D2K and Informix Announce Strategic Partnership to Provide Managed Data Push & ROLAP Solution for Data Warehousing; Tapestry by D2K Automates Loading of Corporate Data to INFORMIX-MetaCube.SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 13, 1997--D2K, Incorporated, the leading provider of end-to-end knowledge distribution solutions, and INFORMIX Software, Inc., (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 :IFMX IFMX Informix Corporation ), the leading provider of innovative database technology, today announced the introduction of a tightly integrated data warehouse solution. Business analysts using D2K's Tapestry can rapidly pull information from legacy systems, load a data warehouse/data mart and schedule automatic delivery to INFORMIX(r)-MetaCube(tm). INFORMIX-MetaCube is the industry's easiest-to-use and only integrated relational online analytical processing Online Analytical Processing, or OLAP (IPA: /ˈoʊlæp/), is an approach to quickly provide answers to analytical queries that are multidimensional in nature. (ROLAP See OLAP. ) solution. Edward Young, 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 D2K D2K Defender 2000 (Atari Jaguar game) D2K Dragonz 2000 (gaming clan) noted, "By coupling Tapestry's managed push technology with MetaCube's multi-dimensional format, users can easily navigate through volumes of data, select only the information they need, and schedule an automatic load to a MetaCube data mart 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. . Corporate knowledge workers, including everyone from IT to the end users, will not only be able to collaborate to build data marts or data warehouses, but they can also schedule their delivery options, as well as drill down and analyze the data with the use of a multi-dimensional ROLAP engine." "We are very pleased with the possibilities of this relationship," said Jon Kraft, director of business development for INFORMIX's Data Warehouse Business Development Unit. "Until now, corporations have had to invest significant time hand crafting computer programs to transfer data from legacy or operational systems into an 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. data mart. D2K's integration with INFORMIX completely automates this process with an easy to use tool." The Benefit The tight integration of Tapestry and INFORMIX-MetaCube provides users with the ability to build and automatically load information to their data warehouse or subject-specific data marts for sophisticated,multi-dimensional analysis. The resulting capability to analyze the most recent data from multiple views in order to accurately make decisions offers corporations a tremendous competitive advantage. Judy Rawls, vice president of worldwide marketing for D2K added, "This is only the first step in our partnership with INFORMIX. Going forward, we will focus on loading the MetaCube data marts with data harvested from business application packages. These pre-loaded, subject-specific analysis templates will let end users integrate data previously locked functional, business applications, integrate it with other corporate legacy data, and then load it to MetaCube." Tapestry by D2K Tapestry supports multi-tiered data warehouse and data mart architectures. A tightly integrated set of tools facilitate extraction, transformation, and loading of legacy data to a data warehouse/data mart. Key features include an industrial strength concurrent manager; an object-relational meta data catalog and application data models. Additionally, data distribution is easily supported with a publish/subscribe system for process management, administration and tuning tools for warehouse management, and a threaded Java chat session for workflow communications. Tapestry by D2K is the only scaleable, end-to-end data warehousing solution to include easy-to-use web-enabled interfaces for everyone in the information chain; simplifying and expediting automatic data delivery from legacy systems to the desktop. End users can select the information they need from the data warehouse/data mart, and schedule delivery in HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. , ASCII ASCII or American Standard Code for Information Interchange, a set of codes used to represent letters, numbers, a few symbols, and control characters. Originally designed for teletype operations, it has found wide application in computers. , or JavaCharts to their desktop, server or email address. INFORMIX-MetaCube INFORMIX-MetaCube is a family of decision-support software designed for performing sophisticated analysis on small to large data warehouses and/or data marts. MetaCube offers the only completely customizable, extensible, and easy-to-use analysis environment that is intricately integrated into the INFORMIX relational database, allowing users to take advantage of its high performance and scaleability. Based on an open, extensible framework optimized for INFORMIX's Dynamic Scalable Architecture(tm)(DSA (1) (Directory Server Agent) An X.500 program that looks up the address of a recipient in a Directory Information Base (DIB), also known as white pages. It accepts requests from the Directory User Agent (DUA) counterpart in the workstation. ), MetaCube is a strategic component of INFORMIX's data warehousing solutions. Leveraging MetaCube and INFORMIX's high-performance, scalable database servers, INFORMIX delivers information from the data warehouse to the desktop in a powerful, intuitive way that is familiar to decision makers performing business analysis. Pricing and Availability INFORMIX-MetaCube is now available. Pricing for the MetaCube 3.x product line starts at $40,000 ($1,500 per user with a 10-user minimum, plus $25,000 per CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. ). MetaCube is also currently available with INFORMIX's integrated, scaleable FastStart data warehousing solution for data warehouses or data marts. The current release of Tapestry (v1.5) began shipping in April and is available for a base price of $75,000 for 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). and $50,000 for NT. Tapestry supports extraction from 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 , 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. , DB2, Sequential Files, PeopleSoft Application Packages, and RDBMSs. Targets include SQL Server and UNIX and NT RDBMSs, as well as INFORMIX-MetaCube 3.1. About Informix INFORMIX Software, based in Menlo Park, Calif., provides innovative database technology that enables the world's leading corporations to manage and grow their businesses. INFORMIX is widely recognized as the technology leader for corporate computing environments, ranging from workgroups to very large OLTP (OnLine Transaction Processing) See transaction processing and OLCP. OLTP - On-Line Transaction Processing and data warehouse applications. INFORMIX's database servers, application development tools, superior customer service and strong partnerships enable the company to be at the forefront of many leading-edge technology solutions areas. More information about INFORMIX is available via the World Wide Web at http://www.INFORMIX.com and http://illustra.com . About D2K D2K's charter is to be the leading provider of information delivery solutions, enabling end-to-end knowledge distribution across global computing environments. D2K is headquartered in San Jose, Calif. with sales and development labs in Singapore and San Jose, Calif., and a development lab in the UK. The company's World Wide Web address is http://www.d2k.com . -0- Note to Editors: D2K and Tapestry(tm) are registered trademarks of D2K Incorporated. The following are worldwide trademarks of INFORMIX Software, Inc. or its affiliates, registered in the United States of America UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. The name of this country. The United States, now thirty-one in number, are Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, , as indicated by AE, and numerous other countries worldwide: INFORMIX, MetaCube(r), OnLine Dynamic Server(r), Dynamic Scalable Architecture. All other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners. Informix news releases are available at no charge through Business Wire's NewsOnDemand fax service. To immediately receive an index of available releases, call 1-800/356-0851. CONTACT: Informix Software, Inc. Jeff Lettes, 415/926-6326 or D2K, Inc Julie Birney Cecilio, 408/487-8883 |
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