CorVu Corporation Announces Alliance Partnership with Liant Software.MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 14, 1997--CorVu Corporation, a Minneapolis-based provider of business intelligence solutions announced today a new alliance partner, Liant Software. This alliance will provide Liant's Relational DataBridge customers with CorVu's Integrated Business Intelligence suite. Relational DataBridge gives customers access to their 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 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. data in mainframe applications. CorVu will enable such customers to utilize its business intelligence applications to create ad-hoc queries and reports against that data. Additionally, Liant customers can take advantage of CorVu's powerful 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. analysis and business performance management (balanced scorecard Balanced Scorecard A performance metric used in strategic management to identify and improve various internal functions and their resulting external outcomes. The balanced scorecard attempts to measure and provide feedback to organizations in order to assist in implementing ) applications. "We are pleased to join with CorVu as part of their alliance partner program," said Bruce Flory, Vice President of Marketing at Liant. "The value that CorVu's products bring to the table offers our customers the best solutions for data access and allows them to leverage their investments in existing systems and applications as they move to distributed computing (1) The use of multiple computers networked throughout a wide geographical area, or the world via the Internet, in order to solve a single problem. See grid computing. (2) The use of multiple computers in an enterprise rather than one centralized system. ." Liant's Relational DataBridge provides a transparent relational connection between distributed objects Software modules that are designed to work together but reside in multiple computer systems in a private network or on the global Internet. A program in one machine sends a message to an object in a remote machine to perform some processing. and live VSAM and IMS data locked in mainframe applications-all without having to make any changes to the legacy code or data. 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. , VSAM and IMS data is quickly mapped into a relational data source that can be directly accessed and stored as component objects. CorVu's Integrated Business Intelligence Suite is comprised of its OLAP query and reporting system, Executive Alerts, Forecasting, Impact Analysis and Business Performance Management applications. "We are pleased to announce Liant as our newest CorVu Alliance Partner," said Alan Missroon, President of CorVu North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . "By combining business intelligence solutions with Relational DataBridge, customers will now have a robust solution for information analysis allowing them to make more informed business decisions." About Liant Software Relational DataBridge is developed and marketed by Liant Software Corporation. Liant, headquartered in Framingham, Mass., specializes in providing tools, technologies and professional services that help corporations retool re·tool v. re·tooled, re·tool·ing, re·tools v.tr. 1. To fit out (a factory, for example) with a new set of machinery and tools for making a different product. 2. enterprise systems for the 21st century. Liant provides corporations with a practical approach for leveraging investments in existing COBOL COBOL: see programming language. COBOL in full Common Business-Oriented Language. High-level computer programming language, one of the first widely used languages and for many years the most popular language in the business community. applications as they improve developer productivity and transition to distributed computing. Liant, a privately-held company, has offices across the U.S., in London and Japan. Liant's products are sold direct. About CorVu CorVu Corporation is a leading international provider of business intelligence solutions. CorVu has U.S. offices in Minneapolis, Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco; Australian offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth; and a European office in London, England. With more than 1,400 customers, including companies such as BHP, 3M, Datacard, Mincom, Prudential, Johnson & Johnson, Unisys, and BF Goodrich, CorVu's Business Intelligence and performance management solutions are gaining broad market acceptance. Additional information on CorVu products and services can be found on CorVu's Web site at http://www.corvu.com or call (800) 610-0769. -0- NOTE TO EDITORS: CorVu is a trademark of CorVu Corporation. All other company and product names referenced herein are registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective owners. CONTACT: CorVu Corporation Alan Missroon, 770/753-3190 amissroon@corvu.com or Softech Communications Amy G. Curry, 770/937-7860 amy@softechcom.com |
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