Leading Analyst Firm identifies Fiorano as an ESB Vendor for Application Integration and Platform Middleware

Fiorano Software, Inc. a leading provider of Enterprise Integration Middleware has now recognized as an ESB vendor by Gartner Inc. This extends Fiorano's Integration middleware product offerings to make it the Industry's first provider of a complete Integration Infrastructure Stack.

Los Gatos, CA (PRWEB) August 8, 2003 -- Fiorano Software, Inc., a leading provider of Enterprise Integration Middleware, today announced that in addition to being identified as a vendor for Message Oriented Middleware, Fiorano has now also been listed as an ESB vendor by Gartner Inc. in it's latest research paper Hype Cycle for Application Integration and Platform Middleware, 2003.

This extends Fiorano's Integration middleware product offerings to make it the Industry's first provider of a complete Integration Infrastructure Stack. Fiorano's Tifosi® 2002 ESB, Enterprise Service Bus, is a standards-based solution for event based distributed computing, serving as the platform base for Tifosi 2002® Enterprise Integrator (TEI), a comprehensive, enterprise class, integration suite.

"ESBs are a lower-cost, lighter-weight alternative to full-blown integration suites for the enterprise nervous system. Telecommunications firms and financial service providers are among the first adopters, but visionaries in any industry will gain benefits from these enterprise nervous system backbones." reports Gartner in the above Research Paper.

Fiorano currently has the largest ESB deployment in the world at Pohang Steel Company (POSCO), Korea. POSCO is the largest steel company in the world with revenues exceeding US$ 10 billion and uses Fiorano's Tifosi Integration suite built on top of Tifosi ESB to connect over 500 nodes worldwide.

"CIOs are tired of integration projects that are plagued with time and cost overruns, the promised benefits remaining elusive. Unfortunately incumbent integration broker solutions are not designed for today's agile enterprise. They are complex, rigid, expensive and difficult to maintain. Returns on investment are continually eroded with added costs of programmers and consultants for deployment and maintenance." says Atul Saini, CEO of Fiorano.

"Fiorano's Tifosi ESB is a technically superior solution to other ESB vendors", asserts Saini, because of its distributed peer-to-peer architecture and sophisticated tools with support for advanced failover, fault avoidance and development features. This architecture makes it inherently more suited to todays near real-time enterprise providing a flexible, scalable and cost-effective solution".

"An ESB can be a sensible first step toward a systematic Enterprise Nervous System because it provides the basic connectivity backbone. It can interoperate with a variety of disparate application servers simultaneously, smoothing over technical differences and also providing services for communication and integration" adds Roy Schulte, Vice President Research at Gartner Inc.

To fully realize the potential of its investments in IT infrastructure it is therefore essential that an Enterprise carefully evaluate its choice of an ESB that meets its current needs with the flexibility to extend and scale with a rapidly growing and changing enterprise.

Fiorano has recently published a whitepaper on ESB Competitive Analysis comparing Tifosi ESB with other ESB implementations based on key characteristics identified by Steve Craggs, Vice Chairman of the EAI Industry Consortium in his recently released paper "Best of Breed ESBs".

About Fiorano Software, Inc. (www.fiorano.com)
Based in Silicon Valley, California, Fiorano Software, Inc. is a leading provider of Enterprise class Integration Middleware. Fiorano's network-centric solutions set a new paradigm in interoperability, performance, scalability and ROI. Global leaders such as American Express, Boeing, FedEx, AT&T Wireless, Lockheed Martin, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley and POSCO deploy their Enterprise Nervous Systems using Fiorano technology.