Ascential Software Delivers Real-time Data Integration on IBM's WebSphere Application Server 5.0
Monday August 18, 9:11 am ET
Expanding Support of IBM's WebSphere Platform Delivers Highly Scalable Information On Demand for Enterprise Data Integration Solutions
WESTBORO, Mass., Aug. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Ascential Software Corporation (Nasdaq: ASCL - News), the enterprise data integration leader, today announced support for IBM WebSphere* Application Server 5.0. The combination of Ascential(TM) Enterprise Integration Suite and Real-Time Integration (RTI) Services with WebSphere delivers advanced technology solutions to power the real-time enterprise.
Integrating the Ascential Software Enterprise Integration Suite and IBM's WebSphere Application Server make the real-time enterprise a reality; enabling users to take advantage of reliable, accurate and current information available from anywhere across the enterprise, at any time, to drive strategic business initiatives. Harnessing the benefits of a service-oriented architecture (SOA), solutions from Ascential Software eliminate concerns about data sources, quality, volumes, and latency, enabling customers to leverage information across strategic applications such as customer relationship management (CRM), enterprise resource planning (ERP), and supply chain management (SCM).
"Over the last several years, we have been delivering high-performance, mission-critical data integration solutions in a number of industries, including financial services, by tapping the strength of IBM's DB2 Universal Database* and WebSphere MQ*," said Ascential Software Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer Mike Cassettari. "WebSphere is a powerful foundation that enables customers to efficiently deploy the Ascential Enterprise Integration Suite and Ascential RTI Services."
Through support for interoperability standards such as Enterprise Java Beans (EJB), Java Messaging Service (JMS), and Web services, the Ascential Software Enterprise Integration Suite and Real-Time Integration Services deliver the benefits of in-flight data integration capabilities for other common enterprise integration solutions, including business process integration (BPI), enterprise application integration (EAI), and enterprise information integration (EII).
"Working with companies like Ascential to provide complementary solutions for IBM WebSphere software is part of our commitment to deliver leading-edge e-business integration solutions," said Tom Inman, Vice President, WebSphere Foundation & Tools, IBM Software. "Ascential is delivering a solution that will benefit customers through increased operational efficiencies, strengthened customer loyalty and integrated disparate systems."
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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