IBM ENHANCES DB2 WAREHOUSE MANAGER FOR UNIX AND WINDOWS.Vality(R) Technology, Boston, the market-share leader in enterprise data quality management software and consulting services, has announced its support for 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) DB2 Warehouse Manager v7.2. IBM has integrated the Vality INTEGRITY software to perform the data standardization and matching function of its new warehousing solution. IBM DB2 Warehouse Manager and the Data Warehouse Center provide optimal data warehousing See data warehouse. data warehousing - data warehouse for systems. DB2 Warehouse Manager extends the scalability, manageability, and accessibility of IBM customers' DB2 warehouses using DB2 Warehouse Manager for 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). and Windows environments. It allows customers to move data directly from source-to-target and control the server on which transformations take place with distributed warehouse agents. DB2 Warehouse Manager also speeds warehouse deployment with commonly used, pre-built data cleansing See address cleansing and data hygiene. and statistical transformations using Vality INTEGRITY. "Enabling enterprises to attain an accurate consolidated view of their customer (CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. ) and supplier (SCM (1) (Software Configuration Management, Source Code Management) See configuration management. (2) See supply chain management. ) relationships which power the sell side and buy side operations of the enterprise is essential to any successful data warehousing implementation," stated Mark E. Atkins, 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 Vality(R) Technology. "I'm pleased to announce that with the recent enhancements of Vality INTEGRITY(TM) v3.10, and its integration with IBM's DB2 Warehouse Manager v7.2, enterprises can reap the benefits of having accurate views of their key relationships." "Our sales figures sales figures npl → cifras fpl de ventas demonstrate the significant benefits gained by both Vality and IBM as a result of our relationship," said Nora McGuinness, vice president, Worldwide Marketing, at Vality Technology. "We anticipate that the inclusion of Vality in IBM DB2 Warehouse Manager will enhance those figures and provide greater benefit to our customers." Vality INTEGRITY Vality's flagship INTEGRITY software gives companies control over data quality and enables them to re-purpose operational data into strategic enterprise intelligence. INTEGRITY standardizes inconsistent, incomplete, and inaccurately input data; uncovers patterns and relationships; and consolidates views of customers, suppliers, parts, products, and other entities - providing 100-percent visibility for better decision-making. DB2 Warehouse Manager Offering the following capabilities: -- Increase the scalability of data warehouses -- Fast deployment of data marts -- Comprehensive manageability and resource controls for DBAs -- Easy access to data and metadata by end users Currently the DB2 Warehouse Manager is announced for the following platforms: UNIX, NT, AS/400, and OS/390. About Vality Technology Vality Technology is the pioneer and recognized leader in data standardization and matching software as well as data quality consulting services. Its customers and partners include Global 5000 corporations in finance, healthcare, insurance, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, retail, telecommunications, energy, and utilities, including Aetna U.S. Healthcare U.S. Healthcare is a now-defunct healthcare company. The logo had an apple. The merger with Aetna In 1996, the company merged with Aetna, calling it Aetna U.S. Healthcare. The U.S. Healthcare apple logo was next to the Aetna name, and U.S. Healthcare under it. U.S. (R), IBM(R), www.onlinesuppliers.com corp.(TM), Telstra(R), and UPS(R). These companies rely on Vality's patent-pending technology to develop and implement enterprise data quality management solutions for the Internet economy The Internet Economy refers to conducting business through markets whose infrastructure is based on the Internet and World-Wide Web. An Internet economy differs from a traditional economy in a number of ways, including: communication, market segmentation, distribution costs, and price. . These solutions help companies re-engineer existing operational data and incoming real-time Web data to maintain high-quality enterprise data as well as achieve accurate, complete information on customers, suppliers and products and all their relationships for business applications. Vality was recently listed in Boston Magazine's Best Places to Work; was named one of the 15 Stars of eCommerce by eCom Advisory. For more information, call 617-338-0300 or visit http://www.vality.com. |
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