Sypherlink Enhances IBM DB2 Information Integrator on Metadata Discovery

Solution will reduce time and cost of data sharing projects across multiple data sources 

Dublin, OH, June 6, 2003 -- Sypherlink, a leading technology firm that enables information sharing across multiple data sources and provides information access controls, announced today that it is providing metadata discovery, analysis and mapping capabilities to IBM's new DB2 Information Integrator software.

Customers today are faced with the challenge of integrating information across and beyond the enterprise in an effort to increase efficiencies and better serve customers. IBM DB2 Information Integrator software helps customers solve this pain point, enabling businesses to access, integrate and manage all types of data in real-time, as if it were a single source, regardless of where the data resides. DB2 Information Integrator software also provides customers with a single, integrated view of data that is essential for business applications.

"IBM is committed to work with Business Partners that take advantage of DB2 Information Integrator's real-time information integration capabilities to create solutions that solve difficult business problems for customers," said Lauren Flaherty, vice president of marketing, IBM Data Management Solutions. "With Sypherlink technology and DB2 Information Integrator, businesses can reliably integrate and reconcile the widely dispersed customer data that resides in enterprise applications as well as unstructured document collections across channels, geographies and business units."

The Sypherlink solution, Sypherlink: Harvester, is an enterprise data architecture tool that utilizes a patent-pending technology to automate the metadata discovery, analysis and mapping processes. Users are able to create a holistic view of it data assets and better understand what data elements reside in each of its systems and where the inter-relationships are between different systems.

"Compared with traditional approaches," said James Paat, Sypherlink President and CEO, "the combination of DB2 Information Integrator’s data federation technologies and Sypherlink’s unique metadata discovery, analysis and mapping capabilities allows customers to significantly improve budget, quality and timeline metrics associated with complex data-sharing initiatives."

About Sypherlink
Sypherlink (www.sypherlink.com) is a software firm that delivers patent-pending technology to accelerate the data sharing process across multiple data sources. By automating the tasks associated with data mapping and providing information access controls, Sypherlink helps global 1000 companies, state and federal agencies and health care providers to more effectively and efficiently leverage critical information. Sypherlink is headquartered in Dublin, OH and maintains an office in Washington D.C.