NEW YORK, March 30, 2005 -- iWay Software, an Information Builders company and the world's leading adaptive software vendor, today announced a new package of adapters that integrate, enrich, and update data to and from Geographic Information Systems (GIS).

The adapters were developed to work with ESRI's ArcSDE. ESRI, the world's leading developer of GIS software, uses these adapters to integrate its spatial database engine ArcSDE with a wide variety of operational data to create an information backbone that delivers all data, both spatial and tabular. iWay's adapters are separated by function: one set gets geographic information from an address and the other loads the GIS database. Using iWay's patented Adaptive Framework, organizations can now easily create maps to visually represent nearly any data, from any information system within its existing IT infrastructure.

"We chose iWay Software GIS Adapters because they came highly recommended in the market," says Bud Douglas, chief systems information officer at Mississippi Department of Human Services. "Implementation time is very important to us in Mississippi. We like to show our constituents the benefits of a project as soon as possible. We believe iWay Software GIS adapters will help us accomplish that goal."

The new iWay Software Adapters for GIS drastically reduce the cost and complexity involved in GIS implementations - up to one-half of the deployment time, one-half of the software costs, and one-half of the services costs. The adapters accomplish this by improving the retrieval, enrichment, geocoding, and delivery of data between disparate information systems. As part of iWay's ever growing Adaptive Framework, the new GIS Adapters retrieve data from any information system or B2B protocol, enrich data information from other sources, geocode data by calling an application or service to obtain location coordinates and census data, and then deliver information to appropriate layers of GIS data stores.

"We are seeing a tremendous increase in the use of GIS," says John Senor, president of iWay Software. "Government agencies are using these applications to better understand their constituents, trim costs, and improve security. Private institutions are using GIS to trim costs and increase understanding of core business processes. In all cases, organizations are reaping tremendous return on their investments. Our new GIS adapters will help them realize a return on GIS applications even quicker."

To learn more about iWay Software' GIS Adapters, go to http://www.iwaysoftware.com/products/adapters/gis.html.

About iWay Software

iWay Software, an Information Builders company and the world's leading adaptive software vendor, accelerates business integration by providing tools that make service-oriented architectures easy to implement. Clients achieve short-term ROI by using iWay to reduce custom programming and to solve problems quickly, while incrementally creating an architecture that supports long-term projects. The biggest names in software, including BEA and Microsoft, use iWay adapters to simplify access to ERP and CRM systems, messaging, legacy systems, e-business protocols like AS2 and ebXML, and more. Additional message transformation and data integration make iWay a natural integration choice - standalone or with other middleware. To learn more about iWay Software, go to http://www.iwaysoftware.com.

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