Cartesis and Crystal Decisions Collaborate to Provide Superior Business Analysis.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers STAMFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 4, 2003 Cartesis provides a more complete performance management solution with advanced financial analytics over the Web from Crystal Decisions Cartesis and Crystal Decisions have signed a strategic OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and agreement to integrate Crystal Enterprise and Crystal Analysis in Cartesis' Magnitude financial analytic platform offering. Cartesis customers can now provide comprehensive analytic financial and performance information to their employees and decision-makers via the Internet. Cartesis provides a strategic system that covers the entire planning, reporting and analysis cycle, allowing corporations to transform their vision into a strategic plan and then drive and monitor business performance. The complementary Web-based analysis solution from Crystal Decisions will enable Cartesis' analytic platform to provide a more complete business performance management solution. "We are in the midst Adv. 1. in the midst - the middle or central part or point; "in the midst of the forest"; "could he walk out in the midst of his piece?" midmost of a transformation for the Business Intelligence (BI) and the Business Performance Management (BPM) markets through the addition of planning capability to BI to enable a closed-loop approach with metrics metrics Managed care A popular term for standards by which the quality of a product, service, or outcome of a particular form of Pt management is evaluated. See TQM. , planning and reporting," states John Van Decker, senior program director, META Group. "Through 2005, we predict a continued convergence of the BPM and BI solutions spaces, as analytical performance applications become more tightly interwoven in·ter·weave v. in·ter·wove , in·ter·wo·ven , inter·weav·ing, inter·weaves v.tr. 1. To weave together. 2. To blend together; intermix. v.intr. with BI platforms." With Crystal Decisions technologies, Cartesis Magnitude customers will have access to interactive reports and charts via a Web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. , allowing them to drill down to detail, analyse an·a·lyse v. Chiefly British Variant of analyze. analyse or US -lyze Verb [-lysing, -lysed] or -lyzing, , and review trends. They can use this information to make more informed business decisions, make mid-course corrections, and plan for the future, improving their company's overall efficiency and performance. Cartesis Magnitude users will also be able to provide access to business performance information for thousands of users in an enterprise. Crystal Analysis includes a guided analysis capability allowing decision-makers to easily identify underlying causes of results and trends. Using Cartesis Magnitude in conjunction with Crystal Decisions technologies, businesses can analyse information, such as monthly reporting figures versus budgets, forecasts and plans, as well as investigate areas like product, customer, or channel profitability, all via the Web. "The performance management market has been demanding advanced reporting and analysis capability over the Web for some time now. The combination of Cartesis Magnitude and Crystal Decisions technologies enables companies to gain real insight into their business performance whenever they want and wherever they are," said Paul Giardina, executive vice-president of corporate marketing. "This strategic partnership enhances Cartesis' position as one of the key players in its market. We chose to partner with Crystal Decisions because they have market leading reporting and analysis technologies with over 14 million licenses shipped and they were the right choice for our customers," continued Giardina. "Nurturing successful partnerships has always been one of the cornerstones of our success and we are eager to work closely with Cartesis to ensure its customers receive the best in reporting and analysis," said Janet Wood Janet Wood (now Dawson) is a fictional character on the television sitcom Three's Company played by Joyce DeWitt. Introduction Janet is from Speedway, Indiana. She has a sister named Jenny and a brother whose name was never mentioned. , vice-president of business development for Crystal Decisions. "This new agreement with Cartesis further highlights Crystal Decisions' demonstrated success in helping partners deliver complete performance management solutions." About Cartesis Cartesis is the leading worldwide supplier of financial analytic applications Analytic Applications are a type of business application software, used to measure and improve the performance of business operations. More specifically, Analytic Applications are a type of Business Intelligence solution. for Strategic Financial Management. Cartesis offers truly integrated applications on a powerful analytic platform. With its world headquarters located in Paris, France, the company maintains subsidiaries in Brussels, Frankfurt, London, Madrid, Paris, Stamford, CT, Tokyo and Utrecht. Cartesis products give Global 2000 companies the analytic capacity In complex analysis, the analytic capacity of a compact subset K of the complex plane is a number that denotes "how big" a bounded analytic function from  can become. and the flexibility they need to assess the rapid
changes in their market places. One in five of the Fortune Global 100
and more than 30% of the Financial Times European 100 use Cartesis
solutions to obtain unprecedented command over their financial
information and processes.
About Crystal Decisions Crystal Decisions, a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. , is one of the world's leading information management software companies with more than 14 million licenses shipped. Since 1984, Crystal Decisions has powered winning organizations with one of the fastest ways for employees, partners and customers to access the information they need to make the best decisions and ultimately reduce costs and increase productivity. The Crystal brand is among the most trusted names in enterprise reporting With the dramatic expansion of information technology, and the desire for increased competitiveness in corporations, there has been an increase in the use of computing power to produce unified reports which join different views of the enterprise in one place. and more than 345 Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) have standardized standardized pertaining to data that have been submitted to standardization procedures. standardized morbidity rate see morbidity rate. standardized mortality rate see mortality rate. on Crystal Decisions solutions. Headquartered in Palo Alto Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif., Crystal Decisions has more than 25 offices worldwide and can be found on the Internet at www.crystaldecisions.com. Crystal Decisions, Crystal Reports, Crystal Enterprise, Crystal Analysis, Crystal Services, Crystal Care, Crystal Assist, Crystal Applications and Holos Holos is an influential OLAP (Online Analytical Processing) product of the 1990s. Developed by Holistic Systems in 1987, the product remained in use until around 2004. Conception The Holos product succeeded an older generation of mainframe products such as System-W. are trademarks or registered trademarks of Crystal Decisions, Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries. All other trademarks or registered trademarks referenced are the property of their respective owners. |
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