PRIMEUR announces Discovery and Governance tool for File Transfer protocols, including WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition V7.0

PRIMEUR’s File Transfer Discovery and Governance tool, Orchestration Suite, will be extended to include WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition as well as other Internet and Industry Standard protocols

Genova, Italy - July 9th, 2008

PRIMEUR, a privately held Italian International company specializing in Business Integration, Security and Systems Management, today announced that it will extend its innovative Orchestration Suite to provide discovery and governance on multiple internet and industry standard protocols, including IBM’s new WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition V7.0.

Orchestration Suite enables companies to catalog and monitor the data flows, both internal and external, in a consistent fashion over diverse Internet and Industry Standard protocols and provides both technical and business level reporting through its web based interface. One of the biggest issues facing most enterprises is how to modernize the enormous amount of FTP file transfers that continue to be used internally and externally. The use of FTP is more often than not hard coded into applications and requires extensive costly maintenance, not to mention its inherent lack of security and auditability.

According to Frank Kenney, Research Director at Gartner, "A significant portion of modernization will be the identification, modeling and simulation of processes that implicitly depend on FTP. Being able to provide insight into these processes to 1) make them explicit 2) allow them to leverage managed file transfer technologies is extremely valuable."

Companies looking to standardize their internal infrastructures and bring their batch legacy applications into a SOA need to convert the existing FTP, and other file transfer protocol, data flows into a SOA enabled file transfer infrastructure such as IBM’s new WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition. Orchestration Suite’s ability to discover existing file transfers enables companies to take a phased and least risk approach to conversion of their existing File Transfers instead of taking a high risk ‘rip and replace’ approach.

“Orchestration Suite can provide a consistent web based view of all file transfers, regardless of protocol used”, said Edoardo Musso, President & CEO of PRIMEUR. “With Orchestration Suite’s additional ability to discover and monitor existing file transfers, we can dramatically reduce the risk and cost of converting synchronous file transfers to, say, IBM’s new WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition”.

Orchestration Suite is a web based tool, suitable for both technical and business users, for the cataloging, monitoring and business modeling of file transfers regardless of the protocol used. Companies using Orchestration Suite can control and govern both internal and external file transfers, thus ensuring that they have an end-to-end view of the complete data movement relating to their business. Because Orchestration Suite can also propagate information on file transfers to its central database, this information can be made available to alerting systems for out of line situations and also other internal systems such as Systems Management or Change management.

About PRIMEUR

PRIMEUR, established in 1988, is a multi-national corporation that is a leading supplier of middleware, and Managed File Transfer and Security product solutions for distributed and heterogeneous computer systems and environments. The company – PRIMEUR s.r.l. – employs around 200 people and is headquartered in Italy with subsidiaries and/or distributors/partners throughout Europe and the Americas. PRIMEUR’s revenue in 2007 was over Euro 18 million.

Organized into three divisions (Integration, Security, and System Management) PRIMEUR provides unrivalled software and services for SOA, EAI, communication middleware, legacy application integration and data security. At the core of PRIMEUR’s strategy is the continued development and support of its own SPAZIO technology which enables the availability of PRIMEUR’s products and solutions on the principal heterogeneous hardware and software platforms such as: z/OS, AIX, UNIX, Linux, Windows, OS/400, Tandem NSK, etc. PRIMEUR is a Premier level IBM Business Partner and has particular emphasis on the WebSphere, Tivoli, Linux, Rational and Information Management markets.

PRIMEUR has over 700 customers world-wide and is considered as a strategic partner by more than 300 large organizations in the Financial, Industrial, Services and Government market sectors.