Ipedo, the California-based provider of enterprise information integration software, announced the latest version of its EII platform. Ipedo XIP 4.1 incorporates several important new product enhancements that focus on improving the user experience in enterprise deployments.

"Business intelligence and SOA are the two main drivers of the EII market, and now we're seeing a confluence of the two in our larger customers," said Nick Zhang, CEO of Ipedo. "This release bridges those two worlds, increasing the data reach of BI tools and improving the ROI of existing IT investments."

This need for EII in business intelligence applications is reinforced in new research from The Data Warehousing Institute that forecasts a fourfold increase in EII use in the next two years.

Ipedo XIP 4.1 introduces:

Web Services Tables - Building on Ipedo's innovative Dual-Core Query Architecture, this innovation provides the industry's first dynamic mapping of Web Services to virtual relational tables. This allows business intelligence, reporting, or any other SQL-based client application to consume Web Services data as if it were relational data, including joins across multiple Web Services, or combinations of Web Services and existing relational databases.

New Management Console - This new Web-based console simplifies management in enterprise deployments and gives administrators detailed access to individual user and query statistics. In addition to the thin-client, Web-based console, Ipedo exposes its functions through JMX, allowing administrators to manage Ipedo through standard tools such as HP OpenView, CA Unicenter, or IBM Tivoli.

Enhanced Query Optimization - Several improvements to Ipedo's adaptive query technology allow it to deliver faster responses to complex queries, seamlessly join large partitioned data sets across multiple instances, and conserve system memory for handling very large result sets.

Ipedo XIP leverages SQL and XQuery to integrate and manage information from disparate, complex data sources to enable real-time business decisions. Ipedo's patented approach treats existing corporate databases and Web Services as a single, virtual data source that applications or users can access using industry-standard protocols. This allows users to gain customized access to the information they need, in a context that makes sense, all while leveraging existing IT investments. Ipedo XIP also contains a powerful set of performance and security management capabilities that balance user needs with corporate policies.

Ipedo XIP 4.1 will be available on December 20, 2005 for Windows 2000, Windows NT, Sun Solaris, Red Hat Linux and SuSE Linux.