Raining Data Corporation Announces TigerLogic XML Workflow Management Server for Data Governance
09 February 2007 - 8:24AM
PR Newswire (US)
IRVINE, Calif., Feb. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- * TigerLogic XML
Workflow Management Server Version 1.6 Announced * TigerLogic
Platform Used for Enterprise Data Governance * Morris and Dickson,
One of the Largest Drug Wholesalers, Deploys TigerLogic ePedigree
for Pedigree Data Governance and Plans to Use Next Generation
TigerLogic Platform for Other, More Complex Data Governance and B2B
Areas * Upcoming Version 3.0 TigerLogic XML Data Management Server
Supports Updatable Cache Views of any Data Source, including Web
Services, and Provides up to 64GB In-memory Cache as well as
Enhanced Performance for Node Level Update and Locking Raining Data
Corporation (NASDAQ:RDTA), a long-time provider of scalable,
flexible and reliable data management software, today announced the
version 1.6 of its innovative TigerLogic(TM) XML Workflow
Management Server (XWMS) software. TigerLogic XWMS includes a
visual designer tool that enables drag & drop creation and
re-use of workflows that can be deployed to the XWMS runtime
workflow engine. TigerLogic XWMS is bundled with Raining Data's
TigerLogic XML Data Management Server (XDMS) to provide a platform
to support XML-centric applications. As XML documents become more
prevalent and as enterprises leverage common data across more
applications, the need for XML data workflow management is becoming
more important. Additionally, as applications and business
processes have started moving away from being silos or watertight
compartments of functionality and business logic to a loosely
coupled architecture, the underlying data components that support
the new architecture must move in the same direction. According to
Gartner, "By 2010, more than 50 percent of early adopter
organizations migrating toward SOA will fail at their first
attempts, due to a lack of rigor in enforcing data governance and
information management policies."(1) The TigerLogic XWMS allows for
enterprise Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) success by
enforcing data governance & information management policies and
enables the delivery of the "right" data to consumers or consuming
applications such as SOA, Business Process Management (BPM),
Extract, Transform & Load (ETL) data warehouse processes or
RFID-enabled Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) applications.
"Organizations are using Enterprise-wide Information Management
(EIM) programs to achieve process efficiency and improve data
transparency across operational silos. One of the first steps in
EIM is to formalize data governance and stewardship activities
through automated workflows and collaborative solutions which
include all forms of data and content throughout the business,"
according to David Newman, Research Vice President at Gartner. The
TigerLogic platform delivers data governance by providing
enterprises with the tools and technologies to effectively manage
high-value data or information across the organization. It sits on
top of current technologies like ESB, EAI or ETL, and helps
organizations effectively manage data quality and information. The
workflow designer allows enterprises to quickly model data
governance workflows including collaboration among data stewards
and then deploy data governance workflows to the runtime workflow
engine for real time execution. An underlying XML data management
server manages and persists the metadata plus operational data and
provides audit information (who, what, when, where), improved
visibility, data quality monitoring and reporting while harmonizing
key information across enterprise systems. Morris and Dickson, one
of the largest drug wholesalers in the United States, has deployed
the TigerLogic ePedigree Data Governance Solution to comply with
the industry drug pedigree regulations. The company is now looking
at other data governance areas to deploy the next generation
TigerLogic XML data management and workflow platform. "We were able
to quickly and successfully deploy the TigerLogic platform to meet
our Pedigree regulatory and data governance requirements which has
provided us with a competitive advantage. Working with Raining Data
and the TigerLogic platform enabled us to meet our deadlines as
well as our budget. We are now planning to use the TigerLogic
Workflow Management Server to solve other data governance and B2B
challenges," said Paul West, Director of IT at Morris and Dickson.
TigerLogic XWMS Technology The TigerLogic XWMS comes with a
model-driven workflow designer tool and runtime workflow engine.
Visual, Model Driven Drag & Drop Workflow Design Tool for
Business Users and Technical Developers The workflow designer tool
is built on the Sun Microsystems NetBeans framework and facilitates
the intuitive modeling of real world use cases. This design time
component comes with a fully customizable taxonomy of reusable data
services, a simple yet attractive drag & drop modeling canvas,
a full-featured menu of options and configurations, zoom-in and
zoom-out capability and one-click workflow model alignment. To
provide integration with any backend data source and service
requests to the overarching applications or business processes, the
workflow designer tool supports an exhaustive list of data workflow
endpoints such as human, Java, WSDL, XQuery, HTTP, SMTP, JMS, and
BPEL. In addition, custom adapters for data sources, business
applications and third party data services are easily integrated as
data workflow endpoints. This tool is designed with collaboration
in mind as it seamlessly supports the collaborative development,
sharing and versioning of workflow models across business and
technical users. Since the TigerLogic XWMS workflow designer tool
was conceptualized to work in tandem with business process
management products, its modeling interface provides familiar
modeling components such as activity endpoints, parallelism and
decisions. It also features more advanced data workflow concepts
such as execution, looping, infinite nesting, monitoring, human
interaction, versioning and adding activity endpoints and data
workflows to the taxonomy. According to Judith Lilienfeld, Director
of NetBeans Evangelism, Sun Microsystems, "TigerLogic XWMS combines
an easy to learn and use workflow designer tool that leverages the
strengths of the NetBeans platform with a powerful workflow runtime
engine for the most neglected, but key aspect of enterprise
integration which is data." High-Performance, Scalable Runtime
Workflow Engine to Execute Data-Centric Workflows The TigerLogic
XWMS powerful runtime engine executes and monitors the data
workflow models developed in the workflow designer tool. It runs on
any standards J2EE application server and complements EII, EAI, BPM
and ESB products through a variety of standard interfaces such as
Java, WSDL, XQuery, HTTP, SMTP, JMS, and BPEL. The workflow engine
supports advanced data workflow concepts such as looping,
versioning, state management, synchronous and asynchronous
processing, transactions, infinite nesting, human interaction,
notifications, dynamic user management, auditing, logging,
reporting and hot deployment plus it comes with an intuitive
browser-based administration console that provides one-click
viewing of workflow state, debugging information, key performance
indicators and graphical reports, and more. Powerful XML Data
Management Server provides Flexibility and Performance The
TigerLogic XWMS workflow designer and workflow engine are built on
the TigerLogic XML Data Management Server (XDMS). For the workflow
designer, TigerLogic XDMS provides a flexible repository to store
and manage workflows with versioning as well as a customizable
taxonomy of trading partners, workflows, and endpoints. For the
runtime workflow engine, TigerLogic XDMS stores all of the workflow
states and activities for full monitoring, auditing, reporting and
performance measurement against Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
The TigerLogic XDMS also provides access and persistence of
operational data. The upcoming version 3.0 of TigerLogic XDMS
supports Updatable Cache Views of any data source, including Web
Services and provides up to 64GB In-memory Cache as well as
enhanced performance for Node Level Update and true Node Level
Locking. This will dramatically improve both the data performance
and flexibility of the total TigerLogic platform. TigerLogic
Availability Raining Data's TigerLogic XWMS version 1.6 is
scheduled for 1st quarter of 2007 availability on the Windows,
Linux and Solaris platforms. The TigerLogic XWMS comes bundled with
TigerLogic XDMS version 2.6.3 which is available on Windows, Linux
and Solaris. TigerLogic XDMS 2.6.3 is available now and the
upcoming 3.0 version scheduled release is 1st half of 2007. About
Raining Data Raining Data Corporation (NASDAQ:RDTA) has been
providing reliable data management solutions for more than three
decades. Product offerings include the high performance
TigerLogic(R) XML Data Management Server, Pick(R) Universal Data
Model based data management systems and .Net integration solutions.
In addition, Raining Data provides an integrated XML workflow
designer and engine for data governance. Raining Data's customers
represent more than 500,000 active users across 20,000 customer
sites worldwide in a diverse set of vertical applications. More
information about Raining Data Corporation and its products can be
found at http://www.rainingdata.com/. Raining Data, Pick,
mvDesigner, D3, mvEnterprise, mvBase, Omnis, Omnis Studio and
TigerLogic are trademarks of Raining Data Corporation. All other
trademarks and registered trademarks are properties of their
respective owners. Footnote (1): Gartner Predicts 2007: Information
Infrastructure Emerges, Analysis by David Newman, Published 27
November 2007 DATASOURCE: Raining Data Corporation CONTACT: Bob
Albo, Vice President, XML-Centric Business Solutions of Raining
Data Corporation, +1-408-236-7619, or fax, +1-949-250-8187, Web
site: http://www.rainingdata.com/
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