Ascential Software has won the Software Industry Award for Best Enterprise Integration from Software Business magazine. The company will be honoured at a ceremony in Boston on 22 October during the Software Business 2003 Conference, billed as the premier conference on business and technology for executives and managers of software companies.
"With the release of the Ascential Enterprise Integration Suite 7.0 and its new Real-Time Integration Services, the company offers new capabilities that confirm its status as an enterprise integration leader," says John G Cargile, managing editor for Software Business. "The Ascential Enterprise Integration Suite is unique in the integration landscape because it provides the only complete, comprehensive data integration solution. Competing solutions overlook data profiling and quality, focusing primarily on transformation...and no company moves data faster."
Ascential was among hundreds of nominees and 10 winners the magazine`s editorial staff selected for its Third Annual Software Industry Awards. Ascential is the sole winner in its category.
The Ascential Enterprise Integration Suite combines Ascential`s solutions for data profiling, data quality and data transformation and delivery on a shared platform of software services for unlimited scalability through parallel processing, management of metadata, any-to-any connectivity and real-time data integration. Ascential Real-Time Integration Services extends the reach and enables the seamless interoperability of Ascential`s data integration solutions in a company`s service-oriented.
Software Business - Strategy & Technology for Software Executives - is a business magazine serving the software publishing industry. Its readership consists of executives and managers of software companies. They are responsible for corporate strategy, product development, marketing and sales, distribution, technical and customer support, finance, administration, training, localisation, manufacturing and fulfilment.
"In the last two years, data quality and enterprise integration have come to be recognised as vital issues which deserve the time and attention of business and IT," says Julian Field, MD of local Ascential distributor CenterField Software. "This is due in part to the pioneering work done by Ascential, which has invested hundreds of millions of dollars to attain its position of market leadership. This has now been acknowledged by Software Business."
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