Reactivity Achieves Seamless Interoperability With Cyclone Commerce B2B Gateway

Reactivity Achieves Seamless Interoperability With Cyclone Commerce B2B Gateway

Combination Ensures Fast, Safe, Secure ebXML, XML and Web Services Connections With Trading Partners

BELMONT, Calif., Dec. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Reactivity, Inc., the leader in secure XML Web services deployment systems, today announced it has both successfully deployed the Reactivity Gateway with the Cyclone Interchange Advanced Server in customer accounts and has completed formal interoperability. These efforts highlight the ability of these two products to enable the rapid deployment of fast, safe and secure ebXML, XML and Web services connections with trading partners for B2B automation. The bi-directional tests clearly demonstrated seamless interoperability between the two products over a set of B2B transaction scenarios employed by large enterprises and their trading partners and using a variety of ebXML message-level security settings.

"Reactivity's proven track record in XML and Web services security is a perfect complement to Cyclone's next generation B2B management platform, delivering needed Web services security and performance in a B2B context," said Rohit Khanna, vice president of solutions delivery for Cyclone Commerce. "The combination is already providing enterprises with a flexible, highly scalable solution for creating and managing secure connections with their suppliers, distributors, customers and strategic partners."

Cyclone provides Smarter B2B solutions that help enterprises manage business processes from the edge of their infrastructure rather than relying solely upon back-end systems. In this way, companies can gain visibility into each step in the process and act in real time upon the information in flight between organizations.

The Reactivity Gateway enforces XML Web services security policies and offers the market's leading XML threat defense, while delivering any-to-any XML Web services interoperability. The centralized definition, enforcement and management of security and operational policies establish new levels of trust among applications, and help ensure compliance with privacy and data protection laws. Reactivity's dedicated appliances process and secure XML and SOAP messages to improve network and application throughput, and enable an organization's existing operations staff to operate and maintain clusters of appliances across geographically distributed data centers for maximum operational scalability.

"Given Cyclone's clear market leadership for B2B solutions, and Reactivity's leadership in Web services security, this successful interoperability provides an important advance in making B2B Web services a reality, " said Glenn Osaka, CEO and president of Reactivity. "The successful completion of the interoperability testing clearly demonstrates how the Reactivity Gateway and Cyclone Interchange Advanced Server can create new options for linking trading partners and creating the secure environment needed to support automated B2B transactions."

ebXML (Electronic Business using eXtensible Markup Language), is a modular suite of specifications that enables enterprises of any size and in any geographical location to conduct business over the Internet. Using ebXML, companies now have a standard method to exchange business messages, conduct trading relationships, communicate data in common terms and define and register business processes.

About Reactivity

Reactivity provides the leading deployment infrastructure used by enterprises to realize the promise of Web services. Reactivity's family of products enables businesses to secure, provision and operate XML and Web services more efficiently and effectively, accelerating their time-to-market and gaining competitive advantage. Reactivity has unique experience with the largest and most demanding Global 2000 enterprises in financial services, publishing, travel and other industries. Reactivity is located in Belmont, California, and can be reached at www.reactivity.com, +1-650-551-7800 or info@reactivity.com.

NOTE: Reactivity is a trademark of Reactivity, Inc. All other products and services mentioned are trademarks of their respective companies.


Source: Reactivity, Inc.

CONTACT: Patrick Corman, +1-650-326-9648, or patrick@cormancom.com, or
David Finkelstein, +1-917-523-1161, or david@cormancom.com, both of Corman
Communications, for Reactivity

Web site: http://www.reactivity.com/


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