Oberon Software introduces Oberon Prospero 1.5, the enterprise application integrator.CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 9, 1996-- Prospero Offers Unique Capability for Integrating Applications and Databases Throughout the Enterprise Oberon Software Inc. today introduced an enhanced version of Oberon Prospero (TM), the award-winning enterprise application integration tool. With Prospero, users can easily integrate diverse information ranging from popular desktop applications, leading groupware Software that supports multiple users working on related tasks in local and remote networks. Also called "collaborative software," groupware is an evolving concept that is more than just multiuser software which allows access to the same data. applications, and World Wide Web (WWW WWW or W3: see World Wide Web. (World Wide Web) The common host name for a Web server. The "www-dot" prefix on Web addresses is widely used to provide a recognizable way of identifying a Web site. ) information to relational database management systems See DBMS for a shorter list of “typical”, representative database management systems. Open-source software
"Oberon has taken a major step forward in solving corporate-wide integration tasks, and in doing so has met a real need existing in businesses everywhere," said Joe Chappell, Oberon's vice president of sales and marketing. "Businesses need to leverage their investments in applications and data distributed across the organization. Oberon's Prospero not only meets the needs of today's corporate integration problems, but is scaleable and easily extensible to answer the unforeseen requirements of tomorrow's IT demands." Prospero visual programs use graphical building blocks representing applications and data sources. With point-and-click simplicity, users connect the building blocks to direct the flow of data and application control. In addition, Prospero applications can scale from simple data integration to sophisticated application automation. Prospero includes an extensive set of system building blocks to easily reduce demanding application logic to a series of straightforward visual operations. Prospero enables enterprise integration that is self-documenting and easily supported when the user runs a visual program. Prospero 1.5 offers corporations the following business benefits: -- Take Advantage of Applications -- Corporations can now leverage their existing investments in enterprise applications and select data to provide comprehensive business solutions. An enhanced database building block now offers transaction control, table support, a visual point-and-click query builder, and update and insert capabilities. Improved OLE building blocks simplify the task of integrating OLE-enabled applications and controls. And Prospero's WWW Building Blocks are now browser independent and have been improved to offer improved table processing and text parsing See parse. parsing - parser capability. -- Eliminates Need for Custom Programming and Costly Analysis -- Users can now quickly integrate applications with pre-packaged building blocks, virtually eliminating the need for IS to customize desktop applications for each business requirement. Prospero offers many new specialized Building Blocks including: Act!; Adobe Acrobat Document exchange software from Adobe that allows documents to be displayed and printed the same on every computer. The Acrobat system created the Portable Document Format (PDF), which is widely used in commercial printing and on the Web. 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Prospero's new Task-Based Scheduler offers businesses the ability to schedule program deployment when it best suits their needs. For example, the Task-Based Scheduler could schedule and execute a deployment on a Saturday morning or any other convenient time. And in order to support corporations as they expand into international markets, Prospero now offers native language support for localization Customizing software and documentation for a particular country. It includes the translation of menus and messages into the native spoken language as well as changes in the user interface to accommodate different alphabets and culture. See internationalization and l10n. worldwide. "Corporations are looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. efficient ways to link information in distributed applications and relational databases. Oberon's Prospero is an easy-to-use visual integration solution for desktop use throughout the enterprise," said David Folger, Program Director, Workgroup Computing Strategies Service, META Group. Now available in Professional Developer and Desktop Developer versions, Prospero provides greater options and flexibility for building and deploying powerful integration solutions within the corporate enterprise. Prospero's Professional Developer version offers additional customization capabilities including a Visual Basic compatible extension language for writing custom building blocks, a syntax basic editor and a basic debugger Software that helps a programmer debug a program by stopping at certain breakpoints and displaying various programming elements. The programmer can step through source code statements one at a time while the corresponding machine instructions are being executed. with a visual language debugger and robust OLE support for integrating with the expanding base of OLE enabled applications. Platforms, Pricing and Availability Prospero's 1.5 product is available immediately on any PC supporting Windows 95, Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. or Windows 3.11 operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. . Pricing for the Standard Developer version and Professional Developer version is $695 and $2,395 respectively. Deployed application licenses are available on a per user basis and specialized Building Blocks start at $99. About Oberon Oberon Software Inc., headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts This article is about the city of Cambridge in Massachusetts. For the English university town, see Cambridge, England. For other places, see Cambridge (disambiguation). Cambridge, Massachusetts is a city in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, United States. , develops and markets software tools for integrating standard software components into complete business solutions. The company's goal is to create products that integrate data and applications and are easy enough for sophisticated users, yet powerful enough for application programmers. Founded in 1989, Oberon Software is privately held. Oberon Software is a Lotus Business Partner and Prospero is certified to run with Lotus Notes Messaging and groupware software from IBM Lotus that was introduced in 1989 for OS/2 and later expanded to Windows, Mac, Unix, NetWare, AS/400 and S/390. Notes provides e-mail, document sharing, workflow, group discussions and calendaring and scheduling. and is Microsoft Office Microsoft's primary desktop applications for Windows and Mac. Depending on the package, it includes some combination of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access and Outlook along with various Internet and other utilities. Compatible. -0- Oberon Prospero is a trademark of Oberon Software Incorporated. All other trademarks contained herein are the property of their respective owners. CONTACT: Oberon Software Inc. Kathy Ruggiero, 617/494-0990, ext. 173 kathy@oberon.com or Schwartz Communications Inc. Kerry Bard, 617/431-0770 kerryb@schwartz-pr.com |
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