Attachmate myEXTRA! Smart Connectors integrate existing business processes into new enterprise applications

December 2002 -- Attachmate Corporation, 20-year veterans of enterprise presentation and application integration, today announced the release of myEXTRA!™ Smart Connectors, a comprehensive line of data and logic access tools that securely expose legacy information and applications to serve new business initiatives. myEXTRA! Smart Connectors let organizations convert legacy host-based information to XML, Web services, or component technologies, such as EJB™ and COM+, which can be used by multiple applications across the enterprise. "Integration can account for 40% of the costs in large application roll-outs," said Markus Nitschke, Vice President of Marketing for Attachmate. "Smart Connectors reduce the time it takes to generate new applications based on core business data from months/weeks to days/hours."

No changes to host code

Without requiring changes to the host system, myEXTRA! Smart Connectors speed development and deployment of new applications with graphical, drag-and-drop simplicity. Built on open standards, myEXTRA! Smart Connectors ensure that host information and business logic can be safely exposed for specific uses - and within various environments including both J2EE™ and .NET architectures.

Host transactions are transformed into Web services or bean transactions (EJB and JavaBeans™), NET CLR objects, or as XML over HTTP, MSMQ or MQSeries®, making them totally compatible with new e-business initiatives. Smart Connectors are available for screen access, direct transaction access, and embedded CICS® access methods.

"Unlike other traditional adapters or connectors, myEXTRA! Smart Connectors provide businesses with the flexibility and intelligence they need to create new applications by leveraging their existing host applications - without making any changes to the host code," explained Nitschke. "Organizations get a fast return on their investment because Smart Connectors effectively provide a non-invasive method to access and transform host data and business logic, with no disruption to their current infrastructure," continued Nitschke. "For example, we have a customer in the Midwest successfully using myEXTRA! Smart Connector technology as the connection piece from their CICS mainframe application to their Microsoft BizTalk® Server - this solution works exceptionally well and provided them with an ROI of just eight months."

myEXTRA! Smart Connector product line

Attachmate’s full range of myEXTRA! Smart Connectors now include:

• myEXTRA! Smart Connector for 3270 and 5250

Provides access to 3270 applications on IBM mainframes (S390 or zSeries™), and to 5250 applications on IBM mid-range systems (AS/400® or iSeries™).

• myEXTRA! Smart Connector for UTS and T27

Provides access to T27 applications on Unisys® ClearPath® NX Series

(a.k.a. A Series) mainframes and access to UTS applications on Unisys ClearPath (a.k.a. 1100 or 2200 Series) mainframes.

• myEXTRA! Smart Connector for CICS

Accesses ECI compliant CICS transactions directly, without going through any presentation logic.

• myEXTRA! Smart Connector for IMS

Accesses IMS™ transactions directly, without going through any presentation logic, via OTMA (Open Transaction Manager Access).

• myEXTRA! Smart Connector for CICS 3270 Bridge

Allows external applications to interact with CICS data and business processes as if they were part of the CICS application, even when the host application does not support direct access.

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