WRQ Presents 'Streamlining Processes Through Legacy Integration' Webcast; Webcast Features Speakers from Leading Analyst Firm, WRQ, and Raytheon

--Leveraging Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) to extend the value of your host assets

--Making the business case for SOA and host integration: efficiency, savings, and productivity

--How SOA helps drive host integration ROI

Webcast participants will also learn how Raytheon maximized its host investments leveraging SOA and WRQ(R) host integration software, achieving $8.6 million in savings to date with additional project savings expected over the next four years.

SOA-centric companies such as Raytheon are leveraging the ability to reuse and adapt legacy functionality with the use of WRQ Verastream(R) server. In only two months, Raytheon customized a shipping and tracking program called MTrak using Verastream within a Microsoft .NET development environment. Today, MTrak provides 20,000 users across 13 sites with real-time access to mission-critical mainframe data.

In the webcast, Gartner's Vecchio will explain the importance of leveraging SOA to speed return on new business initiatives that include host assets. Raytheon's Vettor presents a real-world scenario of how his company realized significant cost savings and increased productivity by using SOA-based WRQ Verastream. WRQ's Varness emphasizes how Verastream and SOA help customers like Raytheon realize the value of their host systems, reduce host integration project times, and increase agility within their IT departments.

About Verastream

WRQ Verastream integration server provides an adaptable SOA approach for reusing legacy logic and data in web applications, CRM applications, or portals. This single solution delivers rapid results leveraging existing development skills, familiar IT tools, and proven legacy-application investments. No code changes to legacy applications are required.

About Raytheon

Raytheon Company (NYSE:RTN), with 2003 sales of $18.1 billion, is an industry leader in defense and government electronics, space, information technology, technical services, and business and special mission aircraft. With headquarters in Waltham, Mass., Raytheon employs 78,000 people worldwide.

About WRQ

WRQ(R) builds software for accessing and integrating legacy applications. WRQ Reflection(R) software provides a broad range of terminal-emulation and PC X server solutions. WRQ Verastream(R) integration server provides a single platform for reusing legacy logic and data in web applications, CRM applications, or portals. Our products help companies get the most from their hosts today as they advance their long-term IT strategy.