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Idion`s US subsidiary Vision Solutions launches new enterprise data replication product

Johannesburg, 20 Mar 2001

Idion`s US subsidiary Vision Solutions has announced a powerful new version of its enterprise replication product - SYMBIATOR V3.0. The cross-platform software solution helps enterprises share critical business information across different systems, networks and languages. SYMBIATOR V3.0 allows businesses and business units to communicate between servers and across language barriers.

SYMBIATOR V3.0, a completely new, re-architected middleware software solution, has a cross-industry focus, which can be used in any environment where there is a need to share and replicate data between disparate or non-disparate systems or databases.

"SYMBIATOR enables enterprises greater business opportunities and efficiencies by allowing them to share and replicate critical business information between offices, networks and countries, across e-commerce and application servers, data warehouses/datamarts and supply chains."

This is according to Alan Arnold, executive vice president engineering at Vision.

"SYMBIATOR works across ODBC supported relational databases, including IBM DB2/400, Microsoft SQL Server and Access, Oracle, Progress Software, Informix and Sybase. SYMBIATOR is able to replicate data in any language supported by Microsoft Codepage across multi-national enterprises," Arnold explains.

"In order to execute wise business decisions, companies require continuous, consistent, rapid and reliable access to information throughout their enterprise, in any form or format necessary. SYMBIATOR V3.0 provides the solution to facilitate this any time, via any form of access," he continues.

The product`s key benefits evidently include:

  • Improved Ease of Use SYMBIATOR V3.0 is simple to install and easy to use. Its Graphical User Interface (GUI) screen is intuitive, enabling easy learning and user friendliness. The software requires a single point of management, and users are able to transfer data to and from multiple data fields from one screen.

  • National Language Support SYMBIATOR V3.0 opens up a world of opportunity for the increasingly global business community. It allows international enterprises to share data across different countries and companies to share information with international customers, by replicating data in any language.

  • Increase in Scalability SYMBIATOR V3.0 increases scalability by accommodating any number of user servers and allowing customers to purchase the software solution without the of additional necessary investments as their company expands.

  • Increase in Performance SYMBIATOR V3.0 has substantially less impact on production servers as compared to previous versions. "SYMBIATOR V3.0 is our most innovative product to date, and we`re proud to officially unveil it. The software is robustly architected and extremely easy to use. With its cross-language capabilities, we`re able to appeal to the growing number of companies with a global reach and increasingly complex information availability management needs," comments Nicolaas Vlok, Chief Executive Officer of IDION Technology Holdings and Vision Solutions.

"It is a reflection of our commitment to provide customers with continuous access to their critical business information," Vlok concludes.

For more information about SYMBIATOR V3.0, a free 15-day product download or news about Vision Solutions` other information availability management solutions, please visit the company`s website at www.visionsolutions.com.

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Vision Solutions

With locations around the world, Vision Solutions provides software to ensure that a company`s mission-critical data is always available, no matter what. Vision Solutions is an IBM Premier Business Partner, and maintains technical alliances with Microsoft, Oracle, Sybase, Progress and Informix.

Vision Suite is one of the most recommended and widely deployed solutions for high availability, disaster recovery and continuous operations for the IBM iSeries (AS/400). The company also provides cross-platform solutions for the Microsoft NT and UNIX platforms. Vision Solutions is a member of the IDION group of companies. For more information about Vision Solutions, please visit the company`s website at www.visionsolutions.com.

IDION Technology Holdings Limited

IDION was founded in 1994 and listed on the JSE in 1998. Vision Solutions and IDION Business Solutions Group are wholly owned subsidiaries of IDION Technology Holdings. For more information about IDION, please visit the company`s website at www.idion.com