REDMOND, Washington and
BURLINGTON, Massachusetts,
November 1, 2017 /PRNewswire/ --
Attunity Ltd. (NASDAQ CM: ATTU) and Microsoft
Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) announced an expanded strategic
partnership for enabling data migration and replication
initiatives. With this partnership, Attunity is working with
Microsoft to offer a new product, Attunity Replicate
for Microsoft Migrations, which is designed to facilitate and
accelerate migrations from various database systems to the
Microsoft data platform. Microsoft and Attunity have been business
partners for over twenty years, and with this new enhanced
collaboration the two companies will build on the history with new
scenarios for data replication to accommodate a broad range of data
integration requirements including migration, analytics, Data Lake
and Big Data initiatives.
"Our expanded strategic partnership with Microsoft enables us to
jointly engage customers worldwide to drive large-scale migrations
to Azure and the Microsoft data platform," said Shimon Alon, Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer at Attunity. "Microsoft and Attunity share a vision
to help users get value from their data leveraging the
platform of their choice. Together we can unlock incredible
opportunities for innovation, providing our customers with a
universal platform for high-speed data replication to support many
important business initiatives."
"Microsoft is committed to meeting our customers' needs today,
while helping them bridge to the future. Attunity Replicate
for Microsoft Migrations offers a robust solution for our
customers to replicate their data to the Microsoft data platform,
including SQL Server 2017 and Azure data services," said
John ''JG" Chirapurath,
General Manager, Data Platform Marketing at
Microsoft. "This expedites and simplifies near-zero downtime
data migrations with ongoing replication so that our customers can
maximize the value of their data."
Database Migration from Oracle to Microsoft
SQL Server and Azure Data Services:
Businesses globally will be able to use Attunity Replicate for
Microsoft Migrations to facilitate and simplify migrations from a
broad range of commercial and open-source databases, including
Oracle, Amazon Redshift, Teradata, IBM Netezza, and
PostgreSQL to a broad range of Microsoft data platform targets,
across on-premises and Azure. Endpoints include SQL Server 2017,
now available on Linux, Docker containers and Windows, as well as
Azure SQL Database, SQL Server on a VM in Azure, Azure SQL Database
Managed Instance, Azure SQL Data Warehouse, and Azure Database for
MySQL and Azure Database for PostgreSQL.
A free license of Attunity Replicate for Microsoft Migrations is
provided for 12 months, to allow each migration. Customers
requiring extended migration periods and additional data sources
can purchase such licenses directly from Attunity.
By collaborating on database migrations, the
two companies enable and simplify a number of other
in-demand data scenarios.
Data Lakes and Big Data Analytics in Microsoft
Azure:
Enterprises building data lake solutions on Azure can use Attunity
Replicate for Microsoft Migrations to accelerate, simplify and
scale data ingestion to support Big Data initiatives including
real-time and streaming analytics, IoT, and machine learning.
Attunity Replicate for Microsoft Migrations provides universal data
delivery to many systems including Hadoop, Azure SQL Data
Warehouse, Azure Event Hubs, and support is in development for
Azure BLOB Store, Azure Data Lake Store and Azure HDInsight.
SAP Analytics:
Enterprises using SAP to run their critical business operations
can use Attunity Replicate for SAP to deliver live SAP data into
their business intelligence (BI) and analytics platforms of choice
within the Microsoft data platform. There they can merge SAP data
with other business information and leverage tools like Microsoft
Power BI to visualize and analyze their data.
Continuous Replication for Real-time Business
Intelligence (BI)
Customers can accelerate and scale BI initiatives leveraging
tools like Microsoft Power BI while reducing the impact on source
operational systems like Oracle by using Attunity Replicate's
agentless design. The solution accelerates the replication process
by continuously and efficiently capturing and delivering fresh data
to SQL Server or Azure SQL Database.
About Microsoft
Microsoft (Nasdaq "MSFT" @microsoft) is the leading platform and
productivity company for the mobile-first, cloud-first world, and
its mission is to empower every person and every organization on
the planet to achieve more.
About Attunity
Attunity is a leading provider of data integration and Big Data
management software solutions that enable availability, delivery,
and, management of data across heterogeneous enterprise
platforms, organizations, and the cloud. Our software
solutions include data replication and distribution, test
data management, change data capture (CDC), data
connectivity, enterprise file replication
(EFR), managed file transfer (MFT), data warehouse
automation, data usage analytics, and cloud data
delivery.
Attunity has supplied innovative software solutions to its
enterprise-class customers for over 20 years and has successful
deployments at thousands of organizations worldwide. Attunity
provides software directly and indirectly through a number of
partners such as Microsoft, Oracle, IBM and Hewlett Packard
Enterprise. Headquartered in Boston, Attunity serves its
customers via offices in North America, Europe,
and Asia Pacific and through a network of local partners.
For more information,
visit http://www.attunity.com or
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Safe Harbor Statement
This press release contains forward-looking statements, including
statements regarding the anticipated features and benefits of
Replicate Solutions, within the meaning of the "safe harbor"
provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995
and other Federal Securities laws. Statements preceded by, followed
by, or that otherwise include the words "believes", "expects",
"anticipates", "intends", "estimates", "plans", and similar
expressions or future or conditional verbs such as "will",
"should", "would", "may" and "could" are generally forward-looking
in nature and not historical facts. Because such statements deal
with future events, they are subject to various risks and
uncertainties and actual results, expressed or implied by such
forward-looking statements, could differ materially from Attunity's
current expectations. Factors that could cause or contribute to
such differences include, but are not limited to, risks and
uncertainties relating to: our history of operating losses and
ability to achieve profitability; our reliance on strategic
relationships with our distributors, OEM, VAR and "go-to-market"
and other business partners, and on our other significant
customers; our ability to manage our growth
effectively; acquisitions, including costs and difficulties
related to integration of acquired businesses and possible
impairment charges; our ability to continue to expand our business
into the SAP market and the success of our Gold Client offering;
timely availability and customer acceptance of Attunity's new and
existing products, including Attunity Replicate, Attunity Compose
and Attunity Visibility; fluctuations in our quarterly operating
results, which may not necessarily be indicative of future periods;
changes in the competitive landscape, including new competitors or
the impact of competitive pricing and products; a shift in demand
for products such as Attunity's products; the impact on revenues of
economic and political uncertainties and weaknesses in various
regions of the world, including the commencement or escalation of
hostilities or acts of terrorism as well as cyber-attacks; and
other factors and risks on which Attunity may have little or no
control. This list is intended to identify only certain of the
principal factors that could cause actual results to differ. For a
more detailed description of the risks and uncertainties affecting
Attunity, reference is made to Attunity's latest Annual Report on
Form 20-F (as amended) which is on file with the Securities and
Exchange Commission (SEC) and the other risk factors discussed from
time to time by Attunity in reports filed with, or furnished to,
the SEC. Except as otherwise required by law, Attunity undertakes
no obligation to publicly release any revisions to these
forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after
the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated
events.
© Attunity 2017. All Rights Reserved. Attunity is a registered
trademark of Attunity Inc. All other product and company names
herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.
Investor Contacts:
Todd Fromer / Allison Soss
KCSA Strategic Communications
P: +1-212-682-6300
tfromer@kcsa.com / asoss@kcsa.com
Dror Harel-Elkayam, CFO
Attunity Ltd.
P: +972-9-899-3000
dror.elkayam@attunity.com
Press Contacts:
Melissa Kolodziej, Senior Director
of Marketing Communications, Attunity
melissa.kolodziej@attunity.com
Tel. +1-603-305-3664
Microsoft Media Relations
WE Communications for Microsoft
+1-425-638-7777
rrt@we-worldwide.com
SOURCE Attunity Ltd.