Percussion Software adds support for World Wide Web to industry-leading Lotus Notes Data Integration Product; Notrix Composer 4.0 supports Lotus Domino and provides support for UNIX platform

Business Wire, Sept 23, 1996

STONEHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 23, 1996--Percussion Software today announced that it has enhanced its popular Lotus Notes data integration tool with new functionality that makes it the most sophisticated and feature-rich data integration solution in the industry. New features announced today include support for the World Wide Web through Lotus Notes Domino, and support for Sun's Solaris and native interfaces for Informix and AS400 databases.

Notrix Composer 4.0 provides Lotus Notes users with a level of sophistication for their data integration requirements that is unmatched in the industry. Other new features included in Notrix Composer 4.0 include parallel real-time synchronized data exchange between Notes databases and SQL databases, enhanced security for real-time data integration jobs, and tighter integration with Lotus Notes V4.0.

"Percussion is once again raising the bar' in Lotus Notes data integration," said Barry Reynolds, president of Percussion Software. "Percussion was the first to provide a Notes-centric approach to data integration that required no programming. We were also the first to provide a real-time query and update mechanism. With today's announcement, Percussion is enhancing the data integration infrastructure that customers have standardized on by adding the sophisticated and value-added features customers have asked for."

New Features Provide Application Sophistication

Percussion is the only company able to offer Notes users support for Solaris and to provide direct integration with AS400 databases. In addition, it is the first to announce support for Lotus Notes Domino and the World Wide Web. These features, coupled with the unique, and enhanced, Live! real-time data exchange, provide users with the best-of-breed data integration platform in the industry.

Notrix Composer allows users to publish data to and from the World Wide Web using Lotus Notes Domino as the Web server. This allows Web browsers, in addition to Notes clients, to access Notes database applications. For example, a company's price list might be available on its Home Page for reference by customers or partners. If the price list is stored on a corporate database, it could be made available in real-time using Domino and Live!. Once the price list has been checked, the customer could place an order via the Web using Domino to create the entry form and using Notrix Composer to store the order information in the corporate database.

Enhanced Notrix Composer Live!

Notrix Composer's unique Live! real-time capability has been enhanced to include parallel user support, enhanced security and performance reporting. Now multiple users can establish real-time links to corporate databases without concern for synchronization issues.

The enhanced security features of Live! provide Notes administrators with the option of assigning specific passwords and SQL identification to users or groups of users. This allows for greater control and integrity of information stored on corporate databases. This security becomes increasingly important as Notes customers build applications that allow Web users to access data from their corporate databases using Domino.

Live! now also supports performance reporting. Network administrators can assess, monitor and report on how quickly Live! jobs are handled to adjust or fine-tune applications.

Other new features included in Notrix Composer 4.0 include native interfaces for Informix and AS400 databases, the ability to act as a data integration hub, and tighter integration with Lotus Notes 4.0. Now customers can take further advantage of Notrix Composer's ability to run on a Notes Server by allowing data integration tasks to be coupled with Notes replication. This capability allows a data integration task to replicate a Notes application database from application Notes Servers to a data integration hub. In addition, it allows data exchange between SQL and the Notes databases and replication of the Notes application database back to the application servers as one seamless task.

Notrix Composer now supports Field Level Replication, meaning that incremental changes can now be made on import, export and Notes-to-Notes replication. This greatly enhances network performance by minimizing the amount of information that is replicated.

Leading the Industry

With today's announcements, Percussion continues to lead the Lotus Notes data integration market. Percussion provides the broadest support for platforms (NT, OS/2 and Solaris), the most options for database integration (Informix, AS400, Oracle7, Sybase, Microsoft SQL Server, DB2/2, ODBC, flat files, and gateways) and the most options for programming (GUI, Notes forms or scripting). Percussion also provides the broadest range of options for data integration, including Data Import/Export, Live! and Replication.

Notrix Composer 4.0 is available immediately and is priced at $7,500.

It includes Notrix Composer V4.0 Base Package, which consists of ODBC and Flat File Interfaces along with a Notes-to-Notes Transfer Facility, Notrix, and the Notrix Event Manager and includes a native interface for one supported database (Informix, AS400, DB2/2, Oracle7, Microsoft SQL Server and Sybase SQL Server). Additional direct drivers $3,750 each. All Percussion products run on either a Windows NT, IBM OS/2 or Solaris Notes server and work with any Notes supported client, including Windows and Macintosh, without additional interface programming or client software.