Software provides real-time data integration.

Cape Clear Software, Inc. Dec 15, 2003

Press Release Summary:

Web-Services-based, Cape Clear Data Interchange provides visual environment for transforming diverse data sources, such as text files, spreadsheets, and ZIP files into XML Schema. Wizards intelligently analyze new data and suggest appropriate XML Schema-based representations and mappings. Once mappings are created, subsequent files are automatically transformed and routed to appropriate applications as they arrive.

Original Press Release:

Cape Clear Announces Web Services-Based Real-Time Data Integration

WALTHAM, Mass. December 11, 2003, - Cape Clear Software today announced Cape Clear Data Interchange, the first Web Services-based approach to solving the problem of integrating data with enterprise applications. Cape Clear Data Interchange provides a unique visual environment for transforming diverse data sources, such as text files, spreadsheets, and ZIP files into XML Schema, as well as a powerful runtime capability which securely routes that data to the appropriate back-end application. Cape Clear Data Interchange is available immediately and is part of the Cape Clear Business Integration Suite, which now includes four products: Studio, Server, Manager, and Data Interchange.

"Data and applications are the yin and yang of enterprise integration," commented AnnraÃ O'Toole, CEO at Cape Clear Software. "Historically, vendors would integrate your applications but not your data, or they'd integrate your data but not your applications. However, the reality for most organizations is that integration covers both disciplines. Cape Clear Data Interchange is breaking down the walls between data and application integration, offering a technically and economically radical alternative to current approaches."

"Managing the sea of data that flows between applications on the network or between third parties is a significant challenge," said Kieran Murphy, Technical Manager at Vodafone. "If we want to provide the latest status on a business line or customer service function, we need to be able to take all that data and integrate it with our reporting systems. Cape Clear Data Interchange gives us an easy, yet powerful means of integrating all that information and delivering it to our applications in a format that works. That's real business value."

"Working with our clients in the communications sector, we're seeing the growing adoption of Web Services as the standard framework for integrating diverse applications," said Arthur J. Musgrove, VP, Communications Industry at Cymbal Corporation. "However there's also a pressing need for integrating the information and data that flows between those applications. A product such as Cape Clear Data Interchange can provide a productive means of integrating that data using the flexible and robust Web Services standards."

Web Services has already had a major impact on application integration - now it is tackling data integration. According to research carried out at Informatica World 2003 in October, eighty-seven percent of participants view Web Services as a significant data integration trend.

Find out how JPMorgan is using Cape Clear Data Interchange to radically simplify the integration of customer trading data: http://capeclear.com/customers/jpmorgan.pdf

Cape Clear Data Interchange Features:

Standards-Based Data Integration
Cape Clear Data Interchange applies the power of XML and Web Services standards to the problem of data integration. Historical approaches have depended on proprietary mark-up and metadata, which greatly hindered interoperability and onward integration, and offered no easy way to solve the numerous problems that spanned data and application issues.

Graphical Data Integration
Cape Clear Data Interchange provides a graphical, example-based environment for taking diverse data formats and mapping those formats to and from XML Schema. Once these mappings are created, subsequent files are automatically transformed and routed to the appropriate applications as they arrive.

Wizards for Data Integration
Cape Clear provides a host of wizards that intelligently analyze new data and suggest appropriate XML Schema-based representations and mappings. This significantly reduces the time and complexity required to describe and integrate new data formats.

Powerful End-to-End Transformation
Cape Clear Date Interchange manages the process of mapping diverse data formats into and out of XML Schema representations and then transforming the schema into the appropriate back-end format for onward application and/or data integration. Cape Clear Data Interchange provides a host of powerful mapping and transformation features such as filtering, renaming, calculation, assembly, pre-arrangement, re-structuring, conditional transformations, and lookups.

Built-in Data Format Support
Cape Clear Data Interchange includes pre-built support for a wide variety of data formats including CSV, CICS, CISCO IOS, CORBA, Excel, GSM, EDI, EDIFACT, HL7, Java/J2EE, JDBC, .NET, ODBC, Oracle, Parlay X, SWIFT, SMS/MMS, Sybase, Text, WSDL/SOAP, XML, and ZIP files. In addition, support for proprietary or non-standard in-house formats can be rapidly added by data analysts in a straightforward manner. This standards-based extensibility is a key benefit of the Data Interchange approach.

Workflow (BPEL) Support
Cape Clear Data Interchange includes support for Business Process Execution Language (BPEL), which enables sequential workflows and composite Web Services. This enables users to intelligently chain together sets of Web Services to enable delivery of a single, composite service.

One-Stop Data and Application Integration
Cape Clear Data Interchange is tightly integrated with the Cape Clear Business Integration Suite. As a result, organizations can utilize Web Services to integrate their data with all their existing IT assets. Furthermore, Cape Clear Studio, Cape Clear Server and Cape Clear Manager make this process simple and provide additional qualities of service such as security, load-balancing, failover, and content-based routing, all built around Web Services.

Pricing and Availability
Cape Clear Data Interchange requires the Cape Clear Business Integration Suite, which includes the tools to design, develop, integrate, deploy, and manage Web Services. It is available immediately on IBM AIX, Linux, Microsoft Windows, and Sun Solaris. Pricing starts at $75,000.

For further SALES information:
North America: (888) CAPE 439 (227-3439)
Europe: +44 20 8899 6020
E-mail: info@capeclear.com
Web: http://capeclear.com/products/

About Cape Clear Software
Cape Clear Software (http://www.capeclear.com) has one focus: simplifying business integration. The Cape Clear Business Integration Suite provides the tools that organizations need to integrate their internal applications and data, connect with their customers, and link with their suppliers and partners using Web Services. Founded in 1999, Cape Clear Software is a privately held firm with offices in Dublin, London, California, and Massachusetts.