Fiorano Software, Inc. today announced further expansion of its European presence by signing a strategic partnership with xtendx AG of Switzerland.

xtendx to offer Fiorano Business Integration Suite, Fiorano ESB and FioranoMQ for enterprise class Business Integration, Web Services and Messaging Middleware solutions. Headquartered at Regensdorf/Zurich, xtendx will bring Fiorano's leading edge integration and business process management solutions to enterprises in the region. With innovative peer-to-peer enterprise service bus architecture, Fiorano's flagship product, Fiorano ESB, brings new levels of performance, scalability, ease-of-use and flexibility to Enterprise Application Integration and BPM projects.

Los Gatos, CA (PRWEB) January 19, 2004 --Fiorano Software, Inc. today announced further expansion of its European presence by signing a strategic partnership with xtendx AG of Switzerland.

Headquartered at Regensdorf/Zurich, xtendx will bring Fiorano's leading edge integration and business process management solutions to enterprises in the region. With innovative peer-to-peer enterprise service bus architecture, Fiorano's flagship product, Fiorano ESB, brings new levels of performance, scalability, ease-of-use and flexibility to Enterprise Application Integration and BPM projects.

According to Atul Saini, CEO & CTO, Fiorano Software, " Fiorano recognizes the importance of strategic partnering and strongly believes that xtendx has the required strengths to offer our products and provide high quality local support in the Swiss market. xtendx also has the capability to develop and deliver value-added solutions built on Fiorano's integration infrastructure for their customer base."

"xtendx will aggressively market Fiorano's products (FioranoMQ and Fiorano ESB) in all of Switzerland and later expand its operations to other regions in Europe " , said Charles A. Fraefel, President of xtendx. We chose Fiorano because they are the pioneers in developing standards-based integration products offering significant benefits over existing integration solutions" he added.

Fiorano already has a substantial customer base in Europe and has partners in all major European countries. This alliance will substantially strengthen our presence in the region ", said Dan Ahuja, Director, Strategic Alliances, Fiorano.

Based on a Service Oriented Architecture, Fiorano ESB allows existing legacy and packaged applications to be used as building blocks from which distributed integration solutions can be rapidly synthesized.
It overcomes critical implementation problems that plague existing integration broker suites, dramatically reducing development and deployment times for complex integrations while providing a flexible platform for future expansion offering a high degree of reuse, easy extensibility, seamless interoperability and an improved ROI.

About Fiorano Software, Inc.
Based in Silicon Valley , California , USA Fiorano (www.fiorano.com) 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, AT&T Wireless, Boeing, BTI Canada, FedEx, General American Corporation, Lockheed Martin, Motorola, Morgan Stanley, Schlumberger and POSCO deploy their Enterprise Nervous Systems using Fiorano technology.

About xtendx
xtendx AG, (www.xtendx.com), Regensdorf/Zurich, Switzerland offers a wide range of enterprise solutions and services for collaboration, legacy and mainframe migrations, EAI and customer interaction management.

Media Contact:
Ankur Gupta
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Raphael Ineichen
xtendx AG, Switzerland
press@xtendx.com