PRODUCT NEWS

Playing With Power

(the Web Edition)

By Diane Cheshire


This Month's Products:


 

Cognos's PowerPlay heads up this month's "power" tools

Cognos Inc. announced the release of PowerPlay Server Web Edition 5.5. PowerPlay Server Web Edition offers enterprisewide multidimensional analysis of data via the Web browser interface.
      New features of this version include:
      PowerPlay Server Web Edition pricing begins at $40,000 for a 100-user NT server license and at $75,000 for a 200-user Unix server license.

Cognos Inc., (617)229-1839, www.cognos.com

-Back to the Top-

The Power of Persistence

Persistence Software Inc. introduced PowerTier, a system that accelerates standard Web and client/server applications. Power-Tier accelerates applications using a memory cache that stores frequently used business information, which allows it to provide faster response to users. It updates changes in the database as necessary. Additionally, PowerTier can perform multiple tasks simultaneously in a single user session--a feature called parallel application processing.
      PowerTier's real-time notification system, ProActive Agents, notifies users immediately when data of interest is updated. The agents communicate with clients using standard CORBA messaging.
      PowerTier supports CORBA, UML, Java, Visual Basic, and C++ for developing client and server logic; Unix and Windows NT design deployment environments; and open APIs for integration with other systems and tools.
      Pricing for PowerTier developers licenses begins at $8,000 per developer. Deployment licensing pricing begins at $10,000 per server.

Persistence Software Inc., (650) 372-3600, Fax (650) 341-8432, www.persistence.com.

-Back to the Top-

Synon Serves Up Obsydian

Synon Corp. announced the release of two products: Obsydian for Java and Obsydian 3.0.
      Obsydian for Java provides automatic generation of portable, Java-based server applications. With it, users can automatically generate code from existing Obsydian design models. Customers can deploy the generated applications on any platform running a Java Virtual Machine.
      Obsydian 3.0 is the latest version of Synon's model-based client/server application-development environment. Users design their systems once and then automatically generate those applications for new platforms and technologies.
      Obsydian's ability to define and reuse business objects and automatically generate code speeds the implementation of enterprisewide systems. It uses class libraries of business objects (or "patterns"), which facilitates the development of scalable enterprise applications.
      Synon upgraded Obsydian to a 32-bit development architecture in this release. Additionally, Synon added new toolbars and graphical controls to improve the user interface, improved diagrammers, and simplified model and tool configuration. Obsydian also includes extended support for component standards, such as ActiveX.
      Contact vendor for pricing.

Synon Corp., (415) 461-5000, Fax (415) 461-2171, www.synon.com.

-Back to the Top-

Sqribe Reports for Duty

Sqribe Technologies announced the release of its new enterprise reporting and information delivery software, PowerSqribe.
      PowerSqribe is designed to provide Web-based information access and interactive analysis without the costs of deployment and maintenance. It lets users access, sort, manipulate, analyze, and report enterprise information without knowing where the information is located or what program was used to create it. Users can instantly drill down, change graph types, and manipulate information presentation by just pointing and clicking.
      PowerSqribe uses a pure-Java, thin-client architecture and integrates with an enterprise information framework. Its Java applet technology provides instant user interface response time.
      PowerSqribe Unplugged, the standalone version for mobile users, is $99. For massive deployment, PowerSqribe is priced at $99 per user.

Sqribe Technologies, (650) 326-5000, Fax (650) 326-5100, www.sqribe.com.

-Back to the Top-

SAS Gets to the Other Side

SAS Institute's Enterprise Reporter lets users create reports from data warehouses and decision-support systems and disseminate the results both on hard copy and online.
      Enterprise Reporter completes SAS's end-to-end solution for data warehousing, OLAP, and presentation-style reporting. It provides a way to allow analysts to query data and generate customized reports. The software is report-centric, letting users first choose the structure that matches the topic and audience, then discover the facts, and finally communicate the facts using that predefined structure.
      Enterprise Reporter is designed for Windows 95 and Windows NT-based PC users and has the look of Microsoft Office. It works in a client/server environment and supports multidimensional as well as traditional forms of data (relational, hierarchical, flat files, and so on).
      Pricing for Enterprise Reporter ranges from $299 per user for 50 users to $99 per user for 1,000 or more users.

SAS Institute, (919) 677-8000, www.sas.com.

-Back to the Top-

In Brief

Prism Solutions Inc. introduced Prism Quality Manager for R/3. Prism Quality Manager is a standalone environment for evaluating, cleansing, and preparing the data required to implement an SAP R/3 enterprise information management system. Legacy data can be moved more easily from its source environment to the SAP target environment. Prism Quality Manager for R/3 lets users identify and manage data quality problems in the source systems to be migrated to SAP, and users can monitor the data quality in the SAP environment. (408) 752-1888, Fax (408) 752-1825, www.prismsolutions.com.

-Back to the Top-

MetaEdge Corp. (formerly C Tree Inc.) announced the availability of DBA2GO, a Java-based database administration tool for Oracle relational databases. The tool replaces SQL options and scripts with an interface to the Oracle database. It is a Web-deployed, multitier tool that lets the DBA manage databases from any machine with access to a corporate intranet using a Web browser. (650) 573-1100, Fax (650) 372-5850, www.metaedge.com.

-Back to the Top-

Embarcadero Technologies Inc. released Rapid SQL 4.0, the latest version of its SQL database development environment. Rapid SQL is designed for SQL programmers and database administrators developing Oracle, Sybase, and Microsoft SQL Server DBMSs; it allows them to set up an unlimited number of virtual desktops that include windows for multiple SQL scripts, result sets, and object brow-sers for each database. Embarcadero has also added Oracle7 and Oracle8 support in this version of Rapid SQL. (415) 834-3131, Fax (415) 434-1721, www.embarcadero.com.

-Back to the Top-

Empirical Software Inc. introduced Empirical Director 2.0, a service-level management (SLM) solution that integrates applied intelligence for measuring and predicting the performance and availability of business-critical applications. Empirical Director automatically alerts IT management about service-level performance through media such as email and direct notification to Tivioi TME framework. It provides IT managers with reporting metrics, knowledge-based diagnostics, and improvement recommendations to address problems found in distributed applications. Empirical Director is a part of Empirical's Empirical Suite, which also includes Empirical Planner and Empirical Controller. (804) 794-0354, Fax (804) 794-0813,www.empiricalsoft.com.

-Back to the Top-


 
 

 
search - home - archives - contacts - site index
 

Copyright 1997 Miller Freeman Inc. All Rights Reserved
Redistribution without permission is prohibited.

Questions? Comments? We would love to hear from you!