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Xcalia® Announces the Availability of the Xcalia Intermediation Platform™ 4.0
Provides Dynamic Service-Oriented Integration to Compose Transactional Applications
Paris, France — October 10, 2005 — Xcalia, a leading provider
of intermediation
software to create dynamic transactional composite applications, today announced
the availability of the Xcalia Intermediation Platform (XIP) on a
global scale with new
open source components. The Platform combines legacy, mainframe and database
resources with web services to dynamically integrate and orchestrate application
business processes. As a critical requirement for implementing SOA, it uses
metadata to describe services and automatically executes transactions at runtime.
XIP allows enterprises to quickly respond to changing business requirements and
eliminates the need for costly manual integration.
The Platform features the Xcalia Intermediation Core™ (XIC) at its foundation that
includes Xcalia's innovative dynamic business process orchestration and metadata
technology. It sits between the business and data layers to
align business processes
with applications, manage ongoing data and service interaction, and automatically
update business processes. It contains a single, reusable, metadata-based repository
for consistent, transparent, standards-based access to any source, both database-oriented to
service-oriented.
First introduced in Europe in June 2005, today's product announcement includes the
availability of the Xcalia Application Environment™ (XAE) a collection of open source components
from ObjectWeb that come standard with XIP. XAE was designed for
customers looking to reduce the cost and complexity of deploying applications by
eliminating the need to implement additional servers, middleware or databases. For
those customers who wish to leverage their existing IT resources instead of the
packaged open source components, XIC can be implemented as a
standalone
solution that integrates easily with existing commercial application servers and other
infrastructure components.
With the advent of SOA,
products that make it easier to compose applications that
work with both service and data resources are in high-demand. In a recent report by
Gartner titled Data Services: The Intersection of Data Integration and SOA, analysts
recommend that "Data integration technology vendors must begin to service-enable
their products to support the delivery of data services. This means that the tools
have to support the construction of granular data services, and the architecture of
the tools themselves must become service-oriented so that the tools can more easily
interoperate with other tools in the environment. This will require an expansion of
metadata capabilities; modularization of various
aspects of functionality; and an
increase in agility, for example, developing the capability for the tools to dynamically
modify their behavior at runtime, based on the specific requirements of service
consumers and the metadata that describes data location and quality".
Gartner has it right; between 70 and 80 percent of business-critical information is
stored in legacy and mainframe systems with
heterogenous data types. This data,
particularly high-volume transactional, is difficult to access and doing so is extremely
costly since it requires highly skilled programmers and custom code. "Xcalia makes it
easier for enterprises to access and reuse this valuable data in new dynamic
composite applications while preserving their transactional capabilities" said Pierre
Violo, CEO of Xcalia. "We believe intermediating data and services at the business
layer and dynamically orchestrating business processes are essential practices for
success in the emerging SOA world."
Lastly, Xcalia has made service-oriented integration even easier with the introduction
of a collection of Xcalia Mappers™ that access heterogenous data and service
resources to compose transactional applications. Xcalia Data
Mappers are included
with XIP and are available for the following data types: Relational, ODBMS, and XML.
Xcalia Service Mappers are optional components that
easily extend XIP to work with a variety of service resources. These include Mappers for Components, Web
Services, Mainframe, JMS, Packaged
Applications, JCA, and other Extensions.
About Xcalia
Xcalia provides intermediation software to create dynamic transactional composite
applications. The Xcalia Intermediation Platform™ combines legacy, mainframe and
database resources with web services to dynamically integrate and orchestrate
application business processes. As a critical requirement for implementing SOA, it
uses metadata to describe services and automatically executes transactions at
runtime. Xcalia allows enterprises to quickly respond to changing business
requirements and eliminates the need for costly manual integration. Xcalia, founded
in 2000, is powering high-volume transactional environments in over 50 companies.
Headquartered in Paris, France, it has offices in the US, UK, and Germany. The
company is privately held. For more on Xcalia, visit www.xcalia.com.
Xcalia, the Xcalia logo, and Xcalia Intermediation Core are registered trademarks of Xcalia.
Xcalia Media Inquiries:
Kurt Foeller
xcalia@foellercom.com
Phone: +1 (415) 578-3251
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