Actian and Attunity Join Forces to Simplify Real-time Big Data Warehousing

REDWOOD CITY, California and BURLINGTON, Massachusetts, October 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --

Actian Corporation, creators of Vectorwise, the innovative performance analytic database, and Attunity Ltd. (NASDAQ: ATTU), a leading provider of information availability software solutions, announced today they have joined forces to create Attunity Replicate for Actian Vectorwise, a solution that meets the high-performance demands of Big Data while being significantly simple to use. The solution is designed to provide high-performance, end-to-end data loading with quick time-to-value for Actian Vectorwise environments. The optimized replication solution is immediately available worldwide.

Attunity Replicate for Actian Vectorwise empowers enterprise customers to quickly load data from heterogeneous data sources to Vectorwise data warehouses. Attunity Replicate maintains the most current data continuously and efficiently via change data capture (CDC) technology - streaming changes in real-time from source databases to the Vectorwise data warehouse. The solution is designed to optimize the data loading process and will help organizations analyse and monetize Big Data faster.

"Big Data is a big opportunity for organizations to create competitive capabilities and enhance their value," said Itamar Ankorion, Vice President of Business Development at Attunity. "Attunity Replicate addresses the bottleneck of loading data into Big Data warehouses like Actian Vectorwise, and our partnership brings a solution to market that provides quick time-to-value."

"As data continues to evolve and impact how the world lives, we are witnessing more and more customers implementing real-time data solutions," said Fred Gallagher, General Manager, Vectorwise. "As Vectorwise has made tremendous progress in helping businesses to gain new insights and drive operational efficiencies, Attunity Replicate brings additional value by simplifying the entire process."

Attunity Replicate for Actian Vectorwise supports:

• High-performance full loads and continuous change data capture
• Click-2-Replicate graphical user interface for designing and monitoring replication tasks
• A wide range of data sources
• Automatic schema generation and implementation of metadata changes on the target
• Transparent data type transformations between source and target
• Integrated change audit trail option contains all change events and can be easily retrieved for access auditing and security

To learn more, please visit the Attunity Replicate website at: http://www.attunity.com/products/attunity-replicate-actian-vectorwise

About Attunity

Attunity is a leading provider of information availability software solutions that enable access, sharing and distribution of data, including Big Data, across heterogeneous enterprise platforms, organizations, and the cloud. Our software solutions include data replication, change data capture (CDC), data connectivity, enterprise file replication (EFR) and managed-file-transfer (MFT). Using Attunity's software solutions, our customers enjoy significant business benefits by enabling real-time access and availability of data and files where and when needed, across the maze of heterogeneous systems making up today's IT environment.

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 partners such as Microsoft, Oracle, IBM and HP. 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, visit http://www.attunity.com or our In Tune blog and join our community on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube.

About Actian Corporation

Actian Corporation enables organizations to transform big data into business value with data management solutions to transact, analyze, and take automated action across their business operations.

Actian helps 10,000 customers worldwide take action on their big data with Action Apps, Vectorwise, the analytical database, and Ingres, an independent mission-critical OLTP database. Actian is headquartered in California with offices in New York, London, Paris, Frankfurt, Amsterdam and Melbourne. Stay connected with Actian Corporation on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.

Actian, Cloud Action Platform, Action Apps, Ingres and Vectorwise are trademarks of Actian Corporation. All other trademarks, trade names, service marks, and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies.

Safe Harbor Statement

This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and other Federal Securities laws. Statements preceded by, followed by, or that otherwise include the words "believes", "expects", "anticipates", "intends", "estimates", "plans", and similar expressions or future or conditional verbs such as "will", "should", "would", "may" and "could" are generally forward-looking in nature and not historical facts. For example, when we discuss our ability to penetrate the Big Data and cloud markets, we are using a forward-looking statement. Because such statements deal with future events, they are subject to various risks and uncertainties and actual results could differ materially from Attunity's current expectations.

Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to: risks and uncertainties relating to the acquisition of RepliWeb, including costs and difficulties related to integration of acquired businesses, the combined companies' financial results and performance, and ability to repay debt and timing thereof; our liquidity challenges and the need to raise additional capital in the future; market acceptance of the Attunity Replicate and the development of a market for such product; timely availability and customer acceptance of Attunity's new and existing products; any unforeseen developmental or technological difficulties with regard to Attunity's products; changes in the competitive landscape, including new competitors or the impact of competitive pricing and products; a shift in demand for products such as Attunity's products; unknown factors affecting third parties with which Attunity has formed business alliances; the impact on revenues of economic and political uncertainties and weaknesses in various regions of the world, including the commencement or escalation of hostilities or acts of terrorism; and other factors and risks on which Attunity may have little or no control. This list is intended to identify only certain of the principal factors that could cause actual results to differ.

For a more detailed description of the risks and uncertainties affecting Attunity, reference is made to Attunity's latest Annual Report on Form 20-F/A, which is on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the other risk factors discussed from time to time by Attunity in reports filed or furnished to the SEC. Except as otherwise required by law, Attunity undertakes no obligation to publicly release any revisions to these forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.

© Attunity and Actian Corporation 2012. All Rights Reserved. Attunity is a registered trademark of Attunity Inc. All other product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.

Media Contacts:

Actian:
Dean Rodgers
Atomic PR for Actian
[email protected]
+1(415)593-1400

Attunity:
Melissa Kolodziej
at Attunity
[email protected]
+1(781)730-4073

SOURCE Attunity Ltd