InfoModelers Inc. announces company formation to focus on highest functionality data modeling and query tools for next generation databases.BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 28, 1997-- New President & 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. Joins Company Bringing Top Management Consulting Noun 1. management consulting - a service industry that provides advice to those in charge of running a business service industry - an industry that provides services rather than tangible objects and Enterprise Software Experience InfoModelers Inc. today announced the details of its recent formation and spin-off from Asymetrix Corp. and the recruitment of its new President & CEO Tom Van Horn. InfoModelers Inc. is a leading supplier of advanced software tools for database design, modeling, and queries, which is based in Bellevue. The company was formed in October 1996 through the spin-off of Asymetrix's Database Division, forming a new company that is part of Paul Allen's "Wired World" consortium. In December, Tom Van Horn, formerly a senior consultant with McKinsey & Co., the world's leading top management consulting firm, and a vice president at Attachmate, the leader in enterprise connectivity software, joined the company as president & CEO. In addition, InfoModelers is today announcing its new strategic direction including support for the Next Generation in database technology, the INFORMIX-Universal Server object-relational database A database that provides both relational and object database capabilities. See universal server. . InfoModelers Inc. Launched -------------------------- In October 1996, InfoModelers Inc. was formed via a spin-off of the Database Division of Asymetrix, the software company Paul Allen
Paul Gardner Allen (born January 21, 1953 in Seattle, Washington) is an American entrepreneur. With Bill Gates, he formed Microsoft. founded after his departure from Microsoft. The new, privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. was created to focus on and establish a leadership position in the rapidly growing market for database design and query tools. As InfoModelers embarks on this mission, it brings with it award-winning products like InfoModeler 2.0, based on an innovative conceptual information modeling methodology, Object Role Modeling (ORM ORM - Object Role Modeling ), and a large, loyal following of customers. ORM simplifies and automates the creation of correctly normalized data models using simple English Simple English usually refers to a simplified form of English such as:
InfoModelers serves a broad range of customers including many of the Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, and academic institutions around the world. The company's products have been licensed to thousands of customers. Frequent users of InfoModelers' products include database designers and administrators, business analysts, consultants, and end users. Among InfoModelers' largest customers are Microsoft, EDS (Electronic Data Systems, Plano, TX, www.eds.com) Founded in 1962 by H. Ross Perot (independent candidate for the President of the U.S. in 1992), EDS is the largest outsourcing and data processing services organization in the country. , Hewlett-Packard, AT&T, Andersen Consulting See Accenture. , Fidelity Investments Fidelity Investments is a group of privately held companies in the financial services industry. It is made up by two independent but closely cooperating companies, Fidelity Management and Research Corporation (FMR Co. , and Sandia National Laboratories Sandia National Laboratories, which is managed and operated by the Sandia Corporation (a wholly owned subsidiary of Lockheed Martin Corporation), is a major United States Department of Energy research and development national laboratory with two locations, one in Albuquerque, New . New President & CEO on Board ---------------------------- Tom Van Horn joined InfoModelers as president and CEO in December 1996. Van Horn brings 12 years of experience in management consulting and enterprise software to InfoModelers. Previously, he was a senior consultant at McKinsey & Co., the world's leading top management consulting firm. He served as vice president of international products and vice president of Corporate Planning and Marketing at Attachmate Corp. and was a senior executive at Perot Systems, where he focused on new business development. A Wharton MBA MBA abbr. Master of Business Administration Noun 1. MBA - a master's degree in business Master in Business, Master in Business Administration and an honors undergraduate in engineering at Princeton, Van Horn said of his recent move, "InfoModelers is in a unique position -- it has a proven product, world-class expertise in advanced database design, and a high-energy entrepreneurial spirit. When I was offered the opportunity to lead Paul Allen's newest company, I gladly accepted." Support for "Next Generation" Object-Relational Database Technology -------------------------------------------------------- InfoModelers' latest product, InfoModeler 3.0, will be released in the spring of 1997. This new version of InfoModeler will provide support for the next generation in database technology, object-relational databases, and will feature support for INFORMIX-Universal Server. InfoModeler 3.0, which will be in beta release starting in February, will support all of the advanced native data types and installable custom Datablade modules for INFORMIX-Universal Server. This new release will offer robust database reverse and re-engineering capabilities to assist with the migration of existing relational databases to the object-relational database environment. "We are very excited to see InfoModelers' early support of INFORMIX-Universal Server," said Phil White, chairman and CEO of Informix. "Our customers were pleased to see our products already working together successfully at our INFORMIX-Universal Server launch event last month in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . The unique conceptual modeling methodology available in InfoModeler 3.0 will certainly make designing and migrating to Informix's advanced object-relational databases faster and simpler." InfoModeler 3.0 includes enhanced design, re-engineering and reporting modules that fully support the advanced features of INFORMIX-Universal Server. All Informix and third party Universal Server DataBlade modules will be recognized and available during database design. Most important, InfoModeler 3.0 re-engineering will target any leading DBMS (DataBase Management System) Software that controls the organization, storage, retrieval, security and integrity of data in a database. It accepts requests from the application and instructs the operating system to transfer the appropriate data. as a database schema source and facilitate an efficient and controlled migration to INFORMIX-Universal Server About InfoModelers Inc. ----------------------- InfoModelers Inc. is the leading supplier of state-of-the-art visual design tools for database developers based on the latest conceptual modeling technologies. A privately held corporation Noun 1. privately held corporation - a corporation owned by a few people; shares have no public market close corporation, closed corporation, private corporation , InfoModelers is one of the technology companies that form Paul Allen's "Wired World" consortium. InfoModelers offers the world's only database modeling and query software based on the innovative Object Role Modeling (ORM) methodology. Database developers, administrators, and end users utilize InfoModelers' software tools to improve productivity and quality in their advanced database design, modeling, re-engineering, and querying efforts. Formed in 1996, InfoModelers Inc. has its headquarters in Bellevue, Washington. Product and sales information requests should be directed to 206/637-2499. CONTACT: InfoModelers Inc. Tom Van Horn, 206-637-2499 tomv@infomodelers.com tomv@asymetrix.com |
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