Dublin, Ireland – 18 June, 2002 -- IONA®, the leading e-Business Platform provider for Web Services Integration (NASDAQ: IONA), today announced a strategic alliance with leading European business systems integration firm, Tri-ennium. The partnership will enable Tri-ennium to deliver systems integration and e-business solutions that can enhance efficiency and maximise return-on-investment for enterprise customers in Europe. As an Alliance Partner, Tri-ennium will have access to IONA’s Solution Provider program to assist them in the deployment of IONA's Orbix End-2-Anywhere™ (E2A) Web Services Integration Platform (WSIP) and Application Server Platform (ASP).
IONA’s E2A™ integration platform is already becoming a platform of choice for customers seeking to leverage existing technology assets and capitalise on the benefits of a web services architecture. “Our philosophy has always been to offer our customers ‘best of breed’ technology solutions that meet today’s business needs,” said Dick H. Rötgers, Founder/CEO of Tri-ennium. “Right now, cost control is top of the agenda for IT managers. By teaming with IONA we can help organisations create corporate efficiencies which generate substantial cost savings by better leveraging investments in existing IT systems." “The Alliance program, combined with our standards based approach, offers partners a well defined structure within which to leverage our technology with their skills,” said Fergal McDonnell, IONA’s Director of Alliances for EMEA. “We look forward to partnering with Tri-ennium and supporting the delivery of true cost-savings and ROI for their customers.”
IONA’s Global Alliance Strategy has been developed to support Solution and Technology Provider partners to grow their businesses, accelerate time-to-market, and increase revenues. Today IONA has partnership agreements with more than 80 organisations worldwide. Gartner Dataquest research of enterprises that use systems integrators for web services indicates that 67% of Web services solutions today are applied to intra enterprise integration. “Application Integration and Middleware (AIM) vendors will be key players in the web services market and alliances between systems integrators and AIM vendors to address this market are becoming more prevalent," said Michele Cantara, Principal Analyst Gartner Dataquest IT Services.
About IONA
IONA is a leading e-Business Platform provider for Web Services Integration. IONA Orbix E2A™, which consists of the Orbix E2A Web Services Integration Platform and Orbix E2A Application Server Platform, enables the flow of information across disparate systems and the liberation of application assets for new business opportunities.
Founded in 1991, IONA® (NASDAQ: IONA) is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, with U.S. headquarters in Waltham, Massachusetts. The company had revenues of $181 million in 2001 and employs more than 800 people in more than 30 offices worldwide. For additional information about IONA, visit our Web site at http://www.iona.com.
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About Tri-ennium
Headquartered in The Netherlands, Tri-ennium was founded in 1997 as a collaborative arrangement between network and telecommunication specialists. Since November 1998 Tri-ennium focused on advanced networking technologies. Today, Tri-ennium provides as a niche player on B2Bi and EAI Integrated Business Solutions for medium-sized and large corporations. For further information please visit http://www.triennium.com
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