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Ascential Software Corporation, the enterprise data integration leader, announced today that it is placed within the Leaders quadrant of a new Gartner report on the Extraction, Transformation and Load (ETL) technology marketplace published on September 8, 2004. According to Gartner, Leaders are vendors who are performing well today, have a clear vision of market direction and are actively building competencies to sustain their leadership position in the market. Ascential DataStage, the company's ETL product, is a component of its more comprehensive enterprise data integration solution, the Ascential Enterprise Integration Suite, which adds data profiling, data quality, data cleansing and parallel processing to its core ETL functionality, to support virtually any application or system regardless of data volume or latency requirements. According to the influential report, Magic Quadrant for ETL, 2H04, market demand is taking extraction, transformation and loading tools into new application areas. Demonstrated competence beyond the domain of business intelligence is becoming an important differentiator among vendors. "Ascential Software is pleased to be positioned by Gartner in the ETL leader quadrant. ETL technology is an important component of a complete enterprise data integration solution and the cornerstone of many strategic technology initiatives that benefit greatly from data profiling, data quality, and meta data management functionality," said Pete Fiore, president, Ascential Software. "We see in our customer base strong evidence to support Gartner's position that ETL is vital beyond traditional business intelligence applications. Our customers use the Ascential Enterprise Integration Suite for application deployment and consolidation, master data management, on-demand data integration, and meeting regulatory and compliance requirements." The Ascential Enterprise Integration Suite is a comprehensive data integration solution that profiles, cleanses, and transforms data from virtually any application or system regardless of data volume or latency. Ascential Software's integrated offering is designed to help companies streamline operations, improve customer support, expedite business transactions, and make better tactical and strategic decisions on the basis of the best available information. The Suite provides unlimited scalability through parallel processing, complete meta data management, any-to-any data source and application connectivity, and delivers on demand data integration seamlessly within an enterprise's service-oriented architecture.