Constellar Corporation Enters U.S. Market with Major Customer Wins; First USA Bank and Hoffmann La-Roche Invest in Constellar's Next-Generation Transformation Hub Technology for Enterprise Data Movement.REDWOOD CITY Redwood City, city (1990 pop. 66,072), seat of San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1868. Manufactures include commmunications, electrical, electronic, and medical equipment. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 17, 1997-- Constellar Corporation, a developer of data transformation and migration technology for large organizations worldwide, today announced its entry into the U.S. market with two new customers, First USA Bank and Hoffmann La-Roche. Constellar, which was previously called The SQL SQL in full Structured Query Language. Computer programming language used for retrieving records or parts of records in databases and performing various calculations before displaying the results. Group, was headquartered in the United Kingdom, where it has an established base of Fortune 2000 customers. The company is bringing the Constellar Hub, its transformation hub technology, to the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. to address the growing need for timely, accurate information in data warehouses and throughout the enterprise data intrachange network. A recent study by industry analysts at the Meta Group concluded that 50 percent of today's data warehouses contain inaccurate or unverified information. The Constellar Hub, which until today was named Information Junction, has an advanced hub-and-spokes architecture that provides the transformation power and the interface management capabilities to effectively address all corporate data integration issues, such as data warehouses and client/server implementations. The Constellar Hub can improveeet the rapidly growing global market for datain addition to simply reconciling years of incompatible systems and data, is bringing many corporate IT departments to a point where they simply cannot provide timely, top-quality data to decision makers. "The Constellar hub's unique architecture provides the only solution that not only addresses all current IT challenges, but provides a clean, extensible architecture that can support rapid business change in the future." The Constellar Hub's unique hub-and-spokes architecture lets customers maintain a central repository with business rules, meta- data, standard transformations and more. Data can then be transformed, consolidated, reformatted and checked for accuracy in the hub before automatically being routed to target systems. Constellar's flexible architecture has the transformation power to consistently maintain high levels of data quality and the scaleable interface management features required to effectively implement projects such as data warehouses and data marts 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. as well as the larger problem of enterprise-wide data movement. "Our evaluation team liked the Constellar Hub for two reasons," said Michael Vargas, IT manager of Data Warehousing See data warehouse. data warehousing - data warehouse at Hoffmann La-Roche. "First, Constellar is a robust single-vendor product that performs source system extraction, migration, transformation and population of the data warehouse -- and does it well. "The second reason is that the second-generation transformation hub design promotes central management of the entire process with minimal reliance on operational resources. We are also beginning to use the Constellar Hub in non-warehouse systems which require moving data across applications." The Constellar Hub is available for a variety of 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 and 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. . It can integrate with virtually any source of data -- from flat files to legacy system databases such as IMS (1) See IP Multimedia Subsystem. (2) (Information Management System) An early IBM hierarchical DBMS for IBM mainframes. IMS was widely implemented throughout the 1970s under MVS and continues to be used under z/OS. and popular 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. , including Oracle, Informix and Sybase. In addition to new U.S. customers Hoffmann La-Roche and First USA, Constellar's established customer base includes Fortune 2000 companies such as BarclayCard, British Airports Authority, British Telecom The telephone and communications carrier that provides services in Great Britain and Northern Ireland. It used to be a division of the British Post Office, but was privatized in 1984 under Margaret Thatcher's administration. , Commercial Union, Lombard (NatWest) and ScottishPower. Constellar Corporation is privately owned and received an initial round of financing in July 1996 from Brentwood Venture Capital. About Constellar Founded in 1988, Constellar Corporation develops next-generation Transformation Hub technology that provides data transformation and interface management for large organizations worldwide. The company sells the Constellar Hub and comprehensive implementation 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 the United States, Canada and Europe through a direct sales force and systems integrator An individual or organization that builds systems from a variety of diverse components. With increasing complexity of technology, more customers want complete solutions to information problems, requiring hardware, software and networking expertise in a multivendor environment. partners. Constellar, which was previously named The SQL Group, is based in Redwood City and has offices in London. CONTACT: Constellar Corp., Redwood City Christian Schock, 415/610-6702 cschock@constellar.com or Direct Communications Joanna Kulesa, 408/423-2300 joanna233@aol.com |
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