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> Powersoft S-Designor From Sybase, Inc. to Support Microsoft's
> Enterprise Repository Initiative
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> Date: Wednesday, February 19, 1997
> Source: PR Newswire
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> CONCORD, Mass., Feb. 18 /PRNewswire/ via Individual Inc. -- Sybase,
> Inc. (Nasdaq: SYBS) today announced that Powersoft(R) S-Designor(R),
> the company's market leading integrated family of open, result-driven
> modeling tools that allow designers and developers to create highly
> optimized and functional database applications, will support Microsoft
> Corporation's (Nasdaq: MSFT) Enterprise Repository initiative.
>
> Already the most open design toolset on the market with support for
> more than 30 database platforms and the leading application
> development environments, including Visual Basic, S-Designor further
> extends its reach with support for the Microsoft Repository. The
> Repository will allow S-Designor users to store their design
> information in an open repository and to share design information with
> other data modeling and object modeling tools. The data-aware Visual
> Basic application objects generated from S-Designor's unique VB-Gen
> feature can also be stored in the Microsoft Repository, allowing these
> VB objects to be shared by other tools interfaced with the repository.
>
> "We are very excited about the opportunity to have S-Designor be part
> of the Microsoft Repository initiative," said Steve Clark, Sybase,
> Inc.'s general manager of Powersoft design products. "This support
> will provide our customers with the ability to collaborate more
> effectively throughout their organizations, and underscores our
> commitment to providing the most open, integrated modeling toolset on
> the market."
>
> Headquartered in Emeryville, CA, Sybase, Inc. is a worldwide leader in
> distributed, open computing solutions with record revenues in 1996 of
> over $1 billion. The company provides customers and partners with the
> software and services to create business solutions for strategic,
> competitive advantage. The company's product groups design and develop
> high performance, end-to-end solutions including databases,
> middleware, and application development tools for client/server,
> Internet and Intranet transaction processing and data mart and data
> warehousing applications. The company's Internet addresses are
> http://www.sybase.com and http://www.powersoft.com.
>
> NOTE: Powersoft, S-Designor and Sybase are registered trademarks of
> Sybase, Inc. or its subsidiaries. All other company and product names
> mentioned may be trademarks or registered trademarks of the respective
> companies with which they are associated. SOURCE Sybase, Inc.
>
> /CONTACT: Susan L. Bourdon of Sybase, Inc., 508-287-1547 or
> [email protected], or Paula Lowe of Lois Paul & Partners,
> 617-283-5746 or [email protected]/ (SYBS MSFT) CO: Sybase, Inc.;
> Microsoft Corporation ST: Massachusetts, California IN: CPR SU: PDT
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Sybase, Inc. Unveils Powersoft S-Designor 6.0 New Data Warehousing and Web
Generation Capabilities Strengthen Market-Leading Design Toolset
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Date: Tuesday, March 25, 1997
Source: PR Newswire
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CONCORD, Mass., March 24 /PRNewswire/ via Individual Inc. -- Sybase, Inc.
(Nasdaq: SYBS) today announced Powersoft(R) S-Designor(R) 6.0, a major
upgrade of its market- leading integrated family of open, result-driven
modeling tools. S-Designor 6.0 enables database designers and developers to
build highly optimized and functional databases, data warehouses and
"data-aware" components.
The new version features WarehouseArchitect(TM), a new module for designing
and building data warehouses and data marts; a Web generator for creating
dynamic Web sites directly from a data model; and application generation
support for Optima++(TM) and Delphi.
"Organizations building data warehouses and Internet applications have a
unique set of design and generation requirements," said Steve Clark,
Sybase, Inc.'s general manager of Powersoft design tools. "With this
release of S-Designor, we deliver an impressive array of enhancements and
new capabilities that expand our family of open, result-driven modeling
tools to users designing and building data warehouses and data-driven Web
sites."
"The new features in S-Designor 6.0 demonstrate that Sybase is doing a good
job of extending its design toolset to a new class of users," said Frank
Gillett, senior analyst in the data warehouse and business intelligence
service at Hurwitz Group. "The new WarehouseArchitect simplifies the task
of designing and constructing data warehouses and data marts. It's one of
the few tools that addresses the complex needs of data warehouse designers
and succeeds in raising the bar for competing products."
S-Designor 6.0's modular toolset is composed of an integrated set of
analysis and design tools. The six modules that make up the S-Designor
family include DataArchitect(TM) for database design and construction;
WarehouseArchitect for data warehouse design and construction;
ProcessAnalyst(TM) for capturing data flow within a business;
AppModeler(TM) (standard and desktop editions) for physical data modeling
and data-aware component generation; MetaWorks(TM) for model management and
team design; and Viewer(TM) for read-only access to model information.
"S-Designor 6.0 demonstrates Sybase's commitment to develop tools for
result-driven modeling and reinforces its position in the market," said
Dave Kelly, vice president of research services at Hurwitz Group. "The
addition of support for Optima++, Delphi and Web page generators within the
AppModeler module enables the company to reach a wider range of developers
who require application and component generation."
S-Designor 6.0 Highlights
S-Designor 6.0 provides integrated database, data warehouse and data-aware
component design and generation for database designers and developers.
Version 6.0 features two new modules and other advanced technologies that
further extend the toolset's capabilities throughout an organization.
Highlights include:
-- WarehouseArchitect -- WarehouseArchitect allows designers to reverse-
engineer and import source information and generate schemas for warehouse-
optimized databases, such as Sybase IQ(TM) and Red Brick Warehouse, in
addition to traditional DBMSs. WarehouseArchitect also provides support for
dimensional modeling including star and snowflake schemas, aggregation,
partitioning, summarization and dimensional hierarchies. Additionally, this
new module maintains a map between source information and the warehouse for
use in the data cleansing, extraction and end-user query process.
-- Optima++ and Delphi Generators -- In addition to enhancements to the
existing PowerBuilder and Visual Basic component generators, AppModeler 6.0
adds new generators for Powersoft Optima ++ 1.5 and Borland Delphi 2.0.
These new generators enable developers to leverage database models by
rapidly producing data-aware components and application prototypes for
industry- leading 4GL and 3GL development tools.
-- Web Generator -- AppModeler also adds a Web generator that enables
developers to quickly create data-driven Web sites directly from a data
model that provide access to databases and data warehouses.
-- Viewer -- This new module provides access to graphical representations
of models and metadata information in a read-only environment for use
across the enterprise. Its customizable reporting environment lets users
easily document and communicate model and metadata information throughout
the enterprise.
Additional Enhancements in S-Designor 6.0
In addition to the new modules and generators offered in this release,
S-Designor 6.0 offers enhancements and upgrades to the rest of the family
of tools. DataArchitect, the flagship database design and generation
module, adds numerous productivity features such as entity neighbor
selection, tool tips, word wrapping and report preview. Mass change
capability and enhanced relationship options make DataArchitect 6.0 more
powerful and easier to use for designing highly optimized databases.
ProcessAnalyst 6.0, S-Designor's data flow discovery and diagramming tool,
has added CRUD matrices for identifying the impact of processes on data,
along with reporting templates for documenting the processes. Business
rules have been added at the process level, along with the ability to link
them to any ProcessAnalyst object. In addition, ProcessAnalyst is now
tightly integrated with DataArchitect as data stores and business rules
defined in ProcessAnalyst can be imported for use in the conceptual design
phase in DataArchitect.
MetaWorks 6.0, the advanced teamwork module for sharing models and
collaborating on database design and application development projects,
extends its dictionary platform support to include DB2 and Ingres. Models
can now be extracted at the submodel level providing teams of designers
with greater flexibility for sharing models. MetaWorks 6.0 also includes a
new comparison manager for comparing models before consolidating;
drag-and-drop object exchange; Powersoft InfoMaker(TM), a query and
reporting tool for creating and running ad-hoc and pre-defined reports and
queries against the MetaWorks dictionary; and a number of administrative
enhancements for managing large teams of designers and developers.
Pricing and Availability
S-Designor 6.0 is currently scheduled to ship within 90 days. Suggested
North American retail list prices currently are as follows: The prices for
individual modules are WarehouseArchitect, $4,995; DataArchitect, $2,495;
ProcessAnalyst, $1,495; MetaWorks, $995; AppModeler, $995; AppModeler
Desktop, $295 and Viewer, $395.
The S-Designor DataArchitect Suite is a bundle including DataArchitect,
ProcessAnalyst, AppModeler and MetaWorks; it is priced at $4,995. The
S-Designor Warehouse Suite is a bundle including WarehouseArchitect,
DataArchitect, ProcessAnalyst, AppModeler and MetaWorks; it is priced at
$9,295.
Sybase, Inc.
Headquartered in Emeryville, CA, Sybase, Inc. is a worldwide leader in
distributed, open computing solutions with record revenues in 1996 of over
$1 billion. The company provides customers and partners with the software
and services to create business solutions for strategic, competitive
advantage. The company's product groups design and develop high
performance, end-to-end solutions including databases, middleware, and
application development tools for client/server, Internet and Intranet
transaction processing and data mart and data warehousing applications. The
company's Internet addresses are http://www.sybase.com and
http://www.powersoft.com.
NOTE: AppModeler, DataArchitect, InfoMaker, MetaWorks, Optima ++,
Powersoft, ProcessAnalyst, S-Designor, Sybase, Sybase IQ, Viewer and
WarehouseArchitect are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sybase, Inc.
or its subsidiaries. All other company and product names mentioned may be
trademarks or registered trademarks of the companies with which they are
affiliated.
SOURCE Sybase, Inc.
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