ISG Navigator, ISG's OLE DB Middleware Product Demonstrated by Microsoft at the SIGMOD Conference

Business Wire, June 6, 1996

HAIFA, Israel--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 6, 1996--ISG International Software Group Ltd. (NASDAQ NMS:SISGF) today announced that a live demonstration of ISG Navigator, ISG's new middleware product, was presented by Microsoft at the June 1996 SIGMOD conference in Montreal, Canada.

SIGMOD (Special Interest Group on Management Of Data) is the annual meeting of the world's leading database professionals. At the conference, Microsoft explained the new OLE DB interface for universal data access, its architecture and benefits, and demonstrated ISG Navigator. ISG Navigator is believed to be the first commercial implementation based on a pre-release version of Microsoft's OLE DB specification. ISG Navigator enables applications to access and integrate a wide spectrum of data sources. The data sources include relational databases, hierarchical databases, index file systems, system files, text files, and even applications that can present themselves as tabular data providers. Such variety of data sources is expected to be prevalent in Internet applications. ISG Navigator contains a distributed query processor and optimizer that performs joins, filtering and projections throughout the network. ISG Navigator is ideally suited for building applications that require efficient access to heterogeneous data sources across the Internet. (for more information: www.isg.co.il)

ISG develops, markets and supports computer software applications development tools that revitalize and integrate legacy systems with desk top applications. The company's principal products are: CorVision, a rapid application development/customization tool used by Fortune 1000 corporations to modernize legacy applications with client/server functionality; APTuser, a production report generator that provides concurrent access to multiple relational and non-relational databases; and ISG Navigator, a leading edge new object-oriented database middleware product that optimizes access through standard programming interfaces (OLE DB and ODBC) to multiple databases on heterogeneous platforms across the network and Mancal 2000 a financial and logistic application for large scale organizations. ISG has offices in the United States, Israel, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China and Australia and distributors in Europe and South East Asia.

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