Intertek launches IONA relationship with Artix 4.0 event

Intertek Group Inc., reseller of IONA Products in the Philippines, today announced they will host an IONA Artix 4.0 launch to be held on May 18 at the Garcia Villa Function Room in The Peninsula Manila.

IONA Technologies is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, with U.S. headquarters in Massachusetts and offices worldwide, including Japan and Hong Kong. Artix 4.0 is IONA's latest version of its extensible Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). Artix 4.0 delivers to customers an extensive set of enhancements designed to improve their ability to incrementally adopt a distributed, standards-based Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) that dynamically incorporates a broad set of IT assets and environments.

Intertek, a leader in delivering SOA solutions to local market, has identified Artix as powerful SOA enablement software that can be deployed incrementally to deliver dynamic and adaptive SOA solutions. Intertek will utilize Artix to deliver SOA deployments to large financial service companies that can effectively extend their existing enterprise IT assets to new process automation applications, especially extending the value of mainframe environments.

Artix 4.0 significantly extends the capabilities of enterprises turning to SOA to help generate better return from existing and future IT assets, streamline their systems to be more agile and responsive to changing business requirements, and ultimately reduce annual operating costs. Artix enables customers to achieve these goals by providing a fully distributed architecture that removes the limitations in scalability and performance associated with other approaches that rely on a centralized server or hub-and-spoke architecture.

The differentiated Artix methodology, which embraces the use of standards-based, distributed endpoints to support both incremental adoption and dynamic configuration, is key to the power, flexibility and value of Artix, and empowers organizations to develop a comprehensive SOA plan that can be implemented strategically in response to changing business requirements.

The new features in Artix 4.0 address the needs of customers deploying SOA in highly complex, mission?critical, environments. New features provide additional functionality that delivers to customers the ultimate flexibility to chose how best to leverage existing IT assets, adopt their solutions incrementally, and manage and deploy their infrastructure. Enhancements to Artix 4.0 include, Service Orchestration, Reliable Messaging, JMS, and Data Services.

Artix 4.0 supports z/OS environments and has been enhanced to allow mainframe services development in an Eclipse-based environment, which allows the user great flexibility in creating web service interface descriptions (WSDL) from various mainframe resources (screen descriptions, PL/I and Cobol interface descriptions). Strategically the developer may also use an existing web service description (WSDL) to generate native language interfaces (Cobol and PL/I) Artix 4.0 also features the ability to connect MQ clients directly with IMS and CICS environments.

For more information and details about the launch, you can email [email protected] or call (+63-2) 750-4703 and look for Jose Francisco Darunday II or Anthony Sales.