Progress Software Announces Artix Data Services Awarded SWIFTReady Messaging Data Services Label
Rigorous accreditation process validates leadership in financial messaging and supporting SWIFT standards
BEDFORD, Mass. (BUSINESS WIRE)
15-Sep-2008
Progress Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS), a leading provider of application infrastructure software to develop, deploy, integrate and manage business applications, today announced that Artix(R) Data Services has earned the SWIFTReady(TM) Messaging Data Services label. The prestigious SWIFTReady label program certifies that SWIFT(TM) Solution Provider applications and middleware products support SWIFT messaging services and provides customers of SWIFT services with a demonstrated and verified assessment of vendor capabilities.
Artix Data Services is an open and standards-based development tool for building model-driven messaging data services. The product's Standards Libraries support more than 100 financial messaging standards implementations across 22 standards bodies, enabling financial organizations to maintain compliance with the latest messaging standard, improve organizational efficiencies, and reduce the risk of failed transactions. Artix Data Services was the first to achieve accreditation under the predecessor SWIFTReady Gold Messaging Library label in 2006, and has maintained this leadership position since that time culminating in this renewal of the SWIFTReady Messaging Data Services 2008 accreditation. In addition to supporting SWIFTNet FIN and ISO15022 messages, the 2008 accreditation criteria includes support for: Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) deployments, FpML and ISO20022 standards, SWIFTNet MX standards, and MT to MX translations for message coexistence and migration.
"The Artix Data Services technology is a set of efficiency tools enabling our customers to build and maintain SWIFT integration solutions while saving time and money. Achieving the SWIFTReady Messaging Data Services Label in 2008 is further validation of our ability to deliver high quality services for our customers," said Wayne Meikle, financial services director for Artix Data Services at Progress Software. "We are happy to provide not only an excellent product, but also the reassurance that the SWIFTReady Label stamp of excellence represents."
Evaluated on a yearly basis, the SWIFTReady Messaging Data Services (MDS) label verifies the capacity of a vendor's products to support SWIFTStandards(TM). Evaluation criteria includes mapping different data sources into SWIFTStandards formats, validation against syntactical and semantic rules, transformation of the messages between different formats (MX, MT), and deployment of run-time SOA messaging components that can be used by interfaces, middleware and financial applications.
"As a long-standing SWIFT Solution Provider, we are pleased to renew the Artix Data Services SWIFTReady accreditation," said Eric Meirlaen, business analyst at SWIFT. "The product is built to support the changing architectural needs of financial institutions, and this new SWIFT label means Artix Data Services can be deployed with confidence."
For more information about Artix Data Services, please visit: http://www.iona.com/products/artix/data_services
Artix Data Services is one of a family of integration products acquired with the acquisition of IONA that enables customers to leverage service-oriented architecture to streamline and modernize IT environments. The acquisition of IONA Technologies was completed on 12th September, 2008, and the company is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Progress Software. For more than a decade, IONA Technologies has been a world leader in delivering high-performance integration solutions for Global 2000 IT environments.
About Progress Software Corporation
Progress Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS) provides application infrastructure software for the development, deployment, integration and management of business applications. Our goal is to maximize the benefits of information technology while minimizing its complexity and total cost of ownership. Progress can be reached at www.progress.com or +1-781-280-4000.
Artix, IONA and Progress are trademarks or registered trademarks of Progress Software Corporation or one ot its affiliates or subsidiaries in the U.S. and other countries. Any other trademarks or service marks contained herein are the property of their respective owners.
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