Modulant and Fiorano Forge Technology Alliance - Joint Offering Eases Deployment and Maintenance of Advanced Interoperability Solutions

Modulant, the leading provider of semantics-based interoperability solutions, and Fiorano, the leading provider of JMS messaging and standards-based peer-to-peer EAI solutions, announced a strategic alliance to leverage each others technologies and jointly market complementary solutions.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- Modulant, the leading provider of semantics-based interoperability solutions, and Fiorano, the leading provider of JMS messaging and standards-based peer-to-peer EAI solutions, today announced a strategic alliance to leverage each others technologies and jointly market complementary solutions to meet growing customer demand for cost-effective, rapidly deployable, and easily maintainable application integration.

Modulants Contextia Interoperability Platform, in conjunction with Fioranos Tifosi Services Integration Platform, offers companies a powerful and comprehensive solution for integrating a wide range of enterprise applications, data sources, and standards, while easing solution deployment and lowering the total cost of the integration initiative.

"Tifosis brokered peer-to-peer architecture and Modulants industry-leading semantic interoperability tools will enable customers to see immediate ROI on their EAI projects. While customers are very happy with Tifosi's high-performance services integration platform, they also need powerful solutions to enable the modeling, mapping, and transformation of disparate data and structures," says Atul Saini, CEO of Fiorano Software. "Modulants information interoperability solutions allow us to readily meet these customer needs. The combination of both technologies is unique and creates a significant value proposition for our customers."

Modulants Contextia interoperability platform dramatically simplifies the process of transforming data while preserving the underlying semantics across different standards, applications, and data sources," said Gene Eubanks, CEO of Modulant. When combined with Tifosis market-leading services integration platform, the resulting solutions enable our customers to further reduce the costs of integrating their applications and increase the chance of completing their projects on time and within budget."

Modulant Contextia Interoperability Platform
The Modulant Contextia interoperability platform is a powerful solution for modeling, mapping, and transforming data. Modulant Contextia enables disparate applications with diverse data meanings and structures -- including custom formats and variants of XML and EDI -- to exchange information through a loosely-coupled, change-resilient interoperability framework, without requiring agreement on standard data vocabularies or coding of custom transformations.

Fiorano Tifosi Services Integration Platform
The Tifosi integration platform significantly eases the deployment of distributed business processes within and across enterprises. Tifosi allows customers to dynamically change and extend business processes without incurring any downtime, leading to efficient operations, reduced costs, and increased responsiveness. Tifosi also offers integrated platform-level support for distributed monitoring, tracing and logging, together with tools for distributed runtime debugging and deployment that significantly reduce time-to-market.

About Modulant
Modulant is the leading provider of semantics-based interoperability solutions that enable disparate data sources to exchange information through a loosely-coupled, change-resilient framework. Fundamentally different from traditional integration approaches, Modulants advanced semantic mapping, modeling, and mediation capabilities enable interoperability among diverse enterprise applications without requiring agreement on standard data vocabularies or coding of custom transformations. By mitigating the effects of semantic disagreement among applications, and enabling people to 'agree to disagree about proper business semantics, Modulant makes deployment and maintenance of the enterprise information infrastructure simpler, faster, and cheaper. For more information, please visit www.modulant.com.

About Fiorano Software
Founded in 1995, Fiorano Software, Inc. is a leading provider of enterprise-level technology platforms for application integration, messaging, and e-commerce needs for over 200 global customers. Fiorano's high-performance and scalable enterprise products are used by leading companies including Alcatel, AT&T Wireless, Ericsson, FedEx, JP Morgan, KPMG, Morgan Stanley, Motorola, Prebon Yamane, Qwest Communication, UI Networks and several other companies. For more information about Fiorano Software, Inc. visit http://www.fiorano.com.