Ecometry Corporation Partners With Quest/Taurus to Include BridgeWare in Company's Migration Strategy.Business Editors/Technology Writers DELRAY BEACH Delray Beach, resort city (1990 pop. 47,181), Palm Beach co., SE Fla., on the Atlantic coast; settled 1895, inc. 1911. Mostly residential, Delray Beach is also the trade center for a citrus-fruit and vegetable-growing region. , Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 20, 2002 Ecometry Corporation today announced a partnership with Quest Software The computer-software manufacturer Quest Software (Quest Software, Inc.) (NASDAQ: QSFT), headquartered in Aliso Viejo, California, dates from 1987. Quest develops, sells, and supports database management, Windows management, and application management software products and Taurus Software to incorporate BridgeWare into their migration plans in order to assist customers with data migration from the HPe3000 to open systems. BridgeWare simplifies the migration process with no system downtime, thereby delivering significant value to Ecometry customers. BridgeWare also allows companies to add new business processes to the HPe3000 application prior to implementing the migration process and to preserve the integrity of that functionality once it does move to an open systems environment. Ecometry customers will have the ability to operate their businesses without interruption while transaction data moves from the HPe3000/IMAGE database to open systems. BridgeWare immediately detects, reports and replicates IMAGE database changes and posts them to other data files on the HPe3000 or to relational databases, such as Oracle and SQL Server An earlier relational DBMS from Sybase and from Microsoft. Sybase introduced SQL Server in 1988 for various Unix versions. In that same year, with help from IBM, Sybase created an OS/2 version that Microsoft licensed and branded as Microsoft SQL Server. . John Marrah, president of Ecometry Corporation, believes that including BridgeWare in his company's migration strategy will assist Ecometry customers in making the migration process as painless as possible. "As a key component of Ecometry's overall migration strategy, Bridgeware will allow Ecometry users to approach the conversion process with confidence and with a minimum of disruption to daily business operations Business operations are those activities involved in the running of a business for the purpose of producing value for the stakeholders. Compare business processes. The outcome of business operations is the harvesting of value from assets ." Customers can utilize BridgeWare to move data to their new system in bulk, or in a phased migration that allows for real-time communication between modules on the new system and those modules still active on the HPe3000. Ecometry has also leveraged BridgeWare's replication services in other applications, including its high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. option, Parallel WebShopper, to move data between the core databases and the web server at high speed. Cailean Sherman, President of Taurus Software, said, "A number of companies have used BridgeWare to migrate home-grown and packaged applications to NT and UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). , so the software's capabilities in this area are proven. For Ecometry customers, we have extended the power of BridgeWare to add intelligence about internal Ecometry data structures. Some data logic resides within the Ecometry application and will be critical to the migration. Our Studio Graphic Workbench will provide the necessary intelligence to make mapping HPe3000 data to UNIX a snap." "Seamless application migration is key to customers porting their applications to UNIX or NT," said John Saylor, MPE MPE abbr. Master of Public Education Business Unit Manager of Quest Software. "BridgeWare is a proven tool that has assisted hundreds of companies to interface their HPe3000 to the open systems world. Incorporating this tool into Ecometry Retail Enterprise is very meaningful for retailers who cannot afford any downtime as they migrate applications." About Ecometry Corporation Ecometry is a leading provider of multi-channel commerce solutions worldwide. The Ecometry family of products ensures customer satisfaction throughout the multi-channel shopping and buying experience. Its flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. , Ecometry Retail Enterprise(TM), is a customer-focused, high volume suite of business applications designed to completely automate business operations across multiple channels. Headquartered in Delray Beach, Florida Delray Beach is a city in Palm Beach County, Florida, USA. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 60,020. As of 2004, the population estimated by the U.S. Census Bureau is 64,150. , Ecometry's client roster of more then 300 companies includes industry-leading retailers such as Nordstrom, Time Life, Brookstone, Zales, Hickory Farms, Levenger, Delia's, KBKids.com, Nine West, Coldwater Creek Coldwater Creek is a clothing retailer which is based in Sandpoint, Idaho, United States. The company was founded in 1984 by Dennis Pence. The company had 239 stores in operation at the end of the 2006 fiscal year.[1] Notes 1. ^ Coldwater Creek. , Hallmark, and Urban Outfitters Urban Outfitters, Inc. NASDAQ: URBN owns and operates three retail clothing brands: Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie and Free People. The first store opened in 1970 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, focusing on "funky" fashion and household products. . About Quest Software Quest Software, Inc. is a leading provider of application management solutions. Our products increase the performance and uptime of business-critical applications while driving down the total cost associated with running those applications. By focusing on both the people and technology that make applications run, Quest Software enables IT professionals to achieve more with fewer resources. Quest Software is based in Irvine, California Irvine is an incorporated city in Orange County, California, United States. It is a planned city, mainly developed by the Irvine Company since the 1960s. Formally incorporated on December 28 1971, the 69.7 square mile (180.5 km²) city has a population of 202,079 (as of 2007). and has offices around the globe. For more information, visit http://www.quest.com About Taurus Software Taurus Software, Inc. is dedicated to making data liquid in the multi-platform enterprise. Their products allow customers to perform complex transactional or bulk data movements, bi-directionally, and in near real time. Taurus Software is a member of the HP e3000 Transition Partners Program. For complete information on BridgeWare, visit http://www.taurus.com. |
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