ETI Unveils Near Real-Time Product for eBiz

Evolutionary Technologies International (ETI) introduced ETI*Accelerator for MQSeries. By facilitating near real-time and batch data movement between incompatible systems, ETI*Accelerator for MQSeries offers organizations increased flexibility and reduced costs when integrating data across the enterprise to support change management and e-business. By harnessing the power of IBM's ubiquitous messaging software MQSeries and the scalability of ETI's flagship software ETI*EXTRACT, ETI*Accelerator for MQSeries is especially well suited to the additional demands e-business places on enterprise application integration.

"With the marketplace now moving at Internet-speed, our customers tell us that they need to see changes reflected across heterogeneous systems instantaneously. ETI*Accelerator for MQSeries provides them with the capability of utilizing their already existing MQSeries infrastructure to keep data refreshed from their e-commerce site all the way back to the existing legacy systems in near real-time," said Juan Carlos Martinez, vice president of marketing, ETI.

Organizations integrate data between applications to keep operational systems, such as shipping, inventory, customer service and billing, up-to-date to ensure timely access to crucial information - whether it's for the smooth delivery of products or for making multi-million dollar investment decisions on the stock market. Industry analysts maintain that IBM's MQSeries owns the marketshare for integrating business processes enterprise-wide. With this product, applications can place messages on a queue for guaranteed delivery to relevant applications anywhere across the network. ETI*Accelerator for MQSeries adds read and write access to legacy data, data transformation and metadata management to data messaging by acting as an "adapter generator." An adapter interfaces between MQSeries and a database, file or application by moving information from these sources on and off MQSeries queues.

"The dynamic nature of e-business forces cross-organizational initiatives, making enterprise application integration an imperative for organizations. Adapters have become one of the most important components in EAI because they create the essential interface between the application and the integration infrastructure," said Morgan Gerhart, senior program director, META Group.

In a near real-time or batch environment, ETI*Accelerator for MQSeries provides users with multiple benefits. By automating the generation and management of MQSeries interfaces, ETI*Accelerator for MQSeries eliminates the time and cost of hand-coding adapters, a tedious, error-prone process. Organizations can also take advantage of faster implementation cycles through ETI*Accelerator for MQSeries' ability to integrate data from the majority of systems within the enterprise - including, hard-to-access legacy systems, relational databases, ERP and CRM systems - with MQSeries queues. Furthermore, the product performs complex transformations and aggregations, giving users increased flexibility. Finally, ETI*Accelerator for MQSeries captures an indepth metadata audit trail, which enables users to rapidly determine the impact of any changes to a system.

ETI's Fortune 1000 client base will use ETI*Accelerator for MQSeries to help them easily integrate data from vastly different e-business initiatives to existing applications and systems.

About ETI

ETI's enterprise data integration management products are used by Fortune 1000 companies around the world to reduce costs and time while improving quality in projects such as ERP implementation, data consolidation and data warehouse development. Founded in January 1991, ETI was the first company to spin off from the MCC research consortium in Austin, Texas. ETI has regional offices in major U.S. cities and business operations in Europe, Canada and Australia.

ETI is recognized as an outstanding firm with an innovative product and awards such as an AA rating three-years running on the Crossroads A-List awards, two listings in the top 20 of the Inc Magazine "500 Fastest Growing Companies" list and a listing on Computerworld's "100 Hot Emerging Companies" list. For more information on ETI, visit www.eti.com or call ETI's U.S. headquarters at 800-856-8800.

Contact Malissa Williams, The Loomis Group, malissa@loomisgroup.com, 512-457-9400.