Software AG, Europe's largest provider of system software and services enabling enterprise data integration and management, has forged a worldwide partnership with iWay Software, pre-eminent vendor of adapter technologies in the integration market, to provide customers with an extended and simpler solution for integrating applications using open standards.
The alliance enables Software AG to sell iWay Software's extensive range of intelligent adapters along with its EntireX integration server product line, thereby enriching Software AG's leading specialisation in service-based integration and management products and services.
The partnership will be based on close contact between the respective research and development teams, giving Software AG full access to all of iWay's laboratories.
Joe Curran, Manager of Software AG South Africa, comments: "Our EntireX integration technology is based on open standards such as XML, SOAP and Web services. The adapters now available via iWay Software provide EntireX with standards-based plug-and-play access to data, applications and technologies. These include packaged applications, legacy systems, messaging, customer relationship management applications and supply chain management systems.
"Customers are afraid of vendor lock-in," Curran continues, "and prefer standards-based integration to proprietary components. Our business objective is to offer cost-effective customer choice and that is why we have enabled our EntireX range to support third-party standard interface adapters.
"iWay is a clear leader with an excellent reputation for adapter technology. This partnership will help drive our market leadership. Software AG will benefit from the enhanced choice in adapter technology that it can offer its large enterprise customer base, which will in turn be an important new market for iWay."
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Software AG is based in Darmstadt, Germany. Founded in 1969, Software AG continues to be Europe's largest and a leading global provider of system software and services enabling enterprise data integration and management. Software AG's products control the central IT processes of thousands of renowned companies worldwide including Lufthansa, Siemens, Citibank, Merck, DaimlerChrysler, Sony, BP and Telefonica. Software AG develops products and solutions that support the XML (Extensible Markup Language) standard. XML simplifies the exchange of documents and data as well as the integration of cutting-edge Web applications into traditional IT architectures. Software AG works with such sales and technology partners as Tridion, Stellent and IXOS. In 2002, the corporation achieved 475 million euros in total revenue. Software AG has offices in over 70 countries and currently employs a staff of about 3 000. For more information, visit www.softwareag.com.
iWay Software
iWay Software, an Information Builders company, is a market leader in middleware that accelerates business integration. With facilities to integrate systems in real time, near-real time, or on a scheduled basis, iWay provides a complete reusable infrastructure for EAI, B2B, e-commerce, and mobile business. iWay's experience with complex information systems led to the development of prepackaged Intelligent Adapters to connect to more than 200 packaged applications, transaction systems, legacy data, relational databases, and e-business formats, without writing custom code. iWay Software integration solutions significantly reduce the time, cost, effort and risk of integration projects throughout the enterprise. For more information about iWay software, visit www.iWaysoftware.com.
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