Comdisco Selects Pilot Software's Decision Support Solution As Basis for New ComPLETE Decision Maker.CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 12, 1998-- Pilot Decision Support Offers Foundation for Improved Decision Making About Desktop Infrastructure Pilot Software, a leading provider of Web-based and client/server business intelligence solutions today announced that Comdisco, Inc. will be deploying Pilot Decision Support Suite (PDSS PDSS Post-Deployment Software Support PDSS Panic Disorder Severity Scale PDSS Pre-Deployment Site Survey PDSS Pediatric Daytime Sleepiness Scale PDSS Parkinson's Disease Sleep Scale PDSS Payload Data Services System PDSS Phosphorus Decision Support System ) as the intelligence component of Comdisco's ComPLETE Decision Maker(tm) solution. This marks the first time that PDSS has been applied specifically to help address decision making in the area of desktop management. The ComPLETE Decision Maker is the first OLAP-based decision-support tool designed specifically to improve decision making about an organization's desktop infrastructure. ComPLETE Decision Maker is part of a family of desktop management tools designed to support Comdisco's Desktop Management Services (DMS (1) (Document Management System) See document management. (2) (Defense Messaging System) An X.500-compliant messaging system developed by the U.S. Dept. of Defense. ), the company's next-generation of innovative managed services An umbrella term for third-party monitoring and maintaining of computers, networks and software. The actual equipment may be inhouse or at the third-party's facilities, but the "managed" implies an ongoing effort; for example, making sure the equipment is running at a certain quality that help companies effectively manage and leverage their desktop infrastructures across the entire life cycle. Used as part of Comdisco Desktop Management Service engagements, ComPLETE Decision Maker allows both Comdisco customers and asset managers to analyze the client organization's assets and their performance and to conduct "what-if" analyses to facilitate successful business decisions. PDSS is targeted at the full spectrum of cross-industry information users who need robust, high-performance analytical solutions. It enables people to analyze their operational, market and customer data, discover critical factors and trends that drive the business, then use that knowledge to take specific actions to optimize company performance. PDSS offers both high performance and the ability to analyze large data sets to manage all of an organization's divergent di·ver·gent adj. 1. Drawing apart from a common point; diverging. 2. Departing from convention. 3. Differing from another: a divergent opinion. 4. analytical needs. "Comdisco's ComPLETE Decision Maker provides a solution to a challenge not well addressed until now," said Walter Elliot Walter Elliot may refer to;
"Pilot has been a technology innovator in the area of decision support," said Chip Rodgers, director, desktop management services products for Comdisco, Rosemont, Ill. "We're pleased to be working with Pilot to bring the capabilities of this technology to the discipline of managing organizations' desktop infrastructures." Pilot Software (http://www.pilotsw.com), a subsidiary of Platinum Equity Platinum Equity is an American information technology and private equity firm. It was founded by billionaire Tom Gores in 1995 and is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California. Holdings, develops and markets Web-based and client/server business intelligence solutions designed to improve decision making through flexible analysis of market, customer and business data. More than 100,000 users 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. , consumer packaged goods Noun 1. packaged goods - groceries that are packaged for sale foodstuff, grocery - (usually plural) consumer goods sold by a grocer plural, plural form - the form of a word that is used to denote more than one , telecommunications, health care and retail have rapidly deployed Pilot Software's 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. ) and data mining solutions since its founding in 1984. Pilot Decision Support Suite's hybrid OLAP solution offers both high performance and the ability to analyze large data sets to manage all of an organization's divergent analytical needs. Headquartered in Cambridge, Mass., Pilot Software has a strong international presence with offices worldwide. All trademarks and registered trademarks are property of their respective holders. Editors Note: Additional information and announcements about Comdisco's ComPLETE Decision Maker is available on Comdisco's web site (www.comdisco.com) or by contacting Holly Crilly at 847-518-5616. |
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