Tuesday May 4, 01:27 PM Eastern time
Company Press Release
SOURCE:New Era of Networks, Inc.
NEON Awarded Patent for Rules Engine Technology
Protects Important NEON Competitive Advantage and Recognizes Breakthrough Technology
DENVER, May 4 /PRNewswire/ -- New Era of Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq: NEON) announced today it has been awarded a patent for its Rules Engine, which is one of the core technologies for its Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) products. U.S. patent number 5,893,911 protects the Rules Engine and gives NEON an important competitive advantage. The patent recognizes and validates the unique technology that offers NEON customers performance, scalability and maintainability unavailable from any other EAI vendor.
The U.S. Patent Office issued the patent last month to NEON on behalf of chief technology officer Harold Piskiel and his team of co-inventors. The patent covers both the algorithms and processing methods invented by the team.
Essential for EAI
Scalable content-based information routing is essential for application integration at the enterprise level. Content-based routing uses the content of a particular piece of information to determine where it needs to be sent. For instance, in a company with a central order entry system and ten warehouses, NEON can route orders based on the product being shipped, location of the customer, etc.
NEON's patented rules technology enables its products to perform content-based routing on thousands of information objects per second while evaluating hundreds of thousands of rules. MQSeries Integrator uses this technology, as do other NEON products such as Business EventManager, Enterprise ProcessExecutive and NEON Trading System.
Primark (www.primark.com), a global information company based in Bethesda, MD, uses MQSeries Integrator for Global Access, its Internet-based real-time financial information service. It currently routes up to 100 objects per second via the Internet to its 40,000 subscribers using over 200,000 rules.
"The performance and scalability of our patented Rules Engine has led directly to NEON's high market acceptance," said Harold Piskiel, executive vice president and chief technology officer for NEON. "Departmental and point-to-point products claiming to be enterprise-wide solutions simply can't compete at this level."
Unique NEON Capabilities
Traditional rules engines slow down as the number of rules increases because they evaluate every rule every time they run. Some rules engines employ chaining techniques to improve performance, but these make the rules interdependent. As a result, the rules themselves become increasingly difficult to create and change as the number of rules grows. These problems have previously limited the applicability of rules in EAI where performance, throughput, and the ability to quickly handle ongoing changes in a highly complex environment are critical.
NEON's patented technology solves both problems. Rather than evaluating all rules against input data, NEON uses sophisticated search technologies to identify only those rules that are applicable to that data. It then evaluates only those rules. The result is unmatched execution speed and scalability.
Furthermore, the raw performance of the NEON Rules Engine means it does not have to use chaining techniques that make rules dependent on one another. As a result, developers can create and modify rules independently. They no longer need to worry about the effect of any one rule on any other rule or rules. This simplifies both development and testing.
"NEON's rules engine provides both scalability and adaptability for EAI solutions," said Beth Gold-Bernstein, senior analyst for Hurwitz Group, a Boston IT research and consulting company. "It takes a very different approach from typical point-to-point mapping that enables new rules and additional systems to easily be added. Customers we have spoken with report the product is highly scalable."
Second EAI Patent
This is NEON's second broad-reaching patent in the EAI industry. Last month, NEON acquired VIE Systems, Inc., holder of U.S. patent number 5,842,205 for dynamic formatting and the use of metadata to control the formatter. NEON now has the patents to two of the most critical components of EAI: rules and formatting.
About New Era of Networks
New Era of Networks, Inc. is the leader in providing Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) solutions across multiple industry groups and is the leader in providing packaged solutions that successfully integrate legacy applications, client/server and web-based applications, as well as popular ERP applications. NEON has a rapidly growing base of more that 900 customers worldwide and has demonstrated that its products shorten implementation cycles, integrate disparate platforms, and allow information to be shared and managed across the enterprise. The NEON product suite supports EAI across the most popular hardware platforms, operating systems, and database types. NEON offers adapters for many popular packaged applications, technologies, databases, Web interfaces and network protocols. NEON distribution partners include IBM, Cambridge Technology Partners, Compaq/Tandem, Hewlett-Packard, Logica, NIWS (Japan), PeopleSoft, and others. For more information call 800-815-6366 or visit NEON's World Wide Web site at www.neonsoft.com.
CONTACT: Tom Kaser of New Era of Networks, Inc., 303-486-9588
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