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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION
FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY / SEPTEMBER 1, 2003; VOL. 2 NO. 35
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Breaking News - Operating Systems
& Middleware:
Group 1 Introduces New Web
Services Architecture
Group 1 Software announced the release of its new Universal Coder, the
first
product built on Group 1's new LESLIE architecture. LESLIE enables
organizations to integrate Group 1's data quality services seamlessly across
the enterprise. The Universal Coder incorporates Group 1's industry-leading
address validation, correction and standardization technologies for over 220
countries and dependencies worldwide.
LESLIE is a platform-independent enterprise data quality architecture. By
utilizing this unified product architecture, Group 1's data quality solutions
can be more easily integrated, configured and maintained, including their use
in a Web Services architecture. Through this highly extensible, consistent
single point of integration, companies will be able to integrate more quickly
these key data quality functions into third-party applications, legacy
applications and data repositories.
Group 1's new Universal Coder, built upon LESLIE, provides unparalleled
flexibility by letting organizations implement global address data quality in
their own enterprises, or even access this functionality via hosted services
using the same API. The Universal Coder is the only address data quality
product on the market that can process global address data in a single pass:
mixed data from any number of countries can be submitted and processed
simultaneously. The Universal Coder supports Java, COM, C, and C++ interfaces
and can be easily integrated into a .NET environment.
"There is an increasing realization that data quality is a fundamental
business requirement for the success of enterprise applications," said Ted
Friedman, principal analyst at Gartner Inc. "The growing adoption of Web
Services will make it easier to integrate, deploy and maintain data quality
throughout the enterprise."
By providing global address data quality, the Universal Coder enables users
to
maximize returns from multinational marketing campaigns by ensuring that
communications actually reach customers and prospects as planned.
Additionally, by utilizing a foundation of valid data, users can more easily
develop an accurate, single customer view, thereby increasing the return from
CRM initiatives.
"With the growing adoption of Web Services, permitting software components
to
be delivered over Internet standard technologies, it is increasingly important
that vendors provide compatible technologies," said Bob Bowen, CEO of Group 1
Software. "The LESLIE architecture offers rapid, seamless integration of our
leading data quality solutions into mission-critical applications."
The Universal Coder is currently available on NT and Unix, including Sun
Solaris, HP UX, AIX and Linux. In the coming months, Group 1 anticipates
migrating its core data quality applications to this advanced new
architecture.
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