Data General first to offer benchmark performance guarantee for PeopleSoft's HR software; "Enterprise class" tests support up to 13,000 employees per hour.WESTBORO, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 5, 1995-- Data General Corp. today announced that it would be the first company to offer packaged-priced hardware and service configurations with benchmark performance guarantees to users of PeopleSoft Inc.'s Human Resource Management Systems (HRMS HRMS Human Resource Management System HRMS High Resolution Microwave Survey (SETI, Project Phoenix) HRMS High Resolution Mass Spectroscopy HRMS High Resolution Molecular Spectroscopy HRMS Human Resources Management Specialist ) software. The Data General benchmark performance guarantee states that its AViiON servers running the PeopleSoft HRMS software will perform to the batch payroll processing benchmarks recently completed by the two companies. Initially, Data General will offer four packaged-price configurations to support payroll processing for businesses ranging in size from 5,000 to 120,000 employees. The range of configurations and performance guarantees is expected to broaden as additional benchmarks are established. Frank Strelau, director of Channel Development for PeopleSoft, said, "Data General's highly innovative benchmark performance guarantee program offers customers the assurance of a solution that can deliver true enterprise class performance today, yet can be confidently scaled up to meet future requirements. This should help a lot of customers by removing much of the uncertainty from their decision to move to client/server." According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Sue Sweeney, Data General's vice president of Strategic Alliances, "These benchmarks demonstrate that even the largest commercial enterprises will now be able to benefit from People soft's world-class human resources The fancy word for "people." The human resources department within an organization, years ago known as the "personnel department," manages the administrative aspects of the employees. system, and be assured that they will get outstanding performance." The packaged-price configurations include the company's popular AViiON servers, CLARiiON data storage hardware, DG/UX (UNIX-based) operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. , service and training as well as automatic hardware upgrades and flexible leasing options. PeopleSoft is responsible for providing the HRMS software. The performance benchmark guarantee is based on an extensive series of batch payroll systems tests conducted by Data General and PeopleSoft using People soft's HRMS 4.0 software. In the tests, payroll for 120,000 employees was processed in nine hours and 14 minutes, a rate of 13,00 employees per hour. This was accomplished using a Data General AViiON AViiON was a series of computers from Data General that were the company's main product from the late 1980s until the company's server products were discontinued in 2001. Earlier AViiON models used the Motorola 88000 CPU, but later models moved to an all-Intel solution when 9500 UNIX-based server running the DG/UX operating system and a CLARiion fault-tolerant disk array. Kevin Reilly Kevin Reilly is the entertainment president of the Fox network. He is a former NBC president fired in May 2007 after the network had one of its least-watched seasons ever.[1] Early in his career at NBC, Reilly was involved with Law & Order , vice president of information systems for Richardson Electronics, said, "Richardson Electronics has been extremely pleased with the implementation of PeopleSoft on AViiON. We believe the PeopleSoft and Data General offering will provide us with the flexibility and power in a client/server environment A networking environment that is made up of clients and servers running applications designed for client/server architecture. See client/server. to support us now with our 700 users, and as we continue to grow, while allowing ad-hoc queries and excellent performance." Richardson Electronics, which is based in LaFox, Ill., is an international distributor of CRTs, semiconductors and vacuum tubes This is a list of vacuum tubes: American designation (with European equivalents)
The Data General benchmark performance guarantee program is an attractive option for any company that has historically run payroll processing on high-end mainframes or outsourced its payroll processing and is now considering a move to client/server. The program combines the flexibility of true client/server architecture An environment in which the application processing is divided between client workstations and servers. It implies the use of desktop computers interacting with servers in a network in contrast to processing everything in a large centralized mainframe. See client/server. with rich functionality and high performance. The company's flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. is its AViiON server line, which by the end of this year will have an installed base of 30,00 systems with a total value of $2 billion. The award-winning AViiON line has ranked number one in Computerworld's Customer Satisfaction survey three years in a row. In addition, the company's Unix operating system Noun 1. UNIX operating system - trademark for a powerful operating system UNIX, UNIX system operating system, OS - (computer science) software that controls the execution of computer programs and may provide various services , DG/UX, has been rated as the finest commercial UNIX operating system by the Illuminata consulting group. Additional information on Data General, its products, and services is available on the Internet at http://www.dg.com or gopher.dg.com. Contact Jim Dunlap at Data General Corporation, (508) 898-6546, or Sabrina Horn at the Horn Group, (415) 579-7300. AViiON and CLARiiON are registered trademarks and DG/UX is a trademark of Data General Corporation. PeopleSoft is a trademark and PeopleTools a registered trademark of PeopleSoft Inc. All other product names may be registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective companies. CONTACT: Data General Corp., Westboro Jim Dunlap, 508/898-6546 or The Horn Group (for PeopleSoft) Sabrina Horn, 415/579-7300 |
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