5by5 is a leading software company providing products and solutions that link applications, business processes, and people. Our proven expertise comes from an unparalleled track record in application integration. Our focus has been solving one of the most difficult, timely, and persistent IT challenges – integrating enterprise applications and business processes. BRIDGEWERX, the company's new flagship product, is designed to procure and provision rapid integration using an online visualization tool.

Active Endpoints is the leading provider of BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) solutions. Active Endpoints’ solutions enable organizations to build and deploy composite, process-driven information systems based on BPEL, the SOA orchestration standard. From open source to mission-critical deployments, Active Endpoints empowers IT organizations to quickly adapt to evolving customer demands – reducing the cost of integration, leveraging infrastructure investments and enabling the sharing of business processes with customers, partners, and suppliers.

Founded in 1988, Acucorp, Inc. is a privately held company headquartered in San Diego, California, with additional offices in Great Britain, France, Germany, and the Netherlands. Acucorp's products are distributed in more than 75 countries throughout the world. The company, which last year experienced a 20 percent increase in growth, continues to design, develop, and market innovative solutions for extending the life of vital COBOL business systems.

AmberPoint is the industry’s leading provider of SOA visibility, management, and security solutions. Customers such as British Telecommunications, H&R Block, Motorola, and the U.S. Department of Defense have chosen AmberPoint for its comprehensive capabilities, its non-invasive approach and its native support for Java and .NET.

AptSoft delivers the next-generation solution for connecting and extending applications such as marketing, sales, Web site, call center, and point-of-contact. This new approach overcomes the impracticality of conventional solutions, such as big-footprint integration platform implementations, costly custom code, or the disruptive replacement of existing technology. The AptSoft/iWay relationship is truly a win for customers, who can dramatically reduce the cost of integration by quickly coordinating the application logic in disparate systems through AptSoft's real-time event coordination platform working seamlessly with iWay's adapters.

BEA is the world's leading application infrastructure software company with more than 13,000 customers around the world, including the majority of the Fortune Global 500. Companies turn to BEA to help them evolve their existing enterprise software applications from inflexible, redundant, legacy client/server architectures to highly responsive, mature Web infrastructures. Companies built on BEA software are able to use IT to effect rapid change within their organizations and achieve breakthrough levels of efficiency and responsiveness. The BEA WebLogic^® Enterprise Platform provides the application infrastructure foundation that simplifies the flow of information, decreases the costs of managing applications, and makes an enterprise more agile, productive, and connected. BEA's platform is also the de facto standard for more than 2,100 systems integrators (SIs), independent software vendors (ISVs), and application service providers (ASPs) who partner with BEA to ensure the successful deployment of your solution.

Recent press releases:

• iWay Software Supports BEA Service Infrastructure Product Strategy
• iWay Software Further Expands Its Adaptive Framework With BEA's Highly Scalable, Reliable Mainframe Transaction Adapter Technology

Cactus Commerce is a software and services provider dedicated to helping enterprise organizations bring more efficiency to their complex business processes. A Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, Cactus works closely with partners such as iWay Software to develop and deliver rapidly deployed, cost-effective, and extensible trading partner integration solutions that address the three critical components of e-commerce – to connect, to trade, and to settle. Cactus complements its packaged software offerings with unique industry expertise, enabling companies to take full advantage of their existing and future technology investments.

Founded in 1991, CommerceQuest is the only enterprise solutions provider that enables its customers to rapidly turn business strategy into business processes by fully integrating the work that people do with software systems that optimize business performance. CommerceQuest delivers a complete set of scalable business process management (BPM) solutions that leverage existing IT investments to unite people, processes and technology in a service-based architecture that spans the extended enterprise, from the mainframe to the Internet and everything in between. More than 500 industry-leading companies rely on CommerceQuest to help them integrate heterogeneous workflow and IT systems, including many of the Fortune 500 companies.

Compuware provides a full portfolio of products and services to reduce the complexity involved in developing, deploying, and managing enterprise applications that deliver maximum business value. Compuware OptimalJ's pragmatic implementation of Model Driven Architecture (MDA) enables Java development teams to deliver service-oriented applications faster than ever before. OptimalJ is a collaborative development solution that is used by agile development teams to rapidly build enterprise-grade applications, integrate with a broad array of legacy and packaged applications, and deploy to any major Java platform.

The combination of Compuware OptimalJ and iWay's SAP Adapters provides a comprehensive development and integration solution. The Compuware/iWay solution dramatically improves speed, productivity, and quality for integrating customer J2EE applications to SAP by enabling developers to easily read, write, and enrich SAP transactions, while shielding them from the complexities of the SAP and the J2EE computing environment.

Cordys helps companies create more efficient and collaborative business environments by enabling IT systems to be integrated with new business processes, using Web-services. Cordys uses an event-driven ESB to simplify IT structure while providing an integrated platform within which new functionality can be readily created and deployed. IT systems will rapidly respond to changes in business processes and to new acceptable costs at a company's own pace.

Fujitsu Software’s Interstage Suite products build applications that simplify and accelerate business processes, maximize revenue, lower operating costs, and help businesses react quickly to changing market requirements. iWay Software extends access to 280 databases and applications for Interstage. Together, we provide a more complete integration solution for customers worldwide.

Group 1 Software (Nasdaq: GSOF) is a leading provider of customer relationship management (CRM-enabling) software solutions for data quality, marketing automation, customer communications management, and direct marketing applications. Group 1 develops enterprise-wide data quality solutions that enable businesses to operate in a host, client/server, or Web-enabled environment. iWay Software's ETL solutions are utilized along with Group 1's Enterprise Data Quality (EDQ) solution to access data sources within corporate enterprises and ensure the integrity of customer and prospect data, an organization's most valuable asset.

HandySoft delivers innovative solutions for business process management (BPM) and workflow automation to commercial and government marketplaces. BizFlow®, HandySoft's award-winning BPM platform, offers a complete solution for automating and simplifying processes, enforcing best practices, improving quality and productivity, and fostering collaboration internally as well as with customers and partners. iWay extends the functionality of BizFlow to include access to all data and applications in the enterprise. iWay provides a single point of entry and common interface so that BizFlow can easily integrate any source into its workflow system. BizFlow is installed in over 380 sites worldwide, earned awards from the Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC) and Transform magazine, and has achieved ISO 9001 Certification.

Information Builders – iWay's corporate parent – has worked with IBM for over 12 years to create robust integration solutions, including our award-winning Enterprise Data Access (EDA) middleware. Today, iWay Software is a member of IBM's PartnerWorld for Enterprise Integration.

iWay markets integration tools that strongly complement IBM e-Business Software solutions by providing 'out-of-the-box' integration adapters and specialized components for MQSI and WebSphere. iWay's products simplify application MQSI and WebSphere development by providing direct, optimized access to over 200 information sources, including relational and non-relational data, transaction systems like CICS and IMS/TM, and packaged applications like SAP and PeopleSoft.
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Recent press releases:

• iWay Software's Adaptive Framework for SOA Now Certified as "Ready for IBM WebSphere Business Integration Software"

The Integration Consortium is a non-profit, leading industry body responsible for influencing the direction of the integration industry. Members champion Integration Acumen by establishing standards, guidelines, best practices, research and the articulation of strategic and measurable business benefits. The Integration Consortium’s motto is “Forging Integration Value.”

The mission of the member-driven Integration Consortium is to establish universal seamless integration which engages industry stakeholders from the business & technology community.

Among the sectors represented in the Integration Consortium membership are end user corporations, independent software vendors (ISVs), hardware vendors, system integrators, academic institutions, non-profit institutions and individual members, as well as various industry leaders.

Integrate Applications Faster with Ensemble. The new Ensemble integration platform from InterSystems gives you the power to complete any application integration project with ease. Ensemble is a comprehensive and architecturally consistent integration platform that enables exceptionally fast integration and extremely rapid composite application development. Ensemble excels at building and deploying new business solutions that integrate data, orchestrate processes, and enhance the value of existing applications. Ensemble gives you the power to handle a full range of application integration projects, from the complex to the simple, with ease.

IT/NET (www.itnet.ca) a 100 percent Canadian-owned national firm based in Ottawa (with offices in Vancouver, Halifax, and Toronto), incorporated in 1991, is a prominent management consulting firm that offers comprehensive consulting services in all aspects of information management and technology (IM/IT).

They provide clients in both the private and public sectors with a combination of management and technical expertise, to ensure that computer-based technologies are applied in a cost-effective and appropriate manner. IT/NET is the leading provider of PeopleSoft and SAP professional services to the Canadian Federal Government.

IT/NET chose iWay Adapter Manager technology because it provides cost effective, rapid implementation of real-time integration and supports their enterprise application integration practice and engagements.

Lakeview Technology is the industry leader in the development and distribution of cross-platform changed data replication, managed availability, and clustering solutions for midrange computing platforms. Lakeview Technology's OmniReplicator's changed data capture (CDC) engine and iWay's software help customers minimize time needed to extract large data volumes from legacy databases and focuses on accelerating the process of extracting key enterprise data before passing off to a transformation engine. This decreases extract data time, reduces network impact, and has less impact on the ever-shrinking batch window. The partnership spans all industries and is ideal for customers requiring enterprise data manipulation.

Lombardi is a leader in business process management (BPM) software for companies, systems integrators and government agencies. We offer award-winning BPM technology, know-how and services to help our customers become process-driven. Lombardi products are built on open standards and provide ongoing prioritization, planning, visibility and control of business processes, increasing the speed and flexibility with which organizations can manage their business process activity and decision-making.

Lombardi is behind some of the largest, most successful BPM implementations in the world. Our customers include Allianz Life, Aflac, Dell, Hasbro, ING Direct, Maritz Travel, Reuters, Renault F1 Team, Sprint, T-Mobile, The UK Insolvency Service, Universal Music Group and the U.S. Government. For more information, visit www.lombardi.com.

Longview Solutions makes performance management software many of the world's most respected companies use to drive performance with speed, visibility, and financial integrity. Their technology platform supports the diverse needs of the CFO with business processes including management reporting, planning, budgeting, forecasting, consolidation, tax, and finance-related enterprise learning, compliance and knowledge management. Since 1995, Longview Solutions has established a presence in North America and Europe. Longview Solutions has a focus on finance, and expertise that covers all industry sectors including energy, entertainment, financial services, health care, higher education, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, retail, technology, and utilities. For more information see: www.longview.com

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McConnell and Associates, Inc. provides database gateways and communications bridges between Unisys ClearPath mainframes and open platforms. Together iWay and McConnell and Associates, Inc. deliver an enterprise solution that supplies access to all corporate data sources. This relationship effectively streamlines business processes by ensuring legacy data can communicate with modern enterprise and e-business solutions.

Metaserver, Inc. provides integration software solutions that enable companies to automate and manage business processes within the enterprise and across the Internet. Metaserver's best-of-breed Business Process Integration (BPI) software sets new standards for rapid value delivery and low implementation risk with a fully productized integration solution. The combination of Metaserver and iWay Software's adapters enables Metaserver's customers to rapidly integrate over 200 different application and data services, including CRM, ERP, and SCM.

iWay Software and Microsoft Corporation have partnered productively for over 6 years. iWay supports numerous Microsoft products, including MS-SQL Server, MS-Plato OLAP server, application development standards such as OLE DB, ActiveX, Com/Dcom, XML, and others. Microsoft also licenses iWay data-access technology as part of the Back Office product suite.
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Recent press releases:

• iWay Software to Sell IP Rights to Microsoft for Eight iWay .NET-Based Integration Adapters
• Microsoft and iWay Software Strategic Alliance Produces Native .NET Adapter Suite for BizTalk Server 2004

Netezza, a solution partner and the global leader in analytic appliances, enables business users across the extended enterprise to leverage the power of high-performance analytics on all their data, simply and affordably, for competitive and operational advantage. The Netezza Performance Server® (NPS®) family of streaming analytic™ appliances brings appliance simplicity to a broad range of complex data warehouse and analytic challenges.

Oracle’s applications, database, development, and integration offerings provide complete solutions for enterprises in all industries around the globe. Developed on the principle that information is an enterprise’s most valuable asset, Oracle’s technology solutions enable companies to capture, consolidate, better understand, and leverage their information. Oracle provides a wide array of standards-based integration solutions that can be adapted to meet specific business requirements. Spanning from department-level data, application, and process integration projects to extended, end-to-end processes, Oracle has a proven track record in helping enterprises streamline corporate processes, enhance customer satisfaction, improve visibility of enterprise information, and leverage standards to reduce costs.

Click here to learn more about Oracle and iWay Software’s Partnership. For more information about Oracle, visit www.oracle.com.

Recent press releases:

• iWay Software Will Support Oracle® BPEL Process Manager to Deliver Broad Connectivity to Heterogeneous IT Systems

is an independent healthcare consulting firm. PHRG specializes in focused health services planning projects; in health policy development and evaluation studies; and in the assessment, planning, and application of healthcare information technology solutions for disease control and health cost management. These projects provide information for strategic and service line planning, for outcome-based services improvements, for policy innovations, for risk management, and for disease surveillance and prevention programs. Clients who use our services include provider organizations, insurers, public health organizations, governments, labor unions, and employers.

Progress Software Corporation (Nasdaq: PRGS) is a global industry leader providing application infrastructure software for all aspects of the development, deployment, integration, and management of business applications through its operating units: Progress OpenEdge Division, Sonic Software, DataDirect Technologies, and Progress Real Time Division.

Over 2,000 Application Partners worldwide utilize our technology to deliver over 5,000 business solutions configured to the needs of organizations in manufacturing, distribution, financial, retail, health care, and many other markets. Over 60,000 organizations, including 70 percent of Fortune 100 companies, utilize annually over $5 billion of our technology and partner applications and services at over 110,000 sites in over 135 countries.

Headquartered in Bedford, Mass., Progress can be reached at www.progress.com or (781) 280-4000.

Red Hat is leading Linux and open source solutions into the mainstream by making high quality, low cost technology accessible. Red Hat provides operating system software along with middleware, applications, and management solutions. Red Hat also offers support, training, and consulting services to its customers worldwide and through top-tier partnerships. Red Hat's open source strategy offers customers a long term plan for building infrastructures that are based on and leverage open source technologies with focus on security and ease of management.

SAND Technology provides innovative data infrastructure products for business intelligence and analytic applications. SAND Searchable Archive is a highly efficient data warehouse or ODS component, and SAND Analytic Server is a proven high-performance platform for hosting complex analytic tasks. Standalone or together, they allow users to adopt an Information lifecycle management (ILM) approach to optimizing the performance, control runaway data growth, and manage the cost of their data warehouse and other components of the Corporate Information Factory.

iWay Software is part of SAP's partner program, having achieved "Certified Integration" status. Due to its long history of building SAP-certified interface solutions for data access and data management, iWay and its parent company Information Builders -- the leader in enterprise business intelligence and real-time Web reporting -- together provide four products with a total of nine SAP interface certifications for the mySAP Business Suite.

Recent Press Releases:

• iWay Software Creates New Adapter Factory to Support Growing Partnership With SAP AG
• iWay Software Adapter Factory Provides JCA-Compliant Resource Adapters for SAP Netweaver™

Siperian helps companies unify their critical data about customers, products, and organizations that is fragmented across different systems. Siperian MDM Hub^TM is an integrated, model-driven and flexible master data management software platform to fit business needs today and readily adapt to future requirements. iWay Software provides rapid integration solutions. Customers benefit through real-time integration of their data with the Siperian MDM Hub to power critical business processes where instantaneous response is required to enable operational efficiencies.

Founded in 1969, Software AG continues to be a leading global provider – and Europe's largest – of system software and services enabling enterprise data integration and management. Software AG's products control the central IT processes of thousands of renowned companies worldwide including Lufthansa, Siemens, Citibank, Merck, DaimlerChrysler, Sony, BP and Telefonica. Software AG´s EntireX integration technology is based on open standards like XML, SOAP and Web services. iWay Software's adapters provide EntireX with standards-based plug-and-play access to data, applications, and technologies. Also iWay's extensive product range will enrich Software AG's leading specialization in service-based integration and management products and services. Software AG is based in Darmstadt, Germany.

Software House

Through its software and access control hardware lines, Software House provides customers with complete, real-time control over their security systems. Its partnership with iWay Software allows complete integration with various security and corporate systems, while giving users full control through Software House's application platform – C*CURE 800. The system can be integrated with applications such as PeopleSoft or SAP for more efficient personnel administration or customized monitoring and visitor management. Software House is an access control brand within the Tyco Fire & Security's Access Control and Video Systems business unit.

Sonic Software

An independent operating company of Progress Software Corporation, Sonic Software enables reliable interoperability of software applications within and across enterprises based on Web services and Internet messaging standards. One of the world's fastest growing Internet middleware companies, Sonic provides the first integration suite built on an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). Sonic has partnered with iWay Software to provide intelligent, prepackaged adapters for the Sonic ESB, integrating disparate, proprietary-based applications and middleware while supporting mainstream business standards, including a range of EDI and specific vertical industry protocols.

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Sterling Commerce

Sterling Commerce, a wholly owned subsidiary of SBC Communications Inc., (NYSE: SBC) is a worldwide leading provider of business-to-business (B2B) commerce solutions for companies of all sizes. Sterling Commerce's software and service solutions power global e-Business communities through its Electronic Trading Network Services, e-Business Integration Software, and Outsourcing and Professional Services.

Sterling Commerce's flagship software products, Gentran Integration Suite and Sterling Integrator, leverage iWay's Intelligent Adapters to connect customers with packaged applications, data or middleware, giving Sterling Commerce the ability to meet a broad range of customer integration needs and help them experience a faster return on investment.

Sun Microsystems

Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision – "The Network Is The Computer^™" – has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW) to its position as a leading provider of industrial-strength hardware, software, and services that make the Net work. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the World Wide Web at http://sun.com. Subscribe to Sun newswire at www.sun.com/news/.

Sunopsis

Sunopsis is the leading provider of Simply Faster Integration software, optimized for both data and application integration projects. Sunopsis products leverage a business rules approach to data integration and use a unique E-LT (Extract - Load & Transform) approach to their execution. This leverages the existing database engines and executes the integration processes where they can run the most efficiently. Quick to deploy, Sunopsis is the most cost-effective solution on the market today.

Tessellate

Tessellate Business Solutions is an independent business and technology consultancy, specializing in providing solutions to the financial services industry. The main focus of the company is to provide seamless integrated solutions to its customers, using the high value, best of breed products supplied by its business and technology partners.

The TriZetto Group

The TriZetto® Group, Inc. offers a broad portfolio of healthcare IT products and services that can be delivered individually or combined to create a comprehensive solution. The company provides proprietary and third-party software on a licensed or hosted basis, e-business applications, consulting services, and business services such as claims, billing, and enrollment processing. Focused exclusively on healthcare, TriZetto serves more than 500 payers, providers, and benefits administrators. Its customers serve more than 100 million health plan members, or approximately 40 percent of the insured population of the United States.

UGS

UGS (a division of EDS) is a leading provider of collaborative product lifecycle solutions for manufacturing enterprises. UGS provides innovative software and services to enable its customers to create collaborative and concurrent processes that facilitate the design, development, manufacturing, distribution, and support of their products. By utilizing iWay adapters, UGS'information management software, i-Man, is able to access data sources outside the database structure.

Vitria

Vitria Technology provides award-winning products for business process integration and exception resolution. Vitria combines technology leadership in SOA and event-driven integration with expertise in business process management in telecommunications, manufacturing, healthcare, insurance, and financial services. Vitria operates in North and South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia.

WRQ Verastream integration server provides a single platform, adaptable SOA approach for reusing legacy logic and data in web applications, CRM applications, or portals. It works by wrapping host-application logic and data as components or services. This non-intrusive approach lets customers quickly create or streamline business processes while using existing development skills, familiar IT tools, and proven legacy-application investments. iWay adapters complement Verastream-based host integration solutions – providing transaction and data access to a broad range of corporate applications.

WRQ products help companies get the most from their hosts today as they advance their long-term IT strategy. Established in 1981, WRQ is one of the largest privately held software companies in the U.S. It has over six million users worldwide and the highest customer-support rating in the industry. Four out of five Fortune 500 companies rely on WRQ daily. Learn more at www.wrq.com.

Winning Solutions, Inc.

Winning Solutions, Inc. (WSI) specializes in complex Web reporting and the design and implementation of OLAP cubes with Microsoft SQL Server. WSI utilizes iWay adapters to access legacy MVS data sources to extend this work easily into legacy systems. WSI offers custom-tailored solutions to work within the customers' current environments.