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Ascential Software and Merlin Technical Solutions, Inc. Enter
Into Strategic Agreement
Partnership Extends Industry Leading Enterprise Data Integration Capabilities
in the Public Sector
WESTBORO, Mass., and McLEAN, Va., Dec. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Ascential
Software Corporation (NASDAQ:ASCL), the enterprise data integration leader, and
Merlin Technical Solutions, Inc., a solutions provider serving federal agencies
and state and local governments, today announced a reseller agreement. Under
its terms, Merlin will provide professional services on data integration
solutions for its public sector clients using the Ascential Enterprise
Integration Suite(TM). This agreement will empower Merlin's public sector
customers to successfully tackle the most significant data integration
challenges.
"Government data assets are currently highly underutilized, especially in
cross-organizational leverage opportunities," said Scott Bittler, analyst, META
Group. "The highest value from information-based solutions comes from
integrating information and solutions across department or agency boundaries.
The design of typical siloed government organizations and systems creates
barriers to sharing information, leading to the current situation of
underutilized government data."
Ascential Software and Merlin are well-positioned to address this issue. Tasks
commonly faced by public sector organizations - for instance, running
compute-intensive jobs; attempting to consolidate expenditures for greater
purchasing leverage; and ensuring the validity of electronic transactional data
- require exceptional data integration capabilities. Merlin recognizes the
public sector's data integration challenges and, through the partnership with
Ascential Software, has demonstrated its commitment to helping customers
overcome these challenges.
"Merlin has a long tradition of recruiting the industry's strongest technology
partners to enable the most powerful solutions for our customers," said Dennis
Nadler, chief technology officer, Merlin Technical Solutions. "With many of our
public sector customers running mission-critical, data- intensive environments,
we sought the industry's most scalable and functional data integration
solution. These criteria led to our selection of Ascential Software as our
partner."
"Merlin enjoys an excellent reputation in the public sector, particularly among
government procurement officers. Our partnership with an organization of this
caliber will increase our momentum in the public sector," said Bill Smith,
director of Ascential Software's Federal division. "We anticipate many future
customer successes as a direct result of this partnership, in both the federal,
state and local markets."
The Ascential Enterprise Integration Suite is a comprehensive data integration
solution that profiles, cleanses, and transforms data from virtually any
application or system regardless of data volume or latency. Ascential
Software's integrated offering is designed to help companies streamline
operations, improve customer support, expedite business transactions, and make
better tactical and strategic decisions on the basis of the best available
information. The Suite provides unlimited scalability through parallel
processing, complete meta data management, any-to-any data source and
application connectivity, and delivers on demand data integration seamlessly
within an enterprise's service-oriented architecture.
About Merlin Technical Solutions
Merlin is a solutions provider that brings together a unique combination of
technology products, consulting services and vertical market expertise to help
its customers improve their financial and operational performance. Partnering
with best-of-breed technologies enables Merlin to provide integrated solutions
to over 500 clients that include Federal agencies, state and local governments
and leading commercial companies. Merlin also offers an added value for its
customers by recognizing federal government budget restraints by offering
deferred payment plans that enables the option of paying over several years,
giving customers the ability to purchase the latest, innovative technology
without cutting into current budgets. Merlin is a service-disabled,
veteran-owned, 8(a) business. More information can be found at
http://www.merlints.com/.
About Ascential Software
Ascential Software Corporation (NASDAQ:ASCL) is the leader in enterprise data
integration. Customers and partners worldwide use the Ascential Enterprise
Integration Suite to confidently transform data into accurate, reliable and
complete business information to improve operational performance and
decision-making across every critical business dimension. Our comprehensive
end-to-end solutions provide on demand data integration complemented by our
professional services, industry expertise, and methodologies.
Ascential Software is headquartered in Westboro, Mass., and has more than 3,000
customers and partners globally across such industries as financial services
and banking, insurance, healthcare, retail, manufacturing, consumer packaged
goods, telecommunications and government. For more information call
1-800-966-9875 (508-366.3888 if calling from outside the US or Canada) or visit
the Ascential Software website at http://www.ascential.com/.
Safe Harbor Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of
1995: This release contains forward-looking statements based on current
expectations or beliefs, as well as a number of assumptions about future
events, and these statements are subject to important factors and uncertainties
that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in
the forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements in this release
address a variety of subjects including, for example, the functionality,
characteristics, quality and performance capabilities of Ascential Software's
products and technology; results achievable and benefits attainable through
deployment of Ascential Software's products and provision of services; the
ability of Ascential Software to increase momentum in the public sector; the
ability of Ascential Software to successfully tackle the most significant data
integration challenges for public sector IT staffs; and improvements in
operational performance and decision-making. The following factors, among
others, could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in
these forward-looking statements: the ability of the company to expand its
market share; growth rates for the enterprise data integration software market;
general business conditions in the software industry, the technology sector,
and in the domestic and international economies; rapid technological change in
the markets served by the company; dependence on international operations;
global and geopolitical instability; compliance costs associated with
regulations to which the company is subject, including the Sarbanes-Oxley Act
of 2002, and the impact of such regulations; and difficulties that the company
may experience integrating technologies, operations and personnel of completed
or future acquisitions. For a detailed discussion of these and other
cautionary statements, please refer to the filings made by Ascential Software
with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including, without limitation, the
most recent Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q. Ascential Software disclaims any
intent or obligation to update any forward-looking statements made herein to
reflect any change in Ascential Software's expectations with regard thereto or
any change in events, conditions, or circumstances on which such statements are
based. Ascential Software is not responsible for statements attributed to
third parties within this release or in any materials referenced herein.
Partnerships described herein shall be deemed to be strategic alliances only,
and shall not imply the power of either partner to bind the other partner or to
incur obligations on behalf of the other partner.
Ascential and Ascential Enterprise Integration Suite are trademarks of
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owners of those marks.
DATASOURCE: Ascential Software Corporation
CONTACT: Chas Kielt of Ascential Software Corporation, +1-508-599-7256,
; or Kristina LeBlanc of Porter Novelli - Ascential
Software, +1-617-897-8200, ; or Sinikka
Mondini of Sage Agency - Merlin, +1-630-226-0298,
Web site: http://www.ascentialsoftware.com/