Ascential Software Recognized as 'Industry Leader and Innovator' by SD Times
Tuesday June 3, 9:39 am ET
Company Named to First Annual SD Times 100 and Lauded for its Unequalled Data Integration Suite
WESTBORO, Mass., June 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Ascential Software Corporation (Nasdaq: ASCL - News), the enterprise data integration leader, today announced that it was named by SD Times, the software development industry's newspaper of record, to the first annual "SD Times 100" list of software development leaders and innovators. The publication declared that Ascential Software's "suite of data profiling and transformation tools remains without equal."
Honorees have demonstrated a pattern of innovation during the past year, according to Alan Zeichick, editor-in-chief of SD Times. "The SD Times 100 looked for companies which set a direction that developers and the industry followed in 2002," said Zeichick. "When choosing the SD Times 100, we carefully considered each company's offerings and reputation, as well as the attention and conversation we've heard around the company and its products and technologies, as a sign of leadership within the industry."
The Ascential(TM) Enterprise Integration Suite is the first and only data integration solution to span the full data life cycle by providing data source profiling, data quality assurance, and data transformation. The Ascential Enterprise Integration Suite combines the company's industry-leading data integration components for data profiling, data quality, and data transformation on a shared platform of software services for unlimited scalability through parallel processing, management of meta data (descriptive information about data), and any-to-any connectivity between source and target data. The suite's unlimited scalability is critical to high-volume and real- time data integration.
"We're a company that prides itself on firsts. That SD Times' editors have named Ascential Software to their first SD Times 100 list is gratifying, particularly because that means their subscriber base of nearly 47,000 software development professionals recognizes our leadership - something we have worked hard to earn through of years of dedication to research, development and our customers," said Mike Cassettari, Ascential Software vice president and chief marketing officer. "We're confident that the IT experts who read SD Times will continue to be impressed by our technology innovations that help business and government agencies more quickly and easily transform their data into valuable information to support profitable decisions."
Launched in February 2000, BZ Media's SD Times is the newspaper of record for the software development industry. SD Times is published twice-monthly in identical print and digital editions, and can also be read online at www.sdtimes.com. The SD Times 100 feature can be found at sdtimes.com.
About Ascential Software
Ascential Software Corporation is the leading provider of enterprise data integration solutions to the Global 2000 and government agencies. Customers use the Ascential Enterprise Integration Suite and products to turn vast amounts of disparate, unrefined data into reusable information that drives business success. Ascential Software's unique, comprehensive data integration suite enables customers to easily collect, validate, organize, administer and deliver information to realize more value from their enterprise data, reduce costs and increase profitability. Headquartered in Westboro, Mass., Ascential Software has offices worldwide and supports more than 2,200 customers in such industries as financial services, telecommunications, healthcare, life sciences, manufacturing, consumer goods and retail. More information on Ascential Software can be found on the Web at www.ascential.com.
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