Data Junction announces 32-bit Cambio 6.0 for Windows.AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 25, 1997-- $495 text mining tool builds databases from text, report files Data Junction A Data Junction by Data Junction Corp. is an ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) tool which automates the integration of multiple data sources and applications and includes modules for design and execution. External links Data Junction Corp. dfsfdsdfsdf Corp. Tuesday announced Cambio(TM) for Windows Version 6.0, an affordable, 32-bit visual tool for mining a wide variety of usable database formats from unstructured text data. Cambio 6.0 runs in native 32-bit mode in Windows 95 and 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. , quickly, simply and automatically capturing useful data fields from complex, irregular text files and reports and building them into clean database records. Cambio can be used as a standalone product or integrated as a front end to the company's popular universal data conversion tool, Data Junction(R) for Windows, to exploit a richer set of manipulations and conversions to hundreds of file formats including Oracle, Lotus Notes and Microsoft Access. "Too often, valuable data is locked away in legacy systems, buried in obscure formats that can be retrieved only as printed reports or text files, or embedded in text data streams from online services, the Internet and the Web," said Mike Hoskins, president of Data Junction Corp. "In fact, some studies estimate more than 80 percent of the world's data is trapped in loose text and document file formats. "The traditional way of extracting this kind of database data required slow and expensive custom programming, or tedious work with inferior text parsing See parse. parsing - parser and import tools. Cambio changes all that." With a simple graphical user interface graphical user interface (GUI) Computer display format that allows the user to select commands, call up files, start programs, and do other routine tasks by using a mouse to point to pictorial symbols (icons) or lists of menu choices on the screen as opposed to having to , Cambio processes text data from a variety of sources, including print files, screen dumps, Internet text downloads, 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. , e-mail messages, tagged ASCII files, OCR OCR in full optical character recognition Scanning and comparison technique intended to identify printed text or numerical data. It avoids the need to retype already printed material for data entry. output, multi-line 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 EBCDIC (Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code) Pronounced "eb-suh-dick." The binary code for text as well as communications and printer control from IBM. records, mailing labels, data publishers like DIALOG and LEXIS, online text and news services like Reuters and Dow-Jones, CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc. CD-ROM in full compact disc read-only memory Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser). text bases, and more. Cambio can convert even the dirtiest and most difficult kinds of text data into databases or spreadsheets. Cambio displays the original text in a graphical data window for viewing and manipulation. Using a mouse to mark up the source data patterns, user-selected fields and records can be extracted quickly and easily from any line or sequence of lines, and assembled into a database view, for exporting to popular formats such as dBASE, Access, FoxPro, Excel, Lotus 123, Quattro and Delimited de·lim·it also de·lim·i·tate tr.v. de·lim·it·ed also de·lim·i·tat·ed, de·lim·it·ing also de·lim·i·tat·ing, de·lim·its also de·lim·i·tates To establish the limits or boundaries of; demarcate. ASCII. Pop-up dialogs help users define a comprehensive set of pattern recognition rules and actions for extracting clean data, including line style recognition, pattern matching, data field parsing, full-text searching and debugging. Cambio includes the capability to: -- Read any kind of report architecture -- Handle floating headers, details and footers -- Autoparse columnar and tagged data -- Support large fields and records -- Handle virtually any file size. Users can automate the extraction process by saving and reusing Cambio settings. By feeding saved Cambio extraction settings into Data Junction, users have a runtime deployment option. Combined with Data Junction, Cambio can deliver the roughest data to almost any format in the world, allowing billions of bytes of unstructured data to be put to use. Available in March from Data Junction Corp. or its authorized resellers, Cambio for Windows 6.0 is priced at $495 and carries an unconditional 30-day money-back guarantee. Data Junction Corp., formerly Tools & Techniques Inc., is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. founded in 1985. It has served the needs of the data conversion marketplace for more than 10 years. With an installed base of nearly 100,000 licenses, the company's flagship product, Data Junction, is the most widely used data conversion tool on the market today. For five consecutive years Data Junction has won the prestigious Data Based Advisor: Readers' Choice Award for the best data conversion utility. Based in Austin, Data Junction employs 20 people. -0- NOTE TO EDITORS: Screen shots are available for publication. For more information about Data Junction, readers may contact the company at 800/580-4411, 512/459-1308 or visit them on the Internet at www.datajunction.com . -0- NOTE: Cambio is a trademark of Data Junction Corp. Data Junction is a registered trademark of Data Junction Corp. Windows is a trademark of Microsoft Corp. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. CONTACT: GTT GTT, n See test, glucose tolerance. GTT Glucose tolerance test, see there Communications Inc., Austin Deborah Wood, 512/347-1014 loislane@gttcom.com |
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