Datawatch and Barr Systems Partner to Provide Advanced Business Intelligence Solutions for the Enterprise.Business/Technology Editors LOWELL, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 8, 2000 Partnership offers companies a means to easily archive, distribute, and analyze existing reports from any computer system over the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the 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 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. solutions, data transformation tools and support center software, and Barr Systems, Inc., an innovator of high-performance data communications data communications, application of telecommunications technology to the problem of transmitting data, especially to, from, or between computers. In popular usage, it is said that data communications make it possible for one computer to "talk" with another. products, today announced a Strategic Partnership Agreement. Under the agreement, the companies will resell re·sell tr.v. re·sold , re·sell·ing, re·sells 1. To sell again. 2. To sell (a product or service) to the public or to an end user, especially as an authorized dealer. each other's products and integrate them into comprehensive enterprise-wide solutions that address business intelligence, report management, printing management, and data conversion. Barr Systems will resell Datawatch's Monarch/ES Enterprise products. Monarch/ES will provide Barr customers the ability to archive, view, analyze and share current and historical report information over an intranet or the Internet with no new programming or report writing. Companies will also have a quick and easy means to derive business intelligence from those reports, as well as share critical information from reports with partners, vendors and customers without any external software support burdens. &uot;As a total solution provider for printing and connectivity, we seek industry partners who can significantly add to the value we bring to our customers,&uot; said Rana Ayoub Schafer, director of sales &marketing at Barr Systems, Inc. &uot;Our partnership with Datawatch will allow our customer base to leverage their investment in Barr solutions with Monarch/ES. They will get a platform that includes powerful report mining and publication features without developing new reports or building a new reporting infrastructure.&uot; Datawatch will resell the Barr Enterprise Print Server, which will offer Datawatch customers the ability to easily manage print data and file transfers from multiple mainframe or client/server hosts and deliver the data directly to Monarch/ES. &uot;The combined technologies of Datawatch and Barr Systems will enable organizations to quickly and effectively transform their business information into competitive advantage,&uot; said John Kitchen, vice president of marketing for Datawatch Corporation. &uot;Barr's printing and connectivity solutions will allow Datawatch to completely automate To turn a set of manual steps into an operation that goes by itself. See automation. the input of report data from multiple systems and environments into Monarch/ES. We are excited to join with Barr Systems to provide powerful enterprise reporting solutions that fully leverage the huge investment companies have made in their existing reports and reporting systems.&uot; About Barr Systems, Inc. Barr Systems' software and hardware products provide enterprise-wide printing and connectivity solutions to organizations ranging from Fortune 1,000 corporations to small businesses. Incorporated in 1978, the company serves an international customer base that has installed more than 35,000 products. Experts in print management and host connectivity, Barr Systems works in alliance with other communications and networking vendors to offer complete systems integration. Thousands of financial, government, and education groups have turned to Barr for their print and file management solutions. Barr products help these businesses print on demand more than 300 billion pages each year. For more information about Barr Systems and its full range of network communications and printing solutions, call 800-227-7797, or visit the Barr Web site at www.barrsys.com. About Datawatch Corporation Datawatch Corporation is a leading provider of enterprise reporting solutions, data transformation tools and support center software that helps organizations increase productivity, reduce costs and gain competitive advantage. Datawatch products are used in more than 20,000 companies, institutions and government agencies worldwide. Datawatch is best known for its desktop report mining application Monarch A data capture program from Datawatch Corporation, Chelmsford, MA, (www.datawatch.com), that is used to transfer data from mainframe and minicomputer reports to the PC. It uses report files that contain data ready to print. , which has sold more than 300,000. Monarch lets users extract and manipulate manipulate To cause a security to sell at an artificial price. Although investment bankers are permitted to manipulate temporarily the stock they underwrite, most other forms of manipulation are illegal. data from 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. report files produced on any mainframe, midrange midrange Epidemiology The halfway point or midpoint in a set of observations; for most data, MR is calculated as the sum of the smallest observation and the largest observation, divided by 2; for age data, one is added to the numerator; a midrange is usually , client/server or PC system. Monarch/ES is a scalable Enterprise Reporting solution that leverages existing reports and reporting systems. Monarch/ES fully delivers on the promise of Enterprise Reporting without requiring a big investment in new reporting infrastructure. The Monarch/ES enterprise reporting solution set includes the Monarch/ES Report Server for report archiving and report distribution over LANs; the Monarch/ES Report Portal for Web-based report retrieval via the Internet; and Monarch Data Pump A circuit that transmits pulses in a digital device. It typically refers to the chipset in a modem that generates the bits based on the modem's modulation techniques. for data replication In database management, the ability to keep distributed databases synchronized by routinely copying the entire database or subsets of the database to other servers in the network. There are various replication methods. and migration. Datawatch has partnerships with a variety of key technology venders including IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) and is a Microsoft Data Warehousing See data warehouse. data warehousing - data warehouse Alliance 2000 Member. The company maintains offices throughout the US, and in the United Kingdom, Germany, France and Australia. Monarch, Monarch/ES, Monarch Data Pump, Monarch/ES Report Server, and Monarch/ES Report Portal are trademarks of Datawatch Corporation. Barr Systems and Barr Enterprise Print Server are trademarks of Barr Systems, Inc. All other trademarks are the properties of their respective owners. Datawatch Corp., 900 Chelmsford Street, Tower 3, 5th Floor, Lowell, MA 01851-8100Phone: 978-441-2200 Fax: 978-441-1114 www.datawatch.com |
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