Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Attunity gets $1M license from mystery cable company

By Rodney Brown

Attunity Ltd. has taken the final payment in a $1 million license agreement with an unnamed North American communications and media company.

The unnamed company, which operates a cable TV enterprise, will use the Attunity Stream CDC product to support “new cable services, improve customer service, and enable better decision support,” Attunity said in a release Tuesday. Stream CDC provides real-time change-data-capture for data and communications networks. The customer had been using a proprietary OpenVMS system to do its reporting, which is also the backbone of its cable TV business, Attunity said.

Burlington-based Attunity, which trades on the Over the Counter Bulletin Board under the ticker symbol “ATTUF”, took in a payment of $3.55 million in September 2011 from Microsoft Corp., stemming from a 2008 OEM agreement between Attunity and Microsoft, in which Attunity would supply the software giant with data connectivity software adapters for iterations of SQL Server.

Also last September, Attunity paid $7.8 million to buy RepliWeb Inc., a file replication and file transfer technology firm in Coconut Creek, Fla. The acquisition was expected to boost Attunity’s replication software offerings for enterprise data centers and cloud computing and grow its customer base.

Born in Israel, Attunity lists among its strategic and OEM partners Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp., Oracle Corp., Business Objects Inc. and Cognos Inc.