Novera Software Broadens E-Business Integration Capabilities; Version 4.6 Extends Support for IBM Environments with MQSeries and DB2 Integration

Business Wire, Sept 27, 1999

BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 27, 1999--

Novera Software, Inc., the leader in Web application integration (WAI), today announced a new release of the Company's award-winning e-business integration and management solution. In version 4.6, Novera extends its integration capabilities with legacy systems and Web applications by providing support for IBM MQSeries, IBM DB2, Oracle8i and Allaire ColdFusion. Ultimately, Novera 4.6 enables customers to solve the real-world problem of integrating existing business systems and processes with new e-business applications.

"Many companies fail to meet their e-business goals because they pay too little attention to linking their Web initiatives with their back-end business processes," said Dave Power, president and CEO of Novera Software. "Novera 4.6 is unique because it allows companies to easily integrate information in their existing mainframes, databases and packaged applications with new Web applications, making it easy to marry these applications with existing back-end business processes. This strategy ensures that customers reach e-business success."

Novera 4.6 Expands Integration with Core Business Systems

To reap the benefits of conducting business on the Web, businesses must unlock the information stored in their legacy systems and integrate it with e-business applications. In version 4.6, Novera combines IBM MQSeries with its other enterprise data access methods like JDBC and CORBA to provide customers with a comprehensive solution for exposing enterprise data to the Web. By supporting MQSeries, Novera becomes the first component-based integration solution to support messaging-oriented middleware and enable organizations to take advantage of this powerful technology in a Web environment. With support for MQSeries, Novera 4.6 customers can create standards-based Novera Business Components that communicate with existing MQSeries applications, and can access these components from MQSeries clients. This capability provides access to existing MQSeries applications, and indirectly enables communication with leading enterprise resource planning applications and other back-end systems that support MQSeries integration. Using the Novera Manager, customers can view, create, delete, configure, manage and monitor message queues.

In addition to providing integration with back-end sources through MQSeries, Novera 4.6 lets developers easily access the data stored in IBM DB2 and Oracle8i databases. IBM DB2 supports large objects, datalinks and user-defined types and functions. In version 4.6, Novera provides the ability to leverage the complex data types residing in DB2 for use in enterprise and e-business applications. With integration support for Oracle8i, Novera 4.6 customers can take advantage of the information provided by this technology for data management, transaction processing and data warehousing in new Internet applications.

Novera 4.6 Provides Integration with Leading Web Application Server

In addition to strengthening back-end integration capabilities, Novera 4.6 continues its integration support for leading Web application servers. Novera 4.6 offers a new Integration Module for the popular Allaire ColdFusion application server. The Novera Integration Module for Allaire ColdFusion provides out-of-the-box integration, allowing customers to quickly and easily build enterprise and e-commerce applications that employ Novera Business Components using Allaire ColdFusion.

"We recognize that most of our customers rely on multiple application servers to build and deploy both Web and enterprise applications across their enterprise," said Power. "By providing Integration Modules for popular application servers like IBM WebSphere, Sun NetDynamics and now Allaire ColdFusion, our customers can leverage their reusable Novera Business Components in all of their application development environments, allowing them to reduce development time and costs and accelerate their time to market with new applications."

About the Novera Product Suite

Novera 4.6 consists of the Novera Integrator and the Novera Manager, which together provide customers with the most complete, scalable and manageable solution for e-business integration.

-- The Novera Integrator includes the Novera Integration Server and the Novera Component Designer, which allow IT developers to create reusable Novera Business Components from enterprise data residing in mainframes, relational databases and applications. Those components can then be exposed as XML, Servlets, EJB, JavaBeans or Visual Basic to multiple e-business applications.

-- The Novera Manager is an end-to-end application management system for Novera Business Components. Customers can define and maintain system resources, view events, and monitor and control clients and Business Components through a central console. The Novera Manager can also be integrated with SNMP-enabled management systems like HP Openview and CA-Unicenter to enable system administrators to control and monitor the Web-to-enterprise integration and the resulting e-business applications.