Sagent and Unisys Deliver Data Mart Solution
to Unisys Windows NT Users
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Sagent Technology, Inc., provider of a leading turnkey solution for bringing data marts to the Web, has announced that Unisys Corporation is marketing Sagent's data mart solution with Unisys ClearPath Enterprise Servers and Aquanta Servers. This combined offering will help Unisys Windows NT users deploy high performance data mart applications quickly and cost-effectively.
The worldwide OEM agreement between the two companies will offer ClearPath and Aquanta customers integrated access to the NT-optimized Sagent Data Mart Solution as well as access to Sagent's highly regarded professional services organization.
"As more organizations realize the bottom-line benefits of the turnkey data mart approach, we are seeing very high demand from a broad range of markets," said Tom Lounibos, Sagent's vice president of sales. "To meet this demand, we are focused on building strong partnerships with leading companies to provide platform-integrated solutions as well as horizontal and vertical market data mart packages. ClearPath and Aquanta Servers offer powerful NT platforms and the integrated Sagent data mart option will give users an easy, cost-effective way to utilize corporate data stores."
"Data mart solutions are of great interest to our customers," said Thomas J. Freeman, vice president of ClearPath Marketing at Unisys. " Sagent's provides a complete, integrated data mart solution optimized for Windows NT. Sagent will enable our customers to leverage the mission-critical information maintained on their Unisys ClearPath and Aquanta servers."
Sagent's relationship with Unisys adds to the growing list of leading organizations with which Sagent has established strategic alliances to provide data mart solutions tailored for specific technologies or markets. Other alliances Sagent has established include the recently-announced reseller deal with Advent Software to deliver a pre-built data mart solution for the investment management market, as well as an alliance with Automatic Data Processing (ADP) to deliver the first pre-built human resources data mart solution. Sagent also has a technology alliance with Oracle Corporation that established Sagent's data movement technology as a key part of Oracle's family of Data Mart Suites.
Sagent's data mart solution is comprised of the Sagent Data Mart Solution, software that integrates products for building, managing, and accessing Web-based data marts, as well as industry-leading professional services to guide users through the design and implementation process. Sagent makes information available to decision makers with a turnkey solution that can be implemented rapidly, at a low cost, and without major strain on IT departments.
The Unisys ClearPath Series is the first generation of Unisys Enterprise Servers that implements heterogeneous multiprocessing to integrate Windows NT or UnixWare operating systems with legacy mainframe systems in the same open computing environment. To date, no other vendor has achieved this level of integration between open operating systems and enterprise server technologies. This ability to unite mainframe and open operating systems as a single resource can provide increased flexibility and performance.
The Unisys Aquanta enterprise servers are a range of scalable Intel-based symmetric multiprocessor (SMP) platforms for Windows NT. The Aquanta server product family includes the 12-processor Aquanta XR/6, the largest Windows NT based server in the industry, the 6-processor Aquanta HR/6, and the recently announced Intel Pentium II Xeon based QS/2, which set industry leading TPC-C, TPC-D and SPECweb96 benchmarks. Unisys also offers Network Attached Storage (NAS) systems that support heterogeneous networking, high availability, and dynamic RAID.
In 1997, Unisys was named a Microsoft Enterprise Partner and announced a joint initiative to bring customers business-critical information solutions based on the Microsoft Windows NT server operating system and Microsoft's enterprise platform technology. In addition, Unisys unveiled its enabling technology strategy for bringing enterprise-class computing attributes to the Windows NT operating environment, along with a series of products and partnerships that play a key role in achieving that goal.
Unisys is an information technology solutions provider that has a portfolio of information services, technologies and third-party alliances needed to help clients capitalize on their information asset to enhance their competitiveness and responsiveness to customers. Unisys expertise is founded on the strengths of three global businesses: Information Services, providing consulting, application solutions, systems integration and outsourcing; Computer Systems, providing industry-leading technologies; and Global Customer Services, delivering comprehensive services and products supporting distributed computing environments. Access the Unisys home page on the World Wide Web at http://www.unisys.com for further information.
Sagent Technology was founded in June 1995 to make business data more usable by bringing it closer to decision-makers. The Sagent solution lets organizations bring data marts to the Web quickly and cost-effectively with a turnkey offering that includes best-of-breed products and comprehensive professional services. Sagent is a privately-owned company that was co-founded by Ken Gardner and John Zicker. Its customers include Nations Bank, Home Savings of America, JP Morgan, MCI, Bell South, ValueRX, Jiffy Lube and Eddie Bauer. The company has strategic relationships with Oracle Corporation, Microsoft Corporation, ADP, Advent, Unisys, and Ralph Kimball Associates. Sagent is funded by Crosspoint Venture Partners, El Dorado Ventures, Greylock Limited Partnerships and U.S. Venture Partners. Sagent's web site is located at http://www.sagenttech.com