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January 17, 2000

Cyclone Connects Legacy And E-Commerce Systems
Trading Engine lets businesses accommodate customers' existing trading systems

By Matthew G. Nelson

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nterconnecting disparate platforms, applications, and protocols has been a long-standing challenge for IT managers, and the advent of E-commerce hasn't changed that. Cyclone Commerce Inc. is attacking the problem with the Cyclone Interchange Trading Engine, a Java platform designed to easily interconnect legacy and E-commerce systems.

The software, which will run on just about any server and operating system, provides connections that route and exchange business documents and support BizTalk, cXML,

the Extensible Markup Language, RosettaNet, and other standards. It also provides communication connectors that include support for client-server, File Transfer Protocol, HTTP, MQ, Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, and other communication protocols. Security connectors include Entrust, PKCS, RDB, RSA-J, Secure Multipurpose Internet Mail Exchange, and VeriSign standards.

The Cyclone Interchange Trading Engine is designed to give businesses the ability to accommodate custom-ers' existing trading and legacy systems, which can be essential in conducting business across the Internet, according to analysts.

"What this technology will do is enable users to link up multiple marketplaces," says Hollis Bischoff, senior program director of the electronic business strategy division at Meta Group. "The most important thing about business is doing business any way you can. Today you can no longer dictate how someone will do business with you. It's being able to translate and integrate any transaction over any protocol over any medium."

Early customers say the Trading Engine is easy to install and use, and it's able to easily handle modifications. "We're doing financial EDI with Mellon Bank, and we've just now started to deploy it with some of our other partners," says Dave Schinderle, VP of finance and treasury for St. Joseph Health Systems, a multihospital health-care company in Orange, Calif. "We're utilizing the Cyclone product to encrypt those files so we can comply with the health insurance security and privacy regulations."

Encryption is "an extraordinarily complex area, and they made it easy," Schinderle says. "My IT guy said this thing is a snap."

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