Dayton Hudson Corporation Wins Retail Innovation Technology Award for its DecisionSuite Implementation.EDEN PRAIRIE Eden Prairie A city of eastern Minnesota, a residential suburb of Minneapolis. Population: 57,300. , Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 19, 1998-- Merchandising Application Continues to Be Honored with Leading Industry Awards Information Advantage Inc. (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 : IACO IACO International Association of Correctional Officers IACO International Aid and Cooperation Organization IACO Integration, Assembly and Checkout IACO Integration and Checkout Operations IACO International Aviation Consulting ), a leading provider of Web-based Business Intelligence software, announced today that Dayton Hudson Corporation has received the 1998 Retail Innovation Technology Award (RITA RITA Cardiology A clinical trial–Randomized Intervention Treatment of Angina–comparing the outcome of PCTA vs CABG in Pts with angina. See Angina, Angioplasty, CABG, Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty. ) for its implementation of Information Advantage's DecisionSuite(R). Sponsored by Chain Store Age magazine, National Retail Federation, Digital Corporation and Informix Corporation, RITA award winners were selected based on their solution's degree of innovation, ability to provide quantifiable results, and ability to deliver business value to the organization with the flexibility to accommodate future plans and growth. The RITA award follows the win by Information Advantage and Dayton Hudson Corporation of the 1998 Data Warehouse Institute Best Practices Award in April. Dayton Hudson Corporation has selected DecisionSuite as its standard OLAP (OnLine Analytical Processing) Decision support software that allows the user to quickly analyze information that has been summarized into multidimensional views and hierarchies. OLAP tools are used to perform trend analysis on sales and financial information. solution across all three key operating units: Target Stores, Mervyn's, and the Dayton Hudson Department Store Division. At Target Stores, more than 1,000 marketing and merchandising professionals use applications based on DecisionSuite to create over 50,000 reports each month. Their most widely used DecisionSuite applications allow access and analysis of sales, profitability and other financial data by location and time, and assist merchandisers in identifying their top-priority buying and stocking issues at a click of a button. "Dayton Hudson Corporation continues to challenge themselves and their partners, such as Information Advantage, to provide innovative solutions that continually improve their overall merchandising," said Larry Ford, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Information Advantage. "We are pleased to have provided Business Intelligence solutions for Dayton Hudson Corporation for over six years, and we are delighted to see their success recognized with prestigious awards such as the Data Warehouse Institute Best Practices Award and the RITA award." Dayton Hudson Corporation will receive the award during a presentation ceremony at RISCON RISCON Rhode Island Statewide Communications Network , the National Retail Federation's retail information systems conference, in Denver, Colorado, on October 19, 1998. About Information Advantage Information Advantage Inc. (Nasdaq: IACO) is a leading provider of Business Intelligence solutions that are designed to accelerate and improve the decision making of all knowledge workers. Its DecisionSuite Eureka! is the first Web portal See portal. to Business Intelligence to apply the same visualization, navigation, agent, delivery and search principles popularized by consumer Internet portals, such as Yahoo! and AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. , to all secure corporate business intelligence information. The company has over 450 professionals, 27 offices worldwide, and products licensed to over 1.7 million individuals. For more information, contact Information Advantage at 612/833-3700. DecisionSuite, DecisionSuite Server, DecisionSuite Eureka!, MyEureka!, Eureka!Server, Eureka!Workbench, and WebOLAP are trademarks or registered trademarks of Information Advantage, Inc. Other products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such. |
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