CA's interBiz Integrates OpenViz Data Visualization Technology from Advanced Visual Systems into BizWorks eBusiness Process Management Suite.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 11, 2001 "Contextual Visualization" Speeds Business Intelligence for Banking, Finance and Supply Chain Management, Delivering Management Attention Where It's Needed -- When It's Needed interBiz, the eBusiness applications division of Computer Associates International Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : CA), Wednesday announced that Advanced Visual Systems (OTC OTC See: Over-the-counter. OTC See over-the-counter market (OTC). BB: MUZE), an international leader in data visualization See information visualization. software, has provided highly interactive data visualization techniques for BizWorks, interBiz's leading eBusiness Process Management suite. BizWorks is an eBusiness information infrastructure helping "brick and mortar See bricks and mortar. " companies accelerate their integration with the web. BizWorks provides an infrastructure for integrating and leveraging a company's information assets from a broad variety of sources, including application programs, devices, collaborating businesses and information from the web. BizWorks uses a non-invasive wrapping technique to bring information into a common object structure that provides a single global view for command and control across the extended enterprise. Advanced graphics and data presentation capabilities of BizWorks are enabled by the OpenViz(R) development platform from AVS (Audio Video Coding Standard) A video compression technique developed by Chinese companies and supported by the Chinese government. Expected to provide better compression than MPEG-2, AVS was created to avoid paying royalties to the MPEG licensors, which are outside . Examples of OpenViz visualization techniques can be found at www.openviz.com. AVS' feature-rich OpenViz development platform is designed to bring highly interactive data visualization capabilities to products such as BizWorks by permitting many different types of data to be integrated into 2D and 3D charts and graphs that facilitate rapid understanding of large quantities of complex business information. BizWorks leverages CA's leading technologies including Jasmine jasmine (jăs`mĭn, jăz–) or jessamine (jĕs`əmĭn), any plant of the genus Jasminum of the family Oleaceae (olive family). , Unicenter and Neugents to help customers consolidate information from all segments of their businesses, collaborate with partners and suppliers, and leverage web-based information resources (1) The data and information assets of an organization, department or unit. See data administration. (2) Another name for the Information Systems (IS) or Information Technology (IT) department. See IT. to create a global view of all of the factors affecting the success of the business. BizWorks Business Intelligent Agents introduce a web-mining technique that allows users to actively monitor and distill dis·till v. 1. To subject a substance to distillation. 2. To separate a distillate by distillation. 3. To increase the concentration of, separate, or purify a substance by distillation. the world's greatest information resource -- the World Wide Web -- for competitive information from public or subscription web sites. Once imported into BizWorks, data can be used to create knowledge portals of topically related and contextually visualized information. This web-sourced information is fully managed by the exception, analysis and visualization policies that each user defines. OpenViz enables the organization and dynamic visualization of mined data and facilitates the use of sophisticated interBiz software agents to set up and monitor thresholds on important devices, databases or processes. OpenViz visualization capabilities are invoked from BizWorks' on-screen on·screen or on-screen adj. & adv. 1. As shown on a movie, television, or display screen. 2. Within public view; in public. "dashboards" that address the specific interests of different levels of an enterprise, as well as compare real-time operational statistics against key performance indicators Key Performance Indicators (KPI) are financial and non-financial metrics used to quantify objectives to reflect strategic performance of an organization. KPIs are used in Business Intelligence to assess the present state of the business and to prescribe a course of action. drawn from enterprise resources, market data and competitive research. These real-time visualizations of a customer's global operation, the operations of partners and suppliers, and external or environmental factors that might strategically impact business success, filter out the "noise" and drive effective decisions. 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. Steve Sukman, chief executive officer of AVS, "interBiz has clearly established a new standard in fully integrated eBusiness Process Management solutions with BizWorks, and we are extremely honored that OpenViz was called upon to provide many of the advanced graphics and interactive capabilities of the product." Sukman added, "Like interBiz, we share the belief that business decisions made from a vast collection of real-time data Real-time data denotes information that is delivered immediately after collection. There is no delay in the timeliness of the information provided. Some uses of this term confuse it with the term dynamic data. sources, expressed in a highly visual format, accelerate the knowledge and action process. "As more and more types of business information are made available to all levels of an enterprise, technologies such as BizWorks and OpenViz will serve to help workers overcome information overload A symptom of the high-tech age, which is too much information for one human being to absorb in an expanding world of people and technology. It comes from all sources including TV, newspapers, magazines as well as wanted and unwanted regular mail, e-mail and faxes. and obtain greater value from data that they have traditionally been unable to access or clearly comprehend." "As business accelerates to Internet speed, the need to build an adaptive eBusiness that leverages existing physical and intellectual assets is overwhelming many companies," said Mike Connolly Mike Connolly (1914 - November 18, 1966) was an American magazine reporter and primarily a Hollywood columnist. A Chicago native, Connolly attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and was the Daily Illini's city editor in 1937 and 1938. , senior vice president and general manager of interBiz. "BizWorks provides an integrated answer to advancing the eBusiness initiatives of our clients, while leveraging their existing information assets and investments in technology. "Since OpenViz techniques have been integrated into BizWorks, interBiz customers are able to experience new dimensions of interaction and visual understanding, strengthening the interBiz mission of intelligently analyzing and contextually visualizing the extended enterprise in real time." About interBiz interBiz, the eBusiness applications division of Computer Associates International Inc., helps enhance profit from new opportunities in the eBusiness world. interBiz integrates the industry's leading eBusiness process management solution, BizWorks, with core competencies A core competency is something that a firm can do well and that meets the following three conditions specified by Hamel and Prahalad (1990):
For more information about interBiz, email interBiz@ca.com or visit interBiz on the Internet at http://interbiz.com/. About Advanced Visual Systems Advanced Visual Systems (AVS) is an international leader in data visualization software and solutions that enable computer users to experience and interact with all types of business, scientific and engineering data. AVS offers a complete line of products that bring information to life on all major computing platforms using the latest in graphics, web-based and collaborative technologies. AVS is a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of MUSE Technologies Inc. and is dedicated to assisting clients in nearly every industry speed the process of data analysis and decision-making. For more information on AVS or MUSE call 781/890-4300, write to info@avs.com or visit http://www.avs.com/. About Computer Associates Computer Associates International Inc. delivers the software that manages eBusiness. CA's world-class solutions address all aspects of eBusiness process management, information management, and infrastructure management in six focus areas: enterprise management, security, storage, eBusiness transformation and integration, portal and knowledge management, and predictive analysis and visualization. Founded in 1976, CA serves organizations in more than 100 countries, including 99 percent of the Fortune 500 companies. For more information, visit http://ca.com/. (c)2001 Computer Associates International Inc. One Computer Associates Plaza, Islandia, NY 11749. All trademarks, trade names, service marks, and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. |
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