CrossWorlds Software Inc has signed an OEM agreement with IBM Corp, and agreed to jointly market and cooperatively sell CrossWorlds’ packaged application integration software on top of IBM’s MQSeries Integrator message broker. The new deal expands an existing agreement CrossWorlds signed with IBM a year ago. All the company’s current customers already use IBM’s MQSeries technology as the messaging portion of their software.
MQ Series Integrator, or MQSI, actually comes from New Era of Networks Inc, and is a rules engine and message and data formatter. CrossWorlds doesn’t have a direct relationship with Neon for the product, and says its business doesn’t clash with that of Neon, focused as it is more at the application level. Its portfolio of packaged application modules for integration with Baan, Clarify, JD Edwards, Manugistics, Oracle, PeopleSoft SAP, Siebel, Trilogy and Vantive applications will be combined with IBM’s MQSeries Integrator and middleware.
CrossWorlds does have a relationship with TSI International Software Inc for its data transformation engine, but says that deal won’t be directly affected by the new IBM agreement, although long-term its direction is towards MQSI, which it will use for internal development. IBM says Integrator is a lot more than a transformation engine. CrossWorlds says it is showing IBM its other technology, and hopes some of it will be adopted as part of IBM’s broader product MQSeries line of enterprise application integration tools. It says the next release of MQSI will be a more central part of its product line.
