CommerceQuest's Process Manager for Data - PM4Data - Combines with WebSphere To Provide Unified Integration Framework
TAMPA, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)---- Leading Apparel Retailer Enhances Integration Platform, Modernizes Disparate Legacy Systems
CommerceQuest Inc. announced today that IBM will begin reselling Process Manager for Data (PM4Data), a leading managed file transfer and data movement product, to leverage WebSphere MQ(a) and to enhance CommerceQuest's on demand strategy. PM4Data enables legacy assets to participate in enterprise services buses based on IBM technology and serves as an "on-ramp" for valuable legacy file-based assets to become integrated to the WebSphere* Business Integration Message Broker. The reseller relationship extends CommerceQuest's relationship with IBM via its WebSphere brand and offers IBM customers a valuable way to manage the movement of data across multi-platform environments and gain visibility into disparate systems throughout the enterprise.
CommerceQuest's PM4Data contains all the services and interfaces required to access and transfer local and remote files and databases in a batch or real-time format within IBM WebSphere MQ-enabled systems. PM4Data also facilitates systems integration by exposing files and database access and movement as XML or Web services-enabled components.
CommerceQuest further extends its relationship with IBM by announcing the transformation of its WebSphere Innovation Center to an IBM Business Partner Innovation Center. The IBM Business Partner Innovation Center at CommerceQuest leverages IBM WebSphere and Data Management technologies coupled with CommerceQuest offerings to further the advancement of IBM on demand solutions. The center enables customers to visualize the power of IBM and CommerceQuest solutions in support of their on demand efforts.
"CommerceQuest's and IBM's customers share a common need to expand the capabilities of existing systems by leveraging the rich resources of data in existing legacy and mainframe systems," said Mike Forster, chairman and CEO of CommerceQuest. "Our solution addresses this critical customer need. Customers will also gain benefits which include highly automated processing of bulk-data, as well as the ability to react quickly to organizational changes with a unified integration framework."
This joint enterprise integration platform will benefit many customers, including Charming Shoppes Inc, a leading specialty apparel retailer, and Standard Chartered Bank, one of the world's most international banks.
"We set out to modernize our IT infrastructure which included many key legacy systems," explained Denis Gingue, CIO of Charming Shoppes. "Working with IBM and CommerceQuest means that we will be in a position to deliver an enhanced integration platform that extends our legacy assets and gives the IT organization increased agility and flexibility to respond to the needs of our business and customers."
"CommerceQuest has demonstrated its expertise and knowledge of the complex process integration requirements of a global financial institution," added Lewis Jones, system integration manager of Standard Chartered Bank. "The IBM/CommerceQuest architecture now in place allows us to respond much more quickly to those requirements, while simplifying overall system development, deployment and operational management."
Managed file transfer products (MFT) are becoming increasingly more important for an organization's overall integration strategy. According to Frank Kenney, research analyst with Gartner, "Companies should make their managed file transfer deployments an integral portion of their overall integration projects and strategies, ensuring tight integration within their Enterprise Nervous System."
"CommerceQuest's PM4Data will enable customers who have adopted IBM's on demand business strategy to extend the value and longevity of their IT assets, by moving closer toward achieving a real-time enterprise," said Dr. Bob Sutor, director, IBM WebSphere Software. "With the additional capability of end-to-end visibility of data movement, customers will benefit from improved business productivity and IT efficiency."
About CommerceQuest (www.commercequest.com)
Founded in 1991, CommerceQuest is the only enterprise solutions provider that enables its customers to rapidly turn business strategy into business processes by fully integrating the work that people do with software systems that optimize business performance. CommerceQuest delivers a complete set of scalable enterprise business process management (EBPM) solutions that leverage existing IT investments to unite people, processes and technology in a service-based architecture that spans the extended enterprise, from the mainframe to the Internet and everything in between. More than 500 industry-leading companies rely on CommerceQuest to help them integrate heterogeneous workflow and IT systems, including many of the Fortune 500 companies such as The Home Depot, Coca-Cola Bottling, Ahold, and American Express.
CommerceQuest is a privately-held company and a member of Internet Capital Group's (Nasdaq:ICGE) collaborative network of Partner Companies. For more information about CommerceQuest, please call us at 813.639.6300 or visit us on the Web at www.commercequest.com.
(a)Indicates a trademark or registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation.
CommerceQuest Claudia Duch, 813-639-6329 Claudia.Duch@commercequest.com or Ruder Finn Melissa Boehning, 312-329-3975 boehningm@ruderfinn.com
11/2/2004 09:00 ET |
