Avalon Unveils AVALON Analyst New Integrated Decision Support Family; Embraces Microsoft Technology, Delivers First Product in a Series.TUCSON, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 29, 1994--Avalon Software Inc. unveiled Tuesday AVALON Analyst, a new suite of client/server decision support and execution products which are tightly integrated with AVALON applications (formerly Avalon CIIM CIIM Community Internet Intensity Maps CIIM Canary Islands Independence Movement ) for distribution, manufacturing and financial management. The company also announced shipment of the first AVALON Analyst product, Supply Analyst, targeted at purchasing planners. Developed using Microsoft Visual Basic, AVALON Analyst products will leverage the functionality of Avalon's applications to give knowledge workers across the enterprise a personal graphical view of critical information. Because they directly access Avalon application data and logic, these new products will dramatically reduce the amount of the time required to evaluate manufacturing, distribution, and financial information and execute decisions based on this data. Future AVALON Analyst decision support products will be developed in partnership with customers, such as: Engineering Analyst, Scheduler Analyst, Order Analyst, Collections Analyst, Budget Analyst, and Material Analyst. The Avalon Analyst products were developed using Microsoft Visual Basic, an object-oriented development environment which supports the ability to perform graphical data manipulations Processing data. . Avalon also used commercially available Visual Basic Extensions (VBX (Visual Basic EXtension) A component software technology from Microsoft that enabled a Visual Basic (Windows) program to add functionality by calling ready-made software modules. ) and controls to provide functions such as data graphing, charting, and pop-up calculators and calendars. This provides an open environment which maximizes the advantages of Microsoft's tools, and enables the new products to inherit new functionality as the tools and extensions grow. All AVALON Analyst products deliver functionality in three core areas: graphical data presentation, analysis with graphical data manipulation, and integration with AVALON applications for rapid decision execution. Supply Analyst, First in a Series Supply Analyst reduces time-intensive work involved in tracking and expediting the highest impact purchase orders. Supply Analyst is tightly linked to the core AVALON family, allowing purchasing managers A Purchasing Manager is an employee within a company, business or other organization who is responsible at some level for buying or approving the acquisition of goods and services needed by the company. to instantly identify potential supply chain problems, analyze their alternatives, and implement the best possible solution. Graphical Data Presentation: The new AVALON Analyst uses graphical metaphors to represent different processes and corresponding actions. Users can intuitively query the system by any number of variables. Additionally, AVALON Analyst leverages color to help managers more quickly assess the situation. Graphical Data Manipulation: The AVALON Analyst family empowers users to quickly manipulate information through a graphical interface See GUI. . Continuum variables, such as time or quantity, are represented along the two axes axes [L., Gr.] plural of axis. The straight lines which intersect at right angles and on which graphs are drawn. Usually the horizontal axis is the x-axis and the vertical one the y-axis. Called also axes of reference. , enabling managers to move purchase orders forward in time by dragging and dropping a purchase order to a different location on the axis. Avalon also leverages graphical "shrink/stretch" functionality, enabling users to increase the number of units ordered, for example, by making a purchase order bar taller or shorter. Integration with AVALON Applications for Quick Action Because AVALON Analyst products are tightly integrated with the AVALON applications for manufacturing, distribution, and financials, changes in the manufacturing or distribution cycles can immediately be executed. Integration with AVALON applications also allows users to leverage the benefits of database stored procedures In a database management system (DBMS), it is an SQL program that is stored in the database which is executed by calling it directly from the client or from a database trigger. When the SQL procedure is stored in the database, it does not have to be replicated in each client. and triggers, freeing users from data management and administrative concerns. Supply Analyst will be available by the end of 1994 for the 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. platform, and is used in conjunction with AVALON applications. Additional AVALON Analyst products will be developed in partnership with customers. Prices for each Analyst product start at $5,000 per user. For sales information, please contact Avalon at 602/512-2000. Avalon Software distinguishes itself by offering Global 1,000 companies an enterprise-wide solution for manufacturing and distribution. The company's flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. , AVALON Applications, is a suite of client/server solutions for manufacturing, distribution, and financials. This is the only solution which leverages the native strengths of the Oracle and Sybase relational database management systems See DBMS for a shorter list of “typical”, representative database management systems. Open-source software
More than 200 blue chip customers at 325 sites world-wide use Avalon today. Sales and support offices are located throughout North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Europe, and Asia/Pacific, and Avalon also works with a network of leading technology distributors around the world. The company has strategic marketing and development partnerships with major hardware and software vendors. CONTACT: Avalon Software
M.R. Rangaswami, 602/512-2850
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Annette Shimada or Bill Freed, 415/579-7300
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