Ardent DataStage 4.0 Enables Dot-Coms and Global 2000 Companies to Capitalize on Internet, ERP and BI Investments.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers MENLO PARK Menlo Park. 1 Residential city (1990 pop. 28,040), San Mateo co., W Calif.; inc. 1874. Electronic equipment and aerospace products are manufactured in the city. Menlo College and a Stanford Univ. research institute are there. 2 Uninc. , Calif. and WESTBORO, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 4, 2000 New Release Provides Powerful Business Information Infrastructure for the i.Economy Informix(R) Corporation (Nasdaq:IFMX IFMX Informix Corporation ), the technology leader in the software infrastructure for the i.Economy, today announced the immediate availability of Ardent (Ardent Software, Inc., Westboro, MA) A database vendor formed in 1998 as the merger of VMARK Software, Unidata and O2 Technology. Its products included the UniVerse and UniData databases and DataStage data warehouse utility. (TM) DataStage(R) Release 4.0, the industry's leading business intelligence (BI) infrastructure platform. Ardent DataStage Release 4.0 enables dot-coms and large-scale enterprises to leverage e-commerce data for business-critical decision support. "Dot-com and not-com companies alike now find themselves competing in a rapidly expanding information-based economy with an `entry-fee' that includes a solid set of integrated information infrastructure technologies spanning e-commerce and analytics," said Doug Laney, META Group vice president. "Ideal solutions of this nature include components for data quality assurance, scaleable data movement and open meta data management -- each Internet data warehouse enabled." According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Mikael Wipperfeld, vice president, marketing at Informix Software, "the enhancements in Ardent DataStage Release 4.0 provide dot-com and global 2000 companies with the business intelligence infrastructure solutions they need to successfully compete in the Internet economy The Internet Economy refers to conducting business through markets whose infrastructure is based on the Internet and World-Wide Web. An Internet economy differs from a traditional economy in a number of ways, including: communication, market segmentation, distribution costs, and price. . With this release we have extended Ardent DataStage's web intelligence capabilities and enhanced the solution's extensibility and functionality across the enterprise." Feature Highlights New features in Ardent DataStage Release 4.0 provide improved e-business functionality, including support for clickstream The trail of mouse clicks made by a user performing a particular operation on the computer. It often refers to linking from one page to another on the Web. analysis, and tools for capturing and managing Internet-based data; greater scalability; and improved developer productivity. Highlights include:
-- Ardent DataStage ClickPack(TM), which provides access to web
server log data from Apache, IIS, and Netscape servers for
clickstream analysis, support for email data extraction and
transformation, and native support for existing Perl applications
-- The industry's first standard XML Document Type Definition (DTD)
for Extraction, Transformation, and Transport (ETT) meta data
-- Ardent DataStage XML Pack support for reading and writing XML data
and publishing meta data reports to XML documents
-- More user control of the execution environment and sophisticated
versioning control, supporting large-scale transformation
processes across the enterprise
"In order to maintain our high level of customer service we needed an information infrastructure that could quickly and efficiently manage data from a variety of sources," said David Shapland, director, IT systems at Hertz hertz (hûrts) [for Heinrich R. Hertz], abbr. Hz, unit of frequency, equal to 1 cycle per second. The term is combined with metric prefixes to denote multiple units such as the kilohertz (1,000 Hz), megahertz (1,000,000 Hz), and gigahertz Lease Europe. "DataStage Release 4.0, with its enhanced analytics capabilities, functionality, usability and scalability, was the perfect solution for managing our complex, Internet-based data warehouse, enabling us to shift our focus from IT problems to customer satisfaction." Ardent DataStage Suite is a data transformation and integration solution supporting e-business, data warehousing See data warehouse. data warehousing - data warehouse , enterprise portal See corporate portal. , and business intelligence applications. Ardent DataStage provides native access and data transformation functionality in mainframe, client/server, and Internet environments; data quality assurance capabilities; Internet business data integration and Web analytics; and full lifecycle meta data management; all complemented by industry-leading methodologies and professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. . Availability Ardent DataStage Release 4.0 is available today. Supported platforms include Microsoft Windows See Windows. (operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then. NT and Sun Solaris. All other 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). implementations will be shipping within 60 days. For more information about the Ardent DataStage SAP-enabled products, visit the Informix web site at www.informix.com. About Informix Based in Menlo Park, Calif., Informix Software is the technology leader in software infrastructure solutions for the Internet. Informix is the first and only company to integrate e-commerce and business intelligence on a true Internet infrastructure. Informix provides a fast, simple and complete way to bring businesses to the Web. The company's solutions can personalize per·son·al·ize tr.v. per·son·al·ized, per·son·al·iz·ing, per·son·al·iz·es 1. To take (a general remark or characterization) in a personal manner. 2. To attribute human or personal qualities to; personify. content management, and analyze information real-time. This, with Informix's highly scalable Web engines and media asset management capabilities, gives its customers a unique competitive advantage. For more information, contact the sales office nearest you or visit our Web site at www.informix.com. (c)2000 Informix Corporation. All rights reserved. The following are trademarks of Informix Corporation or its affiliates, one or more of which may be registered in the U.S. or other jurisdictions: Informix(R), Ardent(TM), DataStage(R)and ClickPack. Note to Editors: Informix news releases are available at no charge through Business Wire's NewsOnDemand fax service. To immediately receive an index of available releases, call 800/356-0851. |
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