Ascential Software Makes the Real-Time Enterprise a Reality by Delivering On-Demand Integration of Critical Business Information
Monday June 16, 8:40 am ET
Innovative Service-Oriented Architecture and On-the-Fly Data Transformation Maximize the Strategic Value of Analytic and Enterprise Applications
WESTBORO, Mass., June 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Ascential Software Corporation (Nasdaq: ASCL - News), the enterprise data integration leader, today introduced Ascential(TM) Enterprise Integration Suite 7.0, the most advanced version of the company's flagship enterprise integration solution, and Ascential(TM) Real-Time Integration Services (RTI Services). This breakthrough technology extends the reach of Ascential Software's powerful data profiling, data quality, data transformation, parallel processing, meta data and connectivity solutions by enabling the seamless interoperability of Ascential Software's data integration solutions within an enterprise's service-oriented architecture (SOA).
"With the Ascential Enterprise Integration Suite 7.0 and RTI Services, we are changing the enterprise data integration landscape. With this release Ascential Software is making data integration pervasive by harnessing the benefits of a SOA and eliminating concerns about data sources, quality, volumes, and latency. Our customers can now integrate and leverage data across all strategic analytic and enterprise applications -- including CRM, ERP, and supply chain management -- with complete confidence in the accuracy, completeness and timeliness of the critical information upon which their success depends," said Pete Fiore, president, Ascential Software. "Organizations using the Ascential Enterprise Integration Suite can drive their strategic initiatives based on accurate, current information, and optimize the strategic contributions of IT investments."
Through support for interoperability standards such as Enterprise Java Beans (EJB), Java Messaging Service (JMS), and Web Services, the benefits of on-demand, in-flight data integration capabilities can now be brought to other common enterprise integration solutions, including business process integration (BPI), enterprise application integration (EAI), and enterprise information integration (EII).
Sandra Rogers, program director, Web Services and Integration Software at IDC said, "Ascential Software is leveraging the capabilities and benefits of service-oriented architecture for data integration, exposing critical meta data and robust mapping that could ultimately be applied in a business process context. Ascential Enterprise Integration Suite 7.0 coupled with Ascential Real-Time Integration Services is targeted at organizations striving to capture and act on mission critical information in an event-driven manner, from supply chain management, CRM, business intelligence and other enterprise applications. With its product strategy, Ascential Software places an emphasis on delivering complete, synchronized, harmonized data where and when it's needed."
Allied Office Products, the nation's largest independent dealer of office products and services, is using the Ascential Software enterprise data integration platform and RTI Services to give it an edge in a challenging, fast-paced business. "Excellent customer service and next day delivery are standard requirements for survival in the competitive office products and supply business," said Ken DesRochers, senior vice president of information technology at Allied Office Products. "Over the past four years, Allied has succeeded with a 60 percent annual revenue growth rate through acquisitions and organic growth. In order to continue this success, Allied is leveraging Ascential RTI Services to enable real-time customer service, order processing and supply chain management. Ascential Software's technology combines a comprehensive data integration platform with a service-oriented architecture to give us on demand access to, and allow us to act on, key business information among our internal systems, with key third-party business partners, and across the Web."
Ascential Enterprise Integration Suite 7.0 Highlights
Singular purpose and performance: Comprehensive enterprise data
integration
-- Dramatic user productivity increases through User Interface
enhancements and new Ascential(TM) Intelligent Assistants that automate
and establish standards, and pre-packaged tasks designed to boost
productivity, reduce complexity and accelerate time to market.
-- Strengthened security support and open Web Services-based enterprise
management interface, designed to streamline mission-critical
enterprise data integration deployments.
-- Complete National Language Support (NLS) throughout the Ascential
Enterprise Integration Suite using Unicode, designed to deliver data
transparency across customer, subsidiary, partner and vendor systems
worldwide.
-- Extended operating systems support to include IBM z/OS Unix Systems
Services (USS) and extended Red Hat Linux support, designed to give
customers greater flexibility and reusability when deploying enterprise
data integration projects.
-- Enhanced cross-platform meta data-driven development, extensibility,
business user accessibility, and industry standards support designed to
improve business decisions, increase consistency and reduce time to
market.
Ascential Real-Time Integration Services Highlights
On-demand delivery of reliable, accurate and consistent data for real-time
enterprises
-- Any-to-any connectivity through which data transformation,
standardization, matching and legacy data access capabilities are
invoked through SOA conduits where and when needed using Web services
(.NET and Java), Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) or Java Messaging Service
(JMS) interface bindings. Standards-based interfaces to Business
Process Integration solutions designed to ensure that data contained
within business process events -- for example, order entries or
procurement requests -- can be transformed, standardized and matched
on-the-fly across applications, customers, partners, and suppliers.
-- Simplified creation and management of shared data transformation rules
across analytical and enterprise applications, business activity
monitoring, and business process integration environments, designed to
shorten development cycles, lower costs, promote reusability and reduce
the manual coding required by other integration technologies.
"Ascential Enterprise Integration Suite 7.0 and RTI Services, with their unique and broad capabilities and scalability, continue to further differentiate our end-to-end solution in the market," stated Ascential Software President Pete Fiore. "We are bringing these products to market at a time when enterprises recognize the critical importance of data integration on overall operational performance. This release is a major milestone along our path to deliver complete enterprise data integration solutions that help organizations profit from intelligent information."
Ascential Software also announced two product name changes. The company's data quality solution, INTEGRITY(TM), has been renamed Ascential QualityStage(TM), and MetaRecon®, Ascential Software's data profiling and analysis product, is now Ascential ProfileStage(TM). The rebranding reflects the pervasive integration of these products with DataStage® and the common services of the Ascential Enterprise Integration Suite. The company anticipates that the Ascential Enterprise Integration Suite 7.0 and RTI Services will be available in the third quarter.
About Ascential Software
Ascential Software Corporation is the leading provider of enterprise data integration solutions to the leading organizations worldwide. 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, retail, and government. More information on Ascential Software can be found on the Web at www.ascential.com.
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