CA-Masterpiece/2000 Ships With CA-OpenIngres; Enterprise Financial Management With Built-In Distributed Database, Replication, Data Warehousing and Decision Support.ISLANDIA, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--October 25, 1995--Computer Associates is shipping CA-Masterpiece/2000 with CA-OpenIngres for 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) AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) IBM's Unix-based operating system which runs on its Intellistation workstations and pSeries, p5, iSeries and i5 server families. environments, enabling users to harness the power of distributed database A database physically stored in two or more computer systems. Although geographically dispersed, a distributed database system manages and controls the entire database as a single collection of data. , replication, data warehousing See data warehouse. data warehousing - data warehouse and decision support in a single, easy-to-implement solution. The integration of CA-Masterpiece/2000 with CA-OpenIngres combines distributed data architecture with financial management, allowing users to configure and deploy their production financial systems for maximum efficiency. "By integrating CA-Masterpiece/2000 with CA-OpenIngres, financial systems can be more dynamic and responsive to clients' needs," said David Cahn, CA director of product strategy. "Our clients can customize and deploy their financial applications and decision support capabilities in any way they like." Using CA-OpenIngres, CA-Masterpiece/2000 data can be distributed and replicated transparently across local and remote servers to minimize network traffic and improve availability. CA-OpenIngres/Replicator can automatically provide integrity of local and centralized data for maximum configuration flexibility. "We intend to replicate data across 14 clinics, so the integration of CA-OpenIngres with CA-Masterpiece/2000 really meets our financial information management needs," said Mark Allen Mark Allen is the name of:
CA-Masterpiece/2000 with CA-OpenIngres enables real-time decision support. By utilizing query optimization for complex on-line analytical processing (database) On-Line Analytical Processing - (OLAP) A category of database software which provides an interface such that users can transform or limit raw data according to user-defined or pre-defined functions, and quickly and interactively examine the results in various dimensions (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. ), both decision support and operational data can coexist in the same data store. "CA-Masterpiece/2000 provides us with strong decision support capabilities, enabling us to do analyses anytime, anywhere," said Robert Zitnay, comptroller for William Carter Co. in Shelton, CT. "We use CA-Masterpiece/2000 against CA-OpenIngres to extract data and perform financial analyses in real-time." CA-Masterpiece/2000 is a comprehensive, integrated enterprise financial management system. Accommodating the multinational and multicurrency needs of thousands of organizations worldwide, CA-Masterpiece/2000 includes accounts payable, accounts receivable accounts receivable n. the amounts of money due or owed to a business or professional by customers or clients. Generally, accounts receivable refers to the total amount due and is considered in calculating the value of a business or the business' problems in paying , fixed assets, fund accounting, general ledger General Ledger A company's accounting records. This formal ledger contains all the financial accounts and statements of a business. Notes: The ledger uses two columns: one records debits, the other has offsetting credits. , inventory control, job cost, labor distribution, order processing, purchasing, collection management and recovery management modules. CA-OpenIngres is the multiplatform relational DBMS designed for mission-critical business processing. Offering the leading capabilities of distributed database technologies, including replication, query optimization and active data management, CA-OpenIngres is ideally suited for advanced data warehousing and mobile computing applications. Computer Associates International, Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : CA), with headquarters in Islandia, N.Y., is the world leader in mission-critical business software. The company develops, licenses and supports more than 500 integrated products that include systems and database management, application development, manufacturing and financial applications. CA has 9,000 people in 130 offices in 36 countries and had revenue of $2.6 billion in its 1995 fiscal year. CA can be reached by visiting its homepage on the worldwide web (http://www.cai.com). All referenced product names are trademarks of their respective companies. CONTACT: Bob Gordon, (516) 342-2391 |
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