Press Release
May 6, 2003
Flowfinity and Ericom Form Partnership to Extend Legacy Applications to BlackBerry Wireless Handhelds
Legacy Applications Can Now Be Rapidly Field Force Enabled Without Device Coding
New Orleans, LA - Flowfinity Wireless, a leading provider of wireless application products and platforms, and Ericom Software, a leading provider of enterprise connectivity, legacy integration and e-Business solutions, today announced a partnership to provide software tools and technology for extending legacy applications to BlackBerry Wireless Handhelds™ from Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM); (Toronto:RIM.TO - News).
The Flowfinity/Ericom partnership will provide a combined software solution that enables Mobile Application Integration (MAI) for their customers and their partners. Flowfinity's Thinflow platform provides a powerful multi-tasking, offline-capable client on BlackBerry handhelds that can leverage the powerful and transparent legacy systems access provided by Ericom's PowerTerm Host Publisher.
"Flowfinity is pleased to announce this partnership with Ericom Software," said Dmitry Mikhailov, Flowfinity's CEO and founder. "Through this partnership, we can deliver Field Force solutions at a very low cost of ownership with the combined non-intrusive value proposition of no modifications to the stable back-end business logic and no device coding."
"With the combined power of PowerTerm Host Publisher and Flowfinity's Thinflow platform, our customers can extend their legacy applications to the wireless world faster and better than ever before," said Eran Heyman, CEO of Ericom Software, Inc. "This provides organizations with a fast and simple way to preserve existing systems, while leveraging the powerful application capabilities of BlackBerry Wireless Handhelds."
PowerTerm Host Publisher enables the secure reuse of legacy applications to create new web, wireless, and XML based applications. Ericom supports AS/400, IBM Mainframes, OpenVMS, Tandem, UNIX, SCO, HP-3000, Data General, and other enterprise platforms. Both PowerTerm Host Publisher and Thinflow can leverage XML web services such as Microsoft's .NET to ease application integration.
The combination of PowerTerm Host Publisher and Flowfinity's platform technology, Thinflow, enable rapid application integration between BlackBerry Wireless Handhelds and legacy applications such as ERP, CRM, Sales Force Automation, Financial Reporting, Supply Chain Management, and other e-Business applications. Together, Flowfinity and Ericom plan to deliver solutions to government, healthcare, manufacturing, insurance, finance and banking verticals.
About Flowfinity Wireless
Flowfinity Wireless is a provider of products and platforms for business applications used by enterprise Field Forces. Flowfinity solutions operate both online and offline without requiring on-device coding and feature a multi-tasking, server-driven user interface, made possible by its unique patent-pending Thinflow technology. Flowfinity is technology partners with Research In Motion (RIM), Microsoft, Borland, Sun and IBM. Today, Flowfinity has a growing base of customers and partners in the United States, Canada, Australia and Europe. Flowfinity Wireless can be reached at flowfinity.com.
About Ericom
Ericom Software provides a range of legacy access and connectivity products including software that enables organizations to securely and rapidly expose selected portions of legacy applications as reusable services for building web, wireless, and XML based applications. Ericom was started in 1993 and has sold over 4 million licenses in 45 countries. For more information, contact Ericom at 201-767-2210, or visit www.ericom.com/wireless_rim.asp.
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