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Pine Cone Systems Announces the Technology, Education and Alliance
Marketing Program to Quickly Bring Increased Value to Data Warehouse/Data
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Date: Tuesday, April 22, 1997
Source: PR Newswire
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ENGLEWOOD, Colo., April 21 /PRNewswire/ via Individual Inc. -- Pine Cone
Systems(R), Inc., a Bill Inmon company and leading provider of data
warehouse/data mart management and administration software today announced
the Technology, Education and Alliance Marketing (TEAM) Program, a
comprehensive set of training, co-marketing, consulting and special
relationship programs designed to support and extend Pine Cone's product
offerings and quickly bring critical administration and management
capabilities to data warehouse/data mart environments. An impressive amount
of 14 leading data warehouse solution providers including DEC, Evolutionary
Technologies, Inc., Fiserv Solutions, Hewlett Packard, INFORMIX, KPMG Peate
Marwick, OBJECT Software, ORACLE, Price Waterhouse, Prism Solutions, Red
Brick, SAXE, Siemens Pyramid, and SYBASE now have agreements with Pine Cone
Systems to help customers get more value today from their data
warehouse/data mart environments.
"Pine Cone has pioneered a unique and comprehensive set of management and
administration tools that help organizations realize vastly increased value
from their data warehouse/data mart environments," said Dennis McCann,
president and CEO of Pine Cone Systems, Inc. "The TEAM Program was designed
so that customers can quickly take advantage of our products by working
with the strongest and most innovative firms in the data warehouse market."
Under the TEAM Partner program, Pine Cone Systems has created joint
technical and marketing alliances with leading hardware, database and data
warehouse/data mart tool providers for integration and distribution with
the leading data warehouse solutions. In addition, Pine Cone has formed
systems integration, consulting and training alliances to provide high
quality integration services and cost effective support to customers.
Finally, Pine Cone's partnerships with value added software developers will
extend Pine Cone's capabilities through implementation with other leading
data warehouse solutions. The program will offer a menu approach giving
partners the ability to choose the components that best meet their
individual needs.
"Red Brick has long been a believer in the value of partnerships such as
Pine Cone's TEAM program, as well as our own extensive PaVER program" said
Chris Erickson, CEO at Red Brick. "At Red Brick, performance is everything.
As TEAM and PaVER partners, Red Brick and Pine Cone offer the solution to
improve the quality of data administration and increase the performance of
data warehouse applications."
According to Michael J. Schroeck, Managing Partner of the Price Waterhouse
LLP Global Data Warehouse practice, "Our clients derive maximum business
value from our services because the data warehouse is the fundamental
enabling architecture for their global knowledge management environment.
Pine Cone's management and system administration solutions help address the
complex issues of maintaining extensive knowledge management architecture."
About Pine Cone Systems
Pine Cone Systems, based in Colorado, is the leading supplier of software
for data warehouse/data mart management and administration. Founded in 1995
by Bill Inmon, the father of the data warehouse concept, Pine Cone's
mission is to help organizations realize the full potential of their data
warehouse/data marts by providing tools to address the complex issues and
unique challenges of managing the data warehouse environment. The company's
partners include DEC, Evolutionary Technologies, Inc., Hewlett Packard,
Prism and Red Brick. Products currently available from Pine Cone include:
Data Content Tracker for ensuring high quality warehouse data; Data Usage
Tracker to monitor and report on warehouse usage; Cost Allocation Manager
to accurately assign warehouse usage costs; and Refreshment Tracker to
track the loading of data into the data warehouse in an automated manner.
Pine Cone's products are available on most hardware platforms and support
Oracle, Sybase, Terra Data, Informix, DB2 and Red Brick databases. For more
information, see www.pine-cone.com.
NOTE: Pine Cone Systems is a registered trademark of Pine Cone Systems,
Inc. Pine Cone Data Content Tracker, Data Usage Tracker, Cost Allocation
Manager and Refreshment Tracker are trademarks of Pine Cone Systems, Inc.
All other names are the properties of their respective companies.
SOURCE Pine Cone Systems
/CONTACT: Bill Pomeroy of Pine Cone Systems, 510-428-4142, or
[email protected], or www.pine-cone.com; or Carole Sinclair of
Capstone Communications, 303-221-4000, or [email protected], for Pine
Cone Systems/
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Pine Cone Systems Ships Expansive Product Line to Manage and Maintain Data
Warehouses and Data Marts New Company, Pine Cone Systems, Launched by
'Father of Data Warehousing' <>
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Date: Wednesday, May 14, 1997
Source: PR Newswire
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SAN FRANCISCO, May 13 /PRNewswire/ via Individual Inc. -- Pine Cone
Systems(R), Inc. today staked a claim in the estimated $8 billion data
warehouse market with the delivery of a suite of products to effectively
manage and maintain the data warehouse and data mart. The company, founded
by Bill Inmon, announced four new generally available products that will
help companies improve the efficiency, usability, security, and
auditability of their data warehouse and data mart environments. The new
products shipping today include: Data Usage Tracker(TM) to monitor and
report on warehouse usage; Charge Back Manager(TM) to accurately assign
warehouse usage costs; Data Content Tracker(R) for ensuring high quality
warehouse data and capacity planning; and Refreshment Tracker(R) to track
the loading of data into the data warehouse in an automated manner.
"Implementations of corporate data warehouses have expanded dramatically
over the past three years," said Bill Inmon, founder and executive vice
president of Pine Cone Systems, Inc. "Concurrent with that growth has been
huge increases in the costs of managing and maintaining data warehouses and
data marts. Pine Cone Systems products were designed to help organizations
effectively harness these enormous data resources and dramatically reduce
the costs of management and maintenance."
"Bill Inmon has combined his extensive experience and unique vision for the
data warehouse market into products that will provide the unprecedented
ability to understand the content of the data warehouse, improve data
quality, monitor usage, and distribute costs," commented Claudia Imhoff,
president of Intelligent Solutions. "Companies will now have critically
needed tools to realize the full potential of their data warehouses or data
marts."
Pine Cone Products
Data Usage Tracker
Data Usage Tracker provides information needed to ensure the most efficient
structure for the data warehouse and data mart. Data Usage Tracker analyzes
activity to answer such questions as:
* What data is being used?
* Which DSS analysts are using the system?
* What kinds of activities are occurring?
Once this information is made available, a number of actions can be taken
to improve processing performance. These actions include the creation of
summaries, addition of indexes, restructuring of data, development of data
marts, and archival of dormant data.
Charge Back Manager
Charge Back Manager automates the cost allocation of data warehouse
activity to end user organizations. Companies can specify chargeback
algorithms, tailored to fit the needs of their organizations. A company can
decide to charge more or less for different hours, days, or weeks of the
month. As business changes, and access to the data warehouse is extended to
multiple departments, business units, or even Internet users, Charge Back
Manager provides the ability to distribute and recover usage costs.
Data Content Tracker
Data Content Tracker is a solution to the challenge of ensuring high
quality data in the data warehouse and data mart. In addition, Data Content
Tracker provides information necessary for effective capacity planning,
query management, and data mart design and development.
Quality validation activities that are possible with the Data Content
Tracker include domain, range, qualified value, key verification and
formatting checks. Capacity planning is enabled by understanding not only
how the data warehouse is growing but specifically which parts of the data
warehouse are growing. Data Content Tracker can also help prevent the
submittal of unreasonable query requests against the data warehouse or data
mart.
Refreshment Tracker
Refreshment Tracker helps make the data warehouse and data mart more usable
by monitoring and reporting on the "freshness" of data. Since all data
warehouse tables are refreshed on a periodic basis, this tool keeps track
of what tables have been refreshed, the sources of refreshment, how many
records were inserted, and whether the refreshment processes ended
normally. This tool can be used whether the data warehouse is refreshed
manually or by utilizing load utilities or native code.
Leading Companies Testify to Value of Pine Cone Products
"Pine Cone Systems products will enable us to be proactive in managing our
data warehouse and operational data store," said Deb Stewart, manager of
warehouse analysis for TCI Communications, Inc. "We are using Data Content
Tracker to examine and improve the quality of our data as we develop our
operational data store. The tool also builds the data summarizations
required to understand our business. Data Usage Tracker will help us gain
an in-depth understanding of how the data warehouse is being used, and by
whom. TCI will use this information to optimize our data warehouse and
operational data store structures for maximum performance."
"Based on our initial discussions with Pine Cone Systems, we see Pine
Cone's Data Usage Tracker and Chargeback Manager products will potentially
provide us with significant benefit in managing our global data warehousing
strategies," said Al Clegg, director of data warehousing for Texas
Instruments, Inc. "Texas Instruments distributes information from its
enterprise data warehouse in Texas to local data warehouses in locations
all around the world. TI plans to use Pine Cone's products to quantify
usage patterns and distribute information more efficiently to optimize
costs and maximize system performance."
Pricing and Availability
Data Usage Tracker, Charge Back Manager, Data Content Tracker and
Refreshment Tracker are all generally available. The products operate in a
standalone manner or in an integrated fashion and pricing ranges from $7500
to $60,000.
About Pine Cone Systems
Pine Cone Systems, based in Colorado, is the leading supplier of software
for data warehouse/data mart management and administration. Founded by Bill
Inmon, the father of the data warehouse concept, Pine Cone's mission is to
help organizations realize the full potential of their data warehouse/data
marts by providing tools to address the complex issues and unique
challenges of managing the data warehouse environment. The company's
partners include BUSINESS OBJECTS, Digital Equipment Corporation,
Evolutionary Technology, FISERV, Hewlett-Packard, INFORMIX Software, KPMG
Peat Marwick, ORACLE, Price Waterhouse, PRISM Solutions, Red Brick, and
SYBASE. Products currently available from Pine Cone include: Data Content
Tracker for ensuring high quality warehouse data; Data Usage Tracker to
monitor and report on warehouse usage; Charge Back Manager to accurately
assign warehouse usage costs; and Refreshment Tracker to track the loading
of data into the data warehouse in an automated manner. Pine Cone's
products are available on most hardware platforms and support Oracle,
Sybase, Informix, DB2 and Red Brick databases. For more information, see
www.pine-cone.com.
NOTE: Pine Cone Systems is a registered trademark of Pine Cone Systems,
Inc. Pine Cone Data Content Tracker, Data Usage Tracker, Charge Back
Manager and Refreshment Tracker are trademarks of Pine Cone Systems, Inc.
All other names are the properties of their respective companies.
SOURCE Pine Cone Systems Inc.
/CONTACT: Brenda Moncla of Pine Cone Systems, 303-221-4000, or
[email protected]; or Carole Sinclair of Capstone Communications,
510-428-4142, or [email protected], for Pine Cone Systems/
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