MITEM Listed as a Visionary by Leading
Analyst Firm in Newly Defined Market Segment for Programmatic Integration
Servers
Newly defined Programmatic
Integration Server Market bridges the gap between low-end presentation-centric
solutions and high-end integration brokers
MENLO
PARK, CA – August 15, 2002 - MITEM Corporation, a leading provider
of legacy integration software and e-Business solutions for Global 2000
companies and government entities, today announced that it has been positioned
in the visionary quadrant among other vendors included in analyst firm
Gartner’s new Programmatic Integration Server Magic Quadrant1.
This new market, according to Gartner, is comprised of vendors that
offer “tools that focus on a programmatic representation of established
legacy applications for the purpose of constructing composite applications”.
Gartner sees programmatic integration servers emerging as a distinct
market segment in the wider application integration market. Gartner
refers to vendors in the visionary quadrant as those with “a clear
vision of market direction and are focused on preparing for that, but
they can still improve in terms of optimizing service delivery.”
MITEM made the first advances in building composite applications that
provide access to legacy systems in a programmatic manner. “We
appreciate Gartner’s research that has helped to define this new
market segment. We feel that the Programmatic Integration Server Quadrant
much more accurately reflects who we are, and helps us to differentiate
our signature product, MitemView, from simple presentation-centric solutions,”
states Martin Fincham, vice president of marketing for MITEM.
Prior to this research, industry analysts treated vendors of legacy
extension and integration software as being cut from the same cloth.
This lack of differentiation between powerful programmatic tools and
simple terminal emulation products, or “screen- scrapers”,
frequently caused confusion for potential purchasers. With seemingly
no middle ground options available, companies often ended up purchasing
expensive and difficult to deploy integration broker suites for more
opportunistically oriented integration projects. The new programmatic
integration server category helps give clear definition to the range
of integration solutions available. Gartner expects that this newly
defined market will grow faster through 2006 than the high-end integration
brokers market.
Who’s Surviving on Integration Island?
MITEM has been a key player in the legacy integration software market
since 1985, and over this period of time has witnessed a shake-out of
the field of vendors. This consolidation is reflected in Gartner’s
legacy integration research conducted over the last several years. Most
recently, Gartner tracked a peak of 36 notable vendors in this research
area. Only 9 vendors from this same group of 36 are tracked on the new
Programmatic Integration Server Magic Quadrant.
“MITEM’s endurance through this consolidation can be attributed
to our near 100% customer success rate, as measured by delivering on
time, within budget and to the customer’s ultimate satisfaction.
Our programmatic integration server product (MitemView) offers many
of the benefits of high-end integration brokers such as data transformation
and flow control at a faction of the cost,” comments Fincham.
Magic Quadrant Disclaimer
The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted June 2002 by Gartner, Inc. and is
reused with permission, which permission should not be deemed to be
an endorsement of any company or product depicted in the quadrant. The
Magic Quadrant is Gartner, Inc.’s opinion and is an analytical
representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It
measures vendors against Gartner defined criteria for a marketplace.
The positioning of vendors within a Magic Quadrant is based on the complex
interplay of many factors. Gartner does not advise enterprises to select
only those firms in the “Leaders” quadrant. In some situations,
firms in the Visionary, Challenger, or Niche Player quadrants may be
the right matches for an enterprise's requirements. Well-informed vendor
selection decisions should rely on more than a Magic Quadrant. Gartner
research is intended to be one of many information sources including
other published information and direct analyst interaction. Gartner,
Inc. expressly disclaims all warranties, express or implied, of fitness
of this research for a particular purpose.
(1) Gartner Inc., "The Integration Server: From
Presentation to Programmatic," August 12, 2002. D. Vecchio, M.
Pezzini.
Contact:
MITEM Corporation
Andy Nelson
650.323.1500
pr@mitem.com
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