CrossAccess Corporation Announces J2EE Connector Architecture Support for Legacy Mainframe Data Integration

Business Wire, March 14, 2003

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 14, 2003

CrossAccess Corporation, the mainframe data integration experts, today announced J2EE Connector Architecture (JCA) support for its eXadas(TM) Data Integrator (XDI) product. XDI is specifically designed to provide SQL read/write data access to legacy mainframe databases and files with no mainframe programming. The result is plug-and-play read/write access to even proprietary data sources like IMS, IDMS, Datacom/DB, Adabas, DB2 and VSAM from any J2EE platform or tool.

"This is great news for the 13,000 largest organizations in the world that depend on mainframe-based operational data," says Richard Currier of the Park City Marketing Group. He went on to say, "Industry analysts estimate that over 70% of their data still resides in these legacy sources."

Without XDI, teams of scarce, highly-skilled mainframe programmers are needed to incorporate this data with new Internet-based systems. With XDI, any SQL-literate developer can transparently incorporate the most complex hierarchical, network or flat file data in a fraction of the time and expense of code-based solutions through the tools they already use. No mainframe experience required!

"XDI is not the first JCA-enabled data integration solution on the market," says George Langan, president of CrossAccess. "It is however the first and only high-volume, scalable and code-free JCA solution for read and write access of mainframe data." In customer benchmarks, XDI is three to five times faster than any other solution. And users attest to scalability for thousands of concurrent users.

About CrossAccess Corporation

CrossAccess Corporation is the leading provider of legacy data integration for enterprise-wide e-business initiatives. The CrossAccess eXadas Suite includes: (1) eXadas Transaction Connect (XTC) for IMS and CICS business rule reuse, (2) eXadas Data Integrator for direct SQL read/write access to mainframe data including Adabas, Datacom, DB2, IDMS, IMS, and VSAM, and (3) eXadas Synchronization Manager for real-time asynchronous changed-data capture for enterprise-wide data and application synchronization. CrossAccess software is designed to deliver "Any data, Any where, Any way." CrossAccess maintains strategic relationships with SeeBeyond, BEA, IBM, CA, Data Direct, Sagent, Software-AG and other database and tool vendors. Headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif., CrossAccess is on the Web at www.crossaccess.com.

Note to Editors: eXadas is a trademark of CrossAccess Corporation. All other company and product names may be trademarks of the company with which they are associated.