Q-Link 4.0 Establishes New Benchmark for Business Process Application Development and Integration

Innovative process design and integration capabilities combined with J2EE compatibility and Web Services support provide the fastest solution for business automation.Q-Link Technologies, Inc., the leading provider of Business Process Management (BPM) software, today shipped Q-Link 4.0, establishing a new benchmark for rapid process automation by providing the fastest and most complete solution for developing, integrating and deploying scalable, web-based business applications

For Immediate Release
February 20, 2002

Q-Link 4.0 Establishes New Benchmark for Business Process Application Development and Integration

Innovative process design and integration capabilities combined with J2EE compatibility and Web Services support provide the fastest solution for business automation.

TAMPA, FL -- February 20, 2002 --Q-Link Technologies, Inc., the leading provider of Business Process Management (BPM) software, today shipped Q-Link 4.0, establishing a new benchmark for rapid process automation by providing the fastest and most complete solution for developing, integrating and deploying scalable, web-based business applications. With Q-Link, companies can significantly increase productivity and collaboration, integrate their processes with customers and suppliers, and re-claim business agility lost in the deployment of rigid enterprise applications (e.g. ERP,CRM).

One of the biggest challenges companies face today is resolving the disconnect between their desired business processes and the capabilities of their existing enterprise systems," explained Steven Horwitz, Q-Link CEO. In most cases, this gap results in an endless backlog of IT projects to customize current systems or create new applications that provide the desired functionality. Q-Link solves this problem by enabling companies to run their business the way they need to while leveraging, not replacing the existing technology infrastructure."

Q-Link 4.0 provides an integrated rapid development environment that unifies the core components of any business process; the people, the workflow, and data that seamlessly interoperates with existing enterprise software or integration middleware. By offering this robust functionality within a single, comprehensives platform, Q-Link accelerates the digitization of processes while reducing the cost, risk, and effort to deploy reliable, enterprise-class applications. Q-Link 4.0 platform highlights include:

 Intuitive graphical process design tools -- Q-Links process development workbench enables both Business and IT Professionals to rapidly create, modify and extend every aspect of a business application; the user interface, data elements, business rules, integration points, event management, and workflow in a collaborative manner.

 Innovative Integration Framework - Q-Links Process Action Components (Q-PACs) allow rapid integration with any existing enterprise application by separating the process and integration logic from the underlying system logic. This component-based integration framework enables customers to extend the Q-Link workflow engine by creating new re-useable functionality that can be implemented as part of any business process using the Q-Link process design tools. This powerful integration capability creates an environment where business rules and workflow can be readily modified without touching any underlying enterprise software.

 Web Services-- Q-Link 4.0 and the new Web Services Q-PAC enables companies to leverage Web Services by extending their business processes across the value chain utilizing standards such as UDDI, SOAP, XML, and WSDL. With Q-Link, companies can easily integrate Web Services into any automated process using the graphical process design tools and they can leverage the Q-Link framework to publish any automated process as a Web Service.
   
 Enterprise Interoperability -- Q-Link 4.0 enables companies to leverage their existing IT infrastructure and streamline processes across disparate systems. Q-Link offers full Java (J2EE) compatibility, expanded support for leading enterprise databases (MS SQL, IBM DB2, Oracle, and Sybase) and interoperability with leading J2EE application servers such as IBM WebSphereTM, BEA Weblogic, Sun iPlanet, and Allaire JRun.

Commenting on the 4.0 release from Q-Link, Nathaniel Palmer, Delphi Group's Chief Analyst and director of the Business of Technology practice said, Traditionally a chasm has existed between pre-packaged applications and boilerplate process templates. Q-Link 4.0 and its Process Action Components (Q-PACs) have connected this divide by enabling the business professional trained in process methodologies to quickly develop, integrate and deploy business process applications. Q-Link's speed of development and ease of use by business professionals offer a clear advantage in the emerging BPM space. This is an important development which will remain on our radar for some time to come."

About Q-Link Technologies
Founded in 1997, Q-Link Technologies is a leading provider of business process management development software. The Q-Link solution provides organizations with increased flexibility and greater overall efficiency, by unifying, organizing, automating and controlling every element and event of a business process including people, tasks, workflow and data, without requiring the retooling, recoding, or replacing of the underlying enterprise software infrastructure. Q-Link optimizes existing technology infrastructures and business processes, resulting in substantially improved business responsiveness, agility, and performance. For more information about Q-Link, visit http://www.qlinktech.com.

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