infoShark's XMLShark 3.1 Now Available

infoShark inc, a leading provider of business-to-business data-integration software, announced the general availability of XMLShark 3.1 for real-time data exchange.

The fully loaded XMLShark 3.1 is the only product on the market that uses XML to automate date exchange between the proprietary systems of Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, IBM DB2 for the mainframe, and IBM UDB2.

Impressive enhancements include a fully scalable, automated solution with extended functionality for liberating relational data to XML, which in turn pumps it out to intranets, extranets and the Internet.

"The performance and scalability enhancements in this release improve the ability to provide real-time data exchange faster, better, and more efficiently," says Michael C. Master, infoShark's president and CEO. "This in turn allows organizations to significantly improve time-to-market when integrating data between the internal and external systems of customers, partners and suppliers."

Highlights of the new features and functions in XMLShark 3.1 include:

• Referential Export - enables users to take information from an executed query and find all associated relational information in a data source
• Vertical Slice - provides the ability to subset a table into the specific columns desired by the customer
• Object Support - allows objects to be transported (i.e. diagrams) as attachments
• Remote Shark CARD - provides the capability to "pull" data in addition to "pushing" data for exchange
• Quick Shark CARD - provides complete replication of database with a single keystroke
• Web-based ViewShark - lets users view subsets of data sources remotely via Internet Explorer and save data to an Excel or HTML file

"Vertical slicing enables customers to transport more exact and smaller amounts of data," says Barbara Bouldin, infoShark's CTO. "The referential export ensures that information is complete. These two features provide our customers with a faster and more accurate delivery of information."

XMLShark provides a suite of data integration software products. Unlike other solutions that integrate process and applications, XMLShark focuses on filling the critical need for a data-centric integration approach that quickly and easily integrates vital data between multiple entities using intranets, extranets and the Internet.

XMLShark harnesses the full power of open standards, such as JAVA, XML, and multiple exchange protocols for achieving data integration, translation, and mobility among disparate data sources.

About infoShark inc

Headquartered in Chantilly, Va., infoShark is a leading provider of software that significantly reduces the complexity of data integration, enabling enterprises to access, exchange and transmit XML data over the Internet or anywhere it's needed. The company's data-centric integration and XML translation and transportation are platform-independent and provide a fast and inexpensive solution for data integration.

infoShark software products are currently used across a variety of industries. infoShark clients include many Fortune 500 companies, among them Chase Manhattan Bank, Qwest, Home Shopping Network and Naviant, as well as the Internal Revenue Service. infoShark can be found on the Web at www.infoshark.com.

Contact infoShark inc, Chantilly, by Live Wire Media Relations, LLC, Cindy Karra, 703-519-1600 x103, ckarra@livewiredc.com.