Attunity

Attunity, a real-time data integration and event capture software provider, gets $3.55 million OEM deal from Microsoft. The funding is a result of a 2008 agreement under which Attunity will supply Microsoft with Change-Data-Capture (CDC) and Open-Data-Base-Connectivity (ODBC) components.

The company has been, for almost two years, been supplying enterprise-class software solutions to businesses and organizations. Attunity offers software solutions such as Attunity Stream, a real-time CDC software; Operational Data Replication solution; and Attunity Connect, a real-time connectivity software, Attunity Power-Connectors for PowerPivot and SSIS, Attunity Federate and Attunity StreamFlow (data replication).

Businesses benefit from Attunity’s products by getting real-time access to information easily and fast across most technologies and in the cloud. Thousands of organizations all over the world use Attunity’s software.

Shimon Alon, Chairman and CEO of Attunity, said about the funding, “Our established relationships with OEM partners such as Microsoft have allowed us to advance our position as a leader in supporting large and small enterprises manage their big data and use the cloud. The proceeds from these payments will be used to further advance and finance the expansion of our product and service offerings, including our recent acquisition of RepliWeb.”

Earlier in September, Attunity acquired RepliWeb Inc., a file replication and file transfer technology firm for $7.8 million.

Attunity is a company that was born in Israel although they list their headquarters as at Burlington, U.S. It has top companies as its strategic and OEM partners such as Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, HP, Business Objects and Cognos.

One of the key things I’ve been spearheading this year with my team is Concentri’s web service API (application programming interface) to address this problem.

If you’re going to take away one thing from this post, remember this — web services play a critical role in allowing you to have timely accurate data at your fingertips. Granted you need someone technical to help out to get it implemented, but once it’s set up, you’re done. No more file transfers. No more delays. Just good timely and accurate data. The following screencast shows how this works for a client of ours. It’s pretty slick if I say so myself.

Today, any standard or custom data field is accessible via Concentri’s web service, but we are continually making improvements. For instance, in our upcoming release, Concentri customers can add email addresses to the DNE (do not email) list via the web service. This could be useful if a customer calls and wants to opt-out. The software that’s running on the agent’s desktop could “talk to” Concentri to complete the request in real-time.

If you have any questions feel free to comment below. I’d be happy to answer them.