Informix Software and Applied Data Resource Management Team to Provide Industry's First Packaged Analytic Components.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers MENLO PARK Menlo Park. 1 Residential city (1990 pop. 28,040), San Mateo co., W Calif.; inc. 1874. Electronic equipment and aerospace products are manufactured in the city. Menlo College and a Stanford Univ. research institute are there. 2 Uninc. , Calif./WESTBORO, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 13, 2000 Customer-centric Analytic Packages Speed the Development and Deployment of Industry-specific Business Intelligence Applications Informix(R) Corporation (Nasdaq:IFMX IFMX Informix Corporation ), the technology leader in software infrastructure for the i.Economy, and Applied Data Resource Management, Inc. (ADRM ADRM Applied Data Resource Management ADRM Airdrome ADRM advection-diffusion-reaction model ), the leader in the development of industry data models, today announced a strategic partnership. Under terms of the agreement, ADRM will provide the data models for the packaged analytic components recently announced as part of Informix's analytic initiative (See related announcement: Informix Announces Industry-specific Packaged Analytic Components, June 13, 2000). Informix will immediately combine ADRM's customer-centric data environments with the Ardent(TM) DataStage(R) Suite, the most comprehensive Business Intelligence (BI) Infrastructure solution available. Informix will be unveiling its first packaged solution, developed and targeted for the consumer packaged goods Noun 1. packaged goods - groceries that are packaged for sale foodstuff, grocery - (usually plural) consumer goods sold by a grocer plural, plural form - the form of a word that is used to denote more than one industry, at Sapphire, June 14-16, 2000, in Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. ; additional packages will be available in the third quarter of this year. "By combining the capabilities of the DataStage Suite with the proven industry-specific best practices reflected in our information models, we believe Informix is the first company to deliver a comprehensive information infrastructure solution of this type that is both robust and immediately actionable," said Larry Heinrich, president, Applied Data Resource Management. ADRM's data environments provide a set of customer-centric data models architected to address e-commerce, CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. , 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. and business intelligence requirements. The models span a variety of industries including telecommunications, chemical, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. , retail and technology. Each industry-specific solution contains an integrated set of information models with a detailed enterprise model for strategic and architecture planning, a set of subject area models with the detail necessary to build operational or analytic applications Analytic Applications are a type of business application software, used to measure and improve the performance of business operations. More specifically, Analytic Applications are a type of Business Intelligence solution. , a detailed data warehouse model that serves as the blueprint for an enterprise-wide data warehouse, and individual data mart A subset of a data warehouse for a single department or function. A data mart may have tens of gigabytes of data rather than hundreds of gigabytes for the entire enterprise. See data warehouse. models that address specific analytic project requirements. FleetBoston Financial FleetBoston Financial was a Boston, Massachusetts-based bank created in 1999 by the merger of Fleet Financial Group and BankBoston. In 2004 it merged with Bank of America; all of its banks and branches were given the Bank of America logo. is one of many ADRM customers who have used the industry models to accelerate its development of business intelligence infrastructure by cutting development time, increasing productivity and reducing costs. "The ADRM Retail Banking Enterprise Model has been a valuable resource in helping Fleet validate and extend our Corporate Data Warehouse," said Frank Musseman, data architect, FleetBoston Financial. "This strategic partnership with ADRM furthers our commitment to providing customers with an e-Business intelligence infrastructure for XML-based business-to-business (B2B (Business to Business) Refers to one business communicating with or selling to another. See B2B e-commerce, B2C and B2G. B2B - business to business ) environments," said Mikael Wipperfeld, vice president, i.Intelligence business group, Informix. "Together, ADRM and Informix provide the best-of-breed tools and industry knowledge our customers require to design and capitalize on Cap´i`tal`ize on` v. t. 1. To turn (an opportunity) to one's advantage; to take advantage of (a situation); to profit from; as, to capitalize on an opponent's mistakes s>. a powerful information architecture." About Informix Analytic Initiative The Informix analytic initiative delivers pre-packaged analytic solutions for industry-specific business intelligence and e-Business infrastructures. The integrated suites of components reduce the time and resources required to deploy powerful, accurate information management systems for vertical markets. The packaged analytic components will include Informix's leading business intelligence infrastructure solution, Ardent DataStage; DataStage intelligent transforms, pre-defined data transformations for complex environments such as Extract PACK for SAP R/3 and Load PACK for SAP Business Information Warehouse SAP Business Information Warehouse (SAP BW) is the name of the Business Intelligence, analytical, reporting and Data Warehousing (DW) solution which is one of the major enterprise software applications produced by SAP AG. (BW); and a selection of industry-specific template data models. The packages also support industry-standard query and reporting tools, including Informix's Visionary(TM) data visualization See information visualization. tool. About Ardent DataStage Ardent DataStage provides the enterprise business intelligence infrastructure for more than 1,200 of the world's leading companies -- enabling them to turn corporate data into competitive advantage. Companies rely on Ardent DataStage's powerful data integration capabilities to extract, transform and integrate enterprise data into their data warehouses, analytical applications, and eBusiness solutions. Ardent DataStage uniquely addresses enterprise-level business intelligence requirements, including: native support for web-based, mainframe, relational and ERP data; enterprise-wide business intelligence meta data management; integrated data quality assessment and cleansing; and enterprise-class performance and scalability. About Applied Data Resource Management, Inc. Based in San Rafael, Calif., Applied Data Resource Management, Inc. specializes in clearly defining the information requirements of world-class organizations in a variety of industries and architecting intellectual property based products to help organizations in those industries more effectively capitalize upon their information assets and opportunities. About Informix Informix Software is the technology leader in software infrastructure solutions for the Internet -- providing a fast, simple and complete way to bring businesses to the Web. Based in Menlo Park, Calif., Informix is the first and only company to integrate e-commerce and business intelligence on a true Internet infrastructure. The company's highly scalable Web engines, together with its personalized content management, real-time analytics and media asset management capabilities, offer customers a unique competitive advantage. For more information, contact the nearest sales office or visit the Web site at www.informix.com. Note to Editors: The following are trademarks of Informix Corporation or its affiliates, one or more of which may be registered in the U.S. or other jurisdictions: Informix(R), Ardent(TM), DataStage(R)and Visionary(TM). Informix news releases are available at no charge through Business Wire's NewsOnDemand fax service. To immediately receive an index of available releases, call 800/356-0851. |
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