Data Junction announces powerful 32-bit graphical data conversion tool.

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 25, 1997--

Data Junction for Windows converts all major data formats on Windows 95, NT for $995

Data Junction Corp. Tuesday announced Data Junction(R) for Windows 6.0, a 32-bit version of the industry's best-selling graphical data conversion tool, to perform data extraction and transformation on Windows NT and Windows 95 without costly custom programming.

The company also announced native 32-bit versions of Cambio, its popular graphical tool for text mining, and DJ:Engine, a standalone conversion engine working with Data Junction to deploy runtime data conversion solutions on any Windows NT or UNIX system.

"Today's announcements deliver on Data Junction's promise of a scalable data conversion solution for the entire enterprise," said Mike Hoskins, Data Junction president. "No one has ever delivered a data warehouse tool that offers all of this power with Windows ease-of-use at a desktop price."

Data Junction for Windows 6.0 (DJWin) is a unique, affordable and powerful extraction, transformation and loading (ETL) tool that can convert virtually any structured data in the world. Based on a two-tier architecture, a graphical front end and an industrial-strength back end, DJWin provides data conversion solutions for every level of the business enterprise.

DJWin's visual interface is a powerful drag-and-drop design tool used to specify all the parameters governing a particular source-to-target data conversion. Once the design work is complete, conversions can be executed dynamically, or the specification can be saved for future editing or automated use.

With this release, DJWin moves into a bigger arena of data conversion solutions with more power and performance (up to 500 percent speed improvement). DJWin can extract, transform and deliver data to and from legacy COBOL, Sybase, Oracle, SQL Server, Informix, Access, EBCDIC, Btrieve, ASCII and hundreds more formats. New features in DJWin Version 6.0 include:

-- Update mode in SQL targets

-- Test data generation

-- Comprehensive logging

-- File sniffer detects unknown file format types

-- Conditional Abort function

-- Enhanced COBOL copybook handling

-- Address parsing and cleaning functions

-- Enhanced Lookup functions

-- New conversion spokes for DB/2 and native Microsoft Access

-- Improved data validation -- including Reject file

-- Expression Builder supports library of functions

-- Dynamic SQL pass-through

In today's heterogeneous data universe, data conversion poses many challenges -- data warehousing, building data marts, data mining applications, populating decision-support systems, legacy data migration (mostly COBOL to SQL), capturing on-line feeds and Internet data delivery.

DJWin answers these challenges at an unprecedented price point. DJWin reads more types of legacy data than any other solution, and converts it to all types of databases in a powerful, friendly, graphical way -- on Windows 95 and NT.

Pricing and Availability

Data Junction for Windows 6.0 is scheduled for availability in March, priced at $995 for single-user licenses. Server-based and site-wide licenses are available.

Data Junction Corp., formerly Tools & Techniques Inc., is a privately held company founded in 1985. It has been serving the needs of the data conversion marketplace for more than 10 years, and for five consecutive years has won the prestigious Data Based Advisor: Readers' Choice Award for the best data conversion utility.

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. Users range from small businesses to Fortune 500 corporations and large government agencies, on platforms as diverse as Windows, UNIX, OS/2 and DOS. Based in Austin, Data Junction Corp. 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 World Wide Web at www.datajunction.com .

NOTE: Cambio is a trademark of Data Junction Corp.

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