RouteOne Named to the InfoWorld 100 for Web Service Credit Application Management System Secured by DataPower's XML-Aware Networking Devices

Business Wire, Dec 13, 2004

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Elite InfoWorld Ranking Recognizes RouteOne's Innovative Web Service Credit Application Management System Secured by DataPower's XS40 XML Security Gateway

DataPower, the original creator and leading provider of intelligent XML-Aware Network (XAN) infrastructure, today announced that RouteOne LLC has been named to the InfoWorld 100 for its Credit Application Management System (CAMS) based on RouteOne's innovative and highly secure Web service architecture enabled by DataPower's XS40 XML Security Gateway. RouteOne is a joint venture formed by DaimlerChrysler Services, Ford Motor Credit Company, General Motors Acceptance Corporation, and Toyota Financial Services to redefine and improve the credit application process for automobile dealers and their customers. RouteOne offers dealers a common platform for submitting credit application information to multiple finance sources with which they do business. Automotive dealers and their finance sources can exchange credit application and credit decisions in real-time, using RouteOne's Web-based network which acts as the central processing hub. Finance source response time is dramatically improved from hours to minutes.

Arguably the largest and longest running Web service in production utilizing XML-aware networking solutions, RouteOne announced its selection of DataPower to secure its deployment almost two years ago for DataPower's unsurpassed ability to meet RouteOne's security and performance needs. (See associated press release: "DataPower and RouteOne Pave The Way For Secure Web Services in Major Automobile Credit Network")

Each year, InfoWorld honors a host of innovative projects that highlight the resourcefulness of the IT community. RouteOne's CAMS links thousands of dealers nationwide to multiple finance sources. DataPower's XS40 was selected for its leading Web services security features, scalability, wirespeed XML processing and Digital Signatures, SSL acceleration and its ability to easily and quickly adapt to emerging standards and policy changes within RouteOne's application. Following extensive testing, RouteOne found that the XS40 outperformed competing software and hardware solutions by a significant margin. As such, the XS40 was selected for its ability to provide robust security without any performance degradation.

"RouteOne is honored to be recognized by InfoWorld for providing our innovative, common platform for the efficient and speedy exchange of credit application and decision information between our automobile dealer customers and their finance sources, and dramatically streamlining the credit application process," said Joel Gruber, CIO at RouteOne. "Selecting DataPower's unmatched Web services security technology and expertise is a critical reason for our success and a critical building block for our reliable and secure solution that we believe will become the industry standard."

"This year, InfoWorld honors a host of innovative projects that highlight the resourcefulness of the IT community," said Eric Knorr, senior features editor at InfoWorld. "IT departments have learned hard lessons about business realities and realistic ROI. The InfoWorld 100 provides a forum for IT managers to get the recognition they deserve for smart projects from an audience of their peers."

The InfoWorld 100 honors companies that demonstrate the most creative use of cutting-edge technologies to further their business goals. Companies were nominated by InfoWorld readers, technology partners and end-user companies in late-summer. Solutions must stretch beyond the typical, off-the-shelf solution, using technologies in innovative ways to serve well-defined business goals. Winners were formally announced in the November 15, 2004 edition of InfoWorld and are available online at: http://infoworld.com/2187.> DataPower XS40 XML Security Gateway

The XS40 XML Security Gateway is purpose-built by some of the world's top XML and security experts to secure XML Web Services transactions and designed to help enterprises overcome the two critical barriers for deploying XML Web services: security risks and performance bottlenecks. The XS40 is a true network hardware device that serves as a secure XML Web services proxy and access policy enforcement point in front of the application servers.

The XS40 delivers hardened security and wirespeed performance using sophisticated, patented algorithms for XML firewall, XDoS protection, SOAP filtering, access control, XML schema validation, field-level digital signatures and XML encryption, XML routing, service virtualization, and SAML-based federated identity management. It leads industry in integration with identity management solutions including RSA, Computer Associates, Oblix, IBM, Sun, Microsoft and Netegrity; support for critical Web services standards like WS-Security, WS-Addressing, WS-SecureConversation, and other WS-* specifications; wirespeed XML and Web services security processing performance; carrier-grade reliability and scale; and its award-winning, easy-to-use GUI.