Asia Tools Up for Data Warehousing With Ardent Software's DataStage Release 3.6; New DataStage Release 3.6 Supports Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and Thai.WESTBORO, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 27, 1999-- 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 the availability of DataStage(R) Release 3.6, the industry's leading extraction, transformation and loading See ETL. (ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) The functions performed when pulling data out of one database and placing it into another of a different type. ETL is used to migrate data, often from relational databases into decision support systems. ) tool. DataStage Release 3.6 features double byte character encoding (character) character encoding - (Or "character encoding scheme") A mapping of binary values to code positions and back; generally a 1:1 (bijective) mapping. In the case of ASCII, this is generally a f(x)=x mapping: code point 65 maps to the byte value 65, and vice versa. and support for Japanese, simplified and traditional Chinese, Korean, and Thai, strengthening Ardent's data warehousing See data warehouse. data warehousing - data warehouse presence in Asia-Pacific by enabling IT developers to extract, transform and load data in native character sets. "Ardent's DataStage Release 3.6 is an easy-to-use, customizable ETL for IT developers working in native Asian languages," said Pete Fiore, vice president and general manager of Ardent Software's Data Warehouse Business Unit. "DataStage Release 3.6 is part of Ardent's product strategy to offer easily customizable products to fit the needs of particular geographic markets. This release stands as strong evidence that Ardent is committed to providing its partners in Japan and throughout Asia with the tools they need for successful data warehousing solutions." With DataStage Release 3.6, Ardent delivers on its recent partnership agreements with Japanese companies This is a list of companies from Japan. Note that 株式会社 can be (and frequently is) read both kabushiki kaisha and kabushiki gaisha (with or without a hyphen). See that article for more details. to ensure product localization Customizing software and documentation for a particular country. It includes the translation of menus and messages into the native spoken language as well as changes in the user interface to accommodate different alphabets and culture. See internationalization and l10n. with a fully localized Kanji (human language, character) kanji - /kahn'jee/ (From the Japanese "kan" - the Chinese Han dynasty, and "ji" - glyph or letter of the alphabet. Not capitalised. Plural "kanji") The Japanese word for a Han character used in Japanese. user interface. In addition to supporting native language code, DataStage Release 3.6 provides a localization kit that enables developers to tailor a user interface to conform with national language, monetary, date, and numeric conventions. Ardent's Japan partners include NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. , Hitachi, Nihon Sougou-Kenkyuzyo (the Japan Research Institute), Nikki Jyouhou System K.K. (JGC JGC Jeep Grand Cherokee JGC Japan Gasoline Co. JGC Grand Canyon, Arizona, Heliport (Airport Code) Information Systems Co., Ltd.), JRI JRI Journaliste Reporter d'Images (French: Image Reporter Journaliste) JRI John Ray Initiative JRI James Redford Institute for Transplant Awareness (Los Angeles, CA) Technology Service (a division of The Japan Research Institute), ENICOM and Teijin Systems Technology. "Many Japanese companies have been looking to build data warehouses as a means of gaining an advantage in the extremely competitive Japanese market. For them, one of the greatest challenges has been to extract data from proprietary mainframe databases built on Kanji code - code that is not compatible with personal computers and other manufacturer-developed mainframe computers," said Hiroo Shin, general manager of NEC Corporation's C&C Marketing Division. "DataStage 3.6 provides a solution by supporting various types of mainframe Kanji code, including NEC's ACOS (language) ACOS - A BBS language for PRODOS 8 on Apple II. Macos is a hacked version of ACOS. series Kanji code." "For Ardent, expanding globally is a carefully thought out, well planned process. It includes identifying local challenges and addressing them with products such as DataStage 3.6, enabling the national subsidiaries to better penetrate their markets," said Hiroshi Muto, head of Ardent Software K.K., Ardent's Japanese subsidiary headquartered in Tokyo. "DataStage Release 3.6 is helping us to establish Ardent in the Japanese market by providing our partners, VARs and resellers with the localization capabilities they need and the enhancements customers are demanding, such as the new transformation and expression editors, meta data usage analysis and exchange, and support for ActiveX routines." Ardent's new Japanese office, opened March '99, complements the company's already significant regional presence. Ardent opened its Sydney, Australia location in 1991 and also has offices in New Zealand New Zealand (zē`lənd), island country (2005 est. pop. 4,035,000), 104,454 sq mi (270,534 sq km), in the S Pacific Ocean, over 1,000 mi (1,600 km) SE of Australia. The capital is Wellington; the largest city and leading port is Auckland. , Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong Hong Kong (hŏng kŏng), Mandarin Xianggang, special administrative region of China, formerly a British crown colony (2005 est. pop. 6,899,000), land area 422 sq mi (1,092 sq km), adjacent to Guangdong prov. supporting its regional distribution network. Ardent Software K.K. is located at the Shinjyuku Sumitomo Building 36F, 2-6-1 Nishi-Shinjyuku, Shinjyuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan, and can be contacted by telephone at +81-3-5325-1070 or via facsimile at +81-3-5325-1085. About DataStage DataStage streamlines the building and maintenance of data warehouses through its meta data management capabilities and its open, scalable and extensible architecture. DataStage's MetaBrokers simplify the data extraction Data extraction is the act or process of retrieving (binary) data out of (usually unstructured or badly structured) data sources for further data processing or data storage (data migration). and transformation process by enabling the complete exchange of both meta data form and content between data warehousing tools, eliminating the need to re-key meta data. 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 Ardent Software and Prism Solutions On Monday, April 26, 1999, Ardent announced the completion of its acquisition of data warehousing pioneer Prism Solutions. By acquiring Prism, Ardent has nearly doubled its data warehouse sales force to approximately 110, gained over 400 blue-chip customers, expanded its capabilities in the extraction and transformation of mainframe data, added SAP warehouse interfaces, and increased its European and Asian presence. Ardent now offers one of the industry's broadest and most comprehensive sets of data warehousing tools and services across mainframe, 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). , and Windows NT platforms. About Ardent Software Ardent Software is a leading global data management software company. Ardent develops and markets embedded databases and software tools for enterprise-scale applications and data warehouses. 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 10K 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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