Datawatch Wins DCI Portal Excellence Award; Datawatch/ES Deployment at Santa Clara County Cited for `Excellent Metadata Integration'.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers LOWELL, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 18, 2004 Datawatch Corporation (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : DWCH), a leading provider of report management, data transformation and service management solutions, has been named a winner of one of DCI's Fourth Annual Portal Excellence Awards, sponsored by DCI (Display Control Interface) An Intel/Microsoft programming interface for full-motion video and games in Windows. It allowed applications to take advantage of video accelerator features built into the display adapter. and DM Review magazine. Winners were announced on March 16 at an awards ceremony during DCI's Portals, Collaboration and Content Management Conference in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden . The awards were given to teams of both the solution provider and the customer. Datawatch, along with its customer, the County of Santa Clara, California Santa Clara, California (IPA: /ˌsæntəˈklærə/) , founded in 1777 and incorporated in 1852, is a city in Santa Clara County, in the U.S. state of California. ("Santa Clara Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. County"), won a special award for Excellent Metadata Integration. The award recognizes Santa Clara County's success deploying the Datawatch|ES report management system against existing report and other application metadata to enable Web-based enterprise reporting With the dramatic expansion of information technology, and the desire for increased competitiveness in corporations, there has been an increase in the use of computing power to produce unified reports which join different views of the enterprise in one place. . For Santa Clara County staff end users, the complex, back end, metadata integration is invisible, providing intuitive reporting, customized to their needs. The judging panel evaluated award submissions based on ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). , architectural design This article or section may contain original research or unverified claims. Please help Wikipedia by adding references. See the for details. This article has been tagged since September 2007. and innovation of each solution implementation. In its award submission, Datawatch emphasized how Datawatch|ES has dramatically changed the way workers and managers across various Santa Clara County departments and agencies accomplish work on a routine basis, as well as its programming-free metadata integration with Santa Clara County's accounting and PeopleSoft HR systems. Prior to Datawatch|ES, a county-wide operations review revealed widespread re-keying of data from thick paper reports into MS Excel or Access to facilitate analysis, across all agencies. Datawatch|ES provides a secure, paperless, Web-enabled archive of accounting and PeopleSoft SQR Query and reporting software from Hyperion Solutions Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (www.hyperion.com) that provides a graphical front end for designing and generating complex, high-volume reports. reports. In addition, these reports are also transformed into live data with the click of a mouse, for online analysis and download to Excel, without programming. Santa Clara County is saving millions of pages of paper and countless work hours annually. Moe Pal, business consulting and project services manager of Santa Clara County, said, "With Datawatch|ES, reports are archived and distributed electronically, freeing up time and money for other projects, and making it easier for staff to utilize the data from our existing accounting and PeopleSoft HR systems. The new ability county-wide to automatically work with reports and data to expedite ex·pe·dite tr.v. ex·pe·dit·ed, ex·pe·dit·ing, ex·pe·dites 1. To speed up the progress of; accelerate. 2. workloads and solve business problems cannot be overemphasized." "DCI has recognized the clear business value of Datawatch|ES, as a winner in the Portal Excellence Awards. In particular, DCI noted Datawatch|ES' ability to utilize and integrate metadata generated by a variety of disparate applications, providing users with a unified view of enterprise reporting," said Calvin MacKay, Datawatch senior vice president, Enterprise Solutions. "Datawatch|ES uniquely leverages existing enterprise systems, including PeopleSoft and others, by securely storing and distributing reports generated by these systems, and transforming them automatically into live data. No other reporting or business intelligence solution offers the same programming-free business benefits and ROI as Datawatch|ES." ABOUT DATAWATCH CORPORATION Datawatch Corporation helps organizations easily access, store, distribute, transform and analyze information throughout the enterprise. From report management and analytics to data transformation and Internet presentment presentment: see indictment. , Datawatch Corporation provides solutions that allow organizations to fully integrate and leverage their existing sources of information. Datawatch products are used in more than 20,000 companies, institutions and government agencies worldwide. The corporate address for Datawatch is 175 Cabot Street, Suite 503, Lowell, MA 01854-3633; telephone (978) 441-2200. More information on Datawatch and its solutions can be found at www.datawatch.com. |
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