(March 9, 2002) - Ascential Software Corp. intends to provide real-time data transformation and integration capabilities between incompatible Web services, allowing enterprises for the first time to successfully develop and deploy complex Web services applications.

Ascential™ is extending its enterprise data integration leadership to solve what analysts say is a rapidly growing problem. "As customers begin to explore how they use Web services to integrate applications, they will quickly encounter problems with data incompatibility," according to Daryl Plummer, group vice president and research group manager, Software Infrastructure, for Gartner Research. "Clearly, any kind of Web services development that requires two or more systems to share common data elements will need data transformation."

Web services have the same data compatibility requirements of all applications integration projects. In business, Web services are all about connecting incompatible applications. Connectivity alone, though, does not ensure successful interoperability.

"Today, the world of Web services consists mainly of pipes that can be bolted together successfully, without regards to whether the data flowing through those pipes will mix well together to achieve the customer's objective," said Bob Zurek, Ascential vice president of Advanced Technologies.

"At Ascential, our goal is to change that old paradigm and minimize the investment our customers need to make to integrate data by using all forms of connectivity between enterprise systems, leveraging existing investments, and integrating those with new investments in Web services," said Zurek.

The following additions will be introduced within the Ascential DataStage® data integration product family this year:

Call Web Services within Data Integration Tasks. Customers will be able to call external Web services directly within a data integration task. This will in turn significantly reduce costs of data integration by incorporating the benefits of inexpensive, Web service-enabled connectivity.

More information can be found at www.ascentialsoftware.com.

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