"Web Integration enables business users and non-technical business analysts to rapidly integrate or extend applications and content in a highly productive visual environment," said Stefan Andreasen, CEO and Founder, Kapow Technologies, as Kapow announced today that it had been included in the list of Cool Vendors in the "Cool Vendors in Application Integration, 2005" report published by P. Malinverno, N. Drakos, K Shegda, et al of Gartner, Inc.

"For corporations embarking on application integration, content migration and portal projects, this means faster ROI and considerable time-to-market advantages," Andreason continued.

Kapow Technologies markets Web Integration Software that enable application and information integration through the web interface - the most widely available interface ever. This is an innovative approach for rapid business lead integraton of applications and application logic and information. The Kapow Technologies RoboSuite platform is used for tasks such as

• content management system migration and integration,
• market data collection, - code free portlet creation of applications,
• integration of application data,
• integration of application logic for composite applications as well as
• web service enabling applications.

The platform has been deployed at close to 100 international enterprises. Clients have experienced time and expense reductions as high as 90% compared to traditional integration approaches.

"We are very honoured by both the clients that have chosen our Web Integration platform as well as Gartner's choice to include us in the Cool Vendor report", Andreasen added.

Kapow RoboSuite is designed to simplify integration of application logic, data and information through what the company calls "non-intrusive integration via the web interface." RoboSuite is standards-based, scalable and is designed to work in all common IT operating environments. It can allow customers to develop business infrastructure without having to change existing Web-based systems, Andreason noted.

Robosuite is marketed in over 40 countries either direct or through partners such as BEA Systems, which markets the solution as Kapow RoboSuite, BEAWebLogic Edition to complement BEA's portal platform by helping enable fast and easy integration of Web applications and content into the enterprise portal.