IBM Corp is to jointly sell and market a product that will extend its MQSeries messaging software into the area of real-time application-to-application message transformation and intelligent message routing. The deal is with Englewood, Colorado-based Neon, or New Era of Networks Inc, and the two announced earlier this month that they would work together to sell and market a package that aims to cut down the amount of time it takes to add interfaces to other systems when using packaged software from the likes of SAP AG and Peoplesoft Inc. It is intended to enable users to more easily add, extend or replace applications and processes within their business information flows. IBM was already a reseller of Neon’s NEOnet product. The new package will be a combination of IBM’s MQSeries and Neon’s real-time, content-based rules engine and dynamic reformatting software. IBM hopes the deal will see MQSeries used as the basis for automating application integration by large companies with a variety of operating systems, databases and hardware configurations. The software is due to be rolled out during the second quarter of the year in the US, and will be available via direct and indirect channels from both companies. It will run on Windows NT, AIX, MVS, HP-UX and Sun Solaris. Application libraries for Peoplesoft, SAP, Oracle Applications and Scopus will be available at the same time. Neon has seen strong revenue growth over the last five quarters, especially to financial customers. Its software competes with that of Crossworlds Software Inc (CI No 3,331).
