Prism Warehouse Manager 4.4 Increases Development Productivity, Supports New Platforms For Automated Data Warehousing; Now Supports Windows 95 and NT, DB2 Parallel Edition, Digital AlphaServer and Unisys OPUS Environments.SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 11, 1996--Prism Solutions, Inc. today announced Prism Warehouse Manager(tm) 4.4, a new release of its industry-leading software that automates the process of building a range of data warehouses, from the enterprise level to distributed data marts. New features include support for Windows 95 and 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. development platforms; DB2 Parallel Edition as a target parallel database option; Informix and Oracle as source and target databases on Digital's AlphaServer platform; the Unisys commercial MPP (Massively Parallel Processing or Massively Parallel Processor) A multiprocessing architecture that uses up to thousands of processors. Some might contend that a computer system with 64 or more CPUs is a massively parallel processor. system, OPUS, as well as Unisys SMP (Symmetric MultiProcessing) A multiprocessing architecture in which multiple CPUs, residing in one cabinet, share the same memory. SMP systems provide scalability. As business increases, additional CPUs can be added to absorb the increased transaction volume. servers; and several productivity enhancements to accelerate development time. "Our partnerships with customers and key industry leaders such as 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) , Digital and Unisys have resulted in a robust new release of Prism Warehouse Manager that supports today's need for a high performance warehouse environment," said Cynthia Schmidt, vice president of marketing for Prism Solutions. Expanded Platform Support for Development, Source and Target Processing With the 4.4 release, Prism Warehouse Manager supports Windows 95 and NT development platforms, giving customers greater flexibility in choosing an environment that best suits their corporate standards and business requirements. Now customers can use Prism Warehouse Manager 4.4 to build a data warehouse on IBM's DB2 Parallel Edition running on the RISC RISC in full Reduced Instruction Set Computing Computer architecture that uses a limited number of instructions. RISC became popular in microprocessors in the 1980s. System/6000 Scalable POWERparallel Systems (RS/6000 SP See IBM SP. ) hardware platform. The product's database load processing has been enhanced to support the data partitioning and parallel loading capabilities offered in a DB2 PE environment. In addition, customers now can gather source data from, as well as build a data warehouse on, Digital UNIX-based Informix and Oracle databases on the Digital AlphaServer platform. The high-performance, 64-bit AlphaServer family of servers provides the scalability and processing speed See MHz. needed in a large data warehouse environment. Prism's support for AlphaServer includes not only the initial loading of new warehouse tables, but also appending new data to existing warehouse tables, completely refreshing existing tables with a new set of data, or updating individual rows in the data warehouse. Prism Warehouse Manager now also supports Unisys OPUS, the Open Parallel Unix Server A medium to large-scale computer system in a network that runs under Unix. Unix servers are widely used as application servers and database servers and are available from a variety of vendors, including Sun, IBM, HP and others. , which provides the power and scalability of a massively parallel See MPP. processing (MPP) system with the ease of management of a single UNIX system Noun 1. UNIX system - trademark for a powerful operating system UNIX, UNIX operating system operating system, OS - (computer science) software that controls the execution of computer programs and may provide various services . For those clients committed to maintaining open systems environments, and whose data warehouse performance requirements exceed the capacity typically provided by UNIX symmetric multi-processing (SMP) systems, the combination of Prism Warehouse Manager 4.4 and OPUS provides an ideal solution. "There has been strong demand by Unisys clients for sophisticated data extraction Data extraction is the act or process of retrieving (binary) data out of (usually unstructured or badly structured) data sources for further data processing or data storage (data migration). software to automate the movement of data from their mission-critical operational systems to their OPUS-based decision support systems," commented Nick Derchak, Unisys vice president of OPUS product development. "Prism Warehouse Manager automates the process of building and maintaining a data warehouse, making the development process easier and more reliable. Unisys is particularly pleased with the superior ease of use provided by Prism Warehouse Manager, including the new support for Windows 95 and NT development environments." Customer-Requested Enhancements Increase Development Productivity Underscoring its commitment to customer satisfaction, Prism has added several performance features to the 4.4 release in response to customer enhancement requests. These include: -- Enhanced Source-to-Target Field Mapping - The Prism Warehouse Manager Turbo Mapping function map·ping function n. A mathematical formula that relates distances on a gene map to recombination frequencies; its graphic rendering shows that the recombination value of two genes is never greater than 50 percent regardless of how far apart the genes provides a point-and-click interface for mapping source data to the target data warehouse tables. It now allows all fields with the same name in both the source and target environments to be mapped automatically via a "Move Corresponding" function. Its interface has also been restructured to help users more easily identify mapped fields and to scroll through field names and definitions from a single panel. -- Enhanced Data Type Support - zoned decimal data types are supported as warehouse field definitions, providing additional flexibility in the processing of numeric data Refers to quantities and money amounts used in calculations. Contrast with string or character data. across heterogeneous platforms. -- Enhanced User Exit Processing - user exit routines now can incorporate statistics to track the movement of data from source to target environments. This can be used to ensure the consistency and integrity of the warehouse maintenance process in support of complex, site-specific audit reporting requirements. Pricing and Availability Prism Warehouse Manager 4.4 will be generally available in August 1996. It is licensed for $130,000 for a typical configuration, which includes a transformation module with three concurrent developer workstation seats, one source database module and one target database module. About Prism Solutions Founded in 1991, Prism Solutions (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 : PRZM PRZM Pesticide Root Zone Model ) is a leader in data warehouse management software for building, maintaining and navigating data warehouses. Prism Solutions' products and services enable a variety of projects, such as building decision-support systems, enhancing client/server applications and migrating data between different computing platforms. Prism Solutions helps customers meet strategic business goals through data warehousing solutions that support customer relationship management, profitability measurement, market segmentation Market Segmentation A marketing term referring to the aggregating of prospective buyers into groups (segments) that have common needs and will respond similarly to a marketing action. , risk management, procurement and other critical business applications. Prism Solutions' customers include leading companies in the finance, health care, insurance, manufacturing, public utilities, retail, telecommunications, transportation and technology industries. In addition to its corporate headquarters located in Sunnyvale, California, Prism Solutions has regional offices in seven U.S. cities and international offices in Canada, France, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom. More information about Prism Solutions can be found by visiting the company's Web site at http://www.prismsolutions.com. -0- Note to editors: PRISM and Prism Warehouse Manager are trademarks of Prism Solutions, Inc. Other trademarks belong to their respective holders. CONTACT: Prism Solutions, Inc. Debbie Benoit or Cynthia Schmidt, 408/752-1888 dbenoit@prisminc.com or Blanc & Otus Mary Cobb, 415/512-0500 mcobb@bando.com |
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