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Company description::
New Joint Capabilities Help Organisations Build Service-orientedApplications Integrating Data from Legacy Systems
LONDON, May 12, 2004 — WRQ, Inc. and Enterprise Web leader Plumtree Software (Nasdaq: PLUM) today announced a partnership that provides customers access to critical information held on host systems. Users of the Plumtree Enterprise Web Suite are now able to access critical data and applications held on a variety of host systems through capabilities provided by WRQ’s host access and integration products. Customers can use this legacy data to build service-oriented applications accessible via the Web. WRQ® is demonstrating the new solution today at the annual Plumtree Odyssey 2004 user conference in London.
Plumtree provides software to create service-oriented applications that draw from a volume and variety of traditional systems, application servers, repositories and desktop clients. WRQ’s products, WRQ Reflection® and WRQ Verastream®, allow organisations to expose host-based logic and data from legacy systems without programming interfaces for reuse in new applications built and assembled using Plumtree’s software. WRQ offers a complete solution for creating, customising and publishing portlets to expand the reach of critical legacy-application information, including exposing legacy functions as reusable Web services, the auto-generation of ASP- and JSP-based host portlets and the capability to display green-screens as portlets.
With WRQ’s advanced component-based approach, companies can evolve their legacy portlets over time to meet new business demands. For example, an airline company can create a new service-oriented application available over the Web for its crew that displays flight schedules and status information, previously only available through dedicated terminal application, complemented by new services for auctioning desirable flight routes, self-administering HR and benefit information, accessing email and other corporate services.
“Enterprise portals deliver huge business value to companies when they provide a connection to legacy data,” said Bob Stream, head of WRQ UK. “By partnering with Plumtree, we can help companies build rich composite applications that capture the data and investments made in legacy systems.”
“Our strategy of Radical Openness requires our suite to be open to all systems, including mainframe green screen applications,” said Charlie Abrahams, managing director EMEA for Plumtree. “By combining our suite with WRQ’s technology, we are helping companies to incorporate the valuable information they already have into new service-oriented applications.”
WRQ’s software creates, customises and publishes portlets to allow many levels of access to host applications, workflow, logic and data. Such hosts include IBM Mainframe, IBM iSeries/AS400, UNIX, OpenVMS and HPe3000.
Key features of WRQ’s portal capabilities include:
• tools and tutorials to automatically generate a Plumtree portlet
• capabilities to maintain status of a user’s session after browsing to other portals and portlets
• authentication, allowing an administrator to map access to terminal emulation sessions using Plumtree’s authentication features
• capabilities to encrypt the data stream using SSL/TLS, Secure Shell (SSH2), in addition to AES and 3DES encryption
• ability to provide only authorised remote users with access to the host system.
The WRQ solution is being demonstrated at Plumtree’s EMEA Odyssey event at the Hilton Heathrow, Terminal 4 on 12 May 2004.
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About Plumtree
Plumtree Software is the Enterprise Web leader. Plumtree's mission is to create a comprehensive Web environment for employees, customers and partners across the enterprise to interact with different systems and work together. Plumtree's Enterprise Web solution consists of integration products for brining resources from traditional systems together on the Web, shared services such as collaboration, content management and search for building new Web applications, and a portal platform for delivering these Web applications to broad audiences. Plumtree's independence and its Web Services Architecture allow this solution to span rival platforms and systems, helping maximise customers' return on their existing technology investments. With offices in more than a dozen countries, Plumtree has over licensed over 600 customers, including Airbus, Boeing, Cadbury Schweppes, Centrica, Ford Motor Company and Procter & Gamble. For more information, visit Plumtree on the Web at www.plumtree.com.
About WRQ
WRQ® builds software for accessing and integrating legacy applications. WRQ Reflection® software provides a broad range of terminal-emulation and PC X server solutions. WRQ Verastream® integration server provides a single platform for reusing legacy logic and data in web applications, CRM applications, or portals. Our products help companies get the most from their hosts today as they advance their long-term IT strategy. Established in 1981, WRQ is one of the largest privately held software companies in the U.S. It has over six million users worldwide and the highest customer-support rating in the industry. Four out of five Fortune 500 companies rely on WRQ daily. Learn more at www.wrq.com.
Access. Integrate. Transform.®
Copyright © 2004 WRQ, Inc. All rights reserved. WRQ, the WRQ logo, Reflection, Verastream, and “Access. Integrate. Transform.” are either registered trademarks or trademarks of WRQ, Inc., in the USA and other countries. Some Reflection products include software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit (http://www.openssl.org). All other trademarks, trade names, or company names referenced herein are used for identification only and are the property of their respective owners. USA patents pending.
Plumtree is a registered trademark of Plumtree Software, Inc. and/or its subsidiaries in the US and/or other countries. All other registered and unregistered trademarks in this document are the sole property of their respective owners.
For more information on WRQ:
Brodeur Worldwide
Vicki Cook/Claire Dell
+44 207 298 7070
vcook/cdell@uk.brodeur.com
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