Business Objects and Penta Revolutionize Management Information and Decision Support in Engineering & Construction Industry.BROOKFIELD, Wis adv. 1. Certainly; really; indeed. v. t. 1. To think; to suppose; to imagine; - used chiefly in the first person sing. present tense, I wis. See the Note under Ywis. .--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 1, 1996--Penta Technologies, Inc. today heralded the release of BUSINESSOBJECTS 4.0, a powerful new version of the industry's leading enterprise decision support toolset. Penta Technologies is a Business Objects Vertical Application Reseller An organization that sells hardware and software to the general public. Resellers purchase products from software publishers and hardware manufacturers. (VAR) partner. Penta Technologies specializes in delivering effective integrated project and financial systems to the Engineering & Construction (E&C) industry. For more than twenty-five years, the Years, The the seven decades of Eleanor Pargiter’s life. [Br. Lit.: Benét, 1109] See : Time company has been meeting the management information needs of the world's leading E&C organizations. The Penta professionals are helping top ENR-ranked firms -- including John Brown E & C, Black & Veatch, and Rust International -- operate and compete more effectively in the turbulent conditions of today's engineering and construction market. The company's principle product, PENTA, offers a unique, standards-based system architecture that helps project-oriented organizations manage all aspects of the business, from people, projects, and documents to financial reports and consolidations. Penta Technologies meets its clients' management information needs by applying the most powerful, widely-accepted open systems standards and products, including the industry-leading ORACLE relational database management system relational database management system - relational database , and the industry's most powerful business-intelligent decision support tool, BUSINESSOBJECTS. Karl Koenig, Penta Technologies 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. said, "Our clients are very excited about the release of BUSINESSOBJECTS 4.0. At Penta Technologies, we take a `best of breed' approach to providing client solutions. Our strategy is to search out and employ all the best tools, to help our users become more efficient, effective, productive, and profitable. BUSINESSOBJECTS is an integral component of this strategy." Koenig continued, "With its powerful new scripting language A high-level programming, or command, language that is interpreted (translated on the fly) rather than compiled ahead of time. A scripting, or script, language may be a general-purpose programming language or it may be limited to specific functions used to augment the running of an and the graphical DESIGNER and SUPERVISOR modules, BUSINESSOBJECTS 4.0 will enable our clients to develop and deploy custom EIS (1) (Executive Information System) An information system that consolidates and summarizes ongoing transactions within the organization. It provides top management with all the information it requires at all times from internal and external sources. and decision support applications that give them exactly the information they need, when and how they need it. The E&C industry operates on exceptionally tight margins; getting the right information in a timely manner can have a tremendous impact on the outcome of a project. Tools like BUSINESSOBJECTS dramatically increase our clients' productivity and effectiveness." "Sophisticated application suites like PENTA really benefit from BUSINESSOBJECTS' meta representation of complex database structures. Using data objects defined by Penta Technologies, PENTA users can develop, deliver, and administer robust decision support systems with minimal effort, and without assistance from IS," said Bernard Liautaud Bernard Liautaud is chairman and chief strategy officer of Business Objects. Liautaud cofounded Business Objects in 1990 and was chief executive officer until September 2005. , president and CEO of Business Objects. "Teaming PENTA's powerful, project-oriented data objects with BUSINESSOBJECTS' dynamic microcube query engine and reporting tools provides a solution that is unique in the E&C industry." About Business Objects 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) is a leading provider of enterprise decision support tools that deliver access to data stored in corporate databases, data warehouses, and packaged applications. The company pioneered the market for business-intelligent decision support tools in 1990 with the introduction of its 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, the first decision support tool to use a "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, " to map complex database schemas The definition of a database. It defines the structure and content in each data element within the structure. Schemas are often designed with visual modeling tools that automatically create the SQL code necessary to define the table structures. See subschema and XML schema. to a business representation understandable by mainstream business users. 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. More information on Business Objects can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.businessobjects.com. Penta Technologies, Inc. has been providing effective, integrated project and financial systems to the engineering and construction industry since 1968. Corporate headquarters are located at 250 South Executive Drive, Suite 201, Brookfield, Wis., 53005. -0- Note to Editors: PENTA is a registered trademark of Penta Technologies, Inc.; 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. CONTACT: Business Objects Miriam Standish, 408/973-9300 or Penta Technologies Kurt Koenig, 414/780-2402 |
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