NEON: NEON announces Windows-based BizTalk integration solution
DEC 3, 1999, M2 Communications - New Era of Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq:
NEON) today announced the availability of NEON e-Biz 2000, an
e-commerce Integration Server fully compliant with the Windows DNA
platform. NEON's e-Biz 2000 enables organizations to deploy an
integration solution based on familiar Microsoft standards, providing
customers with integration tools to easily implement XML-based,
e-commerce products.
"With NEON e-Biz 2000, we have the ability to easily interface our
existing information systems to any new applications and instruments
quickly and cost- effectively," said Peter Karkantis, marketing manager
for Abbott Laboratories, a $12.5 billion global healthcare company that
was ranked number 133 in revenues in Fortune magazine's 1999 ranking of
the largest United States-based corporations. Illinois-based Abbott
Labs, a two-year NEON customer using NEON's full-line of integration
products, has standardized NEON e-Biz 2000 as the integration solution
for managing data for its Point of Care division.
"NEON's unique and scalable capabilities in adapter and legacy-to-XML
technology strongly compliment Microsoft's product focus on providing
cost-effective, e-commerce application development solutions," said
Charles Stevens, vice president of Microsoft's business solutions
group. "NEON e-Biz 2000 provides application developers with the
integration tools they need to quickly implement e-commerce solutions."
"An increasing number of our customers have chosen Windows DNA as
their platform of choice for e-commerce connectivity solutions," said
Peter Hoversten, senior vice president for product strategy at NEON.
"NEON e-Biz 2000 provides an XML-based Windows integration toolset
which allows organizations to rapidly deploy innovative e-commerce and
Internet storefront solutions."
NEON Partnership Momentum
In a related announcement today, Microsoft and NEON Form Strategic
Relationship To Enhance E-Commerce Integration, NEON and Microsoft
announced that they had formed an alliance to jointly market and
enhance e-commerce integration solutions. Microsoft also announced that
NEON will serve on the BizTalk Framework Steering Committee. During the
past 30 days, NEON has announced significant partnerships with
BroadVision, BEA, Commerce One and now - Microsoft. "Regardless of
which technology leader companies follow," remarked Hoversten, "they
will find that NEON technology is an integral part of their integration
(COMTEX) B: NEON: NEON announces Windows-based BizTalk integration so
B: NEON: NEON announces Windows-based BizTalk integration solution
DEC 3, 1999, M2 Communications - New Era of Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq:
NEON) today announced the availability of NEON e-Biz 2000, an
e-commerce Integration Server fully compliant with the Windows DNA
platform. NEON's e-Biz 2000 enables organizations to deploy an
integration solution based on familiar Microsoft standards, providing
customers with integration tools to easily implement XML-based,
e-commerce products.
"With NEON e-Biz 2000, we have the ability to easily interface our
existing information systems to any new applications and instruments
quickly and cost- effectively," said Peter Karkantis, marketing manager
for Abbott Laboratories, a $12.5 billion global healthcare company that
was ranked number 133 in revenues in Fortune magazine's 1999 ranking of
the largest United States-based corporations. Illinois-based Abbott
Labs, a two-year NEON customer using NEON's full-line of integration
products, has standardized NEON e-Biz 2000 as the integration solution
for managing data for its Point of Care division.
"NEON's unique and scalable capabilities in adapter and legacy-to-XML
technology strongly compliment Microsoft's product focus on providing
cost-effective, e-commerce application development solutions," said
Charles Stevens, vice president of Microsoft's business solutions
group. "NEON e-Biz 2000 provides application developers with the
integration tools they need to quickly implement e-commerce solutions."
"An increasing number of our customers have chosen Windows DNA as
their platform of choice for e-commerce connectivity solutions," said
Peter Hoversten, senior vice president for product strategy at NEON.
"NEON e-Biz 2000 provides an XML-based Windows integration toolset
which allows organizations to rapidly deploy innovative e-commerce and
Internet storefront solutions."
NEON Partnership Momentum
In a related announcement today, Microsoft and NEON Form Strategic
Relationship To Enhance E-Commerce Integration, NEON and Microsoft
announced that they had formed an alliance to jointly market and
enhance e-commerce integration solutions. Microsoft also announced that
NEON will serve on the BizTalk Framework Steering Committee. During the
past 30 days, NEON has announced significant partnerships with
BroadVision, BEA, Commerce One and now - Microsoft. "Regardless of
which technology leader companies follow," remarked Hoversten, "they
will find that NEON technology is an integral part of their integration
solution."
NEON e-Biz 2000
NEON e-Biz 2000, is the next generation e-business integration server
developed by MicroScript Corporation, recently acquired by NEON.
MicroScript has been the leading provider of Windows based integration
solutions with over 1400 installations worldwide. NEON e-Biz 2000
performs application integration functions for business-to-business
(B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) applications, and enables
companies to use existing applications and connect them to new
e-constituents - customers, employees and partners - without recreating
or duplicating existing information. NEON e-Biz 2000 handles five key
functions required for applications to share information: move, route,
transform, enrich and bridge:
* Move transports information between integration servers and
applications
* Route determines which information needs to go where
* Transform translates source data into information for target
systems
* Enrich adds information required by target systems
* Bridge links integration servers to Web application servers
NEON e-Biz 2000 supports XML and EDI
machine-to-machine-based transactions and HTML and HTTP for Web
server connectivity. For application servers, NEON e-Biz 2000 supports
Microsoft COM/DNA interfaces. It also supports NEON's existing
integration technology for packaged applications, legacy systems,
databases, protocols and other B2B standards, including adapters for
the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication
(S.W.I.F.T.), FIX, ACORD and HL7.
About New Era of Networks, Inc.
New Era of Networks Inc. (Nasdaq: NEON) is the leading provider of
e-commerce Integration software. Its products enable companies to share
information and manage end-to-end business processes across
Internet-facing e-commerce applications, packaged software such as ERP
systems, and legacy applications. NEON has a rapidly growing base of 2,
500 customers worldwide in a variety of industries including financial
services, insurance, manufacturing, healthcare, telecommunications and
hospitality. NEON has demonstrated that its products shorten
implementations while providing performance and reliability, proven in
some of the most demanding transaction processing environments in the
world. NEON partners with most of the leading IT software and services
providers including Microsoft, IBM, BEA Systems, BroadVision,
Sun/Forte, Cambridge Technology Partners, CIBER, Compaq,
Hewlett-Packard, Logica, NIWS (Japan), PeopleSoft, and others. For more
information, call 0207 329 4669 or visit NEON's World Wide Web site at
www.neonsoft.com.
New Era of Networks, Convoy/DM, MicroScript Server, MicroScript
Workstation, the NEON logotype, NEONet, NEONweb, Neonsoft, NEONaccess,
NEONmsgtrak, NEONenrich, NEONfix, Business EventManager, Enterprise
ProcessExecutive, Rapport, OpenBroker, Enterprise Application
Integration, NEON Impact, NEONsecure, NEONadapter, NEON Physician
Access, NEON e-Biz Integrator and NEON Trading System are trademarks,
and CL/7, MicroScript and Transaction Distribution Manager, TDM are
registered trademarks of New Era of Networks, Inc. and its
subsidiaries. MQSeries is a registered trademark of International
Business Machines Corporation. All other trademarks and registered
trademarks are the property of the respective trademark owners.
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