Carleton Licenses Leading Customer Data Quality Technology From i.d.Centric.EDEN PRAIRIE Eden Prairie A city of eastern Minnesota, a residential suburb of Minneapolis. Population: 57,300. , Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 29, 1998-- -- Licensing Deal Results in Powerful Solution for Creation of Customer-Centric Data Warehouses -- Carleton (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 :APTS APTS Alexandra Palace Television Society (UK) APTS Advanced Public Transportation System APTS Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary (Texas) APTS Association of America's Public Television Stations ) today announces an agreement to license industry leading name and address processing technology from Firstlogic's i.d.Centric data quality suite for use in the company's Enterprise/Integrator(TM) data integration solution. Enterprise/Integrator is a powerful data transformation tool that creates integrated views of important business information, such as customers, products and suppliers, for use in business critical data warehouse applications. With the addition of the i.d.Centric technology, Carleton now offers the industry's most complete data transformation and cleansing solution for the creation of customer-centric data warehouses. "The quality of data in customer record management applications is one of the most critical elements in successfully populating and managing data warehouse implementations," said John Ladley, senior program director of application delivery strategies, at META Group. "It is crucial that data extract and transform vendors like Carleton integrate data quality functionality into their data integration solutions." Customer-centric data warehouses are becoming an important tool for organizations to improve and capitalize on Cap´i`tal`ize on` v. t. 1. To turn (an opportunity) to one's advantage; to take advantage of (a situation); to profit from; as, to capitalize on an opponent's mistakes s>. relationships with their customers. To date, however, getting high quality customer data into the data warehouse has been an expensive, time-consuming process often requiring integration of data transformation tools and data cleansing See address cleansing and data hygiene. tools from different vendors. Further, the batch processing (1) Performing a particular operation automatically on a group of files all at once rather than manually opening, editing and saving one file at a time. For example, graphics software that converts a selection of images from one format to another would be a batch processing utility. orientation of most data cleansing tools has complicated implementation efforts due to the inability to perform incremental updates of the data warehouse on a timely, cost-effective basis. With this agreement, Carleton will tightly integrate i.d.Centric's customer data quality components as an option within its Enterprise/Integrator data transformation product. This will enable Carleton to offer a single integrated solution addressing the full scope of data transformation and cleansing requirements for the creation and maintenance of customer-centric data warehouses. The integrated product will be generally available in September. "As a Carleton partner focused on systems that help companies analyze and drive customer behavior, we are very pleased to see Carleton embed the ability to properly integrate and cleanse customer information into the transformation process," said David Harris David Harris may refer to: In politics and government:
data warehousing - data warehouse at Sybase. "A more accurate representation of the interactions that each customer has with an organization will naturally lead to improved strategies for servicing those customers better." "Forward-thinking companies like Carleton recognize the importance of data quality in the implementation of customer-centric data warehouses, and we're pleased that they chose i.d.Centric to provide this critical functionality," said Hank Martin, marketing executive, Firstlogic. "This agreement is the latest in Firstlogic's series of strategic alliances, designed to help companies achieve enterprise-wide customer data quality, through its i.d.Centric technology." "Customer-centric applications are becoming an increasingly important segment of the data warehousing market. We are particularly pleased to have i.d.Centric, the industry leader in customer data quality, as our partner," said Travis Richardson, vice president, marketing, Carleton. "With the addition of the i.d.Centric components, Carleton now offers its customers the most complete solution for implementation of high quality customer-centric data warehouses." About i.d.Centric i.d.Centric is Firstlogic's line of data quality software that makes customer-focused database information more reliable and accurate. i.d.Centric offers several sophisticated solutions to help users build data quality into their data warehouse, data mart A subset of a data warehouse for a single department or function. A data mart may have tens of gigabytes of data rather than hundreds of gigabytes for the entire enterprise. See data warehouse. , and database marketing applications. The software intelligently parses (identifies) individual components of customer data; standardizes, corrects, and enhances it using empirical data sources; locates matches within and across databases; and consolidates matching data. Firstlogic employs 270 people and supports branch offices in 18 major metropolitan areas. For more information visit the company's Web site at www.idcentric.com. About Enterprise/Integrator Enterprise/Integrator is an advanced data refinement tool that enables data warehouse developers to create integrated views of important business information, such as customers, products and suppliers, from disparate data sources. Its unique strengths include its ability to handle complex matching and consolidation requirements, its powerful data validation In computer science, data validation is the process of ensuring that a program operates on clean, correct and useful data. It uses routines, often called validation rules, that check for correctness or meaningfulness of data that are input to the system. and cleansing features, and its ability to handle intelligent incremental updates to the data warehouse. Enterprise/Integrator operates on Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. and UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). platforms. About Carleton Carleton provides data integration solutions for rapid deployment of business critical applications, such as data warehousing and application conversions. The Company markets its products and services to Fortune 1000 clients in industries such as financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. , insurance, health care and manufacturing. Headquartered in Eden Prairie, Minnesota The creator of this article, or someone who has substantially contributed to it, may have a conflict of interest regarding its subject matter. It may require cleanup to comply with Wikipedia's content policies, particularly neutral point of view. , Carleton distributes its technology and consulting services through direct sales and channel partners worldwide. For more information, call 800-328-3998, send e-mail to: info@carleton.com, or visit Carleton's Web site at http://www.carleton.com. Pure data Pure results. All brand names and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. CONTACT: Carleton Investor Relations Investor relations The process by which the corporation communicates with its investors. : Don McIlwain (612) 828-0311 don.mcilwain@carleton.com or Sterling Hager, Inc. Press Relations: Robert Collins (617) 926-6665, ext. 234 bob@sterlinghager.com |
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