IRVINE, Calif., Feb. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --

* TigerLogic XML Workflow Management Server Version 1.6 Announced * TigerLogic Platform Used for Enterprise Data Governance * Morris and Dickson, One of the Largest Drug Wholesalers, Deploys TigerLogic ePedigree for Pedigree Data Governance and Plans to Use Next Generation TigerLogic Platform for Other, More Complex Data Governance and B2B Areas * Upcoming Version 3.0 TigerLogic XML Data Management Server Supports Updatable Cache Views of any Data Source, including Web Services, and Provides up to 64GB In-memory Cache as well as Enhanced Performance for Node Level Update and Locking

Raining Data Corporation , a long-time provider of scalable, flexible and reliable data management software, today announced the version 1.6 of its innovative TigerLogic(TM) XML Workflow Management Server (XWMS) software. TigerLogic XWMS includes a visual designer tool that enables drag & drop creation and re-use of workflows that can be deployed to the XWMS runtime workflow engine. TigerLogic XWMS is bundled with Raining Data's TigerLogic XML Data Management Server (XDMS) to provide a platform to support XML-centric applications.

As XML documents become more prevalent and as enterprises leverage common data across more applications, the need for XML data workflow management is becoming more important. Additionally, as applications and business processes have started moving away from being silos or watertight compartments of functionality and business logic to a loosely coupled architecture, the underlying data components that support the new architecture must move in the same direction. According to Gartner, "By 2010, more than 50 percent of early adopter organizations migrating toward SOA will fail at their first attempts, due to a lack of rigor in enforcing data governance and information management policies."(1) The TigerLogic XWMS allows for enterprise Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) success by enforcing data governance & information management policies and enables the delivery of the "right" data to consumers or consuming applications such as SOA, Business Process Management (BPM), Extract, Transform & Load (ETL) data warehouse processes or RFID-enabled Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) applications.

"Organizations are using Enterprise-wide Information Management (EIM) programs to achieve process efficiency and improve data transparency across operational silos. One of the first steps in EIM is to formalize data governance and stewardship activities through automated workflows and collaborative solutions which include all forms of data and content throughout the business," according to David Newman, Research Vice President at Gartner.

The TigerLogic platform delivers data governance by providing enterprises with the tools and technologies to effectively manage high-value data or information across the organization. It sits on top of current technologies like ESB, EAI or ETL, and helps organizations effectively manage data quality and information. The workflow designer allows enterprises to quickly model data governance workflows including collaboration among data stewards and then deploy data governance workflows to the runtime workflow engine for real time execution. An underlying XML data management server manages and persists the metadata plus operational data and provides audit information (who, what, when, where), improved visibility, data quality monitoring and reporting while harmonizing key information across enterprise systems.

Morris and Dickson, one of the largest drug wholesalers in the United States, has deployed the TigerLogic ePedigree Data Governance Solution to comply with the industry drug pedigree regulations. The company is now looking at other data governance areas to deploy the next generation TigerLogic XML data management and workflow platform. "We were able to quickly and successfully deploy the TigerLogic platform to meet our Pedigree regulatory and data governance requirements which has provided us with a competitive advantage. Working with Raining Data and the TigerLogic platform enabled us to meet our deadlines as well as our budget. We are now planning to use the TigerLogic Workflow Management Server to solve other data governance and B2B challenges," said Paul West, Director of IT at Morris and Dickson.

TigerLogic XWMS Technology

The TigerLogic XWMS comes with a model-driven workflow designer tool and runtime workflow engine.

Visual, Model Driven Drag & Drop Workflow Design Tool for Business Users and Technical Developers

The workflow designer tool is built on the Sun Microsystems NetBeans framework and facilitates the intuitive modeling of real world use cases. This design time component comes with a fully customizable taxonomy of reusable data services, a simple yet attractive drag & drop modeling canvas, a full-featured menu of options and configurations, zoom-in and zoom-out capability and one-click workflow model alignment. To provide integration with any backend data source and service requests to the overarching applications or business processes, the workflow designer tool supports an exhaustive list of data workflow endpoints such as human, Java, WSDL, XQuery, HTTP, SMTP, JMS, and BPEL. In addition, custom adapters for data sources, business applications and third party data services are easily integrated as data workflow endpoints. This tool is designed with collaboration in mind as it seamlessly supports the collaborative development, sharing and versioning of workflow models across business and technical users.

Since the TigerLogic XWMS workflow designer tool was conceptualized to work in tandem with business process management products, its modeling interface provides familiar modeling components such as activity endpoints, parallelism and decisions. It also features more advanced data workflow concepts such as execution, looping, infinite nesting, monitoring, human interaction, versioning and adding activity endpoints and data workflows to the taxonomy. According to Judith Lilienfeld, Director of NetBeans Evangelism, Sun Microsystems, "TigerLogic XWMS combines an easy to learn and use workflow designer tool that leverages the strengths of the NetBeans platform with a powerful workflow runtime engine for the most neglected, but key aspect of enterprise integration which is data."

High-Performance, Scalable Runtime Workflow Engine to Execute Data-Centric Workflows

The TigerLogic XWMS powerful runtime engine executes and monitors the data workflow models developed in the workflow designer tool. It runs on any standards J2EE application server and complements EII, EAI, BPM and ESB products through a variety of standard interfaces such as Java, WSDL, XQuery, HTTP, SMTP, JMS, and BPEL. The workflow engine supports advanced data workflow concepts such as looping, versioning, state management, synchronous and asynchronous processing, transactions, infinite nesting, human interaction, notifications, dynamic user management, auditing, logging, reporting and hot deployment plus it comes with an intuitive browser-based administration console that provides one-click viewing of workflow state, debugging information, key performance indicators and graphical reports, and more.

Powerful XML Data Management Server provides Flexibility and Performance

The TigerLogic XWMS workflow designer and workflow engine are built on the TigerLogic XML Data Management Server (XDMS). For the workflow designer, TigerLogic XDMS provides a flexible repository to store and manage workflows with versioning as well as a customizable taxonomy of trading partners, workflows, and endpoints. For the runtime workflow engine, TigerLogic XDMS stores all of the workflow states and activities for full monitoring, auditing, reporting and performance measurement against Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). The TigerLogic XDMS also provides access and persistence of operational data. The upcoming version 3.0 of TigerLogic XDMS supports Updatable Cache Views of any data source, including Web Services and provides up to 64GB In-memory Cache as well as enhanced performance for Node Level Update and true Node Level Locking. This will dramatically improve both the data performance and flexibility of the total TigerLogic platform.

TigerLogic Availability

Raining Data's TigerLogic XWMS version 1.6 is scheduled for 1st quarter of 2007 availability on the Windows, Linux and Solaris platforms. The TigerLogic XWMS comes bundled with TigerLogic XDMS version 2.6.3 which is available on Windows, Linux and Solaris. TigerLogic XDMS 2.6.3 is available now and the upcoming 3.0 version scheduled release is 1st half of 2007.

About Raining Data

Raining Data Corporation has been providing reliable data management solutions for more than three decades. Product offerings include the high performance TigerLogic(R) XML Data Management Server, Pick(R) Universal Data Model based data management systems and .Net integration solutions. In addition, Raining Data provides an integrated XML workflow designer and engine for data governance. Raining Data's customers represent more than 500,000 active users across 20,000 customer sites worldwide in a diverse set of vertical applications. More information about Raining Data Corporation and its products can be found at http://www.rainingdata.com/.

Raining Data, Pick, mvDesigner, D3, mvEnterprise, mvBase, Omnis, Omnis Studio and TigerLogic are trademarks of Raining Data Corporation. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are properties of their respective owners.

Footnote (1): Gartner Predicts 2007: Information Infrastructure Emerges, Analysis by David Newman, Published 27 November 2007

CONTACT: Bob Albo, Vice President, XML-Centric Business Solutions of
Raining Data Corporation, +1-408-236-7619, or fax, +1-949-250-8187,
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