Mercator Selected by Defense Logistics Agency to Support EDI Translation Requirements.Business Editors & High Tech Writers WILTON, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 11, 2001 Integration Broker Connects World's Largest Procurement and Distribution Agency Mercator(R) Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: MCTR MCTR Missile Technology Control Regime mCTR Murine Calcitonin Receptor MCTR Medical Center for Translational Research (Osaka University Hospital, Japan) MCTR Mackinac Transportation Company ), today announced that it has been selected by the Defense Logistics Agency Noun 1. Defense Logistics Agency - a logistics combat support agency in the Department of Defense; provides worldwide support for military missions Defense Department, Department of Defense, DoD, United States Department of Defense, Defense - the federal department (DLA DLA dog leukocyte antigen. ) to support its electronic data interchange See EDI. (application, communications) electronic data interchange - (EDI) The exchange of standardised document forms between computer systems for business use. EDI is part of electronic commerce. (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 data transformation requirements. DLA's EDI consists of approved commercial standard transaction formats, including X12 and 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. . Mercator Integration Broker replaces a variety of EDI translation software in use today in DLA. DLA also is using Mercator as part of the Agency's Department of Defense e-Business eXchange (DEBX DEBX DoD Electronic Business Exchange (replaces ECPN) ) system. An agency of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), DLA provides worldwide logistics support for military departments and unified combatant commands under conditions of peace and war. It also provides logistics support to other DoD components and certain federal agencies, foreign governments, international organizations, and others as authorized. DLA's use of Mercator as part of the DEBX system allows for a seamless interface between the DLA and its government and commercial trading partners using Electronic Commerce (EC) and EDI. DEBX provides mass volume communications and routing, auditing capability, and trading partner management. The DEBX/Mercator solution for data transformation operates in a 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). environment. Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) is an aerospace and defense conglomerate that is the result of the 1994 purchase of Grumman by Northrop. The company is the third largest defense contractor for the U.S. Information Technology, the developer of DEBX, was instrumental in DLA's choice of Mercator as its EDI integration solution. Dennis Dalton From 1989 through 1994, Dennis Gilmore Dalton was the Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Political Science at Barnard College, Columbia University. Publicly, he is regarded as one of the well-respected authorities on Mahatma Gandhi; at Columbia, he is also known as a legendary teacher, , director of eBusiness Solutions at Northrop Grumman Information Technology, said: "Mercator's ease of use dramatically reduced our development and implementation time for the Department of Defense eBusiness exchange integration engine at DLA. In addition, its extensive standards support enables DLA to work with any partner, regardless of what data type it uses, from EDI to XML 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. ." DLA is also using Mercator Integration Broker to handle EDI translation requirements at the locations that manage the DLA procurement and distribution processes in place today. At these locations, Mercator Integration Broker manages the trading partner relationships and the EDI data received and sent through the DLA DEBX system. The Mercator solution, which operates in an NT environment, receives and transmits EDI, translates the data into the appropriate format, and routes it to applications for processing and/or to DEBX for interface with external trading partners. Robert Farrell, president of Mercator Americas, commented: "The DLA project is a great example of Mercator Integration Broker's ability to handle high-volume, high transaction EDI. DLA does the largest percentage of purchasing and ordering transactions for the Defense Department. It is an enormous undertaking, and Mercator is up to the challenge." About Mercator Mercator Software's intelligent business integration solutions unify any internal operations and connect them with partners and customers while leveraging current technology investments. Over 7,000 businesses, including more than 1,100 enterprise customers in 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. , healthcare, utilities, manufacturing, retail, and distribution, use Mercator software to maximize their performance. Additional information about Mercator (Nasdaq: MCTR) may be found at www.mercator.com. About DLA The Defense Logistics Agency provides supply support and technical and logistics services to the military services and to several civilian agencies. Headquartered at Fort Belvoir Fort Belvoir is a United States military installation and a census-designated place (CDP) in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. The population was 7,176 at the 2000 census. , VA, DLA is one source for consumable items, whether for combat readiness Synonymous with operational readiness, with respect to missions or functions performed in combat. , emergency preparedness or day-to-day operations. For more information about DLA, go to www.dla.mil. About Northrop Grumman Information Technology Northrop Grumman's Information Technology sector is a premier provider of advanced information technology solutions, engineering and business services for government and commercial clients. Headquartered in Herndon, VA, the sector has estimated 2001 sales of nearly $4 billion and more than 22,000 employees worldwide. In the federal IT market, the Information Technology sector is a leading provider of IT services to the Department of Defense (DoD), including such areas as battle management, mission planning, modeling and simulation, information assurance, software engineering, intelligence, surveillance, space systems, base and range support. Additional information about Northrop Grumman Information Technology may be found at www.logicon.com. Mercator is a registered trademark of Mercator Software, Inc. Legal Notice Regarding Forward-Looking Statements Statements in this press release that are not purely historical are forward-looking statements, including statements regarding Mercator Software's beliefs, expectations, hopes or intentions regarding the future. Forward-looking statements in this release include, but are not limited to, statements regarding the growth of the enterprise application market, the demand for the company's application integration solutions and the speed of deployment of new products, including combined Mercator e-business integration broker products. It is important to note that actual outcomes and the company's actual results could differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially include risks and uncertainties such as changes in demand for application integration or e-business integration software and the company's Mercator e-business integration broker suite of products in particular, the ability of the company to expand its international operations Internal Operations (I.O., IO or I/O) is a fictional American Intelligence Agency in Wildstorm comics. It was originally called International Operations. 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