Hummingbird Genio(R) 6.0 Takes Data and Content Integration Performance to the Next Level

TORONTO, Oct. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Hummingbird Ltd. (NASDAQ: HUMC, TSX: HUM), a leading global provider of integrated enterprise content management (ECM) and network connectivity solutions, today announced the latest release of Hummingbird Integration Suite(TM) featuring Hummingbird Genio(R) 6.0, the new version of its industry-leading data integration platform that transforms, cleanses, enriches and directs information across the entire spectrum of decision support systems and enterprise applications.

Hummingbird Genio is a powerful data integration solution that spans the functional areas of data extract, transformation, and load (ETL) and enterprise application integration (EAI). At the core of Hummingbird Genio is a powerful engine that controls the flow of data from various sources in a hub-and-spoke data exchange architecture, eliminating the need for custom, point-to-point data exchange processes and manual coding of data transformations.

An integral component of Hummingbird Enterprise(TM), Hummingbird Genio provides content integration capabilities between the Hummingbird Enterprise content management solution and external applications and content repositories. It allows migration and consolidation of content repositories without programming or data staging, empowering Hummingbird Enterprise customers to better leverage their business content. Hummingbird Genio 6.0 offers many key updates and enhancements. Highlights include: Improved Performance Driven by customer requirements, the Genio 6.0 architecture has been significantly enhanced to further enable parallel and distributed processing capabilities. With its new easy-to-learn, graphical user interface (GUI), Genio enables IT professionals to harness the power of parallel processing, providing the ability to process very large amounts of data in a minimum amount of time. The new graphical interface provides the IT professional with a quick and efficient way to design parallel and distributed processes. Multiple process executions can be regrouped within one simple Genio process and the triggering and synchronization of those process executions can be automatically handled by the Genio engine. Improved Productivity Designed to make life easier for IT professionals tasked with ensuring the success of data integration initiatives, Genio 6.0 delivers an easy and efficient user interface for managing disparate data sources and important business information, with strong emphasis on a more user-friendly installation and implementation process. The interface provides superior ease- of-use and productivity with features that include improved support for drag and drop and enhanced deployment wizards. With minimal time and resources required to get Hummingbird Genio up and running, businesses can realize an extremely rapid and substantial return on their investment. Enhanced Integration and Connectivity Genio 6.0 offers enhancements that support targeting and extraction into new data formats and environments including Linux Red Hat Enterprise ES 3.0, AIX 5.3, Solaris 10, HP/UX 11i Itanium, ensuring tighter integration and optimum performance of the data integration platform which enables organizations to better leverage their existing IT investments.

"Accessing, organizing and preserving business-critical content that is contained in a multitude of hardware platforms, databases and corporate applications, is one of the single-biggest challenges for organizations today," said Andrew Pery, chief marketing officer and senior vice president, Hummingbird Ltd. "Hummingbird Integration Suite extends Hummingbird's strategy of delivering industry leading enterprise content management solutions, bridging the management of unstructured and structured business content, while continuing to meet the needs of our customers for more advanced data integration and metadata management capabilities." The enhancements delivered by Hummingbird Genio(R) 6.0 further extend the benefits delivered by Hummingbird's data and content integration: Risk Mitigation Genio 6.0 provides a unique capability for organizations to implement processes to track and monitor how content is used, while tracing the veracity of the information which may have come from multiple sources and applications, thereby minimizing risk and meeting legislative and policy driven compliance requirements. Content Integration The ability to consolidate distributed content libraries, moving content- related metadata from one repository to another and integrating with disparate content management applications are important requirements for organizations that are building out enterprise-wide content management solutions. Genio 6.0 provides a solid and scalable foundation to help organizations streamline processes for harnessing control of distributed and departmentally focused content. Empower the Business Hummingbird Genio(R) 6.0 delivers comprehensive, scalable and extensible solution in order to help organizations better access, understand and manage their data assets. With the further improvements brought by version 6.0, Genio helps organizations reacting rapidly to business changes, better streamline integration processes and properly manage their content. With the improved scalability features, Genio addresses current and future information integration requirements, guaranteeing long term investments and optimum reuse of the information across the organization.

Hummingbird Genio 6.0 is now available. For more information, please visit: http://www.hummingbird.com/products/etl/overview.html. About Hummingbird Integration Suite(TM) Data integration and metadata management solutions from Hummingbird provide flexible, powerful and user-friendly tools that enable companies to get the best out of their data assets. Hummingbird Integration Suite consists of a data integration solution, Hummingbird Genio(R), that transforms, enriches and directs information across multiple enterprise systems and applications; and a metadata management solution, Hummingbird Met@Data(TM), which ties and links all information system components though their metadata. This enterprise solution provides seamless access to all metadata sources enabling knowledge workers to gain access to valuable information, and making the time they spend locating and retrieving information more productive. About Hummingbird Hummingbird Ltd. (NASDAQ: HUMC, TSX: HUM) is a leading global provider of enterprise software solutions. The Company's enterprise software solutions fall into two principal categories: enterprise content management (ECM) solutions, and network connectivity solutions. Hummingbird's ECM solutions enable organizations to manage the lifecycle of enterprise content from creation to disposition, thereby enabling organizations to address critical business needs, such as information management, business continuity, compliance and risk mitigation. The network connectivity solutions provide a comprehensive set of core network technologies that enables the enterprise to connect to any type of legacy system.

Founded in 1984, Hummingbird employs over 1,525 people and serves more than 33,000 customers, including 90% of Fortune 100. Hummingbird solutions are sold directly from 40 offices worldwide and through an Alliance Network of partners and resellers. For more information, visit http://www.hummingbird.com.