Mainsoft Launches Visual MainWin for J2EE, Portal Edition, Enabling .NET Applications to Run Natively on WebSphere Portal2 June 2006
Mainsoft Corporation, the leading cross-platform company and an advanced IBM business partner, today announced the availability of Visual MainWin for J2EE, Portal Edition, a set of .NET extensions for WebSphere Portal that enables IBM customers to run ASP.NET applications natively on WebSphere Portal. Validated by IBM as Ready for IBM WebSphere Software, Visual MainWin makes it faster and easier for IT organizations to populate WebSphere Portal with ASP.NET applications and realize a fully integrated, mixed Portal environment, with easy access to ASP.NET and Java applications.
To rapidly deploy portal initiatives across the .NET and J2EE technology frameworks, Mainsoft also announced today it has partnered with two IBM Premier Business Partners - The TamGroup, specializing in the integration, management, and delivery of information via Portals, and with Prolifics, an award-winning and leading provider of WebSphere, Portal, SOA, and Business Integration solutions. The IBM business partners can recompile ASP.NET applications into Java portlets on a fixed-time, fixed-cost basis, typically at a rate of 5,000 lines of code per day. Mainsoft also transfers the cross-platform tools .NET developers need to easily maintain ASP.NET applications on WebSphere Portal.
"While enterprises can achieve significant value through the deployment of enterprise portals, companies with disparate technologies often develop multiple portals servicing the same audience," said David Gootzit, Research Director, Gartner. "When this happens, portals become new information silos, falling short of their primary purpose, which is to aggregate all enterprise data, applications and Web services into a unified, easy-to-use environment."
.NET Extensions for IBM WebSphere Portal
"Working with Mainsoft and leading strategic integrators, IBM customers can protect existing investments and jump-start their implementation of Service Oriented Architecture, with reusable Java and .NET components," said Antony Satyadas, Chief Competitive Marketing Officer, IBM Lotus Software. "IBM WebSphere Portal and ISV business partners such as Mainsoft make it easy for role based execution of business processes, regardless of whether their applications and services were originally written in Java, C#, or Visual Basic .NET."
"Mainsoft and Tam Group share a common vision of helping IBM customers deliver a single point of personalized interaction for all enterprise applications and services," said Bob Hoover, president of The TamGroup. "Customers with dual technology Frameworks can now derive even greater end-user benefits and ROI from their portal initiatives by running their ASP.NET applications natively on WebSphere Portal."
"We consider this partnership a big win for our enterprise customers, particularly in the insurance, banking and financial services sectors, where mergers between businesses with different technology platforms are common," said Nicolas Jabbour, CTO of Prolifics. "Mainsoft's solution enables a rapid deployment of existing ASP.NET applications on WebSphere Portal, and they make it easier for our customers to maintain portal initiatives using the same enterprise development teams that created the original ASP.NET applications."
Benefits of Mainsoft's Technology
Visual MainWin for J2EE, Portal Edition:
-- Delivers a complete integrated end-user experience. Visual MainWin
extends WebSphere Portal's many enhanced end-user features to ASP.NET
applications. End users gain an end-to-end, single sign-on experience,
consistent branding across ASP.NET and Java applications, full
click-to-action support between ASP.NET and Java portlets, Workplace
People Awareness for ASP.NET applications and full integration into
WebSphere Portal navigation.
-- Accelerates deployment by preserving enterprises' existing skill sets
and development methodologies. C# and Visual Basic .NET developers
continue using the Visual Studio .NET IDE to debug, deploy, and
maintain ASP.NET applications running on WebSphere Portal. Visual
MainWin enables code sharing and debugging across C#, Visual Basic
.NET, and Java, simplifying the interaction between .NET and Java
development teams and increasing their productivity by reducing the
time needed to find system failures.
-- Simplifies IT. Traditionally, technology vendors of JSR 168 portal
servers have used Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP), a
standards-based approach, to allow ASP.NET applications to be used
within a J2EE portal. But now Mainsoft delivers a pure WebSphere
production environment. Enterprises can simplify their mixed IT
infrastructure, consolidating enterprise .NET applications onto
WebSphere Portal running on any IBM eServer platform.
"In partnership with IBM and industry-leading systems integrators such as Prolifics and The Tam Group, Mainsoft is taking .NET-WebSphere integration to the next level, offering end users an unprecedented level of personalized access to both .NET and Java portlets," said Yaacov Cohen, president and CEO, Mainsoft. "At the same time, IT organizations can make significant reductions in software licensing fees, operational expenses, and TCO."
About TamGroup
TamGroup is a leading provider of information solutions that leverage and extend our customer's existing information assets with emerging business technologies. We specialize in the integration, management, and delivery of information, so our customers get the right information to the right people at the right time. As one of IBM's top premier business partners, our consultative solution approach empowers our customers to create a competitive advantage while lowering IT costs.
Founded in 1995, TamGroup provides customers collaborative business integration software; builds portal and content management solutions; and implements secure, highly available server and storage infrastructures for medium to large enterprises. TamGroup is the developer of Nexuse2e(TM), the industry standard business-to-business integration software selected by the Agriculture and other industry groups. TamGroup customers include Bayer, Cox Communications, DuPont, Discovery Channel, Monsanto, and many others.
About Prolifics
As 1 of 3 WebSphere Service Providers retained by IBM, Prolifics' certified consultants are top-ranked by IBM in delivering WebSphere, Portal, SOA, and Business Integration solutions to Fortune 2000 customers around the globe. Since 1978, Prolifics has leveraged best practices, proven methodologies, and real-world expertise to help organizations reach new markets, achieve increased customer satisfaction, and ease collaboration within their enterprise. Recognized for its excellence, Prolifics has gained an industry high 96% success rate for deploying robust systems on-time and on-budget.
About Mainsoft Corporation
Founded in 1993, Mainsoft Corporation, the leading cross-platform company, enables businesses to develop mission-critical applications with Visual Studio software and deploy them natively on J2EE servers as well as Windows, UNIX(R) and Linux(R) operating systems dramatically reducing development costs and time-to-deployment. The company is a first-mover in cross-platform development. Its world-class research and development team has created patented cross-platform products that solve critical problems facing independent software vendors (ISVs) and IT organizations. Many of the world's largest ISVs including Siebel, Computer Associates and IBM Rational, use Mainsoft's products to extend the productivity of Microsoft Visual Studio, deploying more than $1 billion worth of software annually on multiple operating systems. For more information, visit http://www.mainsoft.com.
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