JM Family Enterprises, the Nation's 15th Largest Privately Held Company, Selects Attunity Data Integration Platform to Federate and Stream Real-Time Information.BURLINGTON, Mass. -- Attunity (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 : ATTU Attu, island: see Aleutian Islands. ), the strategic Enterprise Integration Platform of choice for large organizations looking to implement real time and on-demand data and information integration, announced today that JM Family Enterprises, the 15th largest privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. in the United States and a recognized national leader in the automotive industry, has selected Attunity's data integration software platform to federate fed·er·ate v. fed·er·at·ed, fed·er·at·ing, fed·er·ates v.tr. To cause to join into a league, federal union, or similar association. v.intr. To become united into a federal union. information between its diverse business units. By using Attunity's suite of data integration solutions, JM Family Enterprises becomes one of the first automotive companies to share company information in real-time with applications, business units and dealers. JM Family Enterprises, Inc. (JMFE) located in Deerfield Beach, Florida Deerfield Beach is a city in Broward County, Florida, USA. The city is named for the numerous deer that once roamed the area. As of 2004, the population estimated by the U.S. Census Bureau is 76,478. , is a recognized leader in the automotive industry. JMFE's visionary business practices have enabled the company to capitalize on market trends and maintain a rapid rate of growth. In January 2005, JMFE was ranked by a survey in FORTUNE(R) magazine as the 25th Best Company to Work For in America, and the highest-ranking Florida Company. This marks JMFE's seventh consecutive year on the prestigious list. In September 2004, JMFE ranked for the third time on the InformationWeek 500 listing of the nation's leading information technology innovators. JM Family has implemented Attunity's integration platform in order to integrate data contained in mainframe data sources, DB2, 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 distributed data sources such as IBM's DB2/UDB. The company has also implemented Attunity's Stream solution with Changed Data Capture (CDC See Control Data, century date change and Back Orifice. CDC - Control Data Corporation ), moving only changes in DB2/MVS to multiple targets consisting of Oracle and SQL Server RDBMS (Relational DataBase Management System) See relational database and DBMS. RDBMS - relational database and DB2/UDB. This allows JM Family to save mainframe processing time and eliminate the use of replication on the mainframe. "Our requirements called for a solution that is capable of accessing numerous types of data sources in real time and replace our existing replication product, without a lot of added software engineering," explained Hossein Fallahzadeh, Director of Business Intelligence, JM Family Enterprises. "As a company, we have decided to standardize on Attunity's integration platform and have realized considerable 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). , especially with our CDC solution, which has allowed us to reduce our batch window as well as CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. resource consumption by leveraging the higher performance and throughput and off loading processing from our Mainframe while updating our Oracle and SQL Server databases, all with a single solution." JM Family has implemented Attunity's integration platform for the purpose of exposing legacy applications to the Web, data synchronization, migration and business intelligence initiatives. "JMFE clearly has a technology vision that is well integrated with its business strategy, said Daniel Sapir, Vice President of Marketing, Attunity. "JM Family Enterprises continually proves the value of technology leadership because the company places enormous demands on business value. We are delighted to participate in some of the country's most forward thinking technology strategies." About Attunity Ltd. Attunity is a leading provider of enterprise data integration software. Using Attunity's products, companies can seamlessly connect to data sources, stream data changes across the enterprise, and federate heterogeneous information to achieve a single view of their business. Employing a unique distributed architecture, Attunity software runs natively on enterprise data servers, turning locked data silos into an efficient Information Grid. The result is significantly enhanced performance and reduced cost of ownership. Many companies worldwide are using Attunity software worldwide for data integration initiatives such as service-oriented integration to the mainframe as part of 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. projects, legacy data access for business intelligence and reporting, real-time and efficient ETL based on change data capture, and single customer views from disparate information sources. Also, Attunity is a trusted partner for industry leaders like Oracle and HP who embed Attunity software into their products and solution offerings. (C) Attunity 2005. All Rights Reserved. JM Family Enterprises and JMFE are registered trademarks of JM Family Enterprises, Inc. |
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