Blaze Software Delivers Multilingual, Cross-Platform E-business Personalization.Business Editors, High-Tech Writers MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 25, 2000 Blaze Advisor A system for adding rules-based processing into an application from Fair Isaac Corporation, Minneapolis, MN, (www.fairisaac.com). Blaze Advisor is a Java-based rules engine that enables Windows, Solaris and OS/390 applications to be more easily revised by making changes in the rules 2.6 supports 10 languages, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) AS/400 and S/390 systems, and Compaq NonStop Himalaya servers Blaze Software, a leading supplier of &uot;Beyond Personalization(tm)&uot; e-business solutions, today announced the delivery of Blaze Advisor Solutions Suite(tm) 2.6, supporting ten languages, IBM's AS/400 and S/390(a) systems, and Compaq's NonStop(tm) Himalaya servers. With additional language and cross-platform support, Advisor 2.6 enables companies to globalize glob·al·ize tr.v. glob·al·ized, glob·al·iz·ing, glob·al·iz·es To make global or worldwide in scope or application. glob and scale their e-business personalization solutions across the hardware and software that drives e-business applications and online customer interactions. &uot;E-business reaches a global customer base over the Web and other emerging touchpoints, so businesses must internationalize in·ter·na·tion·al·ize tr.v. in·ter·na·tion·al·ized, in·ter·na·tion·al·iz·ing, in·ter·na·tion·al·iz·es 1. To make international. 2. To put under international control. their customer interactions in order to effectively build relationships,&uot; said Tom Kelly People named Tom Kelly include:
Blaze Software has licensed Blaze Advisor for use at companies around the world, including Abbey National, BNP BNP B-type natriuretic peptide, brain natriuretic peptide Physiology A 32-residue peptide hormone produced predominantly in the ventricles, secreted in response to fluid overload–eg, CHF. See Atrial natriuretic peptide. , Bouygues Telecom, France Telecom, Fraunhofer Institute, Kensington Mortgage Company, and Matsushita. Internationalized Personalization Advisor includes support for 10 languages including Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish. Additional language support in Advisor 2.6 provides a user-friendly environment for multinational companies and software vendors creating and implementing the business rules that drive e-business interactions with their customers. All development screens, menus, and error messages DOS and Windows error messages are listed individually in this database by the message that is displayed when they occur. See also DOS error messages and Application Error.  appear in the supported languages. Language displays default to the language setting of the user's Java Virtual Machine A Java interpreter. The Java Virtual Machine (JVM) is software that converts the Java intermediate language (bytecode) into machine language and executes it. The original JVM came from the JavaSoft division of Sun. environment, but may be overwritten to permit working in any supported language at any time. &uot;The multilingual version of Blaze Advisor allows us to more quickly deploy e-business and one-to-one marketing solutions,&uot; said Pierre Bonnet, a consultant in France with Syntegra, the global consulting and information systems business of BT. &uot;Indeed, the management of all marketing and supply chain rules is directly accessible in our users' native languages. This represents another guarantee of success for our international projects.&uot; &uot;With Blaze we can address the challenge to better serve our customers,&uot; said Rolf Schaufelberger, project manager at Weru AG, the largest window manufacturer in Europe. &uot;Our new system, built on Blaze, helps our customers to easily find the right product 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. their specific needs. Furthermore it ensures completeness of orders and reduces time of production. Our goal here is to improve time-to-market, reduce cost of maintenance and maximize customer satisfaction.&uot; &uot;With Blaze Advisor, we are able to propose to our clients flexible and adaptable e-business solutions that business users can adapt quickly to ever changing market conditions,&uot; said Pierre Thauron, director of e-business with SOPRA, one of the largest information services See Information Systems. providers in Europe. &uot;The new version makes managing the business rules an even easier experience.&uot; Hidetoshi Sako, president of Blaze Software, Japan, said &uot;Blaze Software's international language capabilities support the `Beyond Personalization' demands of existing customers such as Hitachi Software Engineering, INTEC INTEC Information Technology (Ghent University department) INTEC Institut National des Techniques Économiques et Comptables (National Technical Institute for Business and Accounting; Paris, France) , and NTT NTT Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation NTT New Technology Telescope NTT National Technology Transfer, Inc NTT Name That Tune (TV game show) NTT National Tree Trust NTT Number Theoretic Transform Software as well as new clients in Japan and other Pacific Rim Pacific Rim, term used to describe the nations bordering the Pacific Ocean and the island countries situated in it. In the post–World War II era, the Pacific Rim has become an increasingly important and interconnected economic region. countries.&uot; Scaleable, Cross-Platform Support The new Blaze Advisor Solutions Suite release provides for service on IBM's AS/400 and S/390 systems as well as on Compaq's NonStop Himalaya servers, offering companies options to scale across several robust e-business platforms. Quality-tested and supported operation on these platforms enables companies to execute their business rules to drive customer interactions in the most popular high-volume, mission-critical application environments. &uot;As companies build rich customer personalization and interaction capabilities across their e-businesses, it's important to consider if these applications will scale to meet future business growth,&uot; said Eric Kintzer, Chief Technology Officer at Blaze Software. &uot;With Advisor's additional support for robust e-business platforms, including Compaq's NonStop Himalaya servers and IBM's DB2 Universal Database for AS/400 and OS/390, companies have a range of options, from small to large enterprise-scale, to support their growing, global e-business environments.&uot; About Blaze Software Blaze Software, Inc. is a leading provider of rules-based e-business software enabling adaptable and personalized interaction that is consistent across all contact points. The Blaze Advisor Solutions Suite allows Global 2000 corporations and software vendors to deploy high-volume applications that can reflect--or even surpass--the service abilities of a company's best employees. The 100% Java suite is designed to give e-business applications more personalized interaction for users, leading to greater customer retention, decreased costs, and increased sales. Blaze applications can be changed on the fly, allowing e-business offerings to respond to changing market conditions, business practices, and customer preferences. Blaze personalization solutions are constructed to be extended easily across contact points (Web, IVR (Interactive Voice Response) An automated telephone information system that speaks to the caller with a combination of fixed voice menus and data extracted from databases in real time. , call centers) and across processes (customer, employee, partner and supplier). Blaze powers e-business projects for more than 200 customers in the high technology, financial, insurance, manufacturing, telecommunications, and healthcare industries, and Blaze is embedded in leading e-business software packages. Blaze offers complete support for implementations across extended enterprises and within software applications, including training, consulting, and integration services. Blaze Software is headquartered in Mountain View, California For the census-designated place, see Mountain View, Contra Costa County, California. For other places called "Mountain View", see . Mountain View is a city in Santa Clara County, in the U.S. state of California. The city gets its name from the views of the Santa Cruz Mountains. , and maintains a global network of subsidiaries and resellers in North and South America, Europe, and Asia. For more information, visit www.blazesoft.com. (a) Indicates trademark or registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation. 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