Comprehensive program expands revenue opportunities and reduces
costs for systems integrators and independent software vendors
Rye, NY - December 21, 2006 - Mobius Management Systems, Inc.
(NASDAQ: MOBI), a leading provider of integrated solutions for
enterprise archiving and records management, today announced the
"TCI Application Accelerator Program" (TAAP), a
comprehensive program for systems integrators and independent
software vendors (ISV's) that require integration of diverse
content as a component of their core offerings. TAAP is based
on Mobius's Total Content Integrator (TCI), the
premier solution for connecting any content source with any content
user or application. TCI addresses vital issues for solutions and
services providers: the operational inefficiencies, erratic
customer service quality and rising costs of using multiple
proprietary tools and programming custom interfaces to integrate
content with applications. TCI expands revenue generation and
reduces the risks and costs of integrating content.
"Systems integrators and software developers that can integrate
applications with any content stored anywhere in the enterprise
have a competitive advantage," said Jim Biggs, Mobius vice
president of channel sales and marketing. "They will generate
significant new revenue and reduce their overall development and
support costs. The weak link in many mission-critical
applications has traditionally been the inability to connect users
with all the available information. Using custom API-based
coding to integrate repositories significantly drives up the costs
of application development, support and maintenance. TCI
solves this problem, providing seamless, out-of-the-box access to
information located anywhere in the enterprise."
"To begin to effectively manage unstructured content with the
same rigor as structured data, enterprises need to access
content between repositories and other diverse applications," said
Kenneth Chin, research vice president at Gartner, Inc.
"Content integration provides access to a federation of
unstructured content repositories (such as images, documents and
video) that are dispersed throughout the enterprise.
Application vendors that can cost effectively embed this
functionality in their solutions will have a competitive
advantage."
Approved TAAP participants receive a full range of software and
services that enable the rapid implementation of content
integration solutions. Program deliverables include:
- Implementation services: Mobius technical resources to assist
with internal and customer installations;
- Training for all functions: sales, systems engineers,
development, and customer support;
- Use of the Mobius demonstration and development centers;
- Dedicated business development support;
- Discounts on TCI software and out-of-the-box repository
adapters;
- TCI software developer's kit (SDK) provided at no cost for
adapter development.
"We are pleased to offer channel partners a unique solution for
their content integration needs," Biggs added. "The TCI
Application Accelerator Program will speed time to market and
implementation while reducing costs and risk. These are
compelling benefits for our partners."
Support for Mobius's TCI Application Accelerator
Program
"By integrating TCI into our e4/ContentMiner application, we can
provide a tool that enables users to search, retrieve and analyze
content from different archives. This is a powerful capability for
our customers and one that enhances the value of our
application."
--- Stephan Schilling, CEO, Comline AG, Germany.
"Few software vendors understand the content integration needs
of ISV's and systems integrators. Mobius's TCI
Application Accelerator Program has what we need. The
ability to easily implement functionality
that connects applications with information no matter
where it resides in the enterprise will create incremental services
for us."
--- Desmond Dawson, CEO and president, Savail Consulting,
Inc.
"Most organizations are finding it increasingly necessary to
develop a coherent and consolidated view of information across the
enterprise. By providing the ability for any application to
access data from multiple sources and present that data back via a
single, familiar user interface, TCI enables organizations to
accelerate decision making and develop greater business agility.
Further, by delivering a comprehensive, centrally controlled
information management solution, TCI leverages investments in
existing systems and supports a pragmatic replacement
strategy."
-- Nigel Hopgood, Head of Compliance and Governance,
UK and Ireland, Sun Microsystems, Ltd.
About TCI
Total Content Integrator (TCI) provides
seamless access to content stored anywhere in the enterprise. It is
an out-of-the-box "content services bus" that gives users fast,
easy and secure access to disparate and isolated information
sources, including content repositories, databases, file systems,
and e-mail applications. TCI's Web services are publicly available,
allowing anyone to easily integrate disparate content into any
application.
Designed for reliability, scalability and robustness, TCI
comprises these components:
- Out-of-the-box adapters to content
repositories, applications, and databases, as well as the ability
to easily create your own adapters.
- Core services that perform TCI's basic
functions:
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- Search - locate and retrieve content across multiple content
repositories, databases and file systems with a single search
request;
- Authentication - ensure secure access with flexible options for
validating a user's credentials;
- Index Mapping - relate disparate index names and formats to
simplify cross-repository searching;
- Content Delivery - present content to users and transform into
browser-friendly formats;
- Archive Write - easily add content from any other source
directly into Mobius's ViewDirect® Repository.
- A published Web Services Description Language
(WSDL)-based interface that can be used to develop
applications that retrieve content from all repositories connected
to TCI.
All TCI components are built using packaged Web services,
providing an open, standards-based architecture that ensures
interoperability and is J2EE-compliant and .NET-enabled. TCI
does not require system modification, so it does not affect
performance and administrators can easily maintain the security of
the content.
About Mobius
Mobius Management Systems, Inc. (
www.mobius.com) is the leading provider of integrated solutions
for enterprise content archiving and records management. The
company's comprehensive software suite integrates content across
disparate repositories, supports regulatory compliance, and
provides content-enabled applications that automate business
processes. Mobius solutions have achieved industry-wide recognition
for breadth of functionality, breadth of supported formats, and
high-volume, high-demand performance. The Mobius customer base is
made up of leading companies across all industries, including more
than sixty percent of the Fortune 100. The company, founded
in 1981, is headquartered in Rye, New York, with sales offices in
the U.S., Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy,
Sweden, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Australia and Japan, as well
as a network of agents in Central and South America, Europe, Middle
East, Africa and Asia.
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