IONA's Artix to Integrate With CA's Unicenter WSDM; Solutions to Help Ease Management of Enterprise SOA.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers caworld 2004 LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 24, 2004 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. (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), a world leader in high performance integration solutions for mission-critical IT environments, today announced plans to enable interoperability between Artix, the company's Web services integration product, and Unicenter Web Services Distributed Management “WSDM” redirects here. For the Terre Haute, Indiana radio station, see WSDM-FM. Web Services Distributed Management (WSDM, pronounced wisdom) is a web service standard for managing and monitoring the status of other services. (Unicenter WSDM WSDM Web Services Distributed Management WSDM Web Site Design Method ) from Computer Associates International, Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CA). As a result of the integration, organizations will be able to use the Unicenter WSDM management console to gain full visibility and control over Artix-based enterprise service-oriented architectures (SOA (1) (Start Of Authority) The first record in a DNS zone file. See DNS records. (2) (Service Oriented Architecture) The modularization of business functions for greater flexibility and reusability. ). "IONA has a long tradition of providing technologies to solve complex integration challenges, and they have built upon that history with Artix," said Dimitri Tcherevik, vice president of Web services at CA. "For our customers that are exploring the ways in which SOA can transform their enterprises, we're pleased to deliver systems management capabilities through Unicenter that can readily support these new computing methodologies." Companies are increasingly adopting SOA as a means to significantly reduce the cost and complexity of IT infrastructures. At the same time, these Web services environments present new management challenges. Organizations require increasingly sophisticated management environments that give visibility to distributed architectures and persistent transactions across domains and trading partners. CA's Unicenter WSDM is a comprehensive solution for managing Web services across services-oriented architectures. It is the first solution to support ad-hoc XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. , 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 , EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) The electronic communication of business transactions, such as orders, confirmations and invoices, between organizations. Third parties provide EDI services that enable organizations with different equipment to connect. and other types of SOA in addition to Web services. By leveraging CA's acclaimed Unicenter technology, it uniquely enables customers to manage their next-generation services and their legacy infrastructure from a common management console. Through the use of the Artix Management Framework for Unicenter WSDM, organizations can rapidly add world-class management capabilities to their Artix-based SOA environments. This level of integration delivers a completely unified view of the enterprise, simplifying the management of new IT infrastructures. "Unless scalable, cross-platform Web services are matched with enterprise-ready, cross-platform Web service management technology, businesses will fail to achieve the maximum ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). from service oriented architecture projects," said Scott Devens, vice president of products, IONA. "By combining CA's Unicenter WSDM solution with our Artix platform, the promise of a comprehensive, end-to-end systems management solution for the SOA is made a reality. Customers will now have a cost-effective way to integrate their enterprise business systems--and more importantly, to more effectively run their organizations." About IONA For more than a decade, IONA Technologies (NASDAQ: IONA) has been a world leader in delivering high performance integration solutions for enterprise IT environments. IONA pioneered standards-based integration with its CORBA-based Orbix product family. The Artix product family, IONA's new generation of integration solutions, extends IONA's commitment to service-oriented industry standards, including Web services. With its partners, IONA is the only company that can deliver NOW on the promise of service-oriented integration, making it possible for customers to achieve system longevity and agility at a significantly lower cost. IONA's customers include Global 2000 companies in telecommunications, financial services, aerospace, and manufacturing, including AT&T, Verizon, BellSouth, Deutsche Telekom, British Telecom, Hong Kong Telecom, NTT NTT Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation NTT New Technology Telescope NTT National Technology Transfer, Inc NTT Name That Tune (TV game show) NTT National Tree Trust NTT Number Theoretic Transform , Credit Suisse, Merrill Lynch, Winterthur Insurance, Zurich Insurance and Boeing. IONA is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, with U.S. headquarters in Massachusetts and offices worldwide. For additional information about IONA, visit our Web site at http://www.iona.com/. IONA, IONA Technologies, the IONA logo, Orbix, High Performance Integration, Artix, Mobile Orchestrator and Making Software Work Together are trademarks or registered trademarks of IONA Technologies PLC and/or its subsidiaries. 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