NexGen SI's Warehouse Query gains ROLAP capabilities provided by MicroStrategy's DSS Objects; drastically reducing PowerBuilder development time for customized decision support applications.IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 11, 1996--NexGen SI, a global professional services and product vendor, on Wednesday announced Warehouse Query (WQ), a powerful decision support objects application for PowerBuilder. With WQ, PowerBuilder developers can reduce the development time for adding customized decision support functionality to their client/server applications by several weeks or even months, eliminating hours of coding previously experienced by PowerBuilder developers. WQ will be available in the fourth quarter of 1996. The developer's version of WQ will have a manufacturer's suggested retail price (MSRP MSRP Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price MSRP Message Session Relay Protocol MSRP Multi-Species Recovery Plan (US Fish & Wildlife Service) MSRP Member of the Society for Radiological Protection (UK) ) of $495 and the MSRP for the end-user version is $295. WQ provides a set of PowerBuilder objects that allow developers to use the PowerBuilder development environment to build powerful, decision-support applications. WQ is based on DSS (1) (Digital Signature Standard) A National Security Administration standard for authenticating an electronic message. See RSA and digital signature. (2) (Digital Satellite S Objects, the OLE API to MicroStrategy's award-winning ROLAP See OLAP. (Relational Online Analytical Processing Online Analytical Processing, or OLAP (IPA: /ˈoʊlæp/), is an approach to quickly provide answers to analytical queries that are multidimensional in nature. ) engine. DSS Objects enables integrated query, reporting and multidimensional analysis on large data warehouses. PowerBuilder, the world's leading provider of client/server application development tools, is currently recognized as the development environment of choice for programmers. "Before WQ, creating complex cross-tabbing and multidimensional reporting in PowerBuilder was difficult and time consuming," said Ravi Renduchintala, NexGen SI's vice president of solutions delivery. "WQ solves this problem by enabling PowerBuilder developers to embed the power of 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. , provided by MicroStrategy's DSS Objects, into every PowerBuilder application." The power of OLAP enables simultaneous access to data warehouses and OLTP (OnLine Transaction Processing) See transaction processing and OLCP. OLTP - On-Line Transaction Processing applications in a single development environment, creating true data marts for complicated business analysis. WQ provides developers with a palette of multidimensional objects that enable ad hoc OLAP analysis, data surfing, exception reporting and data mining with minimal effort. DSS applications developed with WQ are capable of "drill everywhere," complex queries and multiple report formats, increasing developers ability to access and analyze warehouse information. WQ's intuitive report writer interface, based on PowerBuilder, allows developers to run reports without writing a single line of code. This report writer is an effective end-user query and report writing tool for decision support and can be customized without a major programming effort. NexGen SI provides developers with the choice of either creating their own interface or customizing a pre-built interface with PowerBuilder. By integrating MicroStrategy's DSS Objects with Warehouse Query, PowerBuilder developers now have access to proven ROLAP technology for data warehousing and decision support. "We are pleased that NexGen SI has selected the MicroStrategy architecture as the foundation for its WQ product," said Sanju Bansal, MicroStrategy's executive vice president. About NexGen SI NexGen SI is a global professional services organization with locations in Irvine, San Francisco, Denver, Atlanta and Bombay. The company offers products and services to organizations making transitions to open systems and client/server computing. NexGen SI is positioned as a leader in relational and object technologies with an extensive client/server practice focused on leading client/server tools in the data warehouse and Internet segments. NexGen SI is a PowerSoft "Premier Channel and Training" partner providing services to Fortune 1000 companies. NexGen SI's customer base includes industry leaders such as AT&T, Kaiser Permanante, Nissan, Coca Cola, Ingram Micro and Value Behavioral Health. NexGen SI specializes in fixed-price, fixed-time projects with its proven software manufacturing methodology called NexFrame. NexGen SI has core competencies in N-tier distributed architectures with implementation practices in customer service, financial and human resources. More information about NexGen SI can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.nexgensi.com/ or by calling 1/800-6NEXGEN. About MicroStrategy Inc. MicroStrategy is the leading provider of industrial-strength decision support products for developing and accessing data warehouses. As the Relational OLAP (ROLAP) industry pioneer, MicroStrategy was the first vendor to deliver high-performance, multidimensional OLAP analysis directly from relational databases without requiring any proprietary multidimensional databases. In addition, MicroStrategy has engineered many data warehousing breakthroughs: intelligent agents; VLDB (Very Large DataBase) An extremely large database. What constitutes a VLDB is debatable, but databases of 100GB or more are generally considered the starting point. drivers for terabyte-range scalability; a dynamic, multi-pass 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. , generation engine; data warehouse monitoring tools; DSS metadata CASE tools; a VLDB-savvy OLAP report writer; a mission-critical ROLAP server, and most recently, OLAP over the World Wide Web. MicroStrategy's contributions have been recognized by the data warehousing industry through several awards including the KPMG KPMG Klynveld Peat Marwick Goerdeler (accounting firm) KPMG Kaiser Permanente Medical Group KPMG Keiner Prüft Mehr Genau (German) KPMG Kommen Prüfen Meckern Gehen High Tech Entrepreneur of the Year and the Database Programming & Design Database Dozen. MicroStrategy's clients have been recognized as finalists in the RealWare awards and Best Practices awards. MicroStrategy worldwide customer base includes industry leaders such as Kmart, MCI (1) (Media Control Interface) A high-level programming interface from Microsoft and IBM for controlling multimedia devices. It provides commands and functions to open, play and close the device. (2) (Microwave Communications Inc. , CVS (1) (Concurrent Versions System) A version control system for Unix that was initially developed as a series of shell scripts in the mid-1980s. CVS maintains the changes between one source code version and another and stores all the changes in one file. , Glaxo Wellcome, Federated Connected and treated as one. See federated database and federated directories. Department Stores, Bank of America
Bank of America (NYSE: BAC TYO: 8648 ) is the largest commercial bank in the United States in terms of deposits, and the largest company of its kind in the world. , AT&T, USAA USAA United Services Automobile Association USAA Urban Superintendents Association of America USAA United States Achievement Academy USAA United States Arbitration Act of 1925 USAA United States Axemen's Association USAA United States Air-Table-Hockey Association , Sara Lee Direct, Victoria's Secret and Hallmark. The company has partnered with strategic value-added resellers and leading software and hardware companies including ACNielsen, IMS (1) See IP Multimedia Subsystem. (2) (Information Management System) An early IBM hierarchical DBMS for IBM mainframes. IMS was widely implemented throughout the 1970s under MVS and continues to be used under z/OS. American, NCR, Tandem, Oracle, Informix, Sybase, Red Brick, Sun and Software AG. More information about MicroStrategy can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.strategy.com/ or by calling 1/800-927-1868. -0- NOTE: DSS Objects is a trademark of MicroStrategy. All other product names are trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such. CONTACT: NexGen SI Ashu Varma, 714/476-4097 E-mail: avarma@nexgensi.com or CPI Laurie Nalezny, 714/753-9292 E-mail: 75567.733@compuserve.com or MicroStrategy Inc. Lisa Houde, 703/848-8692 E-mail: pr_info@strategy.com |
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