Ardent Software Delivers Data Integration Infrastructure for PeopleSoft Enterprise Performance Management.WESTBORO, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 26, 1999-- Ships Extract PACK(TM) 1.0 and BI BluePrint(TM) 1.0 For PeopleSoft EPM EPM equine protozoal myeloencephalitis. Ardent Software, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :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 the availability of products designed to enhance the development and deployment of business intelligence infrastructure for the PeopleSoft Enterprise Performance Management(TM) (EPM) solution. Ardent's BI Blueprint(TM) product enables users to browse PeopleSoft meta data in familiar terms and hierarchies, and export that meta data to applications throughout the enterprise. Ardent's Extract Packaged Application Connection Kit, or PACK(TM), allows the PeopleSoft Enterprise Warehouse to be populated easily with data from heterogeneous sources, facilitating the job design process for EPM implementation. Earlier this year, Ardent announced extended certification as a PeopleSoft Enterprise Performance Management solution partner with DataStage(R) Release 3.5. BI Blueprint and Extract PACK are a natural evolution of this effort. "Providing products to maximize the efficiency and ease the implementation of PeopleSoft EPM is a direct response to our customers' increasing demand for ERP-based business intelligence infrastructure," said Mikael Wipperfeld, vice president of data warehouse marketing at Ardent Software. "This BI infrastructure allows users to leverage the vast amounts of data generated by these 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. systems. Ardent is committed to bringing customers advanced BI infrastructure solutions for their ERP systems." PeopleSoft Enterprise Performance Management enables organizations to make better strategic business decisions by bringing together operational and financial information to increase customer satisfaction, optimize ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). , effectively manage risk, maximize profitability, and reduce organizational costs. American Century Investments American Century Investments is a privately held investment management firm. Its headquarters are located at 4500 Main in Kansas City, Missouri, near the famous Country Club Plaza. It was formerly known as Twentieth Century Investments. The company was founded by James E. , a Kansas City-based mutual fund company with approximately $93 billion in assets and serving nearly two million individual and institutional investors, is implementing both the PeopleSoft EPM solution and Ardent's DataStage with the BI Blueprint and Extract PACK products. "We have a long-standing relationship with both PeopleSoft and Ardent. When we decided to implement the EPM system, we were confident that Ardent's data warehouse creation and population products would provide us with the most effective solution possible," said Roby Shay shay n. Informal A chaise. [Back-formation from chaise (taken as pl. )] Noun 1. , director of information technology at American Century This article is about the term used for American power in the 20th century. For the investment company, see American Century Investments. "American Century" is a term coined by Time . "We are integrating data from multiple sources including legacy systems, mainframes, flat files, and transactional databases. We felt that Ardent could deliver a fully integrated data warehouse creation and population product for all the IT platforms we needed to access, including 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). , NT, mainframe, and mixed environments." Availability Ardent's extraction and population products for PeopleSoft EPM are available immediately. Pricing starts at $25,000 for the BI Blueprint product and $45,000 for the Extract PACK. 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 (Intel and Alpha NT) and all major UNIX implementations. For more information about Ardent's BI Blueprints and Extract PACKs, visit the Ardent Software Web site at www.ardentsoftware.com. Ardent Software's integrated data warehouse development and management tools and services streamline the design and implementation of data warehouses and data marts for the enterprise. Ardent's DataStage, MetaBrokers, Quality Manager, and Warehouse Executive provide scalable, flexible, cost-effective data warehousing See data warehouse. data warehousing - data warehouse solutions for many of the world's leading companies. Ardent's data warehousing tools facilitate mainframe data migration, data cleansing See address cleansing and data hygiene. , data transformation, meta data management, and ERP solutions. 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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