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Subject: [announce] OASIS Member news: Principal Financial Deploys DataPower's XML-Aware Networking Devices
PRINCIPAL FINANCIAL GROUP DEPLOYS DATAPOWER XML-AWARE NETWORKING DEVICES DataPower XML Accelerator Cost Effectively Improves the Performance and Scalability of the Principal Financial Group Web Infrastructure CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - February 3, 2004 - DataPower Technology, Inc., the creators of intelligent XML-Aware Network (XAN) infrastructure, announced today that the Principal Financial Group - a leading global financial institution offering businesses, individuals and institutional clients a wide range of financial products - has deployed the DataPower XML accelerator hardware device. The Principal Financial Group has seen an increasing use of XML within the enterprise and anticipated the need to provide the capabilities of a wirespeed XML acceleration device to ensure predictable application performance and reduce Java application server resource utilization. After a review of the available products in this space, Principal Financial Group selected DataPower. "To deliver the quality performance and pricing levels our customers have come to expect from The Principal, we have to have consistent performance at peak load times. We chose to deploy DataPower because it gave us a dramatic improvement in XML processing speed without having to make any significant changes to our applications and existing infrastructure", said Steve Armstrong, Assistant Director - IT at The Principal. The performance of the DataPower hardware device is significantly better than any alternative solution and, with support for XML-based configurations of polices and filter rulesets, provides a unique combination of appliance-like ease-of-use and extreme flexibility for adapting to nascent standards. Using DataPower XML acceleration as a key component of the web architecture, future changes to XML processing can be implemented with minimal time or cost. By using XML acceleration the Principal Financial Group is able to improve application response times and ensure cost effective, predictable growth of the system for the future. With the improved resource utilization The Principal can maintain their reputation for excellent customer service. "The stability, predictable performance and reduction in infrastructure costs that comes with using XML aware network devices from DataPower will make capacity planning an easier process for us. This will ensure that we continue to give our customers the level of service they have come to expect from the Principal Financial Group." said Armstrong. About the Principal Financial Group The Principal Financial Group(R) (The Principal (R))(1) is a leader in offering businesses, individuals and institutional clients a wide range of financial products and services, including retirement and investment services, life and health insurance and mortgage banking through its diverse family of financial services companies. More employers choose the Principal Financial Group for their 401(k) plans than any other bank, mutual fund, or insurance company in the United States(2). A member of the Fortune 500, the Principal Financial Group has $134.8 billion in assets under management(3) and serves some 14.8 million customers worldwide from offices in Asia, Australia, Europe, Latin America and the United States. Principal Financial Group, Inc. is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol PFG. For more information, visit www.principal.com. (1) "The Principal Financial Group" and "The Principal" are registered service marks of Principal Financial Services, Inc., a member of the Principal Financial Group. (2) CFO Magazine, April/May 2003, based on total plans served in 2002 by insurance companies, banks and investment firms. (3) As of September 30, 2003 About DataPower Technology DataPower Technology provides enterprises with intelligent XML-Aware network (XAN) infrastructure to ensure unparalleled performance, security and manageability of next-generation applications and XML Web Services. DataPower's patent-pending XML Generation Three (XG3(tm)) technology powers the industry's first wire-speed XML-aware networking devices that provide immediate return on technology investments while streamlining application deployments. Founded in 1999, DataPower is privately held and based in Cambridge, MA. For more information about DataPower Technology, please contact 617-864-0455 or visit www.datapower.com. ## For more information please contact: Kevin M Anderson DataPower Technology, Inc. 617-864-0455 x360 kevina@datapower.com
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