GA eXpress Releases E-Business Tools

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.