Acta Technology Inc.'s RapidMart Products to Run on Sun Microsystem's Solaris 7.LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 13, 1999-- Acta's Data Warehousing Solutions for Extracting 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. Data for Business Analysis Are Now Available on 64-Bit Operating Environment Acta Technology, Inc. (Acta) announced today at the GartnerGroup's Symposium/ITxpo 99 conference that its award-winning data warehousing solutions will now be available on Solaris 7(TM), a next-generation, 64-bit operating environment by Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq:SUNW SUNW Sun Microsystems, Inc (former stock symbol; now JAVA) SUNW Stanford University Network Workstation (Sun Microsystems, Inc) ). Acta, one of the world's leading providers of packaged data warehousing solutions for decision support, is an exhibitor at ITxpo (October 12th-14th, Booth 7005). Solaris Will Support RapidMarts Solaris 7 will now support the Acta RapidMart(TM) suite, a series of pre-configured data warehouses for business analysis in specific areas such as sales, costs, accounting, and inventory. RapidMarts are powered by ActaWorks(TM) 3.1, an award-winning extraction, transformation, and loading (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. ) platform (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. Magazine, Editor's Choice). Acta solutions are all tightly integrated with ERP (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. ) applications from major vendors such as SAP (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 ). "The availability of Acta RapidMarts on the Sun's Solaris 7 Operating Environment is an exciting development for both of our companies," said Acta Technology 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. "Sun's 64-Bit operating environment is an important platform of the future for both enterprise computing and eCommerce, and ERP data warehousing will certainly play a big part in that future." According to the GartnerGroup, the data warehousing and business-analysis market is expected to top $3 billion in 2000. Analysts expect the figure to grow as companies apply data warehousing architecture to Web-enabled customer relations and eCommerce. Several weeks ago, Acta Technology announced e2e, a new architecture for integrating ERP and other back-office data with Web applications. "The Solaris Operating Environment allows enterprises to enjoy the high-performance standards of next-generation computing," said Jeff Bernard, Director of Solaris Software, Sun Microsystems. "With availability and support for RapidMarts, our customers are better positioned to take advantage of increasingly important packaged solutions for ERP data warehousing." The Solaris 7 Operating Environment provides enhanced performance and scalability for both SPARC (Scalable Performance ARChitecture) A family of RISC CPUs from Sun that runs mostly under Sun's Solaris, but also under Linux and BSD operating systems. After development began in the mid-1980s by David Patterson of the University of California at Berkeley and Bill and Intel platforms via a full 64-bit kernel, which can deliver four billion times the maximum capacity of 32-bit operating environments. The 64-bit capacity allows many more applications to be consolidated onto a single server running the Solaris Operating Environment and adds increased headroom to existing hardware. About Acta Technology, Inc. Founded in 1996, Acta Technology, Inc. is one of the world's leading providers of packaged data warehousing solutions for business analysis and decision support. Acta products help companies to jumpstart their business intelligence programs with pre-configured solutions that can be implemented within days instead of months. Acta RapidMarts, a suite of pre-configured data warehouses for specific areas of business analysis, are powered by ActaWorks, an award-winning extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) platform. Acta recently announced e2e, a new architecture for integrating ERP and other back-office data with Web applications. Based on Acta's data warehousing products, e2e extends Acta's core technology beyond intra-company decision support to the business-to-business eCommerce market. Acta is an active member of the SAP Complementary Software Program (CSP (1) (Certified Systems Professional) An earlier award for successful completion of an ICCP examination in systems development. See ICCP. (2) (Commerce Service P ) and PeopleSoft Global Alliance Program. ActaWorks has been certified by PeopleSoft, and the Acta SAP BW interface has been certified by SAP. The company has established strategic partnerships with leading business intelligence, database, hardware, operating system, and systems integration companies. Acta customers include Chevron (NYSE:CHV CHV canine herpesvirus. ), FX Meiller, Guinness, Maxtor (Nasdaq:MXTR), Monsanto (NYSE:MTC mtc - A Modula-2 to C translator. ftp://rusmv1.rus.uni-stuttgart.de/soft/Unixtools/compilerbau/mtc.tar.Z. ), S-B S-B Stoer-Bulirsch (sampling algorithm) Power Tools (a division of Bosch GmbH), Shell Chemical Company, and other Global 1000 companies. Acta is headquartered at 1001 Elwell Court, Palo Alto, CA 94304, and has international offices in London, Frankfurt and Paris. Sales and partnership inquiries should be directed to Acta's toll-free phone number 888/613-3282. The company recently announced that it has raised $14.5 million in its mezzanine round of financing. The latest round of financing brought total funding to $24 million. Acta has received funding from Van Wagoner Funds, Sycamore Venture Capital, Colman Partners, and Comdisco Ventures. They were joined by existing investors U.S. Venture Partners, Norwest Venture Partners, and Greylock Limited Partnerships. For more information, visit http://www.acta.com/solaris Note to Editors: ActaWorks, RapidMart, and e2e are trademarks of Acta Technology, Inc. All other product and company names mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners. On site for Acta Technology, Inc. At the GartnerGroup's Symposium ITxpo 99 conference: Jeffrey Coombs, Vice President of Marketing Call 650/847-5307 for appointment |
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