Released on: June 3, 2008, 5:04 am

Press Release Author: Apatar

Industry: Software

Press Release Summary: The partnership features integration of unstructured data
from knowledge and document management systems into corporate data flow, as well as
document conversion, search, and data restructuring.

Press Release Body: Apatar, Inc., the leading provider of open source software tools
for the data integration market, today announced a technology and marketing alliance
with ColourBlack, Ltd., a Microsoft Partner that provides enterprise solutions for
data migration, integration, and enhancement for unstructured data sources. Under
the alliance, the companies will support unstructured and semi-structured data from
Microsoft SharePoint and other electronic document management systems as both
sources and targets of data integration initiatives, all without custom coding. With
this new agreement, Apatar and ColourBlack enable both developers and business users
not only to link information between SharePoint Server, various document
repositories, and third-party applications or databases, but also conduct searches
and perform MS Office document type conversion and text restructuring.

Enriching corporate data flow with unstructured information from knowledge
management systems

According to the Gartner group, as much as 80 percent of actual or potentially
mission-critical enterprise information takes the form of unstructured or
semi-structured data. The Apatar-ColourBlack partnership will enable corporate
users, DBAs, and developers to integrate, migrate, and consolidate data between
knowledge management systems (such as Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Exchange,
Lotus Notes, Documentum, Meridio, and FileNet) with other enterprise information
stored in corporate applications (CRM/ERP systems), databases, files, and top Web
2.0 destinations.

Beyond that, Apatar users will now be able to conduct searches, detect duplicated or
similar documents in user file systems, generate document summaries, extract
keywords, and perform content-based categorization. As a result, documents and
digital content (including e-mails, PDF and text files, Excel spreadsheets, and
diagrams) may be extracted from various knowledge repositories and included in the
company's existing information flow, creating a unified company perspective.

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"By helping Apatar to tap into such sources of unstructured data as electronic
document and knowledge management systems, we hope to empower corporate users and
developers to analyze and extract the most of the value from these information
sources," said Andrew Denby, Director of ColourBlack, Ltd. "Over time, we hope to
work with the Apatar Community to offer a range of language-specific analytical
tools, and cover such functionality as entity/keyword extraction, automatic document
summary generation, document categorization, and document type conversion."

"The corporate sector has treated structured and unstructured data sources as
completely separate for a very long time," said Renat Khasanshyn, founder and CEO of
Apatar, Inc. "By partnering with ColourBlack and providing both-way data
synchronization between document management systems and structured corporate
applications and databases, we not only strive to tie them all together, but we hope
to give business users the possibility to unify and enrich their intellectual assets
and ensure better decision making."

Apatar Open Source Data Integration features and benefits:

- No coding! Visual job designer and mapping enable non-developers to design and
perform transformations, shortening implementation time.
- Distributed under an open source model, reducing integration and maintenance costs
- Connectivity to SalesForce.com, SugarCRM, MySQL, Oracle, MS SQL, Microsoft Excel,
Microsoft Access, GoldMine, DB2, Sybase, PostgreSQL, dBase, EnterpriseDB, vTiger,
InnoDB, Compiere ERP, .CSV, XML, RSS, ATOM, HTTP queries, POP3, LDAP, FTP, WebDav,
Autodesk Buzzsaw, any JDBC data sources, Amazon S3, Flickr, StrikeIron and CDYNE Web
services, and more
- Job scheduler and synchronization automate the data integration process.
- Improves data quality with a variety of verification, filtration, and validation
features
- Users have the ability to create, share, and re-use pre-built data transformations
and publish data integration output as a custom RSS feed to ApatarForge, the online
Apatar community.
- Platform-independent, runs from Windows and Linux

About ColourBlack

ColourBlack provides enterprise solutions for data migration, integration, and
enhancement for unstructured data sources. The company is a Microsoft Partner that
specializes in getting the most out of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server.
ColourBlack solutions connect SharePoint with document repositories, such as File
System, Lotus Notes, Meridio, FileNet, and more. The company has a number of
packaged solutions that allow users to extract keywords/entities, create document
summaries, convert documents between various object types, and categorize documents
without the need for any custom programming. More information on ColourBlack can be
found at http://www.colourblack.com.

About Apatar

Apatar is the leading provider of open source software tools for the data
integration market. With powerful Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) capabilities,
Apatar enables its users to easily link information between databases (such as
MySQL, Microsoft SQL, Oracle), applications (Salesforce.com, SugarCRM), and the top
Web 2.0 destinations (Flickr, Amazon S3). Apatar provides support, training, and
consulting services for its integration solutions. Headquartered in Western
Massachusetts, Apatar operates a development center in Minsk, Belarus. Apatar is
currently used by 3500 organizations and individuals worldwide. For more on Apatar,
please visit http://www.apatar.com and http://www.apatarforge.org.


Web Site: http://www.apatar.com

Contact Details: Apatar, Inc. 195 Meadow St., FL 2 Chicopee MA 01013 USA, phone -
(213) 784 4915 fax - (703) 564 5628