Announcing the Finalists for DM Review's 1998 World Class Solution Award for Data Warehousing.

MILWAUKEE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 21, 1998--DM Review, as the industry's no. 1 publication in data warehousing and business intelligence, acknowledges data warehousing as the key to strategic corporate decision making for competitive advantage. The World Class Solution Awards for Data Warehousing recognize innovative, successful data warehouse implementations in several strategic categories.

The 1998 categories and finalists are: Database Engines - Hitachi Data Systems and NCR; Data Warehouse Frameworks and Data Marts - NCR, SAS and Torrent Systems; Data Warehouse Applications - IBM, Informix, NCR and SAS; Business Intelligence (Data Mining & Visualization) - Geographic Data Technology, NCR and SAS; Business Intelligence (Query & Reporting, OLAP) - Actuate Software Corporation, Brio Technology, Business Objects, Gentia and NCR; Data Quality, Extraction and Transformation - NCR, Platinum technology, inc. and Trillium Software.

Submissions were based on actual data warehouse implementations. A panel of judges ranked the submissions according to the original guidelines and questions that were sent to hardware and software companies. The judges will review the submissions and interview contacts from the data warehouse sites for final selection. Winners will be announced in the January 1999 issue of DM Review.

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