DAZEL Corporation Extends Leadership Position With Enterprise Output Management System and Family of New Products.AUSTIN Austin. 1 City (1990 pop. 21,907), seat of Mower co., SE Minn., on the Cedar River, near the Iowa line; inc. 1868. The commercial and industrial center of a rich farm region, it is noted as home to the Hormel meatpacking company, whose Spam Town museum , Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 8, 1998--DAZEL(R) Corporation today introduced a new family of products based on the industry-leading DAZEL Enterprise Output Management System(tm), which extends the functionality of the DAZEL Output Server(tm) with version 3.1 by linking producers and consumers of information in and across corporate boundaries. New report-viewing and distribution products augment aug·ment v. aug·ment·ed, aug·ment·ing, aug·ments v.tr. 1. To make (something already developed or well under way) greater, as in size, extent, or quantity: a strategic set of network application services See ASP and Web services. that effectively guarantee the reliable delivery and management of reports and documents across the extended enterprise. The expanded DAZEL Enterprise Output Management System was unveiled at DAZEL Live '98, DAZEL's annual User Solutions Symposium symposium In ancient Greece, an aristocratic banquet at which men met to discuss philosophical and political issues and recite poetry. It began as a warrior feast. Rooms were designed specifically for the proceedings. attended by DAZEL's Global 2000 customers. "Our enterprise output management infrastructure is a core element of our IT environment because it enables information producers to deliver reports and documents to more destination types worldwide and reduces the time and resources needed to get that information to the right consumers," said Rick Hopper A tray, or chute, that accepts input to a mechanical device, such as a disk duplicator or printer. In the days of punch cards, millions of cards were numerically or alphabetically organized by placing them into the hopper of a card sorter, taking them out of all the stackers and putting , senior technical specialist, Nortel See Nortel Networks. . "These new additions to the DAZEL Enterprise Output Management System have, in effect, raised the business value of our investment in DAZEL to a new strategic level." "This group of new products reaffirms DAZEL's leadership in providing valuable business solutions for customers as their output needs evolve. This is the latest in a series of first-to-market products for the large number of companies that need to deliver reports and documents reliably in today's networked world," said Bill Bock Noun 1. bock - a very strong lager traditionally brewed in the fall and aged through the winter for consumption in the spring bock beer lager beer, lager - a general term for beer made with bottom fermenting yeast (usually by decoction mashing); originally , 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 DAZEL Corporation. "We provided the first distributed output management product, and we were the first to integrate with 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. applications, legacy applications and enterprise systems management products. And now, DAZEL is the first to provide a strategic infrastructure for that enables the reliable management, tracking, storing, viewing and delivery of business-critical documents and reports."
New Family of Output Server-Based Products
With today's announcements of the DAZEL Output Server 3.1 and new
family of output management products, the extended DAZEL Enterprise
Output Management System now includes:
The DAZEL Report Analyzer
The DAZEL Report Analyzer(tm) is an electronic report warehousing
and mining product that extends enterprise output management to
storing and viewing of business-critical reports.
The DAZEL Report Analyzer provides an effective way for users to
electronically locate specific information from recurring reports
produced by distributed computing-based applications. (See
related release, "DAZEL Corporation Delivers First
Enterprise-Level Report Storage and Viewing Solution with DAZEL
Report Analyzer" 6/8/98).
The DAZEL Output Distributor
The DAZEL Output Distributor(tm) provides customized delivery of
business-critical reports and documents. This extends traditional
report distribution functions of bursting and bundling by
providing device-independent delivery via the DAZEL Output
Server. (See related release, "DAZEL Corporation Redefines Report
Distribution with DAZEL Output Distributor" 6/8/98).
The DAZEL Output Explorer and Output Envoy
The new DAZEL Output Explorer(tm) and DAZEL Output Envoy(tm)
simplify the tracking, management and support of output for both
administrators and users. Through an easy-to-use graphical
interface, the Output Explorer and Output Envoy give
administrators and end users complete knowledge and control of
the delivery process from end-to-end. (See related release,
"DAZEL Corporation Extends Management and Support of DAZEL
Enterprise Output Management System" 6/8/98).
DAZEL for R/3 4.0
DAZEL has built on its leadership position in providing output
solutions for SAP(tm) R/3(tm) environments with the release of
DAZEL for R/3 4.0. It contains a SAP AG Certified interface that
provides R/3 customers with a unified output management
infrastructure to track, manage and reliably deliver
business-critical output throughout the extended ERP environment.
(See related release, "DAZEL Corporation Announces DAZEL for R/3
Version 4.0" 6/8/98).
DAZEL MetaWeb
DAZEL MetaWeb(tm) automates the process of publishing,
distributing and managing reports and documents to the Web. Using
a publish/subscribe metaphor, end users select the exact
categories of organized information they need from their standard
browser. Operating in conjunction with the DAZEL Output Server,
information can be automatically published to the Web from any
application within the enterprise -- without any application
modifications or direct intervention from a Webmaster.
Year 2000 and International Support to the DAZEL Output Server
The DAZEL Output Server 3.1 and DAZEL's family of Output
Server-based products is Year 2000-compliant, ensuring
distribution of critical documents into the next millennium. The
latest version supports the worldwide distributed enterprise by
enabling the reliable delivery of documents in all Western
languages and in Japanese Kanji. In addition, user interfaces are
localized into French and German.
"DAZEL's Enterprise Output Management System seamlessly bridges mainframe, distributed and Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the systems to provide the most comprehensive solution for reliable enterprise output management for companies faced with the challenges of delivering output across their enterprise," said Steve v. t. 1. To pack or stow, as cargo in a ship's hold. See Steeve. Foote, vice president of research strategies, the Hurwitz Group. "With the latest enhancements to the product line, DAZEL continues to support more platforms, input resources and output destinations than any other product in the industry." Pricing and Availability The DAZEL Output Server 3.1 is scheduled to ship by the end of Q2 1998 with support for 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. , Sun Solaris, HP-UX HP's version of Unix that runs on its 9000 family. It is based on SVID and incorporates features from BSD Unix along with several HP innovations. (operating system) HP-UX - The version of Unix running on Hewlett-Packard workstations. , and IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) IBM's Unix-based operating system which runs on its Intellistation workstations and pSeries, p5, iSeries and i5 server families. . The DAZEL Output Explorer and Output Envoy envoy: see diplomatic service. Envoy - Motorola's integrated personal wireless communicator. Envoy is a personal digital assistant which incorporates two-way wireless and wireline communication. support Windows 95 and Windows NT. DAZEL's Enterprise Output Management System is sold in packages based on supported client configurations. Pricing for the DAZEL Output Server starts at $50,000 for 100 users. DAZEL products are sold directly through DAZEL sales offices. For more information on DAZEL products, call (800) 357-8357 or visit the DAZEL Web site at http://www.dazel.com. DAZEL Live '98 New products are being unveiled at DAZEL Live '98, June 7-10, 1998, DAZEL's annual User Solutions Symposium from DAZEL Corporation. Major corporations from around the world are converging con·verge v. con·verged, con·verg·ing, con·verg·es v.intr. 1. a. To tend toward or approach an intersecting point: lines that converge. b. on Austin to attend DAZEL Live '98 and are among the first to see the new, integrated DAZEL Enterprise Output Management System. During the symposium, attendees are on hand for special training sessions and technical workshops to collaborate with the DAZEL team of solutions experts and other DAZEL users to share ideas and experiences. CONTACTS: DAZEL Corporation, Austin Pat Colpitts, 512/494-7300 colpitts@dazel.com or Lois Paul & Partners Leslie Fletcher Fletcher may refer to one of the following: Ideas and companies
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