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HUMMINGBIRD, ATTUNITY TO OFFER MAINFRAME DATA INTEGRATION

Attunity Ltd, a provider of enterprise data integration software, announced a technology partnership with Hummingbird Ltd, a global provider of integrated enterprise content management (ECM) solutions. Under the terms of the agreement, Hummingbird will offer the Attunity product family as an add-on component of Hummingbird Genio, the data integration component of Hummingbird Integration Suite, offering users efficient and real-time integration with mainframe data.

Mainframe data stores continue to host about 70 percent of business information. Unlocking this data in an efficient and cost effective manner is a challenge faced by many corporations. Working together, Attunity and Hummingbird allow customers to maximize their investment in mainframe and legacy systems by including those data sources in data warehousing and business intelligence initiatives.

Hummingbird Genio is a powerful data integration solution that spans the functional areas of data extract, transformation, and load (ETL) and enterprise application integration (EAI), for projects that might include data warehouses or data marts. Once in a consolidated data warehouse users can perform various forms of analysis upon it. Through a tight, proven integration with Hummingbird's products, Attunity Connect and Attunity Stream extend customers' abilities to delivery mainframe data into the data warehouse in an efficient and timely manner.

Attunity products unlock the value of business information. Attunity Connect is a family of pre-built, standards-based adapters to mainframe and other legacy data sources, providing high-performance and native access. Attunity Stream is a change data capture product that moves data changes across the enterprise, enabling efficient and real-time ETL. Attunity software products run natively on a variety of platforms including Microsoft Windows, SUN Solaris, Red Hat Linux, AIX, Open VMS, OS/390 and OS/400.

"Together, Hummingbird and Attunity deliver an end-to-end solution that enables enterprises to take full advantage of data stored on mainframe and legacy systems to maximize the value of their existing IT investments," said Dan Potter, vice president of marketing and business development at Attunity. "As large corporations continue and use mainframes to store operational data, the combined products make for a compelling offering."