SOFTWARE AG LAUNCHES DATA WAREHOUSE INITIATIVE WORLDWIDE; Emphasizes data acquisition and management, increased return on investment; supports MicroStrategy's DSS 4.0 product line

Business Wire, June 24, 1996

RESTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- June 24, 1996 -- Software AG today announced the launch of its data warehouse initiative worldwide and introduced a new brand name for its data warehousing family of products and services called Intelligon. Intelligon addresses worldwide issues in the data warehousing market by providing a global implementation methodology; a worldwide support and delivery team; and increased ROI by focusing on the administration and management of a data warehouse. Intelligon enables cost-effective deployment of a data warehouse, reduces lifecycle costs and provides decision makers access to critical business information.

"We are looking to meet the needs of multi-national companies and the worldwide market for data warehousing with the launch of Intelligon," said Robert Flury, senior vice president of Software AG's Data Warehousing Worldwide Line of Business. "This builds on our Open Data Warehouse Initiative that we announced in 1994, which has since earned us many industry awards for our data warehouse implementations. We are now focusing on the areas of data acquisition and management to help customers achieve significant return on investment."

As part of its relationship with MicroStrategy to resell and support their OLAP offerings, Software AG has announced support for DSS Web, a ROLAP interface for the Web, a new addition to MicroStrategy's DSS 4.0 product line. DSS Web, DSS Agent and DSS Server are all available through Software AG to the North American market.

"MicroStrategy's data access and analysis tools are a perfect complement to the Intelligon initiative," said Chuck Waser, Software AG's director of data access marketing. "We will continue to augment our areas of technology expertise with those of industry-leading partners to benefit our data warehouse customers. The DSS product line reinforces our strong presence on the desktop and is the first Internet product available in the data warehouse arena."

Intelligon Products and Services

Software AG has built a team of over 450 people in 70 countries to support Intelligon, and to assist data warehousing customers in building integrated, multi-platform environments that enable decision makers' access to information. This family of products and services addresses data acquisition, warehouse management, database administration, business analysis, education, professional and support services.

Business Analysis

ESPERANT -- a graphical, ad hoc query and reporting tool, with a flexible, easy-to-use interface. DSS Agent -- a relational OLAP tool, provides access to information for analysis, presentation, and action.

Data Acquisition

Passport -- data extraction and transformation tool, Passport automates the process of extracting, formatting and loading data from the source (production) database to target relational database systems.

NATURAL -- Software AG's development environment and language, NATURAL allows users to take advantage of data warehouse information for decision support and business operations and reduces the cost of maintaining extract programs.

Database Management

ADABAS D -- a fully functional, open, SQL-based RDBMS designed for business-critical and decision support systems.

Integration

ENTIRE -- middleware that provides interoperability and integration between all networked computing resources.

Services and Support

Software AG's offerings range from the Data Warehouse Readiness Assessment Workshop (DRAW), which measures an organization's skills and experience against their project requirements, to education, training, and full implementation services.

Software AG

Software AG, founded in 1969 and headquartered in Darmstadt, Germany, is the 10th largest independent software company in the world with annual revenues of $552 million. Software AG markets its products and services in 80 countries worldwide. Software AG of North America, based in Reston, Va., markets the company's database, application development, Internet and middleware products to Fortune 1000 companies and federal, state, and local government agencies.

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