Vergil announces the availability of RAD tool to create Web Services Interface from any SAP system

Vergils solution to accelerate and automate the integration of any applications that need to be integrated with SAP systems through Web Services Interface.

Vergil Technology (P) Limited, an IP (Intellectual Property) led Solutions Company, focused on developing mission critical software solutions in the Software Integration market segment, announced today the availability of a Rapid Application Development (RAD) tool to make available the business logic inside any implemented SAP R3 EIS system based on the emerging Web Services Industry standard promoted by IBM, Microsoft, Sun, Oracle, SAP and other industry wide leaders in the I.T industry.

Vergil is focused on providing IP led solutions through a portfolio of pre-packaged components, which are part of a Web Services Solutions Stack that Vergil develops and owns through its focus on the EAI market segment. This VRAD-Web Services for SAP is the latest in the suite of such tools in the VRAD suite. Future plans include integration with popular EIS systems such as PeopleSoft, Siebel and JDEdwards. VRAD-Web Services for SAP is one of the components of a standards based framework for integration of existing data, process logic between applications within and between enterprises using ubiquitous transport mechanisms like HTTP, JMS and the like. These solutions are based on evolving next generation architectures like J2EE and Web Services that are based on emerging industry standards like JCA, JMS, SOAP, WSDL and UDDI.

N. Shekar, C.O.O, Vergil Technology (P) Limited said, In todays economic climate, CIOs in Enterprises are constantly challenged to create more value with same or less budget as earlier years. However there are many Enterprise applications require integration with back end systems such as SAP. Traditional EAI solutions are not favoured due to their high cost, lack of interoperability and time to market. Faster and cheaper solutions are required to solve this enterprise dilemma. Fortunately emerging standards based on Web Services technology make these possible. Availability of a Rapid Application Development tool, such as the VRAD-Web Services for SAP from Vergil, that automatically extracts business context and data from SAP system and generates fully tested and ready-to-deploy Web Services Interface is an extremely cost effective and major productivity booster for the implementation team within the Systems Integrator organisations or Enterprise IT departments. The VRAD-Web Services for SAP from Vergil is yet another proof of commitment to our IP led solutions model, emerging standards based solutions and helping to extract more value out of our customers existing infrastructure and legacy systems. In fact, Vergil is the first and only one from India to provide such innovative tools."

Vergils VRAD-Web Services for SAP, based on Web Services standards such as WSDL, UDDI and works in conjunction with Java Connector Architecture (JCA) version 1.0 specification based adapters. VRAD-Web Services for SAP comes complete with an intuitive web based user interface, seamless connectivity to SAP system via standard interfaces provided by SAP, and uses Vergils JCA adapter. It uses underlying Business APIs and RFCs in the SAP R3 system to execute business processes and data and allows a business analyst to visually configure the integration with a few mouse clicks. Once configured, the same can be generated as a ready-to-deploy executable Web Services Interfaces that can be deployed inside private or public UDDI registry managed by the enterprise. VRAD-Web Services for SAP currently supports popular servlet containers like Tomcat and compatible UDDI registries implementation and does not require an application server to deploy these Web Service Interfaces.

The VRAD for SAP is available now at a special introductory price of US$5,000, valid until Dec 31, 2002.

About Vergil Technology (P) Limited
Vergil Technology (P) Limited operations are focused on the development of solutions for the complex Software Integration segment. The company has deep skills around this area and works to create a portfolio of solutions using the IP (Intellectual Property) developed based on anticipated customer need. The companys management team comprises professionals with extensive experience in the IT industry in India and internationally, with leading organizations such as Fujitsu-ICL, Sun Microsystems, Merrill Lynch, Thomson Media, Morgan Stanley and Nextset. Vergil has offices in Chennai and the United States. For more information, visit the Vergil website at http://www.vergiltech.com .
For further information, please contact:

N. Shekar            
Vergil Technology (P) Limited.      
Tel: +91-44-4314482/4483
Fax: +91-44-4314481      
Email: nshekar@vergiltech.com