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Survey Reveals 90 Percent Of IT Professionals Cite Data Synchronization as Most Pressing Business Integration Issue

65 percent of respondents are burdened with writing custom code to share data between applications

Mountain View, CA, November 6, 2006 — A TCI Data Research survey commissioned by Cast Iron Systems reveals that 90 percent of IT professionals named "internal data synchronization" as very important or important when ranking their business integration issues. "Lowering operating costs" came in a close second with 87 percent of respondents listing it as an important or very important business integration issue.

Fig. A: Rate the Importance of the Business Integration Issues Faced
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  • Databases, such as Oracle and SQL Server (94 percent)
  • Enterprise applications, such as SAP and PeopleSoft (90 percent)
  • Web service enabled endpoints (80 percent)

When asked about requirements for integration solutions, 67 percent of respondents stated that the ability to extend and maintain integrations once deployed was very important to them. 56 percent cited completing the project within budget and 55 percent wanted to reduce the time and effort spent writing custom code.

Fig. B: Rate the Importance of the Following When Evaluating Integration Solutions

"IT professionals need simple, easily maintained solutions to their application integration problems, but are stuck writing one-off custom code programs," said Ram Gupta, chief executive officer of Cast Iron Systems. "This time-consuming and painful custom code process is the reason Cast Iron Systems developed the integration appliance, changing the application integration experience from painful to delightful."

The study represented 135 total respondents in the IT industry, from organizations that varied in size from 500 to more than 5,000 employees.

Cast Iron Systems' application integration appliances enable companies to complete projects in days, instead of months, and easily maintain them using a "configuration-not-coding" approach. The company's integration appliances synchronize information between all major applications and endpoints, including SAP, Lawson, JD Edwards, PeopleSoft, Oracle, salesforce.com, Sybase, SQL Server, Informix, DB2, flat files (FTP/HTTP), XML and Web services.

About Cast Iron Systems

Founded in 2001, Cast Iron Systems is the fastest growing integration appliance vendor. The company's flagship iA3000 application integration appliance garnered Network Computing's Product of the Year in 2005 and 2006. Customers include Allianz, Emerson, Intuitive Surgical, Lawson Software, salesforce.com and Toyota. Backed by leading venture capital firms, Cast Iron is privately held and led by experienced technology executives from PeopleSoft, Sun Microsystems, Vitria and webMethods.