Hummingbird Announces Genio Suite 4.0
Hummingbird Communications Ltd. announced the immediate availability of Genio Suite 4.0. This release was allegedly designed with significant improvements to usability, performance and openness to better support organizations as they implement large scale enterprise data warehousing and e-commerce solutions.
As organizations move into the post Y2K era, IT leaders are looking to implement the business-critical applications that were postponed. Topping the list of these projects are e-commerce and data warehousing initiatives which both share the challenge of massive data volumes and the need for integration with existing environments.
Genio Suite version 4.0 extends Hummingbird's open metadata strategy, by including wizards for importing and viewing Business Objects' Universes and Cognos' Catalogs, in addition to Hummingbird BI/Suite. This significantly increases the usability of leading business intelligence tools with Genio Suite, since all metadata is shared in a common repository with cross-links between metadata objects.
"We are excited to see Genio Suite developments that will support our existing environment and improve the efficiency in loading our financial analytical applications," says Stephane Davril-Favreau, senior advisor at National Bank of Canada's IT subsidiary SIBN. "Genio Suite 4.0 lists several impressive features that we are looking forward to implementing this version."
Other key enhancements in this release include improved loading capabilities of NCR Teradata and Oracle 8. With performance as a critical success factor for e-commerce and analytical applications, the loaders are a welcome addition to Genio Suite; they help enterprises significantly reduce the time required to manage the large transaction volumes to improve the responsiveness of these systems.
"Managing a complex enterprise e-commerce environment is a challenging task due to the proliferation of different repositories and data environments in place in most organizations. Our customers have welcomed Genio's metadata-based approach to data integration allowing users to view data in multiple third party repositories," says Sami Hero, director of marketing, Data Integration and Reporting Solutions, Hummingbird Communications Ltd. "With the addition of graphical data flow navigation and other significant enhancements in this release, Genio Suite continues to be the premier solution for cost- effectively building and maintaining enterprise data warehouses as a basis for e-enabling business processes."
The key features of this release include: