DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY / AUGUST 11, 2003; VOL. 2 NO. 32    ( Table of Contents )

Applications:

KENAMEA ANNOUNCES ENTRY INTO COMPOSITE APP SUITE MARKET

Kenamea Inc has announced its entry into the emerging market for Composite Application Suites. Composite Applications combine the power and productivity of client/server applications with the zero-client and cross-platform benefits of the Web. Composite Application Suites allow these applications to be developed and deployed quickly and easily with minimal or no custom programming.

Composite applications are a central element in corporate and government organizations' drive toward greater agility. Agility, an organization's ability to rapidly and effectively respond to change, lies at the heart of business performance -- increasing operational effectiveness, improving service and product quality, and increasing revenues at reduced costs. Corporate agility is supported by composite applications that integrate all the systems and users involved in a business process together into a single, real-time application. Composite applications present users not only with a continuous view of the entire process, but also provide the system access and collaborative environment necessary to respond to events, exceptions, and opportunities as soon as they occur.

"In a drive to do more with less, businesses are looking to reuse proven functionality in new ways. Composite applications enable new methods for combining new and established functionality to deliver highly interactive event-driven Web applications," said Tom Lounibos, Kenamea CEO. "These applications provide higher levels of user productivity, increased application reuse and lower total cost of ownership."

Composite applications are characterized by their ability to integrate systems and users across enterprise boundaries, to support continuous real-time monitoring and control, and to allow rapid and ongoing evolution in function. The IT industry is responding to these needs through three major architectural advances. First, a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) delivers the necessary reach and flexibility by allowing systems to be accessed over the network through simple, standard interfaces. Second, event-driven design allows applications to support real-time information and interaction, with high performance and unlimited scale. And third, component-based development allows applications to be rapidly developed and continuously evolved as assemblies of standard high-level components, rather than slowly crafted from custom code.

Kenamea Enters Emerging Market for Composite Application Suites

Kenamea's newest product release, the Kenamea Composite Application Suite, combines these three architectural principles into a complete solution for developing composite applications. For the first time, composite applications can run within any standard Web browser, with no new application or platform installation on the user's device, and over any network connection (LAN, Internet, or mobile). While exploiting the company's established Enterprise Services Bus (ESB) product, Kenamea's product marks a milestone evolution for the company from infrastructure to a complete end-to-end application environment.

"Kenamea's mission is to enable rich and powerful enterprise applications that span business processes -- unrestricted by network or system boundaries," said Mr. Lounibos. "Organizations realize that agility demands applications that leverage their investments in infrastructure and Web services, but can also be rapidly developed and continually evolved. Kenamea now offers a complete solution for composite applications -- tools, infrastructure, and an extensive component library. We believe that the comprehensiveness of our solution, coupled with our ability to deliver applications within the standard browser, uniquely meets the business goal to build a more agile, responsive enterprise."

About the Kenamea Composite Application Suite

The Kenamea Composite Application Suite provides component-based development and an interactive runtime environment for composite applications. Composite applications that are developed and deployed with Kenamea uniquely deliver continuous real-time information delivery, cross-enterprise application interoperability, event-driven interaction, and increased security and reliability. These applications can be securely delivered to tens of thousands of users, through any channel, to an array of end user devices, and with zero client install.

Kenamea allows organizations to cost-effectively develop, deploy, and maintain composite applications in a matter of days versus months. The result is dramatic user productivity gains and increased operational efficiency, at a fraction of the cost.