PLATINUM technology wins numerous product awards; industry watchers and users vote PLATINUM "best of breed" through magazine readers' choice awards and fielded competitive replacements.OAKBROOK TERRACE, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 18, 1996-- PLATINUM technology Platinum Technology Inc. was founded by Andrew Filipowski in 1987 to market and support deployment of Database Management software products and the applications enabled by database management technology and render related services. , inc., today announced their most recent series of industry awards and recognition for product excellence. Readers' choice awards were presented this month to PLATINUM in five key technology groupings. A medal "sweep" was enjoyed by the company as they took home five 1996 Best Product Awards, voted by the readers of OTJ OTJ On the Job (training) OTJ Office of Tribal Justice OTJ Osteotendinous Junction (muscle-tendon junction) OTJ Outstanding Transaction Journal OTJ on the Job Training : The Technical Journal for Oracle Product Users. In another significant industry acknowledgment, the readers of ENT ENT ears, nose, and throat (otorhinolaryngology). ENT abbr. ear, nose, and throat ENT ear, nose and throat. ENT Ears, nose & throat; formally, otorhinolaryngology also made their support heard for PLATINUM's help desk and performance management products by ranking them number one in the magazine's inaugural Readers Choice Awards. "Further evidence of PLATINUM's devotion to product quality has come through increased numbers of customers swapping out competitive products for PLATINUM tools, most recently in the area of performance management," said Marty Leamy, vice president, PLATINUM technology's systems management business unit. "PLATINUM DBVision replacements of products such as BMC's PATROL have dramatically increased over the previous two quarters of 1996." "PLATINUM covers the bases when it comes to performance support, and customer satisfaction. They offer quality products plus the open integration essential in managing our enterprise systems -- that's an unbeatable combination. Overall, PLATINUM makes it easy for the customer to do business with them," said Paul Schwartz, technical support manager for Alliant Food Service. "By voting through readers' choice awards and replacing incumbent software with PLATINUM tools, our customers have demonstrated that they recognize PLATINUM as a top product company," said Michael Matthews, executive vice president of worldwide marketing, PLATINUM technology. "PLATINUM continues to fulfill its business promise: to deliver `best of breed' enterprise management products to the market." An Executive Exchange Forum PLATINUM has pledged to initiate a series of on-line debates and "chat sessions" that will bring together the industry's top executives for discussions and information exchanges. The topics addressed will include hot industry issues, competitive opinions, "best of breed" product quality, and interpretations of the market's growing needs. "I am anxious to bring these technology visionaries and leaders together in a common forum," said Andrew J. Filipowski, chairman and 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. , PLATINUM technology. "The user community needs to hear our direct assessment of their needs and, more importantly, how we plan to respond." About OTJ Best Product and Readers' Choice Awards The award winners are listed in the fall issue of OTJ, and include: - PLATINUM Desktop DBA, a database administration and migration tool. Gold medal gold medal traditional first prize. [Western Cult: Misc.] See : Prize winner as best all-around DBA tool. Desktop DBA ranked above competitors such as BMC's MetaSuite and Microsoft's 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. Administrator. - PLATINUM DBVision, a performance monitoring and management tool, and PLATINUM TSreorg a tablespace reorganization tool. Bronze medal winners in the DBA tools category. - PLATINUM InfoPump, middleware for bi-directional data replication and movement. Bronze medal in the 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. connectivity category. - PLATINUM Forest & Trees, a reporting, query, and analysis tool. Bronze medal in the Decision Support, 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. category. About ENT Readers Choice Awards PLATINUM Apriori and PLATINUM SQL-Spy won the help desk and performance management awards, respectively. The awards, which were announced in the September 1996 issue of ENT magazine, were selected by readers who are managers and users of 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. in major IT organizations worldwide. In achieving these honors, PLATINUM won over help desk products including Remedy Corp Remedy Corp (NASDAQ:RMDY) was a software company that produced the Action Request System and various applications therein. Remedy is now the Service Management Business Unit of BMC Software. .'s Action Request System; PLATINUM SQL-Spy beat such performance management tools as Landmark's Performance Works. About Sybase Open Solutions Partner Success Awards Sybase, Inc. has selected PLATINUM technology as one of the winners of its 1996 Open Solution Partner Success Awards. With these awards, Sybase recognizes its partners' and customers combined success in developing innovative, team-oriented business solutions. PLATINUM earned the award for its work with Sybase in providing the University of Illinois University of Illinois may refer to:
data warehousing - data warehouse tools to bridge the gap between IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) DB2 and Sybase databases so that faculty and students can now access admission data, transcripts, and other vital information distributed across the University's campuses. The PLATINUM data warehouse solution included: PLATINUM Repository/MVS; PLATINUM InfoHub; PLATINUM InfoRefiner; PLATINUM InfoPump and PLATINUM InfoTransport. For information on PLATINUM call 1-800-442-6861 or 1-630-620-5000; or send email to info@platinum.com. CONTACT: PLATINUM technology, inc. Jeannine McDonough, 630/620-5000, ext. 7023 mcdonough@platinum.com or Copithorne & Bellows David Kitchen, 617/450-4300 dave.kitchen@cbpr.com |
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