Comshare announces Alliance with Oracle; Comshare makes strategic commitment to Oracle technology for its decision support applications.ANN ARBOR Ann Arbor, city (1990 pop. 109,592), seat of Washtenaw co., S Mich., on the Huron River; inc. 1851. It is a research and educational center, with a large number of government and industrial research and development firms, many in high-technology fields such as , Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 24, 1997--Comshare (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 :CSRE CSRE Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity CSRE Closed System Respirator Evaluator ) announced today that it has signed a strategic marketing and development agreement with Oracle Corporation to offer Comshare's decision support applications running on Oracle's database and 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. ) technology. Today's announcement will enable Comshare's customers to gain all of the advantages of Comshare's value-added decision support applications based on Oracle's market-leading technology. Comshare and Oracle plan to collaborate on both product development and joint marketing programs. Comshare creates unique, high value-added decision support applications to solve critical business problems for large corporations. Comshare's decision support system (DSS (1) (Digital Signature Standard) A National Security Administration standard for authenticating an electronic message. See RSA and digital signature. (2) (Digital Satellite S ) applications will embrace Oracle's database and Express OLAP technology, making DSS applications easier to deploy for Comshare customers. The Oracle7 database is a market leader in relational databases relational database Database in which all data are represented in tabular form. The description of a particular entity is provided by the set of its attribute values, stored as one row or record of the table, called a tuple. , and Oracle Express is a leader in the OLAP marketplace. "Support for Oracle technology is important to a significant portion of our marketplace," says Wally Wrathall, Comshare's president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "The use of Oracle technology will broaden the appeal of Comshare's decision support applications. Our customers will benefit from enhanced database scalability and the use of industry-standard databases from Oracle." "We're pleased to have the opportunity to do cooperative marketing with Oracle," says Wrathall. "Our strength in applications provides a powerful complement to Oracle's technology strength. We can already see the exciting potential of this agreement, in our Arthur product line for the retail industry, for example, where our customers need to manage particularly large volumes of data." "We welcome Comshare to our Alliance program. We are excited about the potential of Comshare's decision support applications implemented using Oracle technology. Comshare is a leader in the decision support market, and their industry approach to decision support applications offers extraordinary value to the marketplace," says Polly Sumner, Vice President, Worldwide Alliances, Oracle. "Our customers want the fast and easy implementation Comshare's DSS applications provide, and allows us to meet our customers' demands to open our products to a choice of database technologies for their DSS applications," says Wrathall. "From a development persents so end users can focus on their business , unconcerned about the underlying architecture and technologieunderlying database technology as well as the application intelligence. Services include helpline helpline Noun a telephone line set aside for callers to contact an organization for help with a problem helpline n → teléfono de asistencia al público , product training, and implementation services. Development is now well underway to enable Comshare's applications to run on Oracle technology. Release of Commander Decision(TM) customized decision support applications on Express 6.0 is expected shortly. For the retail industry, plans for delivering the Arthur(TM) Enterprise Suite based on the Oracle7 databases were announced in January and are expected to be commercial by the end of this year. The BOOST(TM) line of consumer goods consumer goods Any tangible commodity purchased by households to satisfy their wants and needs. Consumer goods may be durable or nondurable. Durable goods (e.g., autos, furniture, and appliances) have a significant life span, often defined as three years or more, and applications is targeted for delivery on the Oracle7 database by the end of this year. The Oracle agreement announced today is consistent with Comshare's announced strategy to make its applications open to multiple databases, allowing Comshare customers to choose the most appropriate technology for their applications. The company will continue to offer and support Arbor Software's Essbase database within its applications, as well. About Oracle Oracle Corporation is the world's second largest software company and the largest supplier of software for information management. With annual revenues of more than $4.2 billion, the company offers its database, tools, and application products, along with related consulting, education, and support services support services Psychology Non-health care-related ancillary services–eg, transportation, financial aid, support groups, homemaker services, respite services, and other services , in more than 90 countries around the world. For more information on Oracle, visit http://www.oracle.com The Oracle Alliance is a global business network that unites leading information technology companies to deliver integrated customer solutions for networked computing. Alliance members have real-time access to Oracle's premier products and services and are able to utilize vast technical, marketing and sales support resources. With more than 8,000 partners worldwide, the Oracle Alliance enables partners to maximize Oracle technology and global infrastructure to provide world-class Oracle-basess analysis, planning, and operations for effective decision making, enhanced competitiveness, and improved profits. Comshare's application software is popular among and Financial Times Top 1000 companies. Comshare, Inc. is a Microsoft Solution Provider. For more information, call 1-800-922-7979, or visit Comshare's Web site at http://www.comshare.com Comshare is a registered trademark and Comshare Application Architecture, Ashare, Inc. Marge Cramton, 313/996-8969 or Eiler Communications Larry T. Eiler, 313/761-3399 KEYWORD: MICHIGAN INDUSTRY KEYWORD: COMPUTERS/ELECTRONICS COMED ComEd Commonwealth Edison COMED Combined Map and Electronic Display TELECOMMUNICATIONS REPEATS: New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. 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