FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Zortec International and eTransX Announce Partnership
Targets Legacy Software Modernization and Integration Market
NASHVILLE, Tenn., July 2, 2004 - - - Nashville-based Zortec
International, a leading provider of business
software development tools, has formed a strategic partnership with eTransX, a systems integration firm with
offices in Nashville and Houston. The new alliance will enable government agencies, healthcare providers, financial
institutions and other enterprises to reduce dramatically the costs of modernizing legacy information systems that
were
developed using decades-old COBOL and other computer languages.
“This partnership allows us to meld our expertise in software development
and productivity tools with eTransX’s
expertise in systems integration technologies,” said Shan Dixon, President of Zortec. “The end result is an expanded
product line designed to help enterprises meet the ever-growing challenges associated with integrating disparate
applications
and the huge volumes of data associated with them.”
"The need for integration of these systems has simply exploded, as a result
of the emergence of e-commerce and
Web-access to information stored in various legacy systems,” said P. Mohan, President/CEO of eTransX. “This
combined
with ongoing pressure for companies to 'do more with less and do it fast', has
raised the stakes even higher.”
“This technology allows us to provide a complete integration solution
for organizations that need to share information
embedded in business applications, regardless of the type of application or type of database,” explained Keith Gibson,
Zortec’s Director of Business Development who initiated the partnership. “Our solution provides this at a fraction of the
cost
and time associated with other integration products."
Recently, industry analysts estimated that as much as 85% of the world’s
business systems are written in COBOL and
other legacy languages. These systems are very common in government, healthcare and financial institutions, each of
which requires transaction-based systems to support a large user base. Without the enterprise application integration
(EAI) tools now offered by Zortec/eTransX, modernizing these systems has often proven prohibitively expensive, just
when
government and other institutions need better access to existing data than ever
before.
Legacy Systems
Legacy information systems are computer systems or applications which typically
represent years of organizational
operation and contain a vast amount of data and functions that are critical to day-to-day operations. An estimated 200
billion lines of legacy code is still in use today, yet according to a Hurwitz Group study, only about 10% of enterprises
have
integrated their most mission-critical business processes.
About Zortec
Zortec International is a leading provider of rapid application development
(RAD) solutions, providing powerful software
development, migration and reporting tools to thousands of organizations around the globe since 1984. Zortec’s flagship
product, System Z, is an advanced cross platform, database independent development environment designed to help
organizations significantly enhance programmer productivity, leverage their existing technologies and ultimately maximize
their
IT investments.
For sales and product information call (800) 361-7005 ext. 7714.
PR Contact
Keith Gibson
Zortec International
sdixon@zortec.com
(615) 312-7714
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