NEON Systems and Oracle to Simplify Integration of Mainframe Business

NEON Systems and Oracle to Simplify Integration of Mainframe Business Processes in Service Oriented Architectures

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    SUGAR LAND, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 20, 2005--

NEON's Shadow(R) RTE and Oracle(R) BPEL Process Manager Help Organizations Optimize and Automate Mission-Critical Business Processes
    NEON(R) Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:NEON), The Mainframe Integration Experts, today announced its validation and support for Oracle(R) BPEL Process Manager through its Shadow RTE mainframe integration suite.
    Shadow RTE and Oracle BPEL Process Manager provide customers with a comprehensive solution for deploying and managing cross-application business processes with both automated and human workflow steps. Native Web services support enables transparent access to mainframe business process functionality, making the combined solution ideal for creating integrated business processes that are truly portable across platforms.
    Shadow RTE provides a single, unified platform in support of Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) and Event-Driven Architectures (EDA) to enable mission critical applications and data that resides on IBM mainframes to seamlessly participate in Business Process Management (BPM) and composite application development initiatives. Oracle BPEL Process Manager is part of Oracle Business Integration, a comprehensive offering designed to meet the various challenges customers face when integrating enterprise systems and applications while moving to an SOA and Enterprise Grid infrastructure.
    "With NEON Systems' Shadow RTE and Oracle BPEL Process Manager operating in tandem, organizations have a cost effective solution to automate business processes that reside on mainframe and distributed computing environments -- helping to reduce the complexity and costs to allow organizations to create a more flexible infrastructure of reusable components and services," said Amlan Debnath, vice president, Server Technologies, Oracle. "With simplified integration, developers can more rapidly build and deploy composite applications that automate complex business processes, thereby enabling organizations to increase productivity and improve operational efficiencies."
    "Large organizations that rely on the mainframe as a critical processing platform need a comprehensive SOA solution for deploying and managing cross-application business processes. Shadow RTE is a software integration infrastructure for the IBM mainframe that works seamlessly with Oracle BPEL Process Manager to provide customers with a standard-based solution that truly spans the enterprise -- from distributed applications to legacy mainframe systems -- to enable them to standardize, optimize, and improve the efficiencies of their mission critical business processes," said Mark Cresswell, president and CEO, NEON Systems.
    Shadow RTE and Oracle BPEL Process Manager provide robust business process orchestration capabilities.

--	Combine any mainframe transaction, program, or data element into a distributed business process with integrity and with full monitoring management and control capabilities
--	Detect and propagate mainframe events as they occur in real-time on the IBM mainframe platform with non-invasive, configurable event detection (Shadow z/Events)
--	Provision mainframe operational statistics for monitoring business process flows, detecting problem states, and providing diagnostics for problem resolution

    Shadow RTE complements Oracle BPEL Process Manager's built-in integration services that enable developers to easily leverage advanced workflow, connectivity, and transformation capabilities from standard BPEL processes.
    NEON Systems is a member of the Oracle PartnerNetwork, a global business network of more than 15,000 companies that deliver innovative enterprise software solutions based on Oracle software.

    About Shadow RTE

    NEON's Shadow RTE technology provides a robust technical architecture to support the broad range of customer requirements for mainframe integration. Shadow RTE is the foundation upon which customers can integrate mission critical mainframe resources into a Real-time Enterprise. A single unified platform, Shadow RTE enables real-time mainframe integration with industry standard application development platforms - .NET and/or J2EE -in support of Web services for Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA), real-time events for Event-Driven Architectures (EDA), SQL for direct data access and transactional (XA) support, and Presentation integration for Web-enablement of legacy screen-based applications and data. Shadow RTE provides the auditing, tracing and logging layer required to meet new compliance reporting. With Shadow RTE, customers have a mainframe integration infrastructure that at its lower levels is designed and proven to be secure, scalable, high performance, reliable and manageable.

    About NEON Systems

    NEON Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: NEON) -- the Mainframe Integration Experts -- is a leading provider of enterprise-class mainframe integration solutions, delivering the only unified mainframe integration platform to support the entire range of requirements for Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) and Event-Driven Architectures (EDA) -- key requirements to underpin the Real-time Enterprise. NEON's Shadow technology is designed to reduce the complexity of mainframe integration allowing large organizations with significant commitment to mainframe systems to streamline incumbent technologies and lower total cost of ownership. NEON's Shadow z/Services and Shadow z/Events offerings attack the emerging mainframe Web services and real-time mainframe event-driven markets and are unique in their depth and breadth of support for the requirements of such markets. With extensive mainframe integration expertise, NEON is uniquely qualified to solve the complexities of supporting new business initiatives that must integrate with critical mainframe systems. For more information on the Powering the Real-time Enterprise, see our Web site at http://www.neonsys.com or call 800-505-NEON.

    The NEON logo, Shadow, Shadow Web Server and Shadow Direct are registered trademarks, and Shadow z/Services, Shadow z/Events, and Shadow Studio are trademarks of NEON Systems, Inc. in the USA and in other select countries. Oracle, JD Edwards, and PeopleSoft are registered trademarks of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. All other trademarks, service marks and product or service names are the property of their respective owners.

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CONTACT: NEON Systems, Inc. Calvin Fudge, 281-491-4200 calvin.fudge@neonsys.com or LEWIS PR Steve Capoccia, 617-454-1103 stevec@lewispr.com

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