Acta Broadens Platform Support of its Award-Winning Data Warehousing Solution; ActaWorks 3.1 Ships With Native Support of IBM DB2 UDB and SAP R/3 4.5.PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 9, 1999-- Acta, Inc., the leader in packaged data warehousing solutions for enterprise resource planning See ERP. (application, business) Enterprise Resource Planning - (ERP) Any software system designed to support and automate the business processes of medium and large businesses. (ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. ) applications, announced additional DBMS (DataBase Management System) Software that controls the organization, storage, retrieval, security and integrity of data in a database. It accepts requests from the application and instructs the operating system to transfer the appropriate data. and platform support for its award-winning data warehousing solution, ActaWorks(TM). ActaWorks -- now available in version 3.1 -- is the company's extraction, transformation and loading See ETL. (ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) The functions performed when pulling data out of one database and placing it into another of a different type. ETL is used to migrate data, often from relational databases into decision support systems. ) software for constructing and deploying ERP data warehouse solutions. The product was designed from inception to tightly integrate with ERP software from companies such as SAP AG (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :SAP) and PeopleSoft (Nasdaq:PSFT PSFT PeopleSoft (stock symbol) PSFT Progressive Saturation Fourier Transform PSFT Prosoft-Technology, Inc ). ActaWorks 3.1 broadens ActaWorks' platform support with a new native interface to 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 UDB. In addition, Acta announced today it is committed to expanding its list of supported platforms to include Sun Solaris and IBM AIX, in addition to Hewlett-Packard HP-UX HP's version of Unix that runs on its 9000 family. It is based on SVID and incorporates features from BSD Unix along with several HP innovations. (operating system) HP-UX - The version of Unix running on Hewlett-Packard workstations. and Microsoft Windows NT, giving ActaWorks platform support for all major UNIX operating systems. Additionally, ActaWorks 3.1 now includes full support for R/3 4.5, the latest release of SAP(TM) R/3(TM), a leading ERP solution from SAP AG. ActaWorks now supports all major releases of SAP R/3, from 3.0d to 4.5b. "With release 3.1 of ActaWorks, we are expanding our lead in the market for ERP-based data warehouse solutions," said Acta president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Carol Mills Baldwin. "Support for all releases of SAP R/3 as well as DB2 and the major UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). platforms ensures that our customers can scale their enterprise data warehousing environments to meet their most demanding requirements." ActaWorks is the leading data warehousing platform designed specifically to address the challenges of building data warehouse solutions using ERP data. Using an intuitive graphical user interface graphical user interface (GUI) Computer display format that allows the user to select commands, call up files, start programs, and do other routine tasks by using a mouse to point to pictorial symbols (icons) or lists of menu choices on the screen as opposed to having to , ActaWorks extracts data from ERP systems and other sources, transforms and cleanses the data, and loads it into Acta RapidMart(TM) packaged data warehousing solutions or other data marts or warehouses. ActaWorks provides easier access to enterprise data for strategic business analysis and reporting. ActaWorks is the foundation technology for Acta's RapidMart solutions that can be rapidly deployed to address specific areas of business analysis such as sales, cost, and inventory analysis. RapidMarts provide an "out-of-the-box" solution that includes a target schema, source-to-target mappings and transformations that handle change data capture, hierarchy extraction, error recovery and other complex data warehouse processes. Native Interface to IBM DB2 A native interface to IBM DB2 UDB is now available in ActaWorks 3.1. DB2 is now supported as a source database for data extraction, a target platform for data warehousing applications, and as a platform for the Acta Open Metadata Repository(TM). Support includes native integration with the IBM call-level interface to the DB2 database, as well as automatic integration with the DB2 bulk loader that makes it possible to achieve high throughput in populating the largest data warehouses. Full support for SAP R/3 4.5 Acta customers upgrading from prior releases of R/3 can take advantage of the unique capabilities of R/3 4.5 without the need to modify their ActaWorks jobs. ActaWorks automatically generates the appropriate ABAP/4 code to extract data from R/3 4.5. In addition, ActaWorks 3.1 now takes full advantage of the new performance capabilities available with SAP R/3 OpenSQL 4.5. About Acta, Inc. Acta, Inc. is the leader in packaged ERP data warehouse solutions. Initially focused on SAP AG and PeopleSoft, Acta's solutions include packaged data warehouses, called RapidMarts, built around the industry's only extraction, transformation and loading tool, ActaWorks, architected from inception to be very tightly integrated with ERP systems. Acta is an independent software vendor (ISV) participating in the SAP Complementary Software Program (CSP) and PeopleSoft's Global Alliance Program. ActaWorks has been certified by PeopleSoft and SAP BW interface certified by SAP. Acta is privately held with international headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif. and regional headquarters in Frankfurt, London and Paris. Acta's customer list of over 75 Fortune 1000 companies in eight countries includes Chevron, FX Meiller, Guinness, Maxtor, Monsanto, Sanofi Winthrop, S-B Power Tools, a division of Bosch GmbH; and Shell Chemical Company. For more information, visit Acta's World Wide Web site at http://www.acta.com. Acta, ActaWorks, Open Metadata Repository, and RapidMart are trademarks of Acta Incorporated. SAP, R/3 and all SAP product and service names mentioned herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of SAP AG. All other product and company names mentioned herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. |
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