Ardent Software, EMC, Seagate Software, and Bill Inmon Present: 'Data Warehousing at the Crossroads: ERP and the Data Warehouse'.WESTBORO, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--October 7, 1999-- Seminars Offer Solutions to 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. and Data Warehouse Challenges Ardent 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 its sponsorship of a North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. seminar series to help corporations meet the growing need to accurately exchange data between 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) solutions and other business information systems, including data warehouses, data marts, business intelligence tools, and transactional systems. EMC (1) (EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA, www.emc.com) The leading supplier of storage products for midrange computers and mainframes. Founded in 1979 by Richard J. Egan and Roger Marino, EMC has developed advanced storage and retrieval technologies for the world's largest companies. , Seagate Software Seagate Software was an international software corporation headquartered in Scotts Valley, California. It was a majority owned subsidiary of Seagate Technology, the largest independent disc drive and related components company in the world. , and data warehousing expert Bill Inmon of Kiva kiva (kē`və), large, underground ceremonial chamber, peculiar to the ancient and modern Pueblo. The modern kiva probably evolved from the slab houses (i.e. Productions will join Ardent in addressing the challenges enterprises face as they seek to maximize the return on their ERP investments. "As we've worked with PeopleSoft and SAP customers, we have found that accurate data movement, full life cycle meta data management, and data quality assurance are critical to the success of data warehouse implementations within these popular ERP environments," said Mikael Wipperfeld, vice president of data warehouse marketing at Ardent Software. "In these seminars we will examine the tools, techniques and strategies for moving data in and out of ERP systems." The seminar series "Data Warehousing at the Crossroads: ERP and the Data Warehouse" will include four October dates: Toronto on October 12; New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. on October 14; Chicago on October 26; and Seattle on October 28. For more information please visit Ardent Software on the Web at www.ardentsoftware.com or contact Melissa Crowe at (508) 366-3888, extension 3796. Ardent Software is a proven leader in data warehouse solutions for ERP systems. Ardent's BI Blueprint(TM) for PeopleSoft includes templates for easily populating the PeopleSoft EPM EPM equine protozoal myeloencephalitis. data warehousing solution. Ardent's Packaged Application Connection Kits (PACK(TM)) for PeopleSoft enables users to browse PeopleSoft data and meta data using PeopleSoft terms, security, and interfaces, and integrates that data and meta data in an open data warehousing environment. Ardent's DataStage Extract PACK for SAP R/3 enables users to extract data directly from SAP R/3 systems natively and integrate it with data from other sources, leveraging the powerful visual design process of DataStage for modeling and deploying source-to-target transformations and loads. Ardent's extensive set of built-in libraries for complex transformations supports this process. Ardent's DataStage Load PACK for SAP BW adheres to the SAP standard interface protocol, BAPI (Business API) An interface to one of SAP's earlier R/3 applications. It enabled third-party developers to write enhancements that interacted with the R/3 modules. See R/3. BAPI - Business Application Programming Interface , supporting high performance loading of the Business Information Warehouse from heterogeneous sources. About Ardent Software Ardent Software is a leading global data management software company. Ardent develops and markets data integration software for data warehouse and analytical applications, and embedded databases and tools for developing and deploying packaged operational 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 applications powered by Ardent's products and technologies to solve their complex data management problems. 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.ardentsoftware.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, Iterations, O2 Technology, Prism, RedBack, System Builder, UniData, UniVerse and wIntegrate are registered trademarks of Ardent Software, Inc. Other trademarks and registered trademarks are property of the respective trademark holders. |
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