Ascential Software will Separate Real-Time Hype from Real-Time Results at The TDWI World Conference
Thursday August 14, 1:12 pm ET
Enterprise Data Integration Leader Uniquely Helps Enterprises Capture and Act on Mission Critical Information
WESTBORO, Mass., Aug. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Ascential Software Corporation (Nasdaq: ASCL - News), the enterprise data integration leader, today invited attendees of The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI) World Conference to a hands-on demonstration of Ascential Real-Time Integration Services (RTI Services) and the Ascential(TM) Enterprise Integration Suite. Announced in June 2003 and now generally available, Ascential RTI Services is the only enterprise data integration solution on the market that addresses real-time business requirements. RTI Services 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). The Ascential RTI Services team will be at the Ascential Software booth # 300 at the Hynes Convention Center.
"TDWI World Conference is the premier event for data warehousing and business intelligence professionals. TDWI provides an excellent forum to distinguish real-time rhetoric from real-time results, and separate providers of enterprise data integration infrastructure from vendors selling point products," said Mike Cassettari, vice president and chief marketing officer, Ascential Software.
Most extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) tools and data quality software vendors are not addressing real-time data integration requirements at all, or are simply trickle-feeding data warehouses for reporting purposes. This is an extremely loose and limited definition. Ascential RTI Services exposes complex matching, transformation, validation, standardization, and enrichment functionality to be called by any application at any time. 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).
Strategic IT requirements that can leverage real-time integration include not just data warehousing, but master data management, in-flight data enrichment, legacy data access, and self-service portals. "We strongly urge anyone implementing service-oriented architecture within their enterprise to experience firsthand the real-time data integration solution that has benefited many Ascential Software customers," concluded Cassettari.
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 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."
To further showcase how enterprise data integration solutions from Ascential Software are helping companies in many industries streamline and accelerate data integration across the enterprise, the company will host an Experts Forum, "Delivering Results in the Real-Time Enterprise," on Monday, August 18 from 7 to 10 p.m. at the Boston Marriott Copley Place and Convention Center. Computerworld Editor-in-Chief Maryfran Johnson will moderate the forum. Guest experts include IT executives from Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Landstar System, Inc., McKesson Corp., Pfizer Inc., and Room Solutions. The Ascential Software Experts Forum is open to all TDWI World Conference attendees.
About Ascential Software
Ascential Software Corporation is the leading provider of enterprise data integration solutions to organizations worldwide. Customers use the Ascential Enterprise Integration Suite to integrate and leverage data across all strategic analytic and enterprise applications with confidence in the accuracy, completeness and timeliness of critical information. Ascential Software's powerful data profiling, data quality, data transformation, parallel processing, meta data and connectivity solutions enable customers to reduce total cost of ownership and increase return on IT investment. 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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