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CA's Advantage Data Transformer 2.0/Advantage DT EME 2.0

Computer Associates International Inc announced the general availability of Advantage Data Transformer 2.0 and Advantage Data Transformer Enterprise Metadata Edition (Advantage DT EME) 2.0. These powerful data transformation, replication and integration solutions enable organizations to quickly and effectively execute strategic eBusiness projects, including data marts and warehouses, ERP and CRM deployments, and complex systems integration.

Version 2.0 of Advantage Data Transformer (formerly InfoPump) significantly reduces development time and streamlines the ongoing maintenance of critical eBusiness systems. Developers can "drag-and-drop" their way through the mapping of sources, targets, transformations, and workflows.

New Wizards and a highly effective built-in debugger further ease data manipulation tasks. Developers can easily share and reuse predefined transformations and those they create, thereby increasing staff productivity and promoting the consistency and accuracy of data operations.

Advantage DT EME (formerly DecisionBase Transformer) builds upon these capabilities by providing seamless integration with CA's industry-leading Advantage Repository for Distributed Systems (formerly PLATINUM Repository/OEE) and AllFusion ERwin Data Modeler. A new graphical workflow manager simplifies management of the entire transformation process, including conditional processing, scheduling interdependencies, and invocation of external applications such as email and backup software.

"An enterprise metadata perspective is a critical success factor for building and maintaining accurate and consistent data warehouses, thus ensuring their long-term viability," said Mary Braunstein, director of IT for Cadence Networks. "Advantage DT EME 2.0 is now even more tightly integrated with Advantage Repository for Distributed Systems, giving developers easier access to metadata in the Data Mapping process and enabling management of multiple concurrent data transformation application efforts."

Additional enhancements to Advantage DT EME provide developers with "in-context" access to metadata, versioning support for all objects associated with transformation applications, and in-memory lookups that improve the performance of transformation processes.

"Computer Associates continues to demonstrate substantive technological leadership in the data warehousing space," said Bill Inmon, owner, billinmon.com LLC, who is known as the Father of Data Warehousing. "The CA Advantage solution family offers the industry's most comprehensive set of tools for the rapid, cost-effective construction and maintenance of a robust, adaptable 'Corporate Information Factory' -- which has become a critical success factor in today's highly information-dependent business environment."

According to Allen Houpt, CA's brand manager for data warehousing solutions, IT departments are being asked to deliver critical eBusiness systems that require sophisticated manipulations of increasingly complex data sets, despite reduced staff sizes and training budgets. "The magnitude of the enhancements that CA has brought to the Advantage Data Transformer solutions reflects both our commitment to helping our customers cope successfully with these pressures and our leadership in the data integration and warehousing space," said Houpt.

About Computer Associates

Computer Associates International Inc delivers The Software That Manages eBusiness. CA's world-class solutions address all aspects of eBusiness management through industry-leading brands: Unicenter for infrastructure management, BrightStor for storage management, eTrust for security management, CleverPath for portal and business intelligence, AllFusion for application life cycle management, Advantage for data management and application development, and Jasmine for object-oriented database technology. Founded in 1976, CA serves organizations in more than 100 countries, including 99 percent of the Fortune 500 companies. For more information, visit ca.com.

Contact Computer Associates International, Alexandra Levit, 631-342-2836, alexandra.levit@ca.com.