Ascential Software and Merlin Technical Solutions, Inc. Enter Into Strategic Agreement
December 08 2004 - 9:06AM
PR Newswire (US)
Ascential Software and Merlin Technical Solutions, Inc. Enter Into
Strategic Agreement Partnership Extends Industry Leading Enterprise
Data Integration Capabilities in the Public Sector WESTBORO, Mass.,
and McLEAN, Va., Dec. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Ascential
Software Corporation (NASDAQ:ASCL), the enterprise data integration
leader, and Merlin Technical Solutions, Inc., a solutions provider
serving federal agencies and state and local governments, today
announced a reseller agreement. Under its terms, Merlin will
provide professional services on data integration solutions for its
public sector clients using the Ascential Enterprise Integration
Suite(TM). This agreement will empower Merlin's public sector
customers to successfully tackle the most significant data
integration challenges. "Government data assets are currently
highly underutilized, especially in cross-organizational leverage
opportunities," said Scott Bittler, analyst, META Group. "The
highest value from information-based solutions comes from
integrating information and solutions across department or agency
boundaries. The design of typical siloed government organizations
and systems creates barriers to sharing information, leading to the
current situation of underutilized government data." Ascential
Software and Merlin are well-positioned to address this issue.
Tasks commonly faced by public sector organizations - for instance,
running compute-intensive jobs; attempting to consolidate
expenditures for greater purchasing leverage; and ensuring the
validity of electronic transactional data - require exceptional
data integration capabilities. Merlin recognizes the public
sector's data integration challenges and, through the partnership
with Ascential Software, has demonstrated its commitment to helping
customers overcome these challenges. "Merlin has a long tradition
of recruiting the industry's strongest technology partners to
enable the most powerful solutions for our customers," said Dennis
Nadler, chief technology officer, Merlin Technical Solutions. "With
many of our public sector customers running mission-critical, data-
intensive environments, we sought the industry's most scalable and
functional data integration solution. These criteria led to our
selection of Ascential Software as our partner." "Merlin enjoys an
excellent reputation in the public sector, particularly among
government procurement officers. Our partnership with an
organization of this caliber will increase our momentum in the
public sector," said Bill Smith, director of Ascential Software's
Federal division. "We anticipate many future customer successes as
a direct result of this partnership, in both the federal, state and
local markets." The Ascential Enterprise Integration Suite is a
comprehensive data integration solution that profiles, cleanses,
and transforms data from virtually any application or system
regardless of data volume or latency. Ascential Software's
integrated offering is designed to help companies streamline
operations, improve customer support, expedite business
transactions, and make better tactical and strategic decisions on
the basis of the best available information. The Suite provides
unlimited scalability through parallel processing, complete meta
data management, any-to-any data source and application
connectivity, and delivers on demand data integration seamlessly
within an enterprise's service-oriented architecture. About Merlin
Technical Solutions Merlin is a solutions provider that brings
together a unique combination of technology products, consulting
services and vertical market expertise to help its customers
improve their financial and operational performance. Partnering
with best-of-breed technologies enables Merlin to provide
integrated solutions to over 500 clients that include Federal
agencies, state and local governments and leading commercial
companies. Merlin also offers an added value for its customers by
recognizing federal government budget restraints by offering
deferred payment plans that enables the option of paying over
several years, giving customers the ability to purchase the latest,
innovative technology without cutting into current budgets. Merlin
is a service-disabled, veteran-owned, 8(a) business. More
information can be found at http://www.merlints.com/. About
Ascential Software Ascential Software Corporation (NASDAQ:ASCL) is
the leader in enterprise data integration. Customers and partners
worldwide use the Ascential Enterprise Integration Suite to
confidently transform data into accurate, reliable and complete
business information to improve operational performance and
decision-making across every critical business dimension. Our
comprehensive end-to-end solutions provide on demand data
integration complemented by our professional services, industry
expertise, and methodologies. Ascential Software is headquartered
in Westboro, Mass., and has more than 3,000 customers and partners
globally across such industries as financial services and banking,
insurance, healthcare, retail, manufacturing, consumer packaged
goods, telecommunications and government. For more information call
1-800-966-9875 (508-366.3888 if calling from outside the US or
Canada) or visit the Ascential Software website at
http://www.ascential.com/. Safe Harbor Statement under the Private
Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: This release contains
forward-looking statements based on current expectations or
beliefs, as well as a number of assumptions about future events,
and these statements are subject to important factors and
uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially
from those described in the forward-looking statements. The
forward-looking statements in this release address a variety of
subjects including, for example, the functionality,
characteristics, quality and performance capabilities of Ascential
Software's products and technology; results achievable and benefits
attainable through deployment of Ascential Software's products and
provision of services; the ability of Ascential Software to
increase momentum in the public sector; the ability of Ascential
Software to successfully tackle the most significant data
integration challenges for public sector IT staffs; and
improvements in operational performance and decision-making. The
following factors, among others, could cause actual results to
differ materially from those described in these forward-looking
statements: the ability of the company to expand its market share;
growth rates for the enterprise data integration software market;
general business conditions in the software industry, the
technology sector, and in the domestic and international economies;
rapid technological change in the markets served by the company;
dependence on international operations; global and geopolitical
instability; compliance costs associated with regulations to which
the company is subject, including the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002,
and the impact of such regulations; and difficulties that the
company may experience integrating technologies, operations and
personnel of completed or future acquisitions. For a detailed
discussion of these and other cautionary statements, please refer
to the filings made by Ascential Software with the Securities and
Exchange Commission, including, without limitation, the most recent
Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q. Ascential Software disclaims any
intent or obligation to update any forward-looking statements made
herein to reflect any change in Ascential Software's expectations
with regard thereto or any change in events, conditions, or
circumstances on which such statements are based. Ascential
Software is not responsible for statements attributed to third
parties within this release or in any materials referenced herein.
Partnerships described herein shall be deemed to be strategic
alliances only, and shall not imply the power of either partner to
bind the other partner or to incur obligations on behalf of the
other partner. Ascential and Ascential Enterprise Integration Suite
are trademarks of Ascential Software Corporation or its affiliates
and may be registered in the United States or other jurisdictions.
Other marks are the property of the owners of those marks.
DATASOURCE: Ascential Software Corporation CONTACT: Chas Kielt of
Ascential Software Corporation, +1-508-599-7256, ; or Kristina
LeBlanc of Porter Novelli - Ascential Software, +1-617-897-8200, ;
or Sinikka Mondini of Sage Agency - Merlin, +1-630-226-0298, Web
site: http://www.ascentialsoftware.com/
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