DPA and Information Advantage Team to Package Metadata Channel in DecisionSuite Eureka!Portal Integrates Business Intelligence Information with Direct Access to DecisionPoint Reports from Oracle Financials, PeopleSoft Financials and SAP PORTLAND, Oregon and EDEN PRAIRIE Eden Prairie A city of eastern Minnesota, a residential suburb of Minneapolis. Population: 57,300. , Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 21, 1998--DP Applications, Inc., (DPA DPA - Data Protection Act ), a leading provider of packaged data warehouses for 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. systems, and Information Advantage Inc. (Nasdaq: IACO IACO International Association of Correctional Officers IACO International Aid and Cooperation Organization IACO Integration, Assembly and Checkout IACO Integration and Checkout Operations IACO International Aviation Consulting ), a leading provider of Web-based Business Intelligence software, today announced that they have teamed to create the DPA DecisionPoint Warehouse metadata channel within Information Advantage's DecisionSuite Eureka!(TM) (Eureka!), the first Web portal See portal. to Business Intelligence. The DecisionPoint Warehouse channel integrates the DecisionPoint Warehouse's mission critical enterprise metadata information into the Eurkea! portal to proactively deliver reports from the metadata repository to business and technical users alike. For example, these reports could indicate any abnormalities in the data movement process between ERP applications (i.e., Oracle, PeopleSoft, and SAP) and the data warehouse for users to better evaluate the timeliness and accuracy of their Business Intelligence systems. Eureka! applies the concepts of customized Internet portal sites, such as My Yahoo! or Excite, to offer users a personalized per·son·al·ize tr.v. per·son·al·ized, per·son·al·iz·ing, per·son·al·iz·es 1. To take (a general remark or characterization) in a personal manner. 2. To attribute human or personal qualities to; personify. view of their organization's decision making information. As with these consumer portals, Eureka! offers users the opportunity to subscribe to Verb 1. subscribe to - receive or obtain regularly; "We take the Times every day" subscribe, take buy, purchase - obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction; "The family purchased a new car"; "The conglomerate acquired a new company"; channels that pertain to pertain to verb relate to, concern, refer to, regard, be part of, belong to, apply to, bear on, befit, be relevant to, be appropriate to, appertain to an individual's role or interests, and meet their security profile. The DecisionPoint channel within Eureka! may be used to access and analyze metadata reports focusing on items such as data quality, security, changes in the Business Intelligence data repository See repository. and system performance. Through Eureka!, users can interact with these live reports to view more detailed or summarized information from the DecisionPoint repository. "ERP systems contain the fiduciary data set for the enterprise, but by their very nature cannot respond to ad hoc For this purpose. Meaning "to this" in Latin, it refers to dealing with special situations as they occur rather than functions that are repeated on a regular basis. See ad hoc query and ad hoc mode. requests for that data from decision-makers within the organization," said Larry Scheurich, DPA's chief technology officer. "The DecisionPoint Warehouse extracts those data sets from the ERP environment, and reschematizes them for use by business analysts. By incorporating DecisionPoint Warehouse metadata into Information Advantage's Eureka! environment, we equip business and IT users alike to examine and respond to the dynamic changes within their ERP and Business Intelligence environments. Through Eureka! and the DecisionPoint channel, we can integrate mission-critical metadata with other business information to deliver more comprehensive, accurate reports that provide the foundation for improved decision making. Information Advantage's Eureka! portal offers significant business value to our market." "Information from ERP solutions often provides the majority of Business Intelligence information with our customers' data warehousing See data warehouse. data warehousing - data warehouse environment," said Larry Ford, 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 Information Advantage. "With the DecisionPoint Warehouse channel within Eureka!, users can become more confident of the information coming from their data warehouse(s) and data marts; and combine it with other relevant corporate information. Metadata is no longer important to IT professionals alone. Business users want to not only understand and use the information they find from these systems, they must investigate its reliability, timeliness and source before taking action." About Information Advantage Information Advantage Inc. (Nasdaq: IACO) is a leading provider of Business Intelligence solutions that are designed to accelerate and improve the decision making of all knowledge workers. Its DecisionSuite Eureka! is the first Web portal to Business Intelligence to apply the same visualization, navigation, agent, delivery and search principles popularized by consumer Internet portals, such as Yahoo! and AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. , to all secure corporate business intelligence information. The company has over 450 professionals, 27 offices worldwide, and products licensed to over 1.7 million individuals. For more information, contact Information Advantage at 612/833-3700. About DP Applications DP Applications, Inc. (DPA) is a privately-held provider of packaged end-to-end data warehousing software environments, headquartered in Portland, Oregon, Sydney, and London. DPA's DecisionPoint Warehouse environment offers business analysts across the organization ad hoc access to complete and detailed data sets from Oracle, PeopleSoft, SAP and other ERP applications. DecisionPoint and DecisionPoint Warehouse are trademarks or registered trademarks of DP Applications, Inc. DecisionSuite, DecisionSuite Server, DecisionSuite Eureka!, MyEureka!, Eureka!Server, Eureka!Workbench, and WebOLAP are trademarks or registered trademarks of Information Advantage, Inc. Other products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such. |
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