jBASE

COMPANY HISTORY

1989: Coming from what was then a world leading database vendor and solutions supplier, McDonnell Douglas Information Systems Ltd., the early jBASE pioneers had an insight into how the database vendors were dealing with the move to open systems. Realizing that solutions for business needs were not always to be found in the use of one database and understanding that access to all databases transparently would be beneficial (and truly open), they embarked on a mission to design, from the ground up, an open database product that would bring the strengths of not only multiple platform, but also multiple database access into the mainstream computing market.

Before Microsoft delivered Open Database Connectivity (ODBC), jBASE engineers had already built a Database Management System, (DBMS) which was completely database independent. By means of an innovative open and published interface (jBASE External Device Interface, jEDI), customers could achieve seamless integration with foreign databases. This meant that any jBASE developed application could read and write to whichever database was required for data storage such as the native jBASE database but also Oracle, DB2 and others – a first in the industry.

1999: TEMENOS, originally a jBASE VAR, acquired 100% of jBASE Software and began to fund research and development on a scale previously unachievable in jBASE Software’s ten year history. One of the prerequisites for TEMENOS' T24™ banking application is the jBASE open connectivity technology integrated with the banking functionality and coupled with an open database such as Oracle, IBM’s DB2, Microsoft’s SQL Server or jBASE, which provides clients with numerous options with regard to future direction. Since replacing UniVerse and embedding jBASE in their T24 banking application, TEMENOS has grown from a circa $25 million dollar company to a circa $500+ million dollar company with a present market capital value in excess of one billion dollars and has enjoyed the 1st or 2nd position in the International Banking Systems sales league for the past decade.

2002: Mpower1 International forged a partnership with TEMENOS and attained the worldwide support, distribution and existing client rights of the full jBASE product set with the exception of TEMENOS’ own application sales. Although TEMENOS remain extremely committed to the jBASE database, the diversification into the sales and marketing of database technology such as jBASE was not in line with its core business objectives in the Banking industry vertical. This engagement enabled jBASE International to fully focus on support and continuity, while at the same time allowing TEMENOS to concentrate on delivering its jBASE developed banking solution to its own clients.

The UK-based business empowerment company embarked on a major investment program by reorganizing jBASE sales and support personnel into an independent sales, marketing and support channel for jBASE customers and partners world-wide. jBASE core product development continued and remains today at TEMENOS where the team numbers over 30 and growing – forming the largest and best funded team dedicated to MultiValue core product development in the industry. The new 100% Mpower1 owned subsidiary, jBASE International, became the exclusive distributor of the jBASE software with the exception of where TEMENOS licenses jBASE in conjunction with their own application software.

Today: From a geographical perspective, the jBASE market spans the world, with an impressive installed base spread across 70+ countries worldwide in almost every facet of daily life including Banks, Retailers, Healthcare, Government and General Commerce. Over 300,000 users and 8000 businesses around the world rely on jBASE for mission critical information management. jBASE runs on all of the most widely used hardware and operating systems, with the inherent ability to port to different platforms designed into the product in the very early stages. A combination of powerful tools, a powerful database, together with a truly open middleware revolutionized the industry for developers and end-users alike. Over twenty years of hard work and determination has led to the evolution of a product line perfectly placed for today's and tomorrow's application needs. Today, jBASE is positioned to migrate existing MultiValue applications (with functionality intact) to the new world of mainstream application development environments.

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