BELLEVUE, Wash./NEW YORK – Aug. 16, 2004 – Attachmate Corporation, delivering 20 years of productivity-enhancing host access, launched ‘next generation’ emulation with EXTRA! Mainframe Server Edition™ version 8.0 for Windows® XP today at the SHARE East 2004 conference in New York. EXTRA! Mainframe Server Edition is a timely release that offers: 1) complete security framework to safeguard mainframes; 2) centralized management from anywhere on the network, including the mainframe; 3) portal integration of host access clients; and, 4) integration with Microsoft® Windows XP Office applications to significantly boost user productivity.
Essential security upgrades
Mainframes, far from obsolete, are now participating in new, services-oriented initiatives that expose them to a new breed of threats. EXTRA! Mainframe Server Edition adds essential security upgrades to protect enterprise mainframes from new, unknown user groups. The product introduces complete enterprise security, even amidst transitional environments.
Integrates with Microsoft Office to streamline tasks
The product’s EXTRA! X-treme™ component, which fully integrates with Office applications, accelerates data entry and host navigation with ‘one-click ease,’ making host applications as easy to work with as Microsoft Office applications. Host sessions become more efficient, resulting in expedited customer service, reduced staff resource costs, and better user security.
A complete emulation package for today’s enterprise
EXTRA! Mainframe Server Edition is an all-in-one productivity focused solution for enterprises that ships with these components:
- Management and Control Services (MCS), which provides centralized management from anywhere on the network, including the mainframe.
- EXTRA! Presentation Builder™, which turns green screens into new graphical screens fast, without changing host code. EXTRA! Presentation Builder builds new workflows, streamlines host navigation, constructs user-level firewalls and supplies an entirely new Web interface—all without changing host code.
- EXTRA! X-treme, providing emulation to enhance user productivity with time-saving MS Office features, including Spell-check, Auto-expand, Auto Complete, Recent Typing, Built-in Scratch Pad, and Screen History. In addition, users can create email messages, notes, tasks, and appointments, and launch Word and Outlook right from an emulation session window.
“Customers who’ve seen our new productivity, management and security features are calling this ‘next generation’ emulation,” said Markus Nitschke, Attachmate® vice president of corporate marketing. “In fact, one of our large telecommunications customers believes EXTRA! Mainframe Server Edition will revolutionize their call centers. Even as we enable the mainframe for SOA, we’re deeply committed to emulation users—mainframes are vital to our customers,” he continued. “We’ve taken emulation to the point where we can definitely claim, ‘this is not your father’s emulation’.”
Evaluation copies of EXTRA! Mainframe Server Edition are available at http://www.attachmate.com/Evals/Evaluate.htm.
Attachmate
Attachmate is the only all-mainframe connectivity expert in the industry, with technology and services for worldwide enterprises to leverage valuable mainframe investments. A Microsoft® Gold Certified Partner, BEA® Partner, Sun™ iForce(sm) Partner, and Unisys partner, Attachmate delivers productivity-focused innovation to customers. News and information is available at http://www.attachmate.com/ or call 425.644.4010.