Ardent DataStage Delivers Complete e-Business Information Infrastructure For B2B and B2C Applications.Business/Technology Editors WESTBORO, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 23, 2000 DataStage Suite Extended to Create Powerful Platform for Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the Business Data Integration and Web Analytics 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. Software, Inc. (Nasdaq:ARDT ARDT Asset Redeployment Team ARDT After Receipt of Downtime ARDT Age Replacement during Delay Time ), a leading global data management software company, today announced plans for Linux support, along with a series of new products and services developed specifically to help companies compete in the e-Business arena. These additions to Ardent DataStage Suite(TM) enable enterprises to bring together data from virtually any source, and enable them to leverage Internet data from web servers and e-mail sources. "Ardent's e-Business information infrastructure(TM) addresses three critical factors challenging corporations today in effectively leveraging information in their e-commerce environments," said Mikael Wipperfeld, vice president of data warehouse marketing for Ardent Software. "The first is the need to access and transform data from web servers and e-mail servers See mail server. for analytic an·a·lyt·ic or an·a·lyt·i·cal adj. 1. Of or relating to analysis or analytics. 2. Expert in or using analysis, especially one who thinks in a logical manner. 3. Psychoanalytic. processing. The second is the need for `click and mortar' companies to integrate new e-commerce applications with existing systems. Finally, there is the need to transport and share information and meta data in a standard format. Additionally, Ardent DataStage Suite now offers a complete spectrum of e-Business information infrastructure services for all major data sources and platforms in Internet, client/server, and mainframe environments." New DataStage functionality being announced today includes:
- Linux Port, which extends DataStage support beyond Windows NT and
popular Unix platforms to include this increasingly popular
operating system. According to Forrester Research, Linux will
become a dominant platform for running Internet commerce
applications. Ardent DataStage is the first data integration
product with announced availability on the Linux platform.
- ClickPack, which extends DataStage to support extracting data
from web server log files and email systems, and parsing that
data using new built-in transformations as well as user-written
Perl functions.
- XML Pack, which extends DataStage to support reading and writing
XML data; importing, exporting and meta data using XML
interchange; and publishing meta data reports to XML documents.
- MQSeries Plug-in, which extends DataStage to support reading data
from and writing data to IBM MQSeries message queues. As
companies move their businesses onto the web, the ability to
support real-time data movement is becoming more critical. Ardent
DataStage's support of MQSeries is the first step towards
supporting real-time data warehousing and business intelligence.
- e-Iterations, a complete design and implementation methodology
for building Internet data warehouses, or webhouses, used in web
analytics.
"As we expand our Internet data warehousing See data warehouse. data warehousing - data warehouse operations, we are looking to Ardent Software for solutions to maximize our e-Business information infrastructure," said Jack Garzella, manager of database development and architecture at MatchLogic, an Excite@Home company. "Ardent has traditionally provided some of the strongest data quality, data movement, and meta data management tools. The company's new e-Business products will incorporate that functionality with access to Internet and e-mail data sources." "Key e-business enablers from information infrastructure providers include robust XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. and message queue A storage space in memory or on disk that holds incoming transmissions until the computer can process them. See messaging middleware. support," says Doug Laney, data warehouse analyst with META Group. "Ardent is certainly lining up the right mix of capabilities to assist enterprises in expanding their traditional macro-analytic infrastructure to high-velocity, low-latency micro-analytics and improving inter-enterprise information mobility." "As an XML pioneer, DataChannel is very excited about Ardent's evolving information infrastructure strategy. It enables partners, suppliers, and employees to seamlessly subscribe to Verb 1. subscribe to - receive or obtain regularly; "We take the Times every day" subscribe, take buy, purchase - obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction; "The family purchased a new car"; "The conglomerate acquired a new company"; critical enterprise information, via DataChannel's recently announced Enterprise Information Portal See corporate portal. , DataChannel Server 4.0," said Lucie Fjeldstad, president of DataChannel. "It is well known that DataStage offers industry-leading data integration capabilities and this new development makes it even easier to integrate vital data among enterprise applications, data warehouses, and legacy systems and finally to the people who matter via an Enterprise Portal See corporate portal. using XML." Availability Ardent's e-Business information infrastructure components will be available as add-ons to the DataStage Suite starting in Q1. For detailed pricing information, please contact Ardent Software at (800) 966-9875. About Ardent DataStage Ardent DataStage Suite includes a complete data movement and integration solution with native access to data from mainframe, Unix, and Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. environments; data quality assurance capabilities; and full lifecycle meta data management; all complemented by industry-leading professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. . About Ardent Software Ardent Software is a leading global data management software company. Ardent develops and markets data integration infrastructure software for e-business, data warehousing and analytical analytical, analytic pertaining to or emanating from analysis. analytical control control of confounding by analysis of the results of a trial or test. applications, and enterprise portals; along with embedded databases (1) Database software that is included with an application rather than offered as a separate database management system (see DBMS). Tending to be compact and efficient, an embedded database generally includes fewer features than a full-blown DBMS. and tools for developing and deploying packaged applications. With worldwide sales and service operations, and 1,000 resellers in more than 50 countries, Ardent is one of the top software companies in the world. More than 60,000 customers and 2.2 million users in virtually every aspect of business and government use solutions that are powered by Ardent technology. Ardent is headquartered in Westboro, Massachusetts. The company's common stock trades on the Nasdaq National Market under the symbol "ARDT." For more information, visit Ardent's web site at www.ardent.com. Statements expressing the beliefs and expectations of management regarding future performance are forward-looking and involve risks and uncertainties, including, but not limited to, quarterly fluctuations in results and other risks. These risks are detailed from time to time in the Company's Securities and Exchange Commission filings, including the Company's Form 10-K Form 10-K A report required by the SEC from exchange-listed companies that provides for annual disclosure of certain financial information. Form 10-K See 10-K. for the year ended December 31, 1998. Actual results may differ materially from management's expectations. DataStage, and Iterations are registered trademarks of Ardent Software, Inc. 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