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CORBA, MSMQ and MQSeries. TIB/Adapters for RDBMS are available
for Oracle, MS SQL and Sybase.
TIB/Rendezvous — forms the foundation of ActiveEnterprise by
providing a very advanced and flexible messaging system.
TIB/Hawk — provides comprehensive system monitoring and
management capabilities.
4.7.3. IBM — WebSphere MQ integrator
WebSphere MQ Integrator enables EAI through a combination of business
rules and message formatting. It contains MQSeries — for messaging
and queuing, NEONrules — for evaluation of the content of messages
and routing them based on the application rules, NEONformatter — for
transforming the data in appropriate format as required by the receiving
application and NEON Adapters — an adapter for each application that
handles the communications with the application and passes metadata
to the NEONformatter.
NEON Adapters connect WebSphere MQ with applications such as
SAP R/3, Peoplesoft, Oracle, JDEdwards, Siebel, Broadvision and i2 and
support industry standards such as EDI/XML, SWIFT message format
and FIX message format library.
GARTMORE ENTERS A NEW GENERATION OF
TRADE PROCESSING
Straight Through to the Benefits
For over thirty years, Gartmore Investment Management Pic — one
of the UK's leading investment management companies — has been
managing money for corporate, institutional and private investors.
Since 30th September 2000, it has managed funds worth more than
54 billion Pounds Sterling, covering the world's major equity, bond
and currency markets.
To maintain its investment management leadership, Gartmore has
embarked on a strategy to exploit the latest straight-through processing
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