toole, Colin Newman and Seán Baker.[1][2] IONA maintains headquarter offices in Dublin, Boston and Tokyo. , the IONA logo, Orbix, E2A, End 2 Anywhere, End To Anywhere, Orbix E2A, IONA E2A, IONA e-Business Platform, iPortal Application Server, SureTrack, IONA XMLBus, Adaptive Runtime Technology, Orbacus, Orbix/E, IONA University and Total Business Integration are trademarks or registered trademarks of IONA Technologies PLC and/or its subsidiaries. Java and J2EE are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. 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