Business Objects and Prism Solutions Partner for Seamless Integration of a Single Metadata Warehouse; Partnership Aimed at Providing Effective Data Warehouse Access and Rapid Implementation by Allowing Users to Easily Link and Share 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 that it will enhance its partnership with Prism Solutions, Inc. by delivering an integrated warehouse metadata solution that provides a link between BusinessObjects and metadata within Prism Directory Manager 2.5. This integration will enable customers to share metadata information for more effective data warehouse access and administration and rapid warehouse implementation to end users. BusinessObjects is an integrated query, reporting and OLAP tool that helps mainstream users make better business decisions. BusinessObjects will support Prism Directory Manager, Prism's data warehouse management software, which enables users to seamlessly integrate metadata from the key software components used in a data warehouse. These components include decision support tools, such as BusinessObjects, as well as tools for application development, CASE, and data analysis. The integration will allow customers to populate BusinessObjects universes with Prism metadata. BusinessObjects universes make up the "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 the complexities of the database structure. "The partnership between Business Objects and Prism will help our customers address the growing market for data warehousing See data warehouse. data warehousing - data warehouse , where companies need to be able to leverage metadata for more rapid warehouse implementation," said Tim Harmon, vice president of marketing at Business Objects. "Increasingly, BusinessObjects is the end user tool of choice for data warehousing. The integration between our two products will allow customers to utilize the metadata in Prism Directory Manager for rapid setup and deployment of BUSINESSOBJECTS to end users throughout the enterprise." "Together Prism Solutions and Business Objects have created a real solution for sharing data warehouse metadata, making it much easier for customers to navigate a warehouse and locate the right data for analysis," said Cynthia Schmidt, vice president of marketing, Prism Solutions. "What's more, by having an integrated view of metadata, users can better interpret the meaning of the information based on its original sources and the changes that have occurred over time." Business Objects and Prism are both members of the Metadata Interchange Coalition, founded in 1995 by a group of industry-leading vendors to define a set a of standard specifications for the access and interchange of metadata between software tools. About Prism Solutions Founded in 1991, Prism Solutions (NASDAQ: PRZM PRZM Pesticide Root Zone Model ) is a leader in data warehouse management software for building, maintaining and navigating data warehouses. Prism Solutions' products and services enable a variety of projects, such as building decision-support systems, enhancing client/server applications and migrating data between different computing platforms. Prism helps customers meet strategic business goals through data warehousing solutions that support customer relationship management, profitability measurement, market segmentation Market Segmentation A marketing term referring to the aggregating of prospective buyers into groups (segments) that have common needs and will respond similarly to a marketing action. , risk management, procurement and other critical business applications. Prism Solutions' customers include leading companies in the finance, health care, insurance, manufacturing, public utilities, retail, telecommunications, transportation and technology industries. In addition to its corporate headquarters located in Sunnyvale, California Sunnyvale ([sʌniveil]) is a city in Santa Clara County, California, United States. It is one of the major cities that make up the Silicon Valley. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 131,760. , Prism Solutions has regional offices in seven U.S. cities and international offices in Canada, France, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom. More information about Prism Solutions can be found by visiting the company's Web site at http://www.prismsolutions.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. 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 Tracey Eiler or Miriam Standish, 408/973-9300 or Blanc & Otus Danielle Dawson, 415/512-0500 or Prism Solutions, Inc. Debbie Benoit or Cynthia Schmidt, 408/752-1888 |
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