Volante's High Performance Integration Solutions Now Available for IBM Mainframes
Volante's Platform-independent, Model-based Solutions Offer IBM System z Users a Scalable Platform for Financial Messaging Solutions
NEW YORK, March 6 -- Volante Technologies, Inc. (http://www.volantetech.com/) the leading provider of platform-independent data management and messaging solutions for the financial services industry, today announced the availability of high-performance, platform-independent integration solutions for IBM System z, running zOS and WebSphere. Volante's product suite provides a scalable platform on which mainframe users can run financial messaging solutions and a modeling environment for users to rapidly build solutions without having to hand code them. Financial services customers no longer have to re-write their existing applications in order to integrate with other systems, making it faster and less costly to assemble an integration solution for their legacy environment.
Volante and IBM conducted a joint study at the IBM Benchmark Center in Poughkeepsie, New York, to measure the performance of message transformations running on WebSphere and zOS. The application was built using Volante Designer, which allows developers or analysts to quickly build solutions using a combination of pre-built components for standard financial industry protocols and a modeling tool to define transformations and message processing rules. The performance numbers are now available in a whitepaper entitled, "IBM System z/Volante Benchmark Report: Performance of Message Transformations Running on WebSphere and z/OS." Please visit www.volantetech.com/ to view the entire whitepaper.
"One of the key requirements for application integration is the ability to provide real time connectivity to the platforms on which applications run," said Ray Jones, vice president of System z software at IBM. "Volante has demonstrated the ability to deploy their implementations on IBM platforms with very high throughputs and promoted the reusability of existing environments and interoperability between systems. This means more flexibility, shorter project cycles and no compromise on performance for mainframe customers in the financial services industry."
"The performance and reliability characteristics of IBM System z are ideally suited to run the demanding applications typically seen in the financial services industry," said Vijay Oddiraju, Founder & CEO, Volante Technologies. "Volante and IBM have demonstrated that there is no need for financial services companies to re-architect their IT infrastructure when dealing with the technology incompatibilities between legacy systems running COBOL applications and newer applications running on open systems. We have proved that assembling an integration solution for a mainframe customer does not have to be costly or time consuming."
About IBM System z
Last year, IBM announced Systems z for ISVs, a new worldwide initiative that provides software vendors with technical, sales and marketing resources to build applications that run on IBM middleware, including WebSphere Application Server and DB2, and System z. Through the initiative, ISVs gain access to no-cost consulting sessions with IBM IT architects. IBM then creates a customized online environment where vendors can develop, port and test applications on System z, with IBM consultants supporting the ISVs throughout development and porting.
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About Volante
Volante Technologies, Inc., provides platform-independent enterprise data management and messaging solutions for the financial services industry. Volante's proven data management solutions support the broadest range of structured and unstructured data, messaging technologies and XML-based financial industry formats including FpML. The company's products, which are running some of the most demanding applications on Wall Street, support high performance & low latency requirements, complex message management, exception management, trade & order repair and message flow control. Volante solutions run on open-source platforms as an alternative to proprietary message brokers or application servers, and are deployed in Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA). Volante was recently named "Most Innovative Financial Messaging Solution" by Financial-i magazine. The company is SWIFT certified.
Volante's customers include both large and mid-tier financial institutions for both the buy side and sell side communities, including Brown Brothers Harriman, The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board, and ICI/ADP to name a few. Current partners include GoldenSource, Microsoft and IBM. For more information please visit our web site at www.volantetech.com/
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