Atomikos Named "Cool Vendor" by Leading Analyst Firm

Mechelen, Belgium, May 12, 2011 --(PR.com)-- tomikos, a leading provider of transaction management solutions for high volume transaction environments, today announced it has been included in the list of "Cool Vendors" in the Cool Vendors in Application and Integration Platforms, 2011 report by Gartner, Inc.

“We are greatly honored to be included in the Cool Vendor report by Gartner. We believe it is further validation that our 'J2EE without the application server' message is resonating and gaining traction. As market adoption of lightweight Java containers increases, interest in solutions such as Atomikos ExtremeTransactions® rises in parallel. We are seeing increasing market interest in our technology and in our app server free approach – particularly within transaction-centric industries such as financial services, telecommunications and transportation sectors,” says Guy Pardon, CTO, Atomikos.

About Atomikos ExtremeTransactions®
For CTO’s architects and developers in Extreme Transaction Processing (XTP) or Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) environments where data quality and performance is mission critical, Atomikos ExtremeTransactions® is a transaction management system that automates and manages both simple and highly distributed transaction processes, preventing costly data corruption in the event of a system failure or crash. The product’s patent pending Try-Cancel/Confirm (TCC ) approach is optimized for two-phase compensation-based transactions significantly reducing workflow complexity in SOA environments. There is no need for the modeling of error paths, making the solution ideal for Service Oriented Architectures with composite applications and complicated transaction trees.

Atomikos ExtremeTransactions® can be purchased online through the Atomikos website. More information can be found at http://www.atomikos.com/Main/ExtremeTransactions

About Atomikos
Atomikos is a market leader in transaction management for XTP, SOA and open source environments. Atomikos’ software safeguards your critical transactions and prevents costly data loss in the event of a system failure or crash by automating the cancellation of failed business transactions. For more information visit our website at www.atomikos.com or contact us at sales@atomikos.com

Cool Vendor Disclaimer
About Gartner's Cool Vendors Selection Process
Gartner's listing does not constitute an exhaustive list of vendors in any given technology area, but rather is designed to highlight interesting, new and innovative vendors, products and services. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness of a particular purpose.

Gartner defines a cool vendor as a company that offers technologies or solutions that are: Innovative, enable users to do things they couldn't do before; Impactful, have, or will have, business impact (not just technology for the sake of technology); Intriguing, have caught Gartner's interest or curiosity in approximately the past six months.

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For further details, please contact:

Atomikos BVBA
Guy Pardon, Chief Technology Officer

Tel: +32(0)15613055