Ardent Software and BMC Software Partner to Deliver Mainframe Data for Open Systems Environments.WESTBORO, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 21, 1998-- Ardent's DataStage and BMC Software BMC Software, Inc. NYSE: BMC, is an American enterprise management software provider, focusing on IT infrastructure applications. BMC was founded in 1980 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas. EDP (Electronic Data Processing) The first name used for the computer field. EDP - Electronic Data Processing Solutions Combination Provides Fast, Efficient Enterprise-Wide Data Propagation Solution Ardent Software, Inc. (Nasdaq:ARDT ARDT Asset Redeployment Team ARDT After Receipt of Downtime ARDT Age Replacement during Delay Time ), a global data management company and leading provider of data warehouse development tools, and BMC Software (Nasdaq:BMCS BMCS Bristol Muslim Cultural Society (UK) BMCS Senior Chief Boatswain's Mate (Naval Rating) BMCS Blue Mountains Conservation Society (Wentworth Falls, NSW, Australia) ), the leader in providing Application Service Assurance (ASA Asa (ā`sə), in the Bible, king of Judah, son and successor of Abijah. He was a good king, zealous in his extirpation of idols. When Baasha of Israel took Ramah (a few miles N of Jerusalem), Asa bought the help of Benhadad of Damascus and ) solutions that improve the availability, performance and recovery of business-critical applications, today announced a partnership to provide unsurpassed data propagation. Through this partnership Ardent and BMC Software are providing end-users with high-performance solutions for data propagation, including extraction, transformation and changed data capture tools. Ardent Software's DataStage extraction and transformation tool will play a key role in BMC (BMC Software, Inc., Houston, TX, www.bmc.com) A leading supplier of software that supports and improves the availability, performance, and recovery of applications in complex computing environments. Software's Enterprise Data Propagation (EDP) strategy through its integration with BMC Software products such as BMC Software's ChangeDataMove and DataReach. DataStage's versatility, reusable stage architecture, and ease-of-use give end-users the flexibility to meet continuously changing information needs by allowing them to quickly and easily develop and expand transformation tasks within the data management environment. The result of this integration is a comprehensive, high-performance solution for capturing and propagating legacy data to data warehouses and data marts running on open systems 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. databases. "DataStage's scalable environment, ability to perform complex data transformations, and ability to monitor meta data, all contribute to a significant partnership with BMC," 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. Pete Fiore, vice president and general manager for Ardent Software's Data Warehouse business unit. "Ardent expects to work even more closely with BMC Software as we continue to develop and enhance our data management technology." "BMC Software's association with Ardent DataStage represents a real step forward in our ability to integrate legacy applications and new applications at the data level," said Nancy Harris, director of product marketing data availability Refers to the degree to which data can be instantly accessed. The term is mostly associated with service levels that are set up either by the internal IT organization or that may be guaranteed by a third party datacenter or storage provider. and solutions for BMC Software. "The combination of our high-performance bulk data movement and legacy change capture solutions with Ardent's DataStage extraction and transformation tools give customers a complete solution to assure critical business decisions are based on current, accurate and quality data." About DataStage DataStage streamlines the construction and maintenance of data warehouses through its open, scalable and extensible architecture. Its visual design tool allows developers to add more data sources, targets, and transformations without rebuilding applications, thereby reducing cost, time and resources. Using DataStage's modular Plug-In stages, developers can add warehouse functionality as they need it. Reusable components cut development time dramatically and produce data warehouses that grow with the business. DataStage reduces the complexities of the entire data warehouse life cycle for many of the world's leading companies. About BMC Software's Enterprise Data Propagation (EDP) Two new products, ChangeDataMove and DataReach, are included in this initial announcement of BMC Software's EDP Strategy. ChangeDataMove provides highly efficient, transaction-based change capture for DB2 for OS/390, IMS (1) See IP Multimedia Subsystem. (2) (Information Management System) An early IBM hierarchical DBMS for IBM mainframes. IMS was widely implemented throughout the 1970s under MVS and continues to be used under z/OS. , CICS (Customer Information Control System) A TP monitor from IBM that was originally developed to provide transaction processing for IBM mainframes. It controls the interaction between applications and users and lets programmers develop screen displays without VSAM (Virtual Storage Access Method) An IBM access method for storing data, widely used in IBM mainframes. It uses the B+tree method for organizing data. VSAM - Virtual Storage Access Method and VSAM batch applications with near real time or scheduled propagation of the captured changes to DB2 for OS/390 and to Oracle on Unix. The product is a high performance solution designed to support operational applications executing hundreds of transactions per second In a very generic sense, the term Transactions Per Second refers to the number of atomic actions performed by certain entity per second. In a more restrictied view, the term is usually used by DBMS vendor and user community to refer to the number of database transactions performed . For IMS and VSAM, ChangeDataMove is unique because it does not use logs or require any changes to an existing application's logging strategy to capture changes. DataReach Version 2.1 was developed through a partnership between BMC Software and EMC Corporation and provides a new approach for moving DB2 for OS/390 data to Oracle, Sybase and Informix databases on Unix systems. DataReach, while executing on a Unix host, uses EMC Symmetrix storage to directly access MVS (Multiple Virtual Storage) Introduced in 1974, the primary operating system used with IBM mainframes (the others are VM and DOS/VSE). MVS is a batch processing-oriented operating system that manages large amounts of memory and disk space. DB2 data. The data transfers are performed at channel speeds, no mainframe overhead is involved and no network traffic is generated. As a result, DataReach accomplishes a move and load to the target system 10 to 100 times faster than typical network solutions. About Ardent Software Ardent Software is a data management company with a range of software products, including database systems and data warehouse development tools. Its products include the O2 System(R), a high-performance object database management system; DataStage(R), a data warehouse development tool; and UniVerse(R) and UniData(R), extended relational database management systems See DBMS for a shorter list of “typical”, representative database management systems. Open-source software
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 10K for the year ended December 31, 1997. Actual results may differ materially from management's expectations. COBOL COBOL: see programming language. COBOL in full Common Business-Oriented Language. High-level computer programming language, one of the first widely used languages and for many years the most popular language in the business community. Direct Connect, DataStage, O2 System, 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. About BMC Software BMC Software, Inc. is an industry leader in delivering Application Service Assurance (ASA) solutions - enterprise-level software and support that improves the availability, performance and recovery of critical applications and data in complex computing environments. BMC Software is the world's 12th largest independent software vendor and a Forbes 500 company, with revenues exceeding $730 million in fiscal 1998. The company is headquartered in Houston, Texas, with offices worldwide. For more information, please call 800-841-2031 or 713- 918-8800 or visit BMC Software on the Web at www.bmc.com. BMC Software, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer equal opportunity employer An employer or enterprise that does not discriminate against a job candidate, or subject him/her to adverse exclusionary criteria, based on race, sex, religion, or national origin. See Equal employment opportunity. . BMC Software, the BMC Software logos; Application Service Assurance (ASA), ChangeDataMove and DataReach are registered trademarks or trademarks of BMC Software, Inc. in the USA and in other select countries. Other logos and product/trade names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. |
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