Attachmate Launches Advanced SOA Solution for Mainframe Systems; Verastream Host Integrator 6.0 Transforms Legacy Applications into SOA Assets, Boosting End User Productivity, Reducing Costs and Simplifying IT Administration

Business Wire, July 24, 2006

SEATTLE -- Demonstrating its continued commitment to the mainframe integration market, Attachmate Corporation today announced the worldwide availability of Verastream(R) Host Integrator 6.0, its industry-leading solution for screen-based access to legacy data and logic. Verastream Host Integrator's enhanced performance capabilities strengthen the comprehensive Verastream suite of mainframe-, desktop- and web-based integration offerings, enabling customers to drive business productivity and lower IT costs by more quickly and easily extending legacy functionality into applications that can interoperate in a service oriented architecture (SOA).

With more than 25 years of mainframe integration expertise, Attachmate is well positioned to help customers maximize the value of their legacy assets and their investment in SOA. Verastream Host Integrator's low-risk, low-cost approach to screen-based host integration helps companies move into the SOA business era without sacrificing valuable company, customer or partner data that resides on the mainframe.

"Companies should not have to spend millions on application replacement and re-engineering when they can quickly leverage Verastream to extend legacy business functionality needed to build a successful SOA infrastructure," said Eric Varness, vice president of marketing for Attachmate. "With enhanced performance capabilities, Verastream Host Integrator furthers Attachmate's commitment to giving customers the broadest choice, flexibility and power for delivering integration initiatives that avoid risk, enhance workflow and reduce total cost of ownership."

For many large organizations and government agencies, the mainframe continues to be a focal point for data and applications that run day-to-day operations. Attachmate customers Balboa Insurance Group, Bankhaus Neelmeyer, Cooper Booth Wholesale, Credit Agricole, First American Default Technologies, NEC America and PPG's LYNX Services, among others, have all selected Verastream as their SOA-based host integration tool of choice. For example, First American Default Technologies, the industry's leading provider of default servicing management solutions and software systems, automated its default loan processing by embracing Verastream's SOA approach.

"Before partnering with Attachmate, we were using a more involved process for information gathering and processing," said Glen Banta, vice president of professional services for First American Default Technologies. "Leveraging Verastream and Attachmate's host integration expertise, First American Default Technologies has built the essential information resources to make the access of loan information more timely and accurate than ever before. The back-end functionality of the mainframe is transparent to our clients, giving our users added speed and ease-of-use."

Without disturbing valuable code or associated business processes, Verastream Host Integrator provides a flexible application development platform for ongoing projects. By enabling developers to encapsulate data and logic via the screen interface to create services and components (e.g., XML, COM, .NET, JavaBeans or web services) that can be mixed, matched and reused, Verastream Host Integrator allows applications to share information or respond to events across multiple systems.

Whether working with an IBM mainframe, IBM iSeries (AS/400), Unix, HP OpenVMS or HP e3000 environment, Verastream Host Integrator enables the full range of mainframe-based legacy applications to participate in SOA, enabling IT organizations to extend their legacy assets for use in SOA-based web, portal, CRM, mobile, contact-center or web self-service solutions.

Productivity enhancements are a major part of the new release of Verastream Host Integrator 6.0. These include:

--Added control of host resources for automated and more efficient session management and session clean up and recovery

--Enhanced design process features deliver improved integration and control of web-based projects

--Improved performance of large projects with more predictable performance characteristics across models of all sizes with enhanced performance and model scaling

--New debugging feature streamlines the creation of production-ready projects as well as the diagnosis and repair of malfunctioning models

--Simplified model deployment and testing without the need for a local production server in addition to new copy objects functionality for streamlining design creation

About Verastream

Verastream Host Integrator is part of the Verastream legacy integration suite, a complete range of mainframe, web and desktop modernization tools built to speed the reuse of legacy application investments. Verastream delivers the full spectrum of basic rejuvenation to customized presentation and sophisticated high-performance integration. Verastream-generated services can be mixed, matched and reused to extend legacy functionality to new applications or users. No code changes to legacy applications are required.