Planning Sciences Names McDonnell Douglas Latest Addition To Growing Customer Base.WESTBOROUGH, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 27, 1997 -- Commercial Aircraft Division To Use Gentia For Decision Support Planning Sciences Inc., the world leader in enterprise decision support solutions, today announced that McDonnell Douglas McDonnell Douglas was a major American aerospace manufacturer and defense contractor, producing a number of famous commercial and military aircraft. It merged with Boeing in 1997 to form The Boeing Company. commercial aircraft division (Douglas Aircraft Company The Douglas Aircraft Company was founded by Donald Wills Douglas, Sr. in July 1921 in Santa Monica, California, following dissolution of the Davis-Douglas Company. An early claim to fame was the first circumnavigation of the world by air in Douglas planes in 1924. ) has chosen Gentia for internal business analysis. Douglas Aircraft is currently the third largest commercial aircraft maker in the world. The deal comes on the heels of the recent announcement that Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. has chosen to license 400 seats of Planning Sciences Gentia solution. Currently, Douglas Aircraft -- located in Long Beach, CA -- has chosen to use Gentia internally for planning and analysis and will initially license 200 seats. In this deal, the Gentia solution was chosen over Oracle's Express Objects and Seagate's Holos Holos is an influential OLAP (Online Analytical Processing) product of the 1990s. Developed by Holistic Systems in 1987, the product remained in use until around 2004. Conception The Holos product succeeded an older generation of mainframe products such as System-W. due to the product's comprehensive, enterprise wide approach. "We looked at quite a few decision support solutions over the past several months and we felt that Planning Sciences Gentia was our best choice at the time," said Chris Truxaw, data warehouse project manager, Douglas Aircraft Company. "The Douglas division of McDonnell Douglas is yet another big win for us," said Planning Sciences 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. Paul Rolph. "Just over a week ago, we added the Java network computing Storing and/or running applications in servers in a network. See cloud computing and network computer. leader, Sun Microsystems, to our rapidly growing customer base. This week, we add one of the premier leaders in the aerospace industry, McDonnell Douglas. These announcements are further evidence that Gentia is truly being singled out as the premier enterprise decision support solution in the industry." Key to the choice of Gentia was the product's object-oriented visual development environment, which allows users to quickly and accurately perform complex business analysis across the Inter/Intranet. Gentia is the most complete DSS (1) (Digital Signature Standard) A National Security Administration standard for authenticating an electronic message. See RSA and digital signature. (2) (Digital Satellite S product available today, combining a scalable 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, a sophisticated DSS application development environment and intuitive navigational capabilities for both managers and executives. The software enables simultaneous deployment of applications in a multiplatform corporate network, which includes native desktops and Web clients. Simultaneous Web deployment of Gentia desktop applications is made possible by integrated Java applets which extend standard HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. to create charts and other visual objects. Browser users can perform the same level of interactive analysis as native Gentia users and avoid rebuilding existing applications using stored procedures or HTML tags. About Douglas Aircraft Company, McDonnell Douglas Since its founding in 1920, Douglas Aircraft Company has delivered more than 45,000 airplanes, including a long line of Douglas Commercial (DC) and McDonnell Douglas (MD) models. In 1995, the Douglas Aircraft Company celebrated its 75th anniversary and commemorated the DC-3 airliner's 60th year of service. McDonnell Douglas Corporation is one of the nation's largest defense contractors, the world's leading producer of military aircraft, the third-largest commercial aircraft maker in the world and the fourth-largest NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. contractor. About Planning Sciences Planning Sciences International plc (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : PLNSY) is the world leader in the development of enterprise decision support solutions. The company has established dual headquarters in Boston and London and operates in over twenty countries world-wide. Planning Sciences' Gentia(R) is a high performance network decision support system for complex business analysis and reporting. Gentia applications are deployed using a distributed agent based architecture which ensures delivery of information to the desktops and browsers of key decision makers throughout an Enterprise. Gentia's world-wide client list of over 300 corporate and public sector organizations includes: Motorola, Texas Instruments, Sun Microsystems, Medtronic Corporation, News International, Barclays Bank, and Volvo. -0- For additional information contact: Planning Sciences Web site: http://www.gentia.com CONTACT: Craig Librett/Doug Black Miller/Shandwick Technologies 617-536-0470 clibrett@miller.shandwick.com dblack@miller.shandwick.com or Jack Connors Planning Sciences 508/898-9510 jconnors@gentia.com |
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