GA eXpress (GAUM), formerly General Automation, Tuesday released products designed to support
its recently announced ePath strategy and enable enterprisewide e-business
solutions.
The suite of platform-independent connectivity and e-commerce middleware
products will give GA eXpress customers a way to build an industry-compliant
foundation for migrating, manipulating, moving, and gathering business
critical information electronically.
The new products are based on industry-standards and leading
technologies, such as XML and
Microsoft’s Universal Data Access.
The product suite is intended to give enterprises a migration path to
partnering, collaborating and conducting business online in order to make
them e-business ready, Jane Christie, GA eXpress president and chief executive officer, said in
a statement issued by the company.
GA eXpress’ new e-business product line builds on the company’s
MultiValue database products and consists of the following products:
- eTools Series: A series of eTools development kits designed to
provide an environment to maximize client/server e-commerce, Web
transactions, custom database-to-database applications and other functions
of e-business - eTools XML: Migrates MultiValue data into the XML hierarchical
data language, thus enabling enterprises to send and receive information
from databases via a Web-based source - eTools OLE DB: Allows MultiValue-access applications that retain
the data’s hierarchical nature to be developed with Microsoft’s OLE DB
standard; in industry standard environments such as Visual Basic and Visual
C++, ActiveX Data Objects can be developed quickly for Web or
general-purpose applications - eTools ODBC: Enables quick development of robust ODBC-compliant
applications built from Pick/Basic for Web access or mainstream Windows use - eTools JDBC: Opens MultiValue systems to Java, enabling Java
developers to exploit the full capabilities of object-oriented programming
without concern for database syntax - eDesigner Series: A Windows-based tool for mapping, directing,
and administrating the data and data paths used by the client system; output
from ODBC eDesigner can also be used in a Java environment - eConnect ODBC: Provides a direct read connect (via
point-and-click transfer) from any MultiValue data source to more than 300
ODBC-compliant applications for Windows, including Excel, Visual Basic, SQL
Server, World, Access and FoxPro; Lotus 1-2-3, Notes and Notes Pump, and
PowerSoft PowerBuilder; Cognos Impromptu and Powerplay and others
All GA eXpress products are compliant with all MultiValue products,
allowing enterprises using MultiValue databases from different vendors to
combine GA eXpress products into a single e-business solution.
