OpenII to Provide Training, Implementation Services and Support for OpenEAI

Business Wire, Sept 3, 2004

DECATUR, Ill. -- Open Integration Incorporated (http://www.OpenII.com) is now offering services and support for OpenEAI and other standards-based enterprise application integration (EAI) frameworks. OpenII is also developing commercial versions of some OpenEAI tools and infrastructure applications such as a poller application, synchronization message router, and request message proxy. Initial releases of these applications are expected by July 2005.

OpenII was founded in 2002 with the assistance of the University of Illinois to provide commercial implementations, services and support for OpenEAI technologies developed at the University. OpenII provides services and software for organizations that practice standards-based enterprise application integration and software vendors who wish to provide standards-based interfaces to their products, specializing in the methodology and technologies of OpenEAI, an open-source project for standards-based EAI. OpenII is committed to contributing resources and intellectual property to the OpenEAI project. OpenII donates resources to the project and OpenII staff are active participants in the OpenEAI project.

To subscribe to future OpenII announcements and press releases visit http://www.openii.com/live/annoucements.htm.> About the OpenEAI Project

The purpose of the OpenEAI Project (http://www.OpenEAI.org) is to discover and document the controlling dynamics, principles, and practices of enterprise application integration and to present, implement, and promote those findings. The OpenEAI Project presents findings in the form of the OpenEAI methodology and OpenEAI software for implementing integrations. We suggest you read the OpenEAI Overview (http://www.openeai.org/openeai.xml?document=Overview.xml) for additional background on enterprise application integration. The OpenEAI Project is comprised of six distinct, but closely-related departments, which address OpenEAI Methodology, Application Foundation APIs, Message Object API, Message Definitions, Reference Implementations, and Deployment and Administration.

About the University of Illinois

The University of Illinois (http://www.uillinois.edu) enrolls 66,000 students at its three campuses in Chicago, Springfield and Urbana-Champaign. It has an annual operating budget that tops $3 billion; nearly 30 percent of that comes from gifts, grants and contracts. The University employs more than 20,000 faculty and staff and has more than a half-million living alumni. The Urbana campus is a pioneer in high-speed computing and houses the National Center for Supercomputing Applications.