IBM releases Hawk and Serrano to beta
Less than two months after closing its acquisition of Ascential Software Corp., IBM Corp. is releasing to beta testing two data integration technologies, Ascential's software codenamed Hawk and IBM's Project Serrano.
Serrano is a refresh of IBM's Information Integration portfolio, which includes tools to help customers centrally tap into corporate data from various sources. In March, IBM announced plans to buy Ascential for US$1.1 billion and add Ascential's complementary technology to its portfolio. Once the deal was complete, IBM began working to integrate its Serrano project, which focuses on unstructured data, with Ascential's developing Hawk software, which targets structured data.
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