A3 Solutions Announces Availability of A3 Modeling; American Airlines Employs A3 Modeling to Reduce Costs.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 1, 2002 A3 Solutions Incorporated (A-Cubed) today announced the general availability of A3 Modeling(TM), a new web-based software application for planning, analysis and reporting. A3 Modeling was designed to drive enhanced organizational performance Organizational performance comprises the actual output or results of an organization as measured against its intended outputs (or goals and objectives). Specialists in many fields are concerned with organizational performance including strategic planners, operations, , by giving enterprises an application for both creating forecasts and measuring performance against plan. Well suited for standard budgeting, expense, compensation and capital planning, A3 Modeling also excels at modeling the complexities of real-world business, such as the alignment of revenue and profit plans for retail companies at the store, product, and corporate levels. Easy to install and to configure, A3 Modeling complements current systems, allowing teams to deploy the technology and realize value quickly. American Airlines American Airlines Major U.S. airline. American was created through a merger of several smaller U.S. airlines and incorporated in 1934. It continued to buy the routes of other airlines, becoming an international carrier in the 1970s; its routes include South America, the , the world's largest carrier, is upgrading their existing A3 system to include this new technology. "By shifting to a web-based environment, American can improve efficiency and ensure our data is consistent across our airport operations," stated Bella Goren, Vice President of Customer Service Planning. "Individual airports will now have access to the system via our intranet, allowing them to input information directly and generate reports more quickly." Given the depressed state of the airline industry and the urgent need to reduce costs, the A3 system allows American to use fewer resources and eliminate duplication of effort. Driving Performance "We designed A3 Modeling with the needs of the entire organization in mind," stated A3 COO Stuart Ratner. "Many packages are designed expressly for Finance, but don't allow managers to budget in a way that makes sense to them. A3 Modeling accommodates the needs of the Operational and Functional perspectives which contribute to the Planning process," he said. -- For executives, A3 Modeling drives increased profitability by offering timely and detailed visibility to utilization of resources at all levels within the enterprise. By understanding the return on resources, executives can increase profitability through better resource allocation. -- For Planning Departments, Making it possible to manage enterprise-wide planning processes at the finest levels of detail, A3 Modeling is must-have technology for the enterprise committed to planning without the constraints of typical budgeting packages. Furthermore, A3 Modeling is easily configured, comprehensive and fast to deploy. -- For end users, A3 Modeling increases productivity within the planning process. Because the Excel-based user interface is already familiar to users and is easily personalized with relevant financial views, A3 Modeling empowers users across all operational disciplines to complete their analysis and enter their forecasts faster, easier and more accurately. -- For IT, A3 Modeling increases department productivity by easily integrating with corporate IT infrastructure. A3 Modeling is built to J2EE specifications and works with established Enterprise Application Servers, including IBM WebSphere, BEA WebLogic and Apache Tomcat. Users Love it Innovative in its architecture, A3 Modeling combines Web, Spreadsheet and OLAP (OnLine Analytical Processing) Decision support software that allows the user to quickly analyze information that has been summarized into multidimensional views and hierarchies. OLAP tools are used to perform trend analysis on sales and financial information. technologies in a simple-to-use application. "With this application, American will be able to collect input directly from our local airport managers, using the standardized spreadsheets. We can then load it into our OLAP-based planning environment more efficiently," said Brad Deutscher, Manager of Field Business Planning. "The software is very flexible, allowing us to make changes quickly. For a minimal investment, the efficiency we gain is critical in this era of reducing costs." A3 Modeling Overview A3 Modeling is a comprehensive Planning "Comprehensive Plan" is a term used by land use planners to describe a set of goals and policies developed by a municipality to accommodate future growth. Typically the comprehensive plan will look at estimated growth within a specific time period, for example, 20 years. and Modeling application built on top of the A3 Analytic Application Server, a framework for creating and delivering Enterprise Analytic Applications Analytic Applications are a type of business application software, used to measure and improve the performance of business operations. More specifically, Analytic Applications are a type of Business Intelligence solution. . A3 Modeling lets authors create enterprise planning and modeling applications with Excel as a front-end and Hyperion Essbase(TM), IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) DB2 OLAP(TM) or Showcase Essbase/400 as the data store. Built on a J2EE application A J2EE application or an enterprise application is any deployable unit of J2EE functionality. This can be a single J2EE module or a group of modules packaged into an EAR file along with a J2EE application deployment descriptor. server architecture, A3 Modeling combines the classic deployment and maintenance advantages of web applications with the rich, zero-training end user environment of Microsoft Excel (tool) Microsoft Excel - A spreadsheet program from Microsoft, part of their Microsoft Office suite of productivity tools for Microsoft Windows and Macintosh. Excel is probably the most widely used spreadsheet in the world. Latest version: Excel 97, as of 1997-01-14. (TM). Accessed via the Web, these A3 Modeling applications are easily customized, allowing users to contribute their individual perspective to the planning process. Moreover, unlike other planning products, which force companies to reorganize the structure of planning databases, A3 Modeling adapts to and exploits existing company data structures. By enabling web-automation of the most sophisticated Excel models, A3 Modeling dramatically improves existing spreadsheet processes and takes companies beyond the limits of traditional planning technologies. Now, for the first time, with A3 Modeling, spreadsheet consolidation processes can scale to 1000's of users, each one of whom enjoys personalized access and flexibility. The bottom-line impact in terms of efficiency gains and expanded visibility for managers into corporate operations is instantaneous and dramatic. Key Features A3 Modeling supports: -- A personalized Portal See personal portal. interface to Modeling and Planning applications. The Portal contains a security-driven list of modeling applications, and one-click reports. -- Models can access any number of data ranges from any number of multidimensional sources. -- Collaborative planning features including discussions and posting of planning-specific information and announcements on the A3 Modeling Portal. All Portal features can be administered by non technical personnel. -- Support for both online and offline work modes. -- Support for read-only and read-write models (for both entering data and reporting results). -- Users can include line item detail directly in generated workbooks, eliminating the need to cut-and-paste from Excel detail to a separate planning application. Availability A3 Modeling is available now. To learn more about A3 Modeling, please contact A3 at sales@a3si.com or call 1-800/666-CUBE for more information. About A3 Solutions Incorporated (www.a3si.com) Company: Based in San Francisco, California “San Francisco” redirects here. For other uses, see San Francisco (disambiguation). The City and County of San Francisco (EN IPA: [sænfrənˈsɪskoʊ] , A3 Solutions is a longstanding pioneer of financial planning Financial planning Evaluating the investing and financing options available to a firm. Planning includes attempting to make optimal decisions, projecting the consequences of these decisions for the firm in the form of a financial plan, and then comparing future performance against software. Customers include American Airlines (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : AMR (1) (Adaptive Multi-Rate) A variable rate speech codec selected by the 3GPP for the 3G evolution of the GSM cellphone system (WCDMA). Using the Algebraic CELP (ACELP) compression technology, AMR provides toll quality sound at transmission rates from 4.75 to 12. , News), Avon Products Avon Products, Inc. NYSE: AVP is a US cosmetics, perfume and toy seller with markets in over 135 countries across the world and sales of $8.1 billion worldwide as of 2005. , Cox Communications Cox Communications is a privately owned subsidiary of Cox Enterprises providing digital cable television and telecommunications services in the United States. It is the third-largest[2] cable television provider in the United States, serving more than 6. , Del Monte, McDonald's of Canada, Staples, Toyota Motors, UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX , and Verizon. Partners: A3 has established several marketing partnerships, including Hyperion Solutions (Nasdaq: HYSL, News), IBM (NYSE: IBM, News), Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT MSFT Microsoft (stock symbol) MSFT Movimento Sociale Fiamma Tricolore (Italy) MSFT Multi-Stage Fitness Test MSFT Master of Science in Family Therapy MSFT Macalester Students for Fair Trade , News), and ShowCase, a division of SPSS A statistical package from SPSS, Inc., Chicago (www.spss.com) that runs on PCs, most mainframes and minis and is used extensively in marketing research. It provides over 50 statistical processes, including regression analysis, correlation and analysis of variance. (Nasdaq: SPSS, News). To contact A3 Solutions, go to www.a3si.com or call 1-800/666-CUBE (2823). Note to Editors: The name of the company is "A3 Solutions" (pronounced "A-Cubed Solutions"), which is an "A" with a super-scripted "3". |
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