Cloud Integration in 2011: QueCloud Ties Cloud and On-Premise via Data Virtualization - http://bit.ly/jiR64S

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Cloud Integration in 2011: QueCloud Ties Cloud and On-Premise via Data Virtualization

Queplix Corp. is shipping its QueCloud integration platform, which uses data virtualization for sharing data across cloud and on-premise apps. Integration Developer News continues its “Cloud Integration in 2011” series with Queplix CEO Mark Cashman.

By Vance McCarthy

Queplix Corp., a data integration and data management provider, is shipping its QueCloud cloud integration platform. QueCloud is powered by secure data virtualization and metadata technologies, and can integrate multiple on-premise and cloud-based apps.

Queplix is also shipping a tailored integration solution for NetSuite’s SuiteCloud platform, based on the company’s same core technologies.

QueCloud lets companies quickly, easily and securely integrate on-premise data and applications with cloud applications such as Salesforce, NetSuite, LinkedIn, and FaceBook. QueCloud also supports leading on-premise applications including SAP, PeopleSoft, Microsoft Dynamics, Oracle CRM, NetSuite and others.

“We have the ability to integrate between the cloud and on-premise, or within either,” Queplix CEO Mark Cashman told IDN. “With MDM (master data management) and [data] harmonization, we know when and where anything is changed in the underlying data structures.” 

Driving QueCloud integration capability is Queplix Virtual Data Manager (VDM) data virtualization technology, along with a set of application “blades” or intelligent connectors.

Together, these technologies identify and extract key metadata and associated security information from data stored in applications.

Queplix’ Virtual Data Manager data virtualization technology improves on ETL and avoids SQL programming to virtually harmonize data from diverse on-premise and cloud-based locations.

Queplix blades differ from SaaS connectors found in some cloud appliances because they are multi-directional and can conduct data identification, extraction and integration tasks, Cashman said.

Once captured, information goes into Queplix’s persistent metadata catalog without moving any of the underlying data from its original location, Cashman told IDN. From the catalog, Queplix renders the data easily accessible and shareable to any number of additional applications via the Queplix Engine, he added.

Another Queplix technology attracting attention from data architects is Virtual Data Viewer, Cashman said. The Queplix VDV provides an object-oriented view of a wide range of data formats, including XML, CSV, spreadsheets and RDMBS. Data architects can also see relationships between data and data models used in each format, and even the relationships between different data, he added.

“Data architects eyes popped when they could understand where all their data was in this way,” Cashman told IDN. “All this is letting them combine fields and sources across different data sets to create a ‘virtual entity’ of a customer, amassed from all the different customer records.”

Other QueCloud features include:

·       A simple UI  designed to allow business users to employ cloud integration

·       Data for customer, product, vendor, HR and financial information can be aligned easily and automatically across multiple sources.

·       Tools for data governance, including data dictionary, data quality and data integration

·       Can scale to meet demands of largest enterprise

·       Maintains consistency between data across multiple applications using automated data synchronization.

Queplix Solution for NetSuite’s SuiteCloud

Queplix’s Virtual Data Manager (VDM) SuiteApp for NetSuite’s SuiteCloud, available now, automates integration between NetSuite and on-premise apps or other SaaS services. Queplix’s SuiteApp quickly integrates NetSuite’s SuiteCloud SaaS applications for accounting, ERP, CRM and e-commerce, as well as cloud-based tools and infrastructure.

Core Queplix technologies also lay at the heart of the Queplix SuiteApp for NetSuite’s SuiteCloud. Notably, NetSuite engineers notice a convergence between Queplix’ approach and the underlying NetSuite’s data virtualization architecture for cloud.

“Queplix is built using some of the same principles as NetSuite -- ease and speed of deployment, a rich user experience, and the flexibility of a cloud-based approach,” said Guido Haarmans, NetSuite’s vice president for developer programs and business development. In specific, NetSuite harmonizes data to maintain user interface consistency, and it lets NetSuite customers use their existing security models, he added.

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Queplix Announces Data Virtualization Suiteapp For Netsuite's Suitecloudcomputing Platform

New SuiteApp Can Help NetSuite Customers Gain Rapid ROI by Reducing Data Management Costs Significantly - http://bit.ly/ipPLWx

Queplix Corp., a leader in data integration and data management, today announced the Virtual Data Manager SuiteApp for the NetSuite SuiteCloud Computing Platform. Queplix Virtual Data Manager automates the process of integrating enterprise applications. Built using NetSuite’s SuiteCloud development platform, the SuiteApp can help NetSuite customers connect to any non-NetSuite enterprise applications in a matter of days or even hours. This can cut implementation costs significantly and deliver rapid return on investment (ROI).

The announcement was made today at SuiteWorld 2011, NetSuite’s inaugural conference designed for NetSuite customers, solution providers, independent software providers, developers and system integrators. SuiteWorld 2011 is being held in San Francisco.

NetSuite’s SuiteCloud is a comprehensive offering of on-demand products, development tools, and services designed to help customers and commercial software developers take advantage of the significant economic benefits of cloud computing. The complete SuiteCloud offering includes NetSuite’s multi-tenant, always-on SaaS infrastructure; the NetSuite Business Suite of applications for Accounting/ERP, CRM and Ecommerce; and comprehensive development tools to create on-demand business applications on top of NetSuite.

"Integrating systems such as Netsuite with other enterprise applications and data is essential for optimizing important business functions,” says Mark Cashman, CEO of Queplix. “But with legacy tools, the process can be complex and costly. Queplix makes it simpler and less costly, so users get the greatest business value by consistently working with the most up-to-date enterprise information."

Queplix Virtual Data Manager is designed for the business user - no SQL programming is needed. The architecture includes a series of intelligent Application Software Blades that identify and extract key metadata and associated security information from target applications and move it to the Queplix persistent metadata catalog. Once integrated, data remains easily accessible to any number of additional applications, enabling a high degree of flexibility and scalability.

Working with NetSuite

The SuiteApp lets NetSuite customers eliminate the need for cumbersome wire diagrams connecting small pictures of relational database tables to integrate with enterprise applications. The NetSuite application harmonizes data to maintain user interface consistency, and it lets NetSuite customers use their existing security models, without any changes. As a result, they can get substantial cost reductions over legacy integration methods, and rapid ROI – plus access to fresh data from across the enterprise.

"With Queplix, our customers can focus on high level integration functions and issues that drive their businesses forward,” says Guido Haarmans, Vice President Developer Programs and Business Development at NetSuite. "Queplix is built using some of the same principles as NetSuite - ease and speed of deployment, a rich user experience, and the flexibility of a cloud-based approach. This can be especially valuable in larger enterprises that have complex or fragmented legacy applications and Queplix fits well in NetSuite’s two-tier ERP strategy.”

Visit www.suiteapp.com for more information about NetSuite applications.

About SuiteCloud

NetSuite’s SuiteCloud is a comprehensive offering of cloud-based products, development tools and services designed to help customers and commercial software developers take advantage of the significant economic benefits of cloud computing. Based on NetSuite, the world’s most widely used cloud computing business management suite, SuiteCloud enables customers to run their core business operations in the cloud, and software developers to target new markets quickly with newly-created mission-critical applications built on top of mature and proven business processes. The complete SuiteCloud offering includes NetSuite’s multi-tenant, always-on SaaS infrastructure; the NetSuite Business Suite of applications (Accounting/ERP, CRM and Ecommerce); the NS-BOS Development Platform; the SuiteCloud Developer Network (SDN), a comprehensive developer program for Independent Software Vendors (ISVs); and SuiteApp.com, a single-source online marketplace where customers can find applications to meet specific business process or industry-specific needs. For more information on SuiteCloud, please visit http://www.netsuite.com/developers.

About Queplix Corp.

Queplix is a leader in data integration and data management. Our products enable customers to securely integrate, deploy and manage cloud and on-premise applications and data with speed, simplicity and automation. Uniquely, no programming or SQL is required. Our data virtualization and powerful data management automatically harmonize the data between applications. Our customers benefit from greater cost savings, a rapid return on investment and the strategic benefits of true data mobility. Queplix has thousands of users around the world, serving customers such as The Home Depot, Homesite and Sony Ericsson. Please visit www.queplix.com for more information.

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Queplix, Virtual Data Manager, Application Software Blades, Application Software Blade for NetSuite, and the Queplix logo are trademarks of Queplix Corp. All other brands, products, or service names are or may be trademarks or service marks of their respective owners.

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Agile BI and Data Virtualization - http://bit.ly/hrbsim

In this video, Queplix chief marketing officer Michael Zuckerman discusses how data virtualization enables organizations to gain instant access to data and dramatically faster data warehouse construction to achieve "agile" BI.

Data is everywhere, and businesses need the ability to understand the structure of their data, and they need the ability to connect to it and use it.

But the complex processes behind business intelligence today make BI hard work. It involves multiple meetings, long discussions, use of various tools and ultimately data is moved into a data mart or warehouse, or into the domain of the BI pool before useful reports can be produced.

Advanced data virtualization creates a direct link to the data structure and the underlying data, allowing users to immediately see any data in Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, Sybase or IBM-DB2. With the ability to see into multiple systems such as SalesForce, NetSuite, Google, LinkedIn, and many others, and create a direct connection to applications and the underlying data, users can much more easily build out their BI applications.

Queplix is a leader in data integration and data management. The powerful architecture of the Queplix Virtual Data Manager™, the company's flagship product which drives the application and data integration process, includes a series of intelligent Application Software Blades™ that identify and extract key data and associated security information from many different target applications such as Oracle SCM (ORCL: NASDAQ), Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), and others. The blades identify and extract key metadata and associated security information from the data stored within these applications, then bring it into the Queplix Engine to support data integration with other applications.

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Wenatchee Valley College Selects Gridstore To Eliminate Multiple NAS Storage Silos Into A Single Scale-Out NAS Storage Solution

WENATCHEE VALLEY COLLEGE SELECTS GRIDSTORE TO ELIMINATE MULTIPLE NAS STORAGE SILOS INTO A SINGLE SCALE-OUT NAS STORAGE SOLUTION

University to Transform its Distributed Storage Infrastructure with Gridstore Enterprise-class Scale-out NAS to Reduce the Risk, Cost and Complexity of Sprawling NAS Islands


MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – May 4, 2011 – Gridstore, the leader in scale-out NAS solutions for the SMB market, today announced that Wenatchee Valley College has standardized on Gridstore to transform its distributed silo-based storage into a comprehensive, enterprise-class storage solution. Using the Gridstore NASg solution, the school will achieve a powerful scale-out NAS storage platform that will eliminate storage sprawl and multiple single points of failure while benefiting from a next-generation storage offering at 1/3 the cost of standalone NAS solutions.

Wenatchee Valley College has two campuses and multiple departments to maintain in North Central Washington State. The NASg solution lets Wenatchee Valley College consolidate file sharing from multiple servers into a single pool of highly reliable storage that can incrementally grow as you need it - eliminating the need to overprovision storage resources. The NASg solution frees DAS from existing servers that can be reallocated to meet expanded application use cases on a per server basis. Unlike the previous storage islands that multiply management complexity and single points of failure, NASg provides a reliable and scalable storage foundation to meet current and future storage requirements.

“I selected Gridstore because I can get a scalable and reliable scale-out NAS system that provides me with enterprise features, ease of management and minimal upfront capital investment, so I don’t have to overprovision and pay for my future storage requirements today,” said Steve Garcia, systems and security administrator, Wenatchee Valley College. “We are implementing the NASg system across our different departments and campuses. The system's combination of scalability and economies of scale are a very compelling value proposition for anyone who wants an on-demand storage solution that lets you add capacity on the fly with no performance or management headaches to worry about.”

After evaluating multiple options, Wenatchee Valley College selected Gridstore’s NASg solution because it is the only solution that combines the simplicity, convenience and affordability of NAS with the scalability, performance and reliability of enterprise-class storage. As a result, the school will optimize their current environment and eliminate multiple storage silos into a dynamic scale-out NAS storage solution to ensure business continuity and minimize risk.

“Organizations like Wenatchee depend on their storage to run their operations. With Gridstore NASg, every organization, regardless of the size of its data storage requirements, can have the scalable, reliable storage it requires without the cost or complexity of traditional enterprise storage,” said Kelly Murphy, CEO, Gridstore. “Small and midsized organizations like Wenatchee Valley College can run nonstop on Gridstore and scale the amount of storage they require, eliminate storage islands and pay as they grow based on business needs.”

About Gridstore
Gridstore is the leader in scale-out Network Attached Storage (NAS) products. The Gridstore NASg solution provides unlimited storage capacity and reliability at a fraction of the cost of traditional storage solutions. NASg is designed for small-to-mid-sized businesses and Managed Service Providers who struggle with the risk, cost and complexity of storage sprawl and who need enterprise class storage without the cost and complexity. Founded in 2007, Gridstore is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif. and has development facilities in Dublin, Ireland. For more information, please visit: http://ping.fm/9s8F6

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Users cite as Dell Boomi too complex and time-consuming, Queplix is a solution of choice to address integration needs - http://bit.ly/l63jkH

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Dell this week released a fresh update to its recently acquired Boomi AtomSphere SaaS integration suite, but at least two companies will not be using the product anytime soon.

Carl Wright, vice president of sales with storage area network firm Coraid, and Nick Strong, an associate IT consultant with Appirio Inc., a cloud-based applications provider, independently evaluated older versions of Dell Boomi and decided that it was too complex and time-consuming for their integration needs. They ultimately chose competing products and currently have no plans to look back.

"[Coraid] originally tried to use Boomi to create a connector between [NetSuite and Salesforce.com] and, frankly, it was cumbersome and uneconomical and, quite frankly, we couldn't get it to work properly," said Wright, who has a background in information technology. "It was a one-to-one connector between fields and tables, and you had to basically orchestrate the whole thing yourself."

Dell acquired Boomi last November as part of an ongoing push to enhance its cloud computing portfolio. Some of the other cloud vendors Dell has acquired include infrastructure providers Scalent Systems Inc., DynamicOps Inc. and Joyent Inc. The Dell Boomi offering allows users to, among other things, transfer data between cloud and on-premises applications.

The spring update to Boomi AtomSphere includes new enhancements such as change data capture capabilities, which reduce the size of data sets being processed; large data processing capabilities, which help users automate the data integration process; and a new application program interface (API) that allows third-party monitoring tools to keep an eye on AtomSphere integration activity. Pricing for the suite starts at $500 per month, according to Dell.

Appirio's Strong, who evaluated Boomi about three months ago, said he felt the low initial starting price for the suite was attractive but later decided that it failed to deliver enough value for the money.

"When you get a basic license from them, they restrict it to where you can only connect to like two or three data sources," Strong said. "It won't let you connect to any more."

Dell Boomi versus the alternatives

Redwood City, Calif.-based Coraid first evaluated Boomi about three years ago, after the company began using Salesforce.com for its customer relationship management (CRM) needs. Founded in 2002, Coraid initially ran its CRM operations on NetSuite, but eventually decided that Saleforce.com was a better fit for sales and marketing operations.

"We ended up with really two enterprise CRMs, each with the notion of 'customer' in it, and NetSuite was the system of record for most of that data," Wright said. "But [we needed] a lot of the entitlement things, such as support and maintenance contracts and things like that, inside of Salesforce in order to facilitate [some] customer interactions."

Coraid needed to get Salesforce and NetSuite to play nicely together and started looking at technologies that could make it happen. Salesforce recommended Boomi, but Coraid found it too complex. The company eventually decided that data virtualization technology from Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Queplix Corp. was the right choice for the job.

"Today, all of our workflows are facilitated real time between NetSuite and Salesforce using the Queplix data virtualization tool," he said. "It creates a global metadata catalog."

Queplix says its products help users securely integrate, deploy and manage cloud and on-premises applications with no programming or SQL knowledge required.

"In the process of crawling our database repositories, Queplix identified a ton of inconsistencies," Wright said. "We had thousands and thousands of records with a little over 250 that were not correct, and it allowed us to fix them easily."

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Queplix Partners with QTI International to Address Complex Data Integration Challenges Faced by Global Manufacturing Companies

Partnership with South Korean Systems Integrator Expands Queplix Footprint to Asia and Escalates Delivery of Advanced Data Virtualization Technology - http://bit.ly/jhdQuQ

Queplix™ Corp., a leader in data integration and data management, today announced that QTI International, a system integration firm in South Korea, is a new partner in the Queplix Advantage Partner Program™. QTI, which works with industry leading manufacturing companies such as Samsung®, Hitachi® and Toyota®, will implement Queplix's advanced data virtualization technology to integrate extensive product and materials information that is the lifeblood of supply chain management. The partnership with QTI extends Queplix's presence into Asia and advances delivery of its technology on a worldwide scale.

“In response to customer demand, we've been working to integrate large database systems that span multiple manufacturing plants around the world, but found it to be a very challenging endeavor," said Gyuseop Oh, Ph.D., CEO, QTI International. "When we saw the capabilities of Queplix's data virtualization platform, we knew immediately it would be the right solution for the hard integration problems we're trying solve. We look forward to partnering with Queplix and eliminating these problems for our customers so they can focus on the strategic aspects of operating their business, not on the difficulties of getting their systems to work together."

The powerful architecture of the Queplix Virtual Data Manager™, the company's flagship product which drives the application and data integration process, includes a series of intelligent Application Software Blades™ that identify and extract key data and associated security information from many different target applications such as Oracle SCM (ORCL: NASDAQ), Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), and others. The blades identify and extract key metadata and associated security information from the data stored within these applications, then bring it into the Queplix Engine to support data integration with other applications.

“The fact that QTI International, a technology solutions provider for some of the world's largest manufacturing companies, chose to partner with Queplix in answer to its customers' data integration and management requirements, is a true testament to the value of our data virtualization platform," said Mark Cashman, CEO, Queplix. "QTI is recognized for its superior techology expertise and implementation skills and we welcome them to our Advantage Partner Program."

Queplix Advantage Partner Program

The Advantage Partner Program provides the industry's most advanced data integration and data management solutions available to value added resellers (VARs), independent software vendors (ISVs), original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), and system integrators and professional services (SIPS) firms. Queplix offers partners access to its data virtualization technology, training, marketing and customer support programs. It also provides a framework for a variety of other programs designed to maximize success for partners' go to market initiatives.

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About Queplix Corp.

Queplix™ is a leader in data integration and data management. Our products enable customers to securely integrate, deploy and manage cloud and on-premise applications and data with speed, simplicity and automation. Uniquely, no programming or SQL is required. Our data virtualization and powerful data management automatically harmonize the data between applications. Our customers benefit from greater cost savings, a rapid return on investment and the strategic benefits of true data mobility. Queplix has thousands of users around the world, serving customers such as The Home Depot, Homesite and Sony Ericsson. Please visit http://www.queplix.com for more information.

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Queplix, Advantage Partner Program, Virtual Data Manager, Application Software Blades, and Queplix logo are trademarks of Queplix Corp. All other brands, products, or service names are or may be trademarks or service marks of their respective owners.

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