Objectivity customer American Meter recognized in Top Object Technology Awards; Adra, Nousoft and Object Guild demonstrate Objectivity/DB-based Web/new media products

Business Wire, August 30, 1996

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 30, 1996-- Objectivity(r), Inc.'s customer American Meter Company was recognized for object application excellence last week at Object World West at the San Jose Convention Center.

Objectivity partners, Adra Systems, Nousoft Inc., and Object Guild demonstrated next-generation web/new media solutions.

Their software products, built on Objectivity/DB, let users share new media content while maintaining complex relationships among the data. The complexity of these relationships is beyond the range of traditional relational databases.

Object Technology Awards

American Meter Company was chosen as a finalist for the top Object Technology Awards. Their Objectivity/DB-based software control and data acquisition (SCADA) system, Pantheon(r) was honored during award announcements at Object World West. "We replaced a relational database with Objectivity/DB in order to achieve our users' performance requirements," said Ken Warner, software engineer at American Meter, who was recognized at the ceremony.

"The replacement was performed with minimal impact to the application, with virtually no logic errors, and in less than six weeks time," he continued. "Selecting Objectivity/DB allowed us to eliminate almost 30% of the code in our application -- code initially required to map the application's complex data model to the relational database."

American Meter, located in Scott Depot, W.Va., is a leader in delivering solutions to the natural gas industry. The panel of judges was comprised of Computerworld, Object Management Group, Object World Corporation and IBM. Other award applicants using Objectivity/DB include Citibank for a foreign exchange derivatives trading system and Nousoft for a multimedia asset management system.

Object World Demonstrations

Three production applications were demonstrated in the Objectivity booth at Object World West. Nousoft demonstrated a knowledge-based, multimedia asset management system designed for intellectual property and copyright management. Nousoft manages distribution of both image information and resources to display and manipulate this information.

Adra Systems showcased Matrix(tm), the leading object-based Enterprise Product Data Management (PDM) system enabling information retrieval through an intuitive graphical user interface. Matrix is known for high speed modeling of enterprise data and processes without reprogramming requirements or large system integration efforts.

Object Guild presented WebCatalog(tm), providing a transparent means for selectively serving information from an object database over the Web. Easy-to-use functions manage huge data repositories while minimizing the maintenance hours required to update information on a commercial Web browser.

About Objectivity, Inc.

With headquarters in Mountain View, California, Objectivity is the leading supplier of high performance object databases to software and equipment manufacturers. Objectivity customers develop software for telecommunications, process control, and new media applications. The company sells directly and through distributors from seven offices in the United States and fourteen offices in Europe and Asia.

Objectivity customers include ABB, Adobe, Boeing, BT, Digital, DSC Communications, Fuji Film, Motorola, Nortel, Qualcomm, Siemens and other leading technology companies worldwide. Altogether, one-quarter of both Global-100 and Fortune-100 companies use Objectivity/DB.

Contact Objectivity at http://www.objectivity.com.

About Nousoft, Inc.

Located in Monterey, Calif., Nousoft is a leading supplier of Object-Oriented document imaging systems. Built on Objectivity/DB and incorporating full scanner and image management, this new application product for managing documents is the first to present facilities on a "Single Workscreen." The system embodies more than a decade of experience and technology from the world of library automation.

Contact Nousoft at http://www.nousoft.com.

About ADRA Systems, Inc.

Adra Systems, Inc., based in Chelmsford, Mass., is dedicated to providing an information infrastructure for integrating people, information and business processes. Adra creates next-generation distributed information and process-management applications for managing and navigating through complex data and organizations. Adra's flagship product, Matrix, is an object-oriented product data management system focused on information life cycle management.

Contact Adra at http://www.adra.com.

About Object Guild, Inc.

Object Guild, located in San Jose, Calif., is a leading provider of out-source application development using object databases combined with a growing line of application development tools. Object Guild provides specialized object database consulting, mentoring and product development that provides customers with reduced time to market.

Contact Object Guild at http://www.objectguild.com. -0-

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