MSA Extends BusinessWEB Product Line With Integration of Paragren Technologies' Transformation Engine.SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 17, 1998--Data Warehousing Conference, Booth No. 7-- BusinessWEB Transformer transformer, electrical device used to transfer an alternating current or voltage from one electric circuit to another by means of electromagnetic induction. Opens Up Access To Corporate Information Warehouses Management Science Associates, Inc. (MSA (Metropolitan Service Area) An urban area with at least 50,000 people plus surrounding counties. There are 306 MSAs and 428 RSAs (rural service areas) in the U.S. MSAs and RSAs are used to allocate cellular licenses. ) today announced the availability of BusinessWEB transformer, a data transformation engine that extends the BusinessWEB product line to streamline the process of incorporating data into the decision support system. The new engine, licensed from Paragren Technologies, facilitates feeds from ODBC-compliant data sources. Managing BusinessWEB DSS (1) (Digital Signature Standard) A National Security Administration standard for authenticating an electronic message. See RSA and digital signature. (2) (Digital Satellite S Data The extension of BusinessWEB to include the new BusinessWEB transformer engine is the first step being taken to integrate Paragren's technologies with a number of MSA's solutions. BusinessWEB Transformer automates the extraction, transformation, and loading of data from corporate legacy systems or data warehouses into a format which can address a particular business issue. "Given the complex nature of market and sales calculations, MSA is pleased to offer clients an open solution to a previously proprietary world," said Michael Guidry, vice president of MSA's KnowledgeWare division. "Organizations now have the option of delivering sophisticated marketing analysis on a platform they are comfortable with and in an architecture that can scale with the needs of the organization." Bringing 'Knowledge Management' to Decision Support As part of the new BusinessWEB offering, MSA is also providing specialized implementation services to help customers create the most effective system design for their unique business and IT environments. MSA's knowledge management consultants work with customers to design a uniquely-tailored and highly-efficient decision support structure. The combined services provide a whole solution and leverages MSA's 35 years of experience in data analysis. MSA's new BusinessWEB services include: -- MSA's Data Audit Service -- identifies new data sources and recommends better ways to utilize all of the valuable data sources within the organization. -- MSA's Information Catalog Service -- helps customers identify how data is used throughout the organization and defines the organization's decision support requirements. -- MSA's "Knowledge Architecture" Service -- helps organizations develop a framework for the BusinessWEB system that best relates to their business. MSA Web consultants design an overall structure that allows users to capture and distribute their most useful data sources. About BusinessWEB The BusinessWEB solution integrates Web technology into the realms of decision support to provide effective information broadcasting. This translates into seamless sharing of information from any numbers of sources. BusinessWEB architecture navigates users through meaningful relationships in the information or enables them to search for their own insights. Using BusinessWEB Viewer, data is easily manipulated to provide quick visual insights into sales, marketing and competitive information. The intuitive access combined with presentation quality graphics give users access to the answers they need at their fingertips "Fingertips" is a 1963 number-one hit single recorded live by "Little" Stevie Wonder for Motown's Tamla label. Wonder's first hit single, "Fingertips" was the first live, non-studio recording to reach number-one on the Billboard Pop Singles chart in the United States. . The product can operate in either a Netscape or Microsoft Web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. . In addition, BusinessWEB Viewer supports native connections to popular 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 products -- Arbors Essbase, Oracles Express and Dimensional Insights's Cross Target. BusinessWEB Publisher utilizes SQL SQL in full Structured Query Language. Computer programming language used for retrieving records or parts of records in databases and performing various calculations before displaying the results. technology to store user profiles and SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) The standard e-mail protocol on the Internet and part of the TCP/IP protocol suite, as defined by IETF RFC 2821. SMTP defines the message format and the message transfer agent (MTA), which stores and forwards the mail. mail protocols to deliver dynamic, multi-dimensional reports and graphic objects to a user's inbox. Availability BusinessWEB is available immediately from MSA. Interested parties may call 1-(800)-MSA-INFO for more information or visit MSA on the World Wide Web at www.msa.com. About MSA Management Science Associates, Inc. has been a leader in the development of analytical software Analytical software is software that is designed specifically for and development of a particular environment or object. and information-based services since 1963. MSA's four main business areas are media solutions, business analysis, knowledgeware and information management solutions. MSA is headquartered in Pittsburgh with offices 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 , Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , Winston-Salem, NC, Canada, the United Kingdom and Malaysia. Privately held, MSA employs almost 600 people and has enjoyed 34 years of uninterrupted growth. For more information on MSA, its products and services, please visit the company's Web site at www.msa.com. BusinessWEB is a trademark of Management Science Associates, Inc. All other products and services mentioned above are the property of their respective owners. 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