IBM-NEON Launch Joint Sales and Marketing Relationship to Simplify Enterprise Integration, Data Transportation
Will combine MQSeries benefits with NEON Functionality
HURSLEY, Engl & /ENGLEWOOD, Colorado (February 03, 1998) – IBM and New Era of Networks, Inc. (NEON) today announced a joint sales and marketing relationship that will enable IBM’s MQSeries users to implement powerful, real-time, application-to-application message transformation and intelligent message routing capabilities — quickly and easily.
Working together, IBM and NEON will sell and market a solutions package that will allow users to rapidly add, extend, or replace applications and processes incorporated within their business information flows.
“This new solutions package will combine the award-winning messaging and queuing capabilities of IBM’s MQSeries with the functionality of NEON’s real-time, content-based rules engine and dynamic reformatting capability,” said Rick Adam, NEON CEO. “The result is a scalable data transformation and intelligent transaction routing solution that aids in seamlessly integrating applications, databases, and networks.”
It also will enable companies to utilize MQSeries as the basis for automating application integration within and beyond the enterprise, regardless of operating platforms, database providers, or systems configuration. “There are very few packages that come out of the box, like MQSeries and NEON, that actually perform the way they are intended. Literally, after evaluating and purchasing MQSeries and NEON, it took only three weeks and our system was into production,” states Richard Buss, V.P. Technologies at Disclosure, Inc. “This solution is rock solid. We’ve never experienced a system crash to date. In fact, the performance has exceeded our expectations. We have plans to deploy it corporate-wide into other business units.”
Today’s IT organizations are being charged with integrating more applications across the enterprise, while also expanding the portfolio of systems that need to be integrated. To add to this challenge, many technology analysts, including The GartnerGroup, expect the need to become “increasingly acute” as competition and Year 2000 compliance force companies to adopt new business practices as well as upcoming package application products.
“Simplifying the integration of complex mission-critical business processes is crucial to improving business efficiency,” said Colin Osborne, Business Manager, IBM MQSeries. “IBM will work closely with all its partners to bring an ever-expanding range of functionality and services, to extend the value of this core solutions package and, by solving these important business needs, grow the usage of Enterprise application Integration tools.”
Source: IBM