Mediation is a technology which inserts intelligent processing modules, called mediators, between servers and clients to provide value-added processing. A number of contractors have now the capability to build the required application interfaces and implement the architecture. The number of platforms and languages varies, and there is some discussion on style, as preferring fat versus thin mediators. They interact with their customers to acquire domain knowledge. As more implementation enter practice the infrastructure grows, and we expect that mediators can be installed rapidly and be maintained by their owners
We list some of the companies now active in the area, since they are still relatively unknown. There are of course many larger companies that are also building systems for their own use.
Name: Active Software
Web: www.activesw.com
Specialty: see Click
Name: Alyanza Corp
Town: Mountain View, CA
Specialty: Three-layer JAVA architecture
Contact: < info@Alyanza.com>
Name: Amos
Town: Munich, Germany
Specialty: Mediating DBMS for images
Contact: < http://www3.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
Name: BEA systems
Town: Sunnyvale, CA
Web: www.BEAsys.com/
Product: TUXEDO platform; MessageQ
Specialty: large-scale infrastructure, messaging
Contact: Bill Coleman <bill.coleman@BEAsys.com>
Name: Bodha
Town: Mountain View CA
Web: www.bodha.com
Product: BRIEF (Bodha Rapid IntEgration Framework)
Specialty: B2B mediator software
Contact: Vishal Sikka <vishal@bodha.com>
Name: CA (Computer Associates)
Town: Islandia, NY
Web: www.cai.com/products/opal.htm"
Product: OPAL
Specialty: Screenscraper, extract and integratate output without an API.
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Name: Cloudscape
Town: Oakland, CA
Web: cloudscape.com/
Products: Java SQL manager, also Dyade (see GIE-Bull)
Speciality: eCommerce support
Contact: Malcolm Colton <malcolm@cloudscape.com%gt;
Name: Constellar
Town: Redwood Shores, CA
Web: www.Constellar.com/
Speciality: rule-based warehouse population
Contact: info@constellar.com">Click
Name: Cermics
Town: Sophia Antipolis, France
Web: www.inria.fr/cermics/dbteam
Specialty: Relational to object wrapper
Contact: Franck Lebastard, +33 (0)4 92 38 77 42 <Franck.Lebastard@sophia.inria.fr>
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Name: Enosys Markets
Town: San Diego, CA
Web: www.enosysmarkets.com
Specialty: XML-based data integration
Contact: Vasilis Vassalos, +858 552-7620x37 <vasilis@enosysmarkets.com>
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Name: Enterworks (subsidiary of Telos)
Town: Ashburn, VA
Web: 0www.enterworks.com/
Speciality: Web-oriented access and integration for
healthcare, financial services, telecommunications, manufacturing,
and government
Contact: <Darren_Horwitz/FitzGerald@fitzcomm.com>
Name: Entigent Software
Town: Sunnyvale CA
Web: www.entigent.com
Specialty: support of drug-discovery; integration and ranking of
genomics and pharmaceutical information, mediator software
Contact: Denise Gilbert <dgilbert@entigen.com>
Name: FastXchange (spinoff from ISI)
Town: Marina del Rey, CA 90292
Web: www.FASTXchange.com/
Speciality: procurement
Contact: Anna-Lena Neches <info@fastxchange.com>
Name: Genelogic
Town: Berkeley, CA
Web: www.genelogic.com/bioinform.htm
Speciality: genomics information in object form
Contact: Victor Markowitz <victor@genelogic.com>
Name: GIE-Bull & INRIA
Town: (Paris) France
Web: www.dyade.fr/ and
dyade.inrialpes.fr/mediation/download/
Product: Dyade
Specialty: Querying heterogeneous sources
Contact:Patrick Valduriez <Patrick.Valduriez@inria.fr>
Name: Global InfoTek, Inc.
Town: Vienna, VA. 22180
Web: //www.globalinfotek.com
Specialty: mediation and Java-based ad hoc query and
visualization tools.
Contact: Ray Emami <gemami@pluto.globalinfotek.com>
Name: Hyperion Solutions
Town: Sunnyvale, CA 94089
Product: Integration Server, ESSBASE
Web: www.hyperion.com/integrationserver.cfm
Specialization: Manage Metadata for integration for OLPA
Contact: "Alex Russakovskii" <:Alex_Russakovskii@hyperion.com>
Name: IBM MQseries
Town: ubiquitous
Web: www.ibm.com
Specialty: wrappers to handle multiple communication protocols.
Interoperation with SAP R3.
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Name: IBM Tivoli
Town: ubiquitous
Web: www.tivoli.com
Specialty: monitor performance of distributed components.
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Name: I-Kinetics Inc,
Town: Cambridge, MA
Web: www.i-kinetics/
Specialty: scalable acess methods
Contact: Bruce Cottman <bruce.cottman@i-kinetics.com>
Name: ISI
Town: Marina Del Ray, CA 90292
Web: www.isi.edu
Specialty: research, system engineering
Contact: Ygal Arens <arens@isi.edu>
Name: ISX
Town: Westlake Village, CA
Web: www.isi.edu
Speciality: intelligence systems, planning and logistics
Contact: Nancy Lehrer <Nlehrer@isx.com>
Name: Junglee
Town: was Sunnyvale, CA, moved to Seattle as part of amazon.com">Click
Web: www.junglee.com/
Speciality: web source integration and filtering for shopping,
job placement, etc., used by Yahoo a.o.
Contact: Anand Rajaraman <anand@junglee.com>
Name: K2 Informatics, Inc.
Town: Bryn Mawr, PA 19010
Specialty: genomic information
Contact: Karen J. Giroux <71072.234@compuserve.com>
Name: Lime
Town: Rohester, NY; Milano, Italy; St.Louis, MO
Specialty: middleware for physical and logical mobility.
Web: lime.sourceforge.net/
Contact: Amy Murphy <murphy@cs.rochester.edu> ,
Gian Pietro Picco <picco@elet.polimi.it> ;
Gruia-Catalin Roman <roman@cs.wustl.edu> .
Name: Lockheed-Martin Idaho Technologies
Products: IDIM, MERLIN
Town: Idaho Falls, ID
Web: id.inel.gov/idim
Web: www.paoli.atm.lmco.com
Speciality: systems engineering, communication (KQML) for government
Contact: Robin McEntire <Robin.A.McEntire@lmco.com>
Name: MCC
Town: Austin, TX
Product: InfoSleuth
Web:www.mcc.com/projects/infosleuth2
Specialty: mediating agent research for consortium members
Contact: Marek Rusinkiewicz <Marek@mcc.com>
Name: Mercator
Town: Wilton, CN
Web: www.mercator.com/
Speciality: XML-based data Integration for EDI, SWIFT (banking), HiPAA sources.
Product: Mercator Integration Broker
Contact: Eileen Gary
Name: MetaMatrix
Town: New York City, NY
Web: www.metamatrix.com/
Speciality: Enterprise Content Integration, eCommerce infrastructure
software to manage the metadata of disparate data repositories and to
provide uniform access to these information silos.
Contact: Shawn Curtiss <solutions@metamatrix.com>
Name: MetBroker
Town: Tsukuba, Japan
Product: MetBroker
Web: http://www.agmodel.net/MetBroker//
Speciality: WeatHer Data Mediator, open source, multiple languages
Contact: Matthew Laurenson <matthewl@narc.affrc.go.jp:>
Name: Mergent (now bought by CommerceOne)
Town: Palo Alto, CA
Web: www.mergent.com/
Speciality: Mediator software, resource scheduling
Contact: <info@epistemics.com>
Name: Modulant
Town: San Francisco, CA
Product: Curtana
Web: www.modulant.com/
Speciality: semantic enterprise information interoperability platform
Contact: Andrea Bruno, 415-281-4551,<abruno@modulant.com>
Name: MOMA (Message-oriented Middleware Association)
Town:
Web:
Specialty: Non-profit standards body: {Momentum, Neon, Netweave, PeerLogic}
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Name: MetaPhase
Product: MRP/ERP
Town: Minneapolis MN
Web: ?
Specialty: System Integration, including Manufacturing Enterprise
Resource management, document and data control, and CAE/CAD/CAM
Contact: Mark Olson <MARK_OLSON@udlp.com>
Name: MicroMuse
Product: (NETCOOL).
Town: San Francisco, CA
Web: www.micromuse.com
Specialty: Event collection from wide variety of distributed system
for performance asssesment.
Contact: <>
Name: MINT Technologies
Town:
Web: www.mintech.com
Specialty: Aggregation of financial information. Uses TIBCO.
Contact: <>
Name: Momentum Software
Town:
Web: www.momsoft.com
Specialty: Software toolset: Queues, semaphores, shared memory.
Contact: <>
Name: NASTEL Technologies
Town:
Web: www.nastel.com
Specialty: Consulting, support for IBM MQ Series. Protection.
Contact: <>
Name: NEON (New Era of Networks)
Town: Denver, CO
Web: www.neonsoft.com
Specialty: Message Queuing, Dynamic Formatting, Rules Engine, Data
Replication. Uses IBM MQ.
Contact: <>
Name: NetWeave
Town: Philadelphia, PA.
Web: www.netweave.com
Specialty: Workstation access to legacy systems
Contact: <>
Name: Net Dynamics
Town:
Web: www.netdynamics.com
Specialty: Enterprise platform
Contact: <>
Name: Nimble Technnology
Town: Seattle, WA
Specialty: XML-based data integration
Contact: Alon Halevy, Daniel Weld <ccobb@nimble.com>
Name: Peer Logic
Town: San Francisco, CA
Product: PIPES
Web: www.peerlogic.com
Specialty: Message support for asynchronous, non-blocking
communication
Contact: <info@peerlogic.com>
Name: Persistence Software
Town: San Mateo CA
Web: www.persistence.com
Specialty: relation to object transformation
Contact: <info@persistence.com>
Name: Qios
Town: Melbourne, Australia; Si
Web:
www.cs.rmit.edu.au/~zahirt/DOK/qios
Specialty: Freeware for Querying and Integration of Internet data.
Contact:Iztok Savnik <iztok.savnik@bion.si>
Name: San Diego Super Computer (SDSC) and UC San Diego (UCSD)
Town: San Diego CA
Product: MIX
Web: www.npaci.edu/DICE/MIX
Specialty: XML-based mediation, query languge (XMAS)
Contact: Yannis Papakonstantinou <yannis@cs.ucsd.edu>
Name: Sapior
Town: London, England
Web: http://www.sapior.com/Product/product.html
Specialty: Surrogate key mapping for integration
Contact: Barbara Navarro <barbara.navarro@sapior.com>
Name: Socratix
Town: Palo Alto CA
Web: www.socratix.com
Specialty: clinical and biological information
Contact: Russ Altman <altman@smi.stanford.edu>
Name: Tesserae Information Systems
Town: San Jose, CA 95113
Web: tesserae.com/
Speciality: electronic commerce
Contact: Narinder Singh <singh@tesserae.com>
Name: TIBCO (Was Teknekron Software Systems)
Town: Palo Alto, CA 95113
Web: tibco.com">Click/
Speciality: Publish and subscribe technology (Information Bus; Rendezvous)
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Name: TopTier
Town: San Jose, CA 95119
Product: HyperRelation
Web: www.toptiersw.com
Specialization: Virtual databases
Contact: "Joe Zarb" <:joe@toptiersw.com>
Name: Viewlocity
Town: Stamford, CN NY
Web: www.viewlocity.com"
Product: AMTrix
Specialty: access to SAP R/3 and IBM MQseries systems.
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Name: Vitria
Town: Palo Alto, CA 95119
Products: Agiliti; Velociti; Martini.
Web: www.vitria.com
Speciality: Model-based business process engine.
Rule-based, triggered by business activities.
Publish-subscribe message-delivery.
Aggregation of low-level data.
Contact: "Dale Skeen" <:skeen@vitria.com>