SEATTLE, January 16, 2007 – Attachmate Corporation today announced that its Verastream legacy integration suite has been recognized as the industry’s best solution for legacy-to-service oriented architecture (SOA) integration by Yphise, a leading French analyst firm. Verastream was also selected as the best solution in this market in Yphise’s previous analysis in 2003.
Attachmate Verastream was selected from an expansive list of products including Jacada Fusion, Seagull Software’s LegaSuite, Software AG’s Crossvision Legacy Integrator and Scort Enterprise Studio, that enable the reuse of legacy services implemented on various systems by integrating existing applications into new technology applications with non-intrusive methods. After evaluating each product via a detailed ISO 9001-certified assessment, which includes hundreds of control criteria designed to meet the needs of large companies, Yphise identified Verastream as the best in comparison with the competition.
“Our study demonstrates that Verastream stands out in all four assessment dimensions and provides the best coverage of our list of requirements. Verastream was also the best product during our previous assessment in 2003,” said Bernard Jacquot, analyst at Yphise France. “We appreciate the fine granularity of services provided by Verastream. Verastream session pool management makes it possible to run fine-grain services without degrading the performance, which facilitates the reuse of services at any complexity level required by the SOA.”
“With our extensive history in host integration, Attachmate is at the forefront of helping customers maximize the value of their legacy assets as they adopt a Service Oriented Architecture,” said Eric Varness, vice president of marketing for Attachmate. “We are honored to again be selected as the industry’s best solution for integrating legacy assets into SOAs.”
Attachmate’s Verastream suite of products, including Verastream Host Integrator, Verastream Bridge Integrator and Verastream Transaction Integrator, enables the full range of legacy host applications to participate in today’s SOAs, enabling IT organizations to extend legacy logic and data for reuse in web, portal, CRM, mobile, call-center or web self-service solutions. Verastream transforms legacy applications into SOA assets without disturbing valuable code or associated business processes, providing a low-risk, low-cost approach to legacy-to-SOA integration.
Yphise’s software product assessment, titled “Legacy-to-SOA integration,” is available, along with an evaluation copy of Verastream Host Integrator 6.0, Attachmate’s leading solution for screen-based access to legacy data and logic, at www.attachmate.com/info/yphise/.
Leading Companies Select Attachmate Verastream for Legacy-to-SOA Integration Projects
Avis France, Balboa Insurance Group, Bankhaus Neelmeyer, Canal+, Cooper Booth Wholesale, Credit Agricole, First American Default Technologies, NEC America and PPG’s LYNX Services, among others, have all selected Attachmate Verastream as their SOA-based host integration platform of choice. For example, Canal+ France deployed Verastream in a recent project to develop their call center.
“Verastream has not only been useful in helping us to evolve the architecture of our call center,” explained Daniel Delgado, project director, Groupe Canal+. “It also has the potential to assist us in our evolution towards new SOA projects.”
About Verastream
The Verastream legacy integration suite is 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.
Attachmate Verastream software works collaboratively or as a stand-alone tool along with the company’s host access, security and management products, enabling companies to extend the use of existing IT investments while adopting valuable new technologies to improve their businesses.
About Yphise
Since 1985, Yphise has developed its expertise in software assessment throughout Europe and North America, assessing more than 150 software products each year. Yphise is the only ISO 9001-certified analyst in software assessment, providing large companies with precise and independent assessments of business-specific software packages, driving quick and rigorous software selection.
About Attachmate
Attachmate, owned by an investment group led by Francisco Partners, Golden Gate Capital and Thoma Cressey Equity Partners, enables IT organizations to extend mission critical services and assures they are managed, secure and compliant. Attachmate’s leading solutions include host connectivity, systems and security management, and PC lifecycle management. Our goal is to empower IT organizations to deliver trusted applications, manage service levels, and ensure compliance by leveraging knowledge, automation and secured connectivity. For more information, visit www.attachmate.com.