Customer Testimonial: Attunity's ODR Solution and CDC Technology to Enable the Company to Double its Repair Order Capacity and Associated Revenues While Improving Efficiency of Operations

BURLINGTON, Massachusetts, November 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Attunity Ltd. (OTC BB: ATTUF.OB), a leading provider of real-time data integration and event capture software, announced today that Atlantic Detroit Diesel-Allison (Atlantic DDA), an on-highway and off-highway products distributor, selected its real-time Operational Data Replication (ODR) solution and low-impact CDC technology to enable it to double its repair order capacity and associated revenues. According to Atlantic DDA, the implementation of Attunity's solution has also improved overall efficiency of its service department operations and customer satisfaction by enabling better response time and the ability to provide the most up-to-date information to customers.

Looking at growth opportunities, as explained by Atlantic DDA, it put in place a corporate initiative to improve its service department by enabling it to process more orders, thus driving more revenue, with additional objectives of improving operational efficiency and customer satisfaction. In order to achieve these objectives, Atlantic DDA explained that it needed to make real-time information available to service representatives so they could improve efficiency and relay the most up-to-date information back to customers, such as when the customers could expect to receive back the equipment they have in for repair. In addition, having access to real-time information will also enable up-to-date operational reporting as well as support current information in web applications.

According to Atlantic DDA, making real-time information available proved a challenge for a long time, as it required integrating and synchronizing data from an iSeries system to an Oracle Middleware system developed by Fadel Partners and hosted on HP servers, fitting into a user interface which leveraged Oracle's Application Development Framework (ADF).

The optimal solution needed to have very low impact on the source iSeries system and the Attunity ODR solution that was selected eventually employed log-based CDC that monitors the DB2/400 database journals and captures only the changes made to the required tables. By using log-based CDC technology and offloading the changes as soon as they are captured, the ODR solution accomplished minimal impact while at the same time scaling to meet the high throughput of changes in near real-time. The CDC technology was used in conjunction with Fadel Partners' Service Repair Order System, leveraging Oracle's SOA Suite.

"In addition to doubling our revenues with Attunity's ODR solution, we've also been pleased to improve our reporting to support business operations," explained Will Ortiz, IT Director at Atlantic Detroit Diesel-Allison. "We are so impressed with how fast the Attunity ODR-CDC solution is. What used to take about twenty minutes per order to process, now takes under three minutes."

"Atlantic DDA evaluated different replication solutions with our outsourced system integrator (Fadel Partners)," Mr. Ortiz continued, "but none of them could be implemented in time to meet our corporate-initiated goals and were very costly to own. During the Proof of Concept process, we were very impressed with the Attunity ODR solution's "stress test" results, which included throughput measurements handling thousands of tables and over a terabyte of data with ease. This level of performance combined with the expert advice and service we received from Attunity throughout the three-month trial process exceeded our expectations."

"It has been very rewarding to see our customers tangibly benefitting from the real-time information our ODR technology enables," stated Mel Passerelli, VP North American Operations at Attunity. "Our solution thrives in heterogeneous environments, such as Atlantic DDA's, and because they are now able to process real-time changes in their data versus integrating full bulk loads, they are realizing significant savings in cost and time as well as reaping results from overall process efficiencies."

Mr. Ortiz concluded, "While we currently have the ODR with CDC solution implemented in our service department, we also have 3 other entities that comprise our business: parts, generator and marine. Since the ODR solution has been so successful for our service department, we soon intend to roll out the solution to the remaining departments in phases and look forward to seeing improvements there as well. I simply cannot put into words how important the Attunity ODR solution is to our business."

About Atlantic Detroit Diesel-Allison

Atlantic DDA sells and services a full line of Detroit Diesel, Mercedes-Benz and MTU engines and the versatile automatic transmissions offered by the Allison Transmission Division of General Motors Corporation. Operating in the metropolitan region and environs surrounding New York City, Atlantic DDA is the authorized distributor for the above-named off-highway and on-highway products in Northern New Jersey, the five boroughs of NYC, Long Island, Eastern New York State, Western Massachusetts, Vermont and Connecticut. Atlantic DDA has eight locations, 148 service vehicles, over 155 skilled technicians, and more than $15 million of complete, replacement parts inventory.

About Attunity

Attunity is a leading provider of real-time data integration and event capture software. Using our software solutions, such as Attunity Connect, a real-time connectivity software, or Attunity Stream, our log-based, real-time change-data-capture software, Attunity's customers enjoy dramatic business benefits by driving down the cost of managing their operational systems, creating flexible, service-based architectures for increased business agility, and by detecting critical actionable business events, as they happen, for faster business execution.

Attunity has supplied innovative software solutions to its enterprise-class customers for nearly 20 years and has successful deployments at thousands of organizations worldwide. Attunity provides software directly and indirectly through a number of strategic and OEM agreements with partners such as Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, HP and SAP/Business Objects. Headquartered in Boston, Attunity serves its customers via offices in North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific and through a network of local partners. For more information, please visit us at www.attunity.com, the content of which is not part of this press release.

IMPORTANT NOTE: The announcement of any particular selection or implementation of Attunity products is not necessarily indicative of the timing of recognition of revenue therefrom or the level of revenue for any particular period. References to customer successes are based upon a single user experience and such customer's testimonial.

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