NEON Systems Incorporated, founded in 1991 and incorporated in 1993, develops mainframe adapters that simplify the integration of enterprise application suites and IBM (R) zSeries computers. The firm's Shadow Real-Time Enterprise (RTE) adapters include application programming interfaces (APIs) and Web Services features. The adapters support real-time data exchange. Shadow RTE includes the Shadow Instrumentation Server (SIS) systems management, Security Optimization & Management (SOM), Shadow Enterprise Messaging (SEM), and Complex Event Processing (CEP) features. SEM supports WebSphere/MQ. The Shadow z/Events and Shadow z/Services products enable real-time event and service processing across Microsoft (R) .NET, Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE), and legacy mainframe systems. NEON Systems also offers businesses the Shadow z/Direct application access system. The firm's Shadow z/Presentation product allows users to extend mainframe assets with Web access feature. Shadow systems scale to support increasing processing requirements. NEON Systems also provides developers with a Java and .NET component package. Shadow Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) built on the Eclipse framework. It allows developers to expose legacy applications and data as Web services. It includes performance analysis and optimization, debugging, monitoring, security auditing, and other features. NEON Systems also provides Microsoft Visual Studio (R) .NET programmers with the Shadow Developer system. The product incudes distributed transaction management, load balancing, and transaction blocking tools. NEON Systems is listed on NASDAQ under the NEON symbol.