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VMARK Software Joins Oracle Corporation's Warehouse Technology Initiative
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Date: Tuesday, March 25, 1997
Source: Business Wire
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WESTBORO, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE) via Individual Inc. --
Companies to Provide Customers with Complete Open Data Warehouse
Solutions
VMARK Software, Inc. (NASDAQ:VMRK), one of the world's leading
client/server software companies, has announced it will join Oracle
Corporation's Warehouse Technology Initiative (WTI). The relationship
enables VMARK and Oracle development teams to work together to provide
integrated solutions optimized on the Oracle7 database. VMARK will be
participating in this program with its recently announced DataStage
product, providing a comprehensive software suite that simplifies and
automates the design and deployment of data marts and data warehouses.
DataStage is incorporated with VMARK's Vertical Warehouse framework, which
integrates data warehouse, extraction/transformation, access, and analysis
functionality with software application packages in a single environment
that can be implemented quickly and cost-effectively as a complete
information delivery solution.
The Warehouse Technology Initiative (WTI) now numbers more than fifty
companies working within the Oracle Alliance to deliver a variety of
premier integrated solutions, tools, and services to data warehouse
customers worldwide. All WTI partners are pre-qualified to meet specific
levels of technical criteria and commitment to the Oracle WTI program. The
WTI program is part of the Oracle Alliance. Additional information is
available at http://alliance.oracle.com .
"VMARK has created an integrated software environment that reduces the
cost, complexity and risk of delivering robust data marts and data
warehouses," said Peter L. Fiore, VMARK executive vice president and
general manager of the data warehouse division. "DataStage will be a
critical addition to Oracle's Alliance Program and will provide their
customers with a simple, state-of-the-art solution to the difficult task of
extracting and transforming operational data for use in data warehouse
solutions."
"We are pleased with the opportunity to add VMARK and its DataStage product
to our Warehouse Technology Initiative," said Polly Summer, vice president,
Oracle Worldwide Alliances. "With the addition of DataStage, our warehouse
solution can be fully optimized by our mutual customers."
About Oracle Corporation (http://www/oracle.com)
The Oracle Alliance is a global business network that unites leading
information technology companies to deliver integrated customer solutions
for networked computing. Alliance members have real-time access to Oracle's
premier products and services and are able to utilize vast technical,
marketing, and sales support resources. With more than 8,000 partners
worldwide, the Oracle Alliance enables partners to maximize Oracle mutual
customer and Alliance member financial benefit. Additional information is
available at http://alliance.oracle.com .
About VMARK Software (http://www.vmark.com)
VMARK Software, Inc. (NASDAQ:VMRK) is a leading global supplier of
client/server software and services for developing, deploying, and
maintaining business applications and data warehousing solutions. Founded
in 1984, VMARK is today one of the top 100 software companies in the world
(source: Software Magazine). Its product offerings include UniVerse, a
relational database server; DataStage, a software product that simplifies
data mart and data warehouse development; and ESL, an application
development tool for building robust, cross-platform client/server
applications. VMARK serves over one million users in virtually every aspect
of business and government through sales coverage in 40 countries and an
indirect channel of more than 300 value added resellers, systems
integrators and key technology partners. VMARK products are available
worldwide and are complemented by a suite of services including
7-day/24-hour customer support, consulting, and education. You can obtain
addition information about VMARK on its World Wide Web home page at
http://www.vmark.com .
Trademarks
VMARK and DataStage are registered trademarks of VMARK Software, Inc. All
other products or company names mentioned are used for identification
purposes only, and may be trademarks of their respective owners.
CONTACT: Peter L. Fiore David Thompson | VMARK Software, Inc. KHJ
Integrated Marketing | (508) 366-3888 ext. 3313 (617) 241-8000 ext. 111 |
[email protected] [email protected]
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VMARK Software's Vertical Warehouse Initiative delivers turnkey,
application-centric, data warehouse solutions
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Date: Tuesday, May 13, 1997
Source: Business Wire
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WESTBORO, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE) via Individual Inc. --
Packaged application providers and systems integrators spearhead
first-of-kind worldwide program to extend packaged
client/server applications with integrated
data warehouse capability
VMARK Software, Inc. (NASDAQ:VMRK), one of the world's leading
client/server software companies, today announced its Vertical Warehouse
Initiative to address the rapidly growing requirement to incorporate data
contained in the databases of packaged software applications in corporate
data marts and warehouses.
As part of today's announcement, VMARK introduced the first group of
fifteen members in the Vertical Warehouse Initiative. VMARK expects the
number of members in the Initiative to increase to more than 50 by year's
end.
Pioneered by VMARK, the Vertical Warehouse will be delivered through
application providers and systems integrators who will integrate data
warehouse, data extraction and transformation, and business intelligence
functionality with application packages resulting in a single solution that
can be implemented quickly and cost-effectively.
A New, Fully Integrated Way to Deliver Business Information
"The widespread adoption of client/server applications packages reflects a
growing trend for organizations to buy solutions rather than build them,"
said Henry Morris, a research director at International Data Corp., a
Framingham, Mass.-based industry research firm. "By extending packaged
applications with data warehouse add-on modules, resellers enhance the
value of their solution and improve their competitive position. VMARK's
Vertical Warehouse Initiative will help these vendors deal with the
difficult job of transforming and mapping application data into the target
data warehouse geared to specific customer requirements."
"The Vertical Warehouse Initiative is a more efficient way to deliver data
warehouse solutions so companies can immediately begin to derive the
benefits of improved decision making," said Peter L. Fiore, executive vice
president and general manager of VMARK's data warehouse division. "Up until
now, end-users had to deal with the very difficult problem of understanding
the data definitions used by application vendors before they could include
those data sources in a data warehouse. DataStage was designed to enable
application vendors to package their offering with an industry-specific
data model, transformation rules, business intelligence tools, and
value-added consulting. This approach to delivering data warehouses
benefits both the reseller and end-user through dramatically lower costs
and shorter implementations, yielding a significantly better return on
investment." Peter Fiore concluded.
Resellers Praise DataStage's Reusable, Component-based Architecture
Among the resellers participating in the Vertical Warehouse Initiative is
systems integrator Zyga Corporation, Basking Ridge, N.J.
Zyga provides information systems consulting and services to a range of
commercial and industrial companies nationwide, including Fortune 50
businesses. Its Component Engineering Methodology was cited by the Gartner
Group as the most advanced commercial methodology available for software
reuse. "We joined VMARK's Vertical Warehouse Initiative because DataStage
provides us with a reusable, component-based technology that supports our
capability to rapidly deliver vertical data warehouse solutions to our
customers," said David Little, director of sales and marketing at Zyga.
"The issues of reusability and speed of implementation provided by
DataStage are important because they allow us to concentrate on delivering
the high-value industry-specific knowledge our customers need to drive
their businesses."
Also participating in the Initiative is Quantra Corporation, Northbrook,
Illinois, a leading provider of investment management software for real
estate, mortgages, and securities. "DataStage is the data warehouse
workhorse we needed to compliment the applications we were developing and
deploying for our customers," noted Mike Snow, chief technology officer at
Quantra. "Its component-based architecture permits us to create data
warehouse templates that we can reuse as vertical frameworks for many of
our customers. This reduces our cost and speeds delivery of our products,
which are customized for each user. We also plan to bundle DataStage with
our own commercial real estate management application, and offer it as a
fully integrated application-specific information system."
According to the Data Warehousing Institute, the industry is moving rapidly
to the integration of applications and data warehouses as a total business
solution. "Driven by the need to provide customers with focused
business-oriented solutions, packaged application vendors will begin to
integrate data warehouse functionality into their core products as part of
the standard application sales process," noted Richard Rist of The Data
Warehousing Institute, Bethesda, Maryland. "1997 will be the year the
application-specific warehouse emerges as a new approach to rapidly and
cost-effectively delivering meaningful business benefits."
The other organizations participating in initial launch of the Vertical
Warehouse Initiative are: Trilogy Computers, United Kingdom; James River
Technical, Inc., Mechanicsville, VA; IT Resources; Logicil, Montreal,
Canada; Datacom Technology Group, Inc., New York, NY; Diversified Computer
Systems, Atlanta, GA; and TAG Consulting, Enchain, CA; GIE Symphone,
France; Alternative, France; and Consort, France.
Data Warehousing Made Easy: Plug-in Stages and Reusable Components
VMARK's DataStage simplifies the building of data warehouses by automating
the most critical tasks in the data warehouse process - the extraction,
transformation, and cleansing of data located in multiple source databases
and applications. According to the Data Warehouse Institute, these tasks
represent the most difficult and time-consuming elements of creating a
warehouse, with "70 to 80 percent of time and dollars spent on a data
warehouse devoted to transformation."
DataStage allows the data extraction and transformation process to be
visually defined by linking together reusable software components called
"stages". Stages perform the basic processing steps associated with data
extraction, transformation, and integration. Application or vertical market
specific functionality can be easily added to DataStage with plug-in
stages. These plug-ins can be written in any language capable of creating a
Microsoft Windows compliant DLL and will be offered by VMARK as well as
certified third-party providers. Because it offers a building block
approach to creating a visual, process-oriented model of this process.
DataStage reduces the cost, time, and resources required to design and
maintain fully-scaleable warehouses.
Pricing and Availability
DataStage began shipping in January to customers and resellers. End user
list prices start at approximately $37,500 (US).
About VMARK Software (http://www.vmark.com)
VMARK Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: VMRK) is a leading global supplier of
client/server software and services for developing, deploying, and
maintaining business applications and data warehousing solutions. Founded
in 1984, VMARK is today one of the top 100 software companies in the world
(source: Software Magazine). Its product offerings include DataStage, a
software product that simplifies data mart and data warehouse development;
and ESL, an application development tool for building robust,
cross-platform client/server applications; and Universe, a relational
database server. VMARK serves over one million users in virtually every
aspect of business and government through sales coverage in 40 countries
with more than 300 value added resellers, systems integrators and key
technology partners. VMARK products are available worldwide and are
complemented by an array of services including 7-day/24-hour customer
support, consulting, and education.
Trademarks
VMARK and DataStage are registered trademarks of VMARK Software, Inc. All
other products or company names mentioned are used for identification
purposes only, and may be trademarks of their respective owners.
CONTACT: Peter L. Fiore David Thompson | VMARK Software, Inc. KHJ
Integrated Marketing | (508) 366-3888 ext. 3313 (617) 241-8000 ext. 111 |
[email protected] [email protected]
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