Actional Teams with IBM to Leverage IBM MQSeries and IBM WebSphere with Actional's Control Broker Application Integration Solutions

Business Wire, April 23, 2001

Business/High-Tech Editors

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 23, 2001

Actional Corporation, a provider of direct-connect integration solutions for e-business, today announced an extension of its IBM Business Partner relationship which will enable Actional Control Broker (ACB) to leverage IBM MQSeries(a) and IBM WebSphere(b) software with the company's Control Broker Application Integration solutions.

Actional Control Brokers (ACBs) will work with IBM MQSeries and IBM WebSphere to help eliminate the need for hand coding, providing customers with the ability to get their applications up and running in weeks, rather than the months it could take with other integration approaches. In addition, ACB solutions provide easy access to information otherwise locked in back-end applications; with ACBs, when a back-end system is changed, the changes become immediately and automatically accessible to the front-end system. As a result, ACBs make it easy for customers to integrate this platform to any of the 50 applications it supports.

Easy information access is an additional benefit to customers, aided by the near zero latency of ACB solutions. With ACBs, no messages are passed and no message transformations or translations are required, so the number of network hops required is less than half of that required for more conventional integration solutions.

"We are delighted with our newly extended relationship with IBM and to embrace the technology of IBM MQSeries and IBM WebSphere," said John Spenser, Senior Vice President of Corporate Strategy. "Through this new agreement, our customers will be empowered to deliver the powerful e-business applications their respective markets require in competitive environments."

About IBM's (NYSE:IBM) WebSphere Software

WebSphere is Internet infrastructure software -- known as middleware -- that enables companies to develop, deploy and integrate next-generation e-business applications, such as those for business-to-business e-commerce. WebSphere supports business applications from simple Web publishing through enterprise-scale transaction processing. WebSphere transforms the way businesses manage customer, partner and employee relationships. More information about the WebSphere software platform is on the Web at http://www.ibm.com/websphere.> About Actional

Actional is the market leader in direct-connect integration for real-time eBusiness. The Company's customers include leaders in the Global 2000, making the company a powerful and effective partner in helping solve enterprise business problems. Actional products are also licensed by leading EAI vendors, platform partners and e-Business application developers.

Actional is backed by NeoCarta Ventures, New Enterprise Associates, and International Capital Partners. Actional can be contacted at 1-800/609-3301 or info@actional.com. More information about the company can be found on its web site at www.actional.com.

Actional and Control Broker are trademarks of Actional Corp. All other names mentioned above may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

(a)(b) IBM, WebSphere and MQSeries are trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States and/or other countries.