Business Objects Announces Strategic Partnership with Carleton Corporation; Link Between BusinessObjects and Carleton PASSPORT Allows Customers to View and Understand Warehouse Metadata.SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 12, 1996--Business Objects (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 : BOBJY), the world's leading provider of integrated query, reporting, and online analytical processing Online Analytical Processing, or OLAP (IPA: /ˈoʊlæp/), is an approach to quickly provide answers to analytical queries that are multidimensional in nature. (OLAP (OnLine Analytical Processing) Decision support software that allows the user to quickly analyze information that has been summarized into multidimensional views and hierarchies. OLAP tools are used to perform trend analysis on sales and financial information. ) tools today announced a strategic partnership with Carleton Corporation, where Carleton plans to integrate its product PASSPORT, a data extract and migration tool, with BusinessObjects, an enterprise decision support tool that helps mainstream business users make better business decisions. Business Objects and Carleton will deliver an integrated warehouse metadata solution that provides a link between BusinessObjects and Carleton PASSPORT. This will enable mutual customers to quickly and easily create BusinessObjects universes from the PASSPORT metadata. A universe is the BusinessObjects semantic layer Semantic Layer The semantic layer is a business representation of corporate data that helps end users access data autonomously using common business terms. Developed and patented by Business Objects, it maps complex data into familiar business terms such as product, that shields end users from database complexity, allowing them to easily access, analyze, and report on data without having to understand complex database language. The integration is aimed at fulfilling the needs of the the mainstream business user, as well as the IT professional. The IT professional now has the ability to view and understand warehouse metadata. "We are very pleased to be partnering with Carleton, and are excited about the powerful solution we can provide by integrating BusinessObjects with Carleton's metadata," said Tim Harmon, vice president of marketing at Business Objects. "Increasingly, BusinessObjects is the end user tool of choice for data warehousing See data warehouse. data warehousing - data warehouse . Through our partnership with Carleton, business users will be able to easily access, analyze, and report on corporate information and IT professionals will be able to see what's in the metadata." "This partnership will bring tremendous value to our mutual customers and partners," said Paul Fluckiger, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Carleton Corporation. "Business Objects will allow our customers the flexibility of using the leading query, reporting, and OLAP tool to access PASSPORT's robust dictionary, which stores both technical and business information." About Carleton Corporation Carleton Corporation is the leading developer of advanced metadata and warehouse management technology and services. With a user base of over 200 large corporations, Carleton's mission is to assist complex organizations in converting their day-to-day operational data into a strategic competitive advantage. Carleton's technology is designed to help customers maximize the full potential of the predominant Information Systems strategies of the `90s', including Data Migrations, Data Warehousing, Client/Server and 3-Tier Computing. More information about Carleton Corporation can be found at their Web site, http://www.carleton.com. About Business Objects Business Objects (NASDAQ:BOBJY) is the world's leading supplier of integrated query, reporting, and OLAP tools. 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. , BusinessObjects, provides mainstream business users with access to information stored in corporate databases, data warehouses, and packaged applications. The company pioneered the market for business-intelligent decision support tools in 1990 by introducing the first product to use a "semantic layer" to map complex database schemas to a business representation understandable by non-technical end users. Business Objects led the overall decision support tools market in 1995 with software license revenues of $48.7M. Business Objects generated over $60M in revenue in 1995, concluding its fifth consecutive year of more than 100% revenue growth. BusinessObjects has been licensed in more than 50 countries to over 2,900 customer sites and 160,000 users worldwide. Business Objects partners with more than 350 leading third-party vendors including Arbor Software See Hyperion. , Hewlett-Packard, 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) , Informix, Microsoft, Oracle, Peoplesoft, Prism, Red Brick, SAP, Sun, and Sybase. Strategic resellers include Bull, Digital, Fujitsu, NCR (NCR Corporation, Dayton, OH, www.ncr.com) A technology company specializing in financial terminal transactions, retail systems and data warehousing. Until the late 1990s, NCR was heavily invested in the hardware side of the industry, known worldwide as a major manufacturer of computers , Price Waterhouse, Sequent, SHL SHL Shift Logical Left SHL Schweizerische Hochschule für Landwirtschaft (German: Swiss College of Agriculture) SHL Southern Hockey League SHL Silver Haired Legislature SHL Single Hidden Layer (neural networks) , Siemens Nixdorf, Toshiba, and Unisys. More information on Business Objects can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.businessobjects.com. -0- Note to Editors: BusinessObjects is a trademark of Business Objects S.A. Other company and product names may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated. Note: Inquiries for Business Objects product information should call: 800/527-0580 or contact the company through the Web at http://www.businessobjects.com. CONTACT: BUSINESS OBJECTS Miriam Standish, 408/973-9300 mstandis@busobj.com or BLANC & OTUS Danielle Dawson, 415/512-0500 ddawson@bando.com |
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