NexGen SI's Warehouse Query gains ROLAP capabilities provided by MicroStrategy's DSS Objects; drastically reducing PowerBuilder development time for customized decision support applications

Business Wire, Sept 11, 1996

IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 11, 1996--NexGen SI, a global professional services and product vendor, on Wednesday announced Warehouse Query (WQ), a powerful decision support objects application for PowerBuilder.

With WQ, PowerBuilder developers can reduce the development time for adding customized decision support functionality to their client/server applications by several weeks or even months, eliminating hours of coding previously experienced by PowerBuilder developers.

WQ will be available in the fourth quarter of 1996. The developer's version of WQ will have a manufacturer's suggested retail price (MSRP) of $495 and the MSRP for the end-user version is $295.

WQ provides a set of PowerBuilder objects that allow developers to use the PowerBuilder development environment to build powerful, decision-support applications. WQ is based on DSS Objects, the OLE API to MicroStrategy's award-winning ROLAP (Relational Online Analytical Processing) engine. DSS Objects enables integrated query, reporting and multidimensional analysis on large data warehouses.

PowerBuilder, the world's leading provider of client/server application development tools, is currently recognized as the development environment of choice for programmers.

"Before WQ, creating complex cross-tabbing and multidimensional reporting in PowerBuilder was difficult and time consuming," said Ravi Renduchintala, NexGen SI's vice president of solutions delivery.

"WQ solves this problem by enabling PowerBuilder developers to embed the power of OLAP, provided by MicroStrategy's DSS Objects, into every PowerBuilder application."

The power of OLAP enables simultaneous access to data warehouses and OLTP applications in a single development environment, creating true data marts for complicated business analysis.

WQ provides developers with a palette of multidimensional objects that enable ad hoc OLAP analysis, data surfing, exception reporting and data mining with minimal effort. DSS applications developed with WQ are capable of "drill everywhere," complex queries and multiple report formats, increasing developers ability to access and analyze warehouse information.

WQ's intuitive report writer interface, based on PowerBuilder, allows developers to run reports without writing a single line of code. This report writer is an effective end-user query and report writing tool for decision support and can be customized without a major programming effort.

NexGen SI provides developers with the choice of either creating their own interface or customizing a pre-built interface with PowerBuilder.

By integrating MicroStrategy's DSS Objects with Warehouse Query, PowerBuilder developers now have access to proven ROLAP technology for data warehousing and decision support.

"We are pleased that NexGen SI has selected the MicroStrategy architecture as the foundation for its WQ product," said Sanju Bansal, MicroStrategy's executive vice president.

About NexGen SI

NexGen SI is a global professional services organization with locations in Irvine, San Francisco, Denver, Atlanta and Bombay. The company offers products and services to organizations making transitions to open systems and client/server computing.

NexGen SI is positioned as a leader in relational and object technologies with an extensive client/server practice focused on leading client/server tools in the data warehouse and Internet segments. NexGen SI is a PowerSoft "Premier Channel and Training" partner providing services to Fortune 1000 companies.

NexGen SI's customer base includes industry leaders such as AT&T, Kaiser Permanante, Nissan, Coca Cola, Ingram Micro and Value Behavioral Health.

NexGen SI specializes in fixed-price, fixed-time projects with its proven software manufacturing methodology called NexFrame. NexGen SI has core competencies in N-tier distributed architectures with implementation practices in customer service, financial and human resources.

More information about NexGen SI can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.nexgensi.com/ or by calling 1/800-6NEXGEN.

About MicroStrategy Inc.

MicroStrategy is the leading provider of industrial-strength decision support products for developing and accessing data warehouses. As the Relational OLAP (ROLAP) industry pioneer, MicroStrategy was the first vendor to deliver high-performance, multidimensional OLAP analysis directly from relational databases without requiring any proprietary multidimensional databases.

In addition, MicroStrategy has engineered many data warehousing breakthroughs: intelligent agents; VLDB drivers for terabyte-range scalability; a dynamic, multi-pass SQL, generation engine; data warehouse monitoring tools; DSS metadata CASE tools; a VLDB-savvy OLAP report writer; a mission-critical ROLAP server, and most recently, OLAP over the World Wide Web.

MicroStrategy's contributions have been recognized by the data warehousing industry through several awards including the KPMG High Tech Entrepreneur of the Year and the Database Programming & Design Database Dozen. MicroStrategy's clients have been recognized as finalists in the RealWare awards and Best Practices awards.