Q4bis Joins Microsoft and Other Industry Leaders in Interop Vendor Alliance.Interop Vendor Alliance is Committed to Connecting People, Data and Diverse Systems Leading to Better Interoperability of Microsoft Systems IRVINE, Calif. -- Q4bis, an innovative and feature-packed business intelligence (BI) software solution provider, has become a founding member of the Interop Vendor Alliance. The alliance, initiated by Microsoft, is intended to increase interoperability with Microsoft systems for customers and vendors using Microsoft technologies. Member companies, including Q4bis, will work together to create better interoperability of a wide variety of solutions with Microsoft technologies. Louis-Philippe Lalonde, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development for Q4bis Inc., said, "The Alliance is a perfect complement to our own efforts to built on our complete end-to-end BI suite using the Microsoft tool set: SQL Server An earlier relational DBMS from Sybase and from Microsoft. Sybase introduced SQL Server in 1988 for various Unix versions. In that same year, with help from IBM, Sybase created an OS/2 version that Microsoft licensed and branded as Microsoft SQL Server. 2005, 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. technology and Reporting Services." Announced at Microsoft's Tech-Ed IT Forum in Barcelona, Spain, this week, the Alliance will encourage three major activities among its members: * Encourage vendor collaboration to target common interoperability challenges. * Enable scenario-based testing sessions to validate real-life interoperability conditions for customers. * Post vendor experiences and papers on the Alliance web site. Louis Lalonde represents Q4bis in the Alliance. About Q4bis Inc. Q4bis (www.q4bis.com) is a complete, end-to-end business intelligence (BI) suite of products built around Microsoft's tool set: SQL Server 2005, OLAP technology and Reporting Services. Q4bis has gained a reputation for excellence in developing and providing BI solutions to companies globally. The company has developed unique Rapid Implementation Methodology and Proof of Concept techniques to supplement its reputation for interface intuitiveness. These methodologies provide organizations with a framework for successful first-time implementation and ensure outstanding ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). on their BI investment. Q4bis runs on any hardware platform, including Wintel PC. For more information, contact Louis-Philippe Lalonde, Vice President, Marketing and Business Development, 1-949-442-8326, louis.lalonde@q4bis.com. About the Interop Vendor Alliance Formed in 2006, the Interop Vendor Alliance is an industrywide group working to identify and share opportunities to better connect people, data and diverse systems through better interoperability with Microsoft systems and to jointly market interoperability solutions of its members. Founding members include AMD (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, www.amd.com) A major manufacturer of semiconductor devices including x86-compatible CPUs, embedded processors, flash memories, programmable logic devices and networking chips. , BEA Systems BEA Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: BEAS) is one of the major companies developing enterprise infrastructure software. BEA makes middleware, products that help software run on top of databases. , Business Objects, CA, The Carbon Project, Centeris, Citrix Systems Citrix Systems' (NASDAQ: CTXS) is an American technology company, based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, with subsidiary operations in California and Massachusetts, with additional development centers in Australia, India and the UK. , GXS GXS Global Exchange Services (GE) GXS Gun X Sword (anime) , IP Commerce, JNBridge, Kernel Networks, Levi, Ray & Shoup, Microsoft, NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. , Network Appliance (1) A specialized device for use on a network. For example, Web servers, cache servers and file servers can be implemented as general-purpose computers with the appropriate software or as network appliances, which are computers dedicated to a single function and cannot do anything , Novell, Q4bis, Quest Software, Siemens Enterprise Communications, Software AG, SugarCRM, Sun Microsystems, Symphony Services, Xcalia, and XenSource. Additional information about the Interop Vendor Alliance can be found on its Web site at http://www.interopvendoralliance.org. |
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