UniKix announces desktop ECI/EPI client for transactions; New software lets companies use latest development tools to improve transaction-processing effectiveness.BILLERICA, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 19, 1996-- UniKix Technologies today announced its ECI/EPI Client software, which supports distributed client/server transaction processing Updating the appropriate database records as soon as a transaction (order, payment, etc.) is entered into the computer. It may also imply that confirmations are sent at the same time. Transaction processing systems are the backbone of an organization because they update constantly. between workstations running popular desktop operating systems and UNIX systems running UniKix transaction applications. UniKix transaction processing software allows companies to migrate existing CICS (Customer Information Control System) A TP monitor from IBM that was originally developed to provide transaction processing for IBM mainframes. It controls the interaction between applications and users and lets programmers develop screen displays without applications and mainframe batch applications to very high performance, open client/server systems, providing investment protection of the existing applications, data, networks, and terminals. With the addition of the new ECI/EPI Client capabilities, companies can extend their distributed transaction A distributed transaction is an operations bundle, in which two or more network hosts are involved. Usually, hosts provide transactional resources, while the transaction manager processing effectiveness to utilize the latest, powerful development tools to provide flexible and productive client applications. UniKix Technologies' ECI/EPI Client runs on Windows, Windows 95, Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. and 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). workstation systems, and links desktop applications developed with products such as PowerBuilder and Visual Basic to enterprise application servers running the UniKix transaction processing system A Transaction Processing System (TPS) is a type of information system. TPSs collect, store, modify, and retrieve the transactions of an organization. A transaction is an event that generates or modifies data that is eventually stored in an information system. . The clients provide a standard ECI ECI Employment Cost Index ECI Election Commission(er) of India ECI Enterprise Content Integration ECI Early Childhood Intervention ECI Environmental Change Institute (External Call Interface) or EPI EPI exocrine pancreatic insufficiency. (External Presentation Interface) interface to large corporate CICS-compatible applications on UNIX servers, and thus are ideal for organizations standardizing on CICS transaction systems across their mainframe, UNIX and desktop environments. "Customers want the power of today's client/server desktop tools tied into a corporate architecture and network that leverages both their mainframe and UNIX investments," said John Noonan, president of UniKix Technologies. "We give them exactly that solution with UniKix Technologies' ECI/EPI Client," he said. UniKix Technologies' ECI/EPI Client can connect the leading client/server desktops across TCP/IP TCP/IP in full Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol Standard Internet communications protocols that allow digital computers to communicate over long distances. networks to any of the 16 leading UNIX platforms supported by UniKix. In addition, because the ECI/EPI Client uses standard IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) CICS interfaces, the IBM CICS Clients products can now also interface into UniKix application servers. The ECI interface allows new application front-ends to be developed using the latest rapid-application development tools and graphical interfaces. These clients interface with the business logic application running on the UniKix server system. The EPI interface allows new graphical client software to interface with existing 3270 data stream UniKix applications without the need to change the existing applications. Both interfaces allow application presentation logic to be separated from the business logic to supported distributed client/server processing. This provides the flexibility for a company to select the most appropriate desktop platform for their client applications and allows for new, more productive user interfaces for their transaction applications. "UniKix Technologies' ECI/EPI Client products provide full control of the customer interface to the client/server desktop," said Aidan Harney, chief technology officer at UniKix Technologies. "With the ECI/EPI Client, you're no longer limited to a screen-scraping interface for three-tier client/server A three-way interaction in a client/server environment, in which the user interface is stored in the client, the bulk of the business application logic is stored in one or more servers, and the data are stored in a database server. See client/server. applications. The new clients provide full access to all application data fields via the ECI interface, giving the desktop full GUI (Graphical User Interface) A graphics-based user interface that incorporates movable windows, icons and a mouse. The ability to resize application windows and change style and size of fonts are the significant advantages of a GUI vs. a character-based interface. control," he explained. UniKix Technologies' ECI/EPI Client is currently available for beta shipment; general release is slated for July 1996. UniKix Technologies supplies a family of middleware products for enterprises that need to build or enhance mission-critical production applications in the areas of legacy and client/server architectures, vertical packages, and electronic-commerce applications. UniKix Technologies provides enterprise transaction management solutions to over 250 customers worldwide, on 16 different vendors' UNIX platforms. UniKix Technologies is headquartered in Billerica, Massachusetts, with product development centers in Phoenix, Arizona and Southampton, England. -0- UniKix is a registered trademark of Bull HN Information Systems Inc. in the United States and other countries. UNIX is a registered trademark in the United States and other countries, licensed exclusively through X/Open Company Limited. Windows, Windows 95, and Windows NT are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. CICS is a trademark of IBM Corporation. All trademarks, service marks and company names are the property of their respective owners. CONTACT: Bruce MacDonald UniKix Technologies 508-294-5812 b.macdonald@ma30p.bull.com or Susan Luther Duval Woglom Brueckner & Partners 617-241-8000 msluther@duval.com |
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