"Growing competitive pressures from mergers, acquisitions, and deregulation are forcing major enterprises to look for more economical and effective ways to compete and respond overnight to new opportunities," said Del Yocam, Inprise chairman and CEO. "Nowhere are these symptoms more apparent than in the financial services, healthcare, telecom, and energy industries. Our new Inprise Application Server is differentiated by its unique ability to make large, highly complex enterprises - laden with legacy applications and systems - as agile and flexible as startups. Now, with the Inprise Application Server, enterprises can easily and quickly move applications from the drawing board into production, to outdo their competitors."
The Inprise Application Server is an integrated, scalable, and secure software server for the development, integration, deployment, and management of distributed enterprise applications. It streamlines productivity with visual development tools that are seamlessly integrated with middleware and management tools - and reduces maintenance costs through its distributed-component architecture. The Inprise Application Server integrates legacy environments through a consistent, CORBA-based foundation and includes Inprise`s AppCenter suite of application management tools, a wholly unique and powerful offering in the application-server category.
"The Inprise Application Server deserves top marks as one of the most complete application-server solutions for delivering enterprise and e-commerce applications," said Anne Thomas, senior consultant for the Patricia Seybold Group, a leading market analyst and consulting firm based in Boston. "It offers world-class rapid development, scalable deployment, and robust management. The Inprise Application Server handily addresses the four critical business issues facing most organizations: time-to-market, flawless execution, back-office integration, and rapid response to change."
Currently, over 100 global enterprise customers are using and evaluating the Inprise Application Server, including Bank of America, Barclays Life Assurance (UK), NationsBank, T. Rowe Price, U.S. Sprint, Ericsson Telecommunications (Sweden), Tokyo Mitsubishi International (UK), and United Behavioral Health.
The Inprise Application Server enables developers to readily build new, platform- independent applications, taking advantage of open industry standards such as CORBA and Java. "We are pleased that the Inprise Application Server leverages the power of Java technology, to offer a robust and productive solution for delivering platform-independent enterprise applications," said Jon Kannegaard, vice president and general manager of Sun Microsystems` Java Software.
Key Features of the Inprise Application Server
- A complete, integrated end-to-end solution for developing, integrating, deploying, and managing distributed-object applications that support multiple thin clients, mid-tier business logic, and standards-based database and legacy access;
- Heterogeneous enterprise environment support for all major programming languages, client interfaces, Web servers, database servers, hardware platforms, and legacy environments, including DCE and COM;
- Proven, high-performance, and reliable object-communications infrastructure built with Inprise VisiBroker, the industry-leading CORBA object request broker;
- Open and extensible architecture based on industry standards such as CORBA, C++, Java, and HTML;
- The Inprise Application Server supports the Sun Solaris(tm), HP-UX, IBM AIX, and Microsoft Windows NT platforms;
- JBuilder for Application Server, based on the most popular and functionally rich Java development environment. (Support for Delphi and C++Builder is scheduled for early next year);
- Web deployment of high-performance and easy-to-administer Internet-based, platform-independent applications. The Inprise Application Server includes Sun`s 100% Pure Java(tm) Web Server, and supports other major Web Servers, including Netscape, Microsoft, and Apache;
- VisiBroker Integrated Transaction Service (ITS), a flexible distributed-object-based transaction service that offers full support for the Java Transaction Service (JTS) standard; and
- AppCenter, the industry`s first truly distributed applications-level management tool, enabling high levels of system uptime and quality of service.
"The healthcare industry is under tremendous pressure to cut costs and improve customer service," said Jim Nelson, assistant vice president of Enterprise Systems for United Behavioral Health, a division of United HealthCare Corporation. "UBH has maintained its leadership position in the industry by using information technology to its advantage. The Inprise Application Server, which is based on open industry standards, will help us in our goals of reducing the cost of doing business and improving customer service."
Trained Systems Integrators
Inprise Enterprise Solutions Program (ESP) system-integration partners such as Grant Thornton LLP and Cap Gemini have been trained to leverage the Inprise Application Server in solutions for their enterprise customers.
"One of Grant Thornton LLP`s roles as a global professional services firm is to assist our clients in achieving their business objectives by using technology as an enabler," said Fred Kroin, partner for Net Solutions at Grant Thornton LLP. "Reducing time-to-market is a major competitive advantage. As an Enterprise Solution Partner, we are confident that the introduction of the Inprise Application Server offers a robust solution for enabling business-to-business, e-commerce, and transaction-based enterprise applications."
Product Availability
The Inprise Application Server is available now, directly from Inprise. For more information and pricing, U.S. customers may call Inprise Direct Corporate Sales at 831.431.1064. Customers outside the U.S. should contact their local Inprise offices, distributors, or representatives. More information on distributed-application-development and the Inprise Application Server is available at http://www.inprise.com/appserver/.
About Inprise Corporation
Inprise Corporation is a leading provider of software and services that simplify the complexity of enterprise application development, integration, deployment, and management. The company is distinguished for its award-winning family of rapid-application-development products and for proven scalable middleware. Inprise integrates these offerings with application-management products to provide customers with end-to-end solutions. Inprise customers include leading enterprises and independent software vendors around the world. Founded in 1983, Inprise is headquartered in Scotts Valley, California, and has operations around the world. Inprise has more than 900 employees worldwide.
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