Constellar Corporation and BMC Software Partner to Deliver Tighter Integration of Legacy and Open Systems.HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 21, 1998-- Union Offers Customers a Superior Solution for Moving and Transforming Data for Application Integration and Data Warehouse Initiatives Constellar Corporation, the Enterprise Application Integration Company, and BMC Software (Nasdaq:BMCS BMCS Bristol Muslim Cultural Society (UK) BMCS Senior Chief Boatswain's Mate (Naval Rating) BMCS Blue Mountains Conservation Society (Wentworth Falls, NSW, Australia) ), the leader in providing Application Service Assurance (ASA Asa (ā`sə), in the Bible, king of Judah, son and successor of Abijah. He was a good king, zealous in his extirpation of idols. When Baasha of Israel took Ramah (a few miles N of Jerusalem), Asa bought the help of Benhadad of Damascus and ) solutions that improve the availability, performance and recovery of business-critical applications, today announced a partnership that will give customers a powerful solution for moving, transforming, and controlling large data volumes between legacy sources and open systems DBMS (DataBase Management System) Software that controls the organization, storage, retrieval, security and integrity of data in a database. It accepts requests from the application and instructs the operating system to transfer the appropriate data. targets. The partnership is part of BMC (BMC Software, Inc., Houston, TX, www.bmc.com) A leading supplier of software that supports and improves the availability, performance, and recovery of applications in complex computing environments. Software's Enterprise Data Propagation (EDP (Electronic Data Processing) The first name used for the computer field. EDP - Electronic Data Processing ) strategy. Announced last week, the EDP solution ensures the fastest, most efficient, most reliable movement of mainframe data to mainframe, open systems and NT databases. Constellar's enterprise application integration (EAI (Enterprise Application Integration) Refers to various techniques used to share data and business processes in large enterprises. When companies acquire another organization, disparate information systems have to be made to work together. ) solutions, Constellar Hub and Constellar WarehouseBuilder, complement BMC Software's strategy by applying powerful transformations to the bulk data, change data, and schema captured by BMC Software's ChangeDataMove product. The transformations include multidimensional aggregation, merging, re-formatting, and validation/cleansing of the data streams, before delivery to the target systems. Together, BMC Software and Constellar deliver a complete and scalable warehouse-enabled solution that ensures customers have access to current, quality data, regardless of where it resides. "Our goal is to provide the fastest and most efficient solution available for moving data between legacy databases and open systems databases. Constellar solutions add value to that process by transforming the data into meaningful information en route," stated Nancy Harris, director of product marketing data availability and solutions for BMC Software. "Additionally, we're providing a central point of control for users that enables us to support the most demanding and complex environments with the same high-quality service." "BMC's ability to quickly capture data and change data from legacy sources is a very compelling addition to our EAI and data warehousing solutions," said Nic Birtles, 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. of Constellar. "Our goal is to provide customers with a centralized system for managing data flows, via interfaces, between all applications in the enterprise, whether it's a legacy system, RDBMS (Relational DataBase Management System) See relational database and DBMS. RDBMS - relational database , message queue, ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. application, data warehouse, or other application system, because that's what our customers really need. Working with BMC enables us to expand our direct access to legacy sources and utilize critical change data information, for improved performance and data integrity." About Constellar EAI Solutions Constellar Hub is the only EAI solution to provide a centrally managed, high-performance, scalable engine for data movement, data transformation and interface management across all enterprise applications. Constellar Hub's unique architecture enables customers to rapidly develop and deploy interfaces and implement new applications faster, cheaper, and at less risk than traditional, hand-coded approaches. Constellar WarehouseBuilder provides high-performance, single-pass acquisition, aggregation, complex transformation, and loading of large data volumes into a wide range of data stores and schema including conventional RDBMSs, Star or Snowflake, or 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. formats. This significantly enhances throughput and eliminates the need for separate data warehouse "stuffer" products. About BMC Software's Enterprise Data Propagation Solution (EDP) Announced last week, BMC Software's Enterprise Data Propagation solution includes the ChangeDataMove and DataReach products. ChangeDataMove provides highly efficient, transaction-based change capture for DB2 for OS/390, 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. , CICS (Customer Information Control System) A TP monitor from IBM that was originally developed to provide transaction processing for IBM mainframes. It controls the interaction between applications and users and lets programmers develop screen displays without VSAM (Virtual Storage Access Method) An IBM access method for storing data, widely used in IBM mainframes. It uses the B+tree method for organizing data. VSAM - Virtual Storage Access Method and VSAM batch applications with near real time or scheduled propagation of the captured changes to DB2 for OS/390 and to Oracle on Unix. The product is a high performance solution designed to support operational applications executing hundreds of transactions per second In a very generic sense, the term Transactions Per Second refers to the number of atomic actions performed by certain entity per second. In a more restrictied view, the term is usually used by DBMS vendor and user community to refer to the number of database transactions performed . DataReach, developed through a partnership between BMC Software and EMC Corporation, provides a new approach for moving DB2 for OS/390 data to Oracle, Sybase and Informix databases on Unix systems. DataReach, while executing on a Unix host, uses EMC Symmetrix storage to directly access MVS (Multiple Virtual Storage) Introduced in 1974, the primary operating system used with IBM mainframes (the others are VM and DOS/VSE). MVS is a batch processing-oriented operating system that manages large amounts of memory and disk space. DB2 data. The data transfers are performed at channel speeds, no mainframe overhead is involved and no network traffic is generated. As a result, DataReach accomplishes a move and load to the target system much more quickly than typical network solutions. About Constellar Corporation Constellar Corporation, the Enterprise Application Integration Company, is the leading provider of hub-based enterprise application integration (EAI) software and services for large organizations worldwide. Founded in 1988, Constellar developed the first EAI software platform, enabling customers to dramatically speed the implementation of new applications and data warehouses, and reduce the total cost of ownership and maintenance of their IT infrastructure. Constellar is based in Redwood Shores, Calif., with U.S. regional operations in New York, Chicago, Atlanta, and Dallas and European operations in London and Reading, England, and Frankfurt, Germany. For more information, call 650/631-4800 or visit http://www.constellar.com. About BMC Software BMC Software Inc. is an industry leader in delivering Application Service Assurance (ASA (TM)) solutions -- enterprise-level software and support that improves the availability, performance and recovery of critical applications and data in complex computing environments. BMC Software is the world's 12th largest independent software vendor and a Forbes 500 company, with revenues exceeding $730 million in fiscal 1998. The company is headquartered in Houston, Texas, with offices worldwide. For more information, please call 800/841-2031 or 713/918-8800 or visit BMC Software on the Web at www.bmc.com. BMC Software is an Equal Opportunity Employer equal opportunity employer An employer or enterprise that does not discriminate against a job candidate, or subject him/her to adverse exclusionary criteria, based on race, sex, religion, or national origin. See Equal employment opportunity. . BMC Software, the BMC Software logos and all other product or service names are registered trademarks or trademarks of BMC Software Inc. in the USA and in other select countries. (R)and (TM) indicate USA registration or USA trademark. Constellar and the Constellar logo are trademarks of Constellar Corporation. |
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