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IBM and Extricity Announce Business-to-Business Integration Solution

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IBM and Extricity Software Inc. announced a joint business-to-business software solution, Extricity MQAlliance, designed to integrate customers, partners, and suppliers over the internet. The solution combines IBM's MQSeries messaging software and Extricity's MQAlliance business-to-business integration products to enable comprehensive capabilities for managing information flow within and between organizations.

Key Takeaways:

  • Extricity MQAlliance is designed to work across the IBM MQSeries family, including MQSeries, MQSeries Integrator, and MQSeries Workflow.
  • The solution features MQSeries messaging for inter-organizational communications and integration adapters for each of the three MQSeries products.
  • The offering will be demonstrated at IBM's MQSeries and CICS Technical Conference in Dallas, Texas, from April 26-30, and will be generally available in June 1999.
  • The solution will enable entire communities of disparate customers, partners, and suppliers to integrate and automate business interactions over all types of wide-area networks, such as the Internet.
  • The integrated solution will enable businesses to take full advantage of the latest in emerging technologies, such as XML, and newly proposed open business standards such as RosettaNet's common Partner Interface Processes (PIPs).
  • Extricity MQAlliance is part of IBM's Business Integration Solutions, which enable companies to achieve a consistent computing environment throughout the enterprise.

Statistics:

  • Extricity MQAlliance will be demonstrated at IBM's MQSeries and CICS Technical Conference in Dallas, Texas, from April 26-30.
  • The solution will be generally available in June 1999.
  • Extricity Software is a privately held company founded in 1996.
  • Extricity Software has formed strategic partnerships with companies like Baan, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Oracle, PeopleSoft, SAP, and TIBCO.
  • IBM's Business Integration Solutions portfolio enables companies to integrate business data and processes across multiple systems and platforms.

Sources:

  • "New Extricity MQAlliance Integrates Customers, Partners and Suppliers Over the Internet" (Business Wire, April 26, 1999)
  • "Extricity and IBM Team to Extend Intranet/Extranet Partnership Services" (Business Wire, April 12, 1999)
  • http://www.software.ibm.com/ts/mqseries/
  • http://www.developer.ibm.com
  • "Top 25 Enterprise Software Companies to Watch" by Fortune Magazine (December 7, 1998)
  • "Extricity Software Named as One of the 'Top 25 Enterprise Software Companies to Watch' by Fortune Magazine" (Extricity Software press release)

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