Newz...Unify NXJ 10.5 Speeds Delivery of Business Process Automation Applications
SACRAMENTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 30, 2004--
New Breakthrough Capabilities Accelerate Rapid Deployment of
People-Intensive, Information-Rich Solutions
Unify Corp. (OTCBB:UNFY) today announced the immediate availability of Unify NXJ 10.5, an application platform that offers a rapid solution for creating and extending process-centric, "people-intensive" applications. Targeted at medium- to large-sized organizations that need applications immediately, Unify NXJ 10.5 securely and effectively automates business processes and extends critical information to customers, partners, suppliers and employees.
"Competitive pressures, limited IT resources and budgets in an accelerating business climate mean process automation initiatives are becoming the cornerstone for companies to manage costs and react to competitive threats or business dynamics," said Jim Sinur, vice president and distinguished analyst for Gartner. "Companies know they need to automate processes, particularly human-to-human processes, and advance their means of collaboration both internally and externally to continually transform, thrive and grow."
Delivering people-intensive, information-rich applications requires IT organizations to build systems that combine process and data integration. Prior to NXJ 10.5, IT was required to choose between using either business process management products or application development offerings, both of which then required extensive custom hand coding to complete this type of application. With a remarkable new breakthrough capability known as a Process Activity Form, Unify NXJ 10.5 eliminates all of this low-level coding with its highly automated framework. Using Unify NXJ Process Activity Forms, IT teams are able to build process automation, information-intensive applications in significantly less time compared to competing alternatives.
For Unify customer Cast & Crew, Unify NXJ is helping the company automate people-intensive processes to streamline efficiencies, as well as offer new client services that keep them ahead of the competition. "Cast & Crew prides itself on our responsiveness to our clients, which include major motion picture studios and television production companies," said Unify customer Sadhu Nadesan, CIO for Cast & Crew Entertainment Services. "Unify NXJ allows us to build applications rapidly, and more importantly, to make critical information accessible to our clients in real-time. Our customers will get accurate numbers instead of using estimates, so they can make better business decisions. We will be using Unify NXJ to provide one-of-a-kind services in our industry, which is key to retaining current clients as well as acquiring potential new ones."
Unify NXJ addresses the complexity of delivering process automation applications with a comprehensive application platform that includes business process management, web services, interactive forms processing, reporting, portal integration, and enterprise application connectivity. Unify NXJ 10.5 is available as a complementary offering for delivering applications that deploy across all leading J2EE infrastructure stacks including BEA WebLogic, IBM Websphere and Oracle 10g or as a fully integrated application platform with the JBoss application server.
What's Different About Unify NXJ 10.5
Unify NXJ 10.5 accelerates application delivery by extending the agility of a services-oriented architecture with clear separation of workflows, processes and activities from all presentation-layer and application-layer services. Unify NXJ's advanced modeling, fabrication, and assembly capabilities coupled with robust, pre-built application components and services results in accelerated application delivery time, reduced complexity for internal developers and lower maintenance costs for a faster and dramatic IT ROI.
Key additions and unique features of Unify NXJ 10.5 include:
-- Process Activity Forms are advanced interface controls which
provide a rich, thin-client, web interface to data aggregated
from multiple sources including business processes, databases,
web services, XML and Microsoft(R) Office documents all in
real time, with virtually no coding. This eliminates the
burden of manual processes and communication delays to boost
business velocity and productivity of end users by delivering
needed information for quicker action and better
decision-making.
-- Web Services offers an easy-to-use, high performance
environment for creating, deploying and orchestrating web
services in Java and J2EE applications. With unrivalled
interoperability including Microsoft .NET, Unify NXJ Web
Services supports application integration projects in
heterogeneous environments making new web services available
internally and externally.
-- Integrated Portal Services - Unify's NXJ's enterprise portal
framework simplifies the development, customization, and
maintenance of business information portals to provide rich,
real-time information delivery to end users. Through its
advanced single sign-on and personalization capabilities, end
users have direct access to all information and applications
for which they have been authorized.
-- Advanced Component Reuse System -NXJ 10.5 provides the
capability to reuse forms and form controls in multiple
application components throughout multiple application
projects. This along with a repository-based development and
reuse library saves developers days, weeks or months of
development time since they can re-use code across several
projects and quickly assemble applications.
-- Expanded Connectivity Services - NXJ offers standards-based,
JCA-compliant connectivity with leading enterprise and
packaged applications including SAP R/3, PeopleSoft, Siebel,
Oracle e-Business, JD Edwards, CICS, and IMS to Unify NXJ
applications.
"External factors, often out of the control of the IT organization, are creating an urgent need for CIOs to build and extend applications," said Unify CTO Dave Glende "Whether it's responding to a competitive action, an inability to scale headcount or exposing applications outside the four walls, IT organizations are faced with an urgency to create these applications quickly, yet they must be highly secure, functionally rich, easy to change and intuitively easy to use. This is a tall order for IT shops that are under budget pressures, swamped with enterprise rollouts and burdened with legacy system maintenance. Unify NXJ 10.5 fulfills all these needs, but its chief benefit-it can do it FAST."
Availability and Pricing
Unify NXJ 10.5 is immediately available. Pricing for development ranges from $3,000 to $11,500 USD per seat. Deployment pricing begins at $18,000 USD per CPU. For more information, please contact 1-800-248-6439 or visit www.unify.com.
About Unify
Unify Corporation provides software solutions for connecting people, information and business. Leveraging 24 years of software innovation to more than 2,000 customers and 300 ISV partners worldwide, Unify solutions enable organizations to automate business processes and deliver actionable information in highly collaborative applications. Focused on mid-size to large companies with urgent "need it yesterday" requirements for solutions, Unify's customers include Cast & Crew Entertainment, Inc., Credit Lyonnais, Citigroup Inc., Documentum, Fox Racing, GE Healthcare, GlaxoSmithKline, Heineken, PCN, Pioneer Natural Resources, Pioneer Electronics and TravelCenters of America. Founded in 1980, Unify is headquartered in Sacramento, Calif. with offices in the U.K., France and Australia, in addition to a worldwide network of distributors. Visit Unify at www.unify.com.
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