Ascential Software Corporation Announces Its Support for BusinessObjects Application Foundation 2.5.Business/Technology Editors WESTBORO, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 20, 2001 Ascential(TM) Software Corporation (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 : ASCL ASCL Alternate Smart Card Logon ASCL Advanced Sonobuoy Communications/Command Link ASCL Application Standard Component Library ), the leading provider of Information Asset Management (IAM IAM - Interactive Algebraic Manipulation. Interactive symbolic mathematics for PDP-10. ["IAM, A System for Interactive Algebraic Manipulation", C. Christensen et al, Proc Second Symp Symb Alg Manip, ACM Mar 1971]. ) software, today announced its support for the release of BUSINESSOBJECTS(TM) Application Foundation 2.5 from its partner Business Objects (NASDAQ: BOBJ BOBJ Business Objects SA ), the world's leading provider of business intelligence (BI) solutions. Application Foundation 2.5 offers users a powerful framework for building dashboards and real-time analytics into their applications, enabling quick access to and easy visualization of customers' critical business metrics metrics Managed care A popular term for standards by which the quality of a product, service, or outcome of a particular form of Pt management is evaluated. See TQM. . Under a strategic reseller agreement signed in July 2001, Business Objects resells Ascential's DataStage(R) data integration platform to provide Application Foundation 2.5 customers the ability to easily access and extract enterprise data through DataStage from any source seamlessly for use by the Application Foundation framework. DataStage accesses and extracts data from virtually every potential data source, including enterprise applications, 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. or e-business data, Web and e-mail logs, flat files, mainframes and data warehouse environments. DataStage also allows Business Objects customers to manage and bi-directionally exchange meta data within their business intelligence environments. "DataStage is the backbone of analytics, which help customers better understand their data for more informed decision-making," said Daniel Sapir, vice president of corporate business development for Ascential Software Corporation. "Ascential is pleased to continue to support Business Objects in its new release of Application Foundation. Having recently acquired Torrent Systems Torrent Systems, originally named Applied Parallel Technologies, was a parallel computing software company founded in 1993 by Rob Utzschneider and Ed Zyszkowski. The company's major product was a parallel flow-based programming system called Orchestrate. , we now accommodate virtually unlimited volumes of data. With our combined solutions, shared customers are realizing the benefits of complete, enterprisewide data integration from the proven leaders in business intelligence." "Application Foundation offers a proactive approach for enabling companies to keep informed and up-to-date about mission critical data. Through real time and alerting capabilities, customers can receive reports via email, personal digital assistant (PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) A handheld computer for managing contacts, appointments and tasks. It typically includes a name and address database, calendar, to-do list and note taker, which are the functions in a personal information manager (see PIM). ) or phone," said Charles Nicholls, group vice president of the Business Objects analytic applications Analytic Applications are a type of business application software, used to measure and improve the performance of business operations. More specifically, Analytic Applications are a type of Business Intelligence solution. division. "We are pleased to receive ongoing support from Ascential, as their products add great value to joint customers' integrated solutions." About Ascential Software Ascential Software Corporation is the leading provider of Information Asset Management solutions to the Global 2000. Customers use Ascential products to turn vast amounts of disparate, unrefined data into reusable information assets that drive business success. Ascential's unique framework for Information Asset Management enables customers to easily collect, validate, organize, administer and deliver information assets to realize more value from their enterprise data, reduce costs and increase profitability. Headquartered in Westboro, Mass., Ascential has offices worldwide and supports more than 1,800 customers in such industries as telecommunications, insurance, financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. , healthcare, media/entertainment and retail. More information on Ascential Software can be found on the Web at http://www.ascentialsoftware.com. (c)2001 Ascential Software. All rights reserved. Ascential is a trademark and DataStage is a registered trademark of Ascential Software Corporation and/or its affiliates and may be registered in other jurisdictions. Business Objects is a trademark of Business Objects SA. WebIntelligence is a registered trademark of Business Objects SA. Other trademarks are the property of the owners of those marks. |
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