| PRESS RELEASE Contact Information Raining
Data Corporation
IRVINE, CA. – February 8, 2007
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™ 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 Visual,
Model Driven Drag & Drop Workflow Design Tool for
Business Users and Technical Developers 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 Powerful
XML Data Management Server provides Flexibility and Performance TigerLogic
Availability About
Raining Data ### 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.
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