Decision Support Systems to Launch Major Release of Comshare's Packaged Solution for Management Planning and Control in Europe.Business Editors and High Tech Writers DUBLIN, Ireland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 14, 2000 Comshare Distributor Praises Strength of First MPC (1) (Mobile PC) A handheld or laptop computer. See handheld computer, laptop computer and Ultra-Mobile PC. (2) (MultiPath Channel) See multipath. Solution in the Financial Software Market Decision Support Systems (DSS (1) (Digital Signature Standard) A National Security Administration standard for authenticating an electronic message. See RSA and digital signature. (2) (Digital Satellite S ), one of Comshare Inc.'s (Nasdaq:CSRE CSRE Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity CSRE Closed System Respirator Evaluator ) key distributors in Europe, announced that it will be launching Comshare MPC 4.0 for management planning and control in Ireland, Germany, Spain, Portugal and Poland. DSS is firmly committed to the concept of management planning and control, which comprises planning, budgeting, reporting and analysis, and the benefits it will bring to its extensive client base. DSS made the announcement this week during Comshare's 18th Annual Users Conference held in Phoenix, Ariz. "We are very impressed that Comshare is the first software vendor to integrate its applications for planning, budgeting, consolidation, management reporting and analysis into a single packaged software See software package. application," says Ronan Stafford, Managing Director, DSS Business Solutions. "Our customers will be able to link strategic initiatives to operational plans, monitor performance against plan and take corrective action A corrective action is a change implemented to address a weakness identified in a management system. Normally corrective actions are instigated in response to a customer complaint, abnormal levels if internal nonconformity, nonconformities identified during an internal audit or based on the results using one solution. "Customers will also benefit from a choice of technology," says Ronan Stafford. "We especially like the product's flexibility for the Web and/or client-server, and Comshare's support for mainstream relational and 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. database technology. "European organisations have invested heavily in ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. applications and infrastructure over the last three years. The focus is now on integrated management planning and control applications. By being the first to market with an integrated application suite, Comshare puts DSS in a unique position to address this large European market," adds Ronan Stafford. "We are extremely pleased that DSS is firmly committed to our strategy to lead the market for MPC solutions," says David Allcock, vice president of distributors, Comshare. "DSS has worked closely with Comshare for 12 years and has been extremely successful in the Irish market. In the last two years DSS has successfully established operations in Germany, Poland and Spain and is winning substantial business with some of Europe's largest companies. We look forward to continuing our successful partnership with the launch of Comshare MPC 4.0." About Comshare Comshare Inc. is the leading provider of e-business software applications for management planning and control (MPC), which comprises planning, budgeting, financial consolidation, management reporting and analysis. Comshare's MPC applications deliver business-critical information over the Web that can be used to make sound planning and management decisions. In business for nearly 35 years, Comshare is one of the top independent software companies, with customers around the world, many of which are Fortune 500 and Financial Times Top 1000 companies. Comshare is a Microsoft Data Warehousing See data warehouse. data warehousing - data warehouse Alliance Partner, an 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) Business Partner, a mySAP.com Software Partner, an Oracle Business Alliance Partner, and a Hyperion Alliance Partner. For more information on Comshare, call 1-800-922-7979, send e-mail to info@comshare.com or visit Comshare's Web site at www.comshare.com. Comshare(R) is a registered trademark of Comshare Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective holders. About Decision Support Systems (DSS) DSS is one of Ireland's leading independent computer companies with a 15-year track record and group revenues in excess of 40M Euros ($34.3 million U.S. dollars). Employing over 160 staff, DSS is focused on two main business areas, Business Solutions and Infrastructure. DSS Business Solutions provides analytical applications such as budgeting, planning and analysis across Europe, through direct offices in Dublin (www.decision.ie), Madrid (www.decision.es), Cologne Cologne (kəlōn`), Ger. Köln, city (1994 pop. 962,500), North Rhine–Westphalia, W Germany, on the Rhine River. It is a commercial, financial, and industrial center, a rail and road junction, and a river port. (www.codec (1) (enCOder/DECoder) A hardware circuit that performs analog-to-digital conversion (ADC) and digital-to-analog (DAC) conversion. When analog signals are entered into a computer, cellphone or other device via a microphone or video source such as VHS tape or analog TV, .de) and Warsaw (www.dss.pl). For more information on Decision Support Systems Ltd., visit the group web site at www.decision.ie |
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