Comshare to move Arthur product development group to U.S. headquarters; restructuring sharpens focus on DSS 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)--Jan. 30, 1997--Comshare announced today that it will move the product development group responsible for the Arthur(TM) line of retail decision support applications from Leicester Leicester (lĕs`tər), city (1991 pop. 324,394) and district, Leicestershire, central England. The city is connected by canals with the Trent River and London, and it is also a railway center. , UK, to its corporate headquarters in Ann Arbor, Michigan  “Ann Arbor” redirects here. For other uses, see Ann Arbor (disambiguation). Ann Arbor is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Washtenaw County. (US). The purpose of the move is to improve communication among the Company's application development teams and facilitate further integration of the company's vertical decision support applications. Until the current organizational changes took effect, much of the Arthur product line development was based in Leicester, UK. All of Comshare's other product development activity has been based in Ann Arbor. "This move will provide better communication and increased sharing of technology, which will make us more productive," says Wally wally Noun pl -lies Brit slang a stupid or foolish person [from the name Walter] Noun 1. 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. . "It will strengthen Comshare's product offerings by facilitating the smooth integration of our applications with the Comshare Application Architecture(TM) (CAA Caa See CCC. )." Comshare plans to reassign selected personnel from the Leicester center to Ann Arbor, and to increase staffing at the Ann Arbor development location. "The move will result in cost savings in the long run, although the short-run cost of moving our product development group is a mark of our commitment to the retail market in particular, and to our other key vertical markets in general," points out Wrathall. Comshare is committed to developing decision support applications designed to meet the specific needs of a spectrum of vertical industries. From a development perspective, the key to this vertical DSS (1) (Digital Signature Standard) A National Security Administration standard for authenticating an electronic message. See RSA and digital signature. (2) (Digital Satellite S strategy is the Comshare Application Architecture (CAA), a three-tiered client/server application architecture. The CAA allows Comshare applications to provide powerful end user capabilities, based on the best underlying database technology for the application. "Successful implementation of the CAA across all of our product lines requires that our developers be able to work together easily," says Dennis Ganster, Senior Vice President and Chief Technical Officer. "In combining our development groups, we plan to maintain our commitment to current products. Although any move of this type will affect product schedules, we are working to minimize any impact on our product release plans." The Arthur product line comprises a series of decision support applications designed to meet the needs of the retail industry. The Arthur Enterprise Suite, unveiled at this month's National Retail Federation conference, integrates the critical business processes of planning, assortment assortment /as·sort·ment/ (ah-sort´ment) the random distribution of nonhomologous chromosomes to daughter cells in metaphase of the first meiotic division. as·sort·ment n. , allocating resources, and tracking and analyzing performance. The Suite is designed to help retailers focus on the resources and factors that result in satisfied customers and maximum profits. The Suite innovates the use of relational technology, delivering the first truly complete retail decision support application. "We continue to be a global company with a global focus," says Wrathall. "We will continue to beta test A test of new or revised hardware or software that is performed by users at their facilities under normal operating conditions. Beta testing follows alpha testing. Vendors of packaged software often offer their customers the opportunity of beta testing new releases or versions, and the our applications in customer sites around the world, for example, and our Program Managers work closely with our customers around the world to meet their requirements. By having all of our developers in one place, we will allow for increased development productivity." About Comshare Comshare is The Decision Support Company. Comshare develops, markets, and supports complete client/server decision support applications. Comshare's software applications are designed to improve business analysis, planning, and management reporting for decision making, enhanced competitiveness, and improved profits. No company in the world has more experience building and supporting real-world decision support solutions than Comshare. Comshare's application software is popular among major corporations in many industries, with particular concentration in 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. , utilities, manufacturing, energy, services, retail and 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 industries. One of the top 50 independent software companies, Comshare has over 3,000 customers worldwide, many of which are Fortune 1000 and Financial Times Top 1000 companies. Comshare, Inc. is a Microsoft Solution Provider. About the Arthur Enterprise Suite The Arthur Enterprise Suite is a complete decision support system for retail management based on Oracle 7 technology: Arthur Planning(TM) crystallizes the retailer's vision by creating fact-based resource plans at the necessary levels of detail. Arthur Planning's release 4.3 further enhances functionality with a set of new features for over 350 existing Comshare Retail customers. Arthur Assortment Planning Assortment Planning is a mission critical function for retailers. This is the place where the retailer meets the customer. The place where the retailer must buy exactly what their customers will buy. (TM) supports the complex business process of matching the qualitative product goals with the quantitative financial goals of the organization. Arthur Assortment Planning provides the merchant with optimized product selection capabilities. Arthur Allocation The apportionment or designation of an item for a specific purpose or to a particular place. In the law of trusts, the allocation of cash dividends earned by a stock that makes up the principal of a trust for a beneficiary usually means that the dividends will be treated as (TM) completes the merchandise cycle by providing a vehicle to execute the plans and optimize optimize - optimisation store distributions by bringing results and trends into the decision making process. True store targeting is accomplished by focusing on each store's attributes. Arthur Performance Tracking(TM) Designed for parallel processing parallel processing, the concurrent or simultaneous execution of two or more parts of a single computer program, at speeds far exceeding those of a conventional computer. , large volumes, and achieving breakthrough speeds for loading and calculating information, it was built specifically to deal with retail problems of massive detail, short processing windows, frequent reorganizations of product and location classifications, and complex calculations. Arthur Performance Analyst(TM) a retail decision support workbench to be released in 1997. Using advanced visualization Using the computer to convert data into picture form. The most basic visualization is that of turning transaction data and summary information into charts and graphs. Visualization is used in computer-aided design (CAD) to render screen images into 3D models that can be viewed from all techniques and Comshare's unique question and answer (Q & A) interface, Performance Analyst will enable strategic decision making to be executed at all levels of the organization. For more information about Comshare Retail products and services, call 1-800-479-RETAIL. For more information about Comshare products and services, call 1-800-922-7979, or see our home page on the World Wide Web at http://www.comshare.com Comshare is a registered trademark and Arthur and Comshare Application Architecture are trademarks of Comshare, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective holders. CONTACT: Comshare, Inc. Marge Cramton, 313/996-8969 or Eiler Communications Larry T. Eiler, 313/761-3399 |
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