Prism Solutions Announces Plans to Support SAP's Business Information Warehouse
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Prism Solutions, Inc., a leading provider of solutions to deliver business intelligence applications, has announced that it will fully support SAP AG's SAP Business Information Warehouse by introducing a new module in the Prism Executive Suite. The module, which will be developed to support SAP's BW Business Application Programming Interface (BAPI), will be released in the fourth quarter of this year.

Prism's BW module will allow organizations to load data from non-SAP R/3 solutions to SAP BW, giving them the ability to fully integrate information from across a distributed data environment. Using the BW module as part of Prism's end-to-end solution for warehouse migration, Prism's SAP customers will benefit from Prism's integrated approach to data extraction, data quality analysis and cleansing.

Said Sarah Bassett, Prism's director of SAP solutions, "Our SAP customers depend on Prism for full compatibility with SAP's R/3 solution and the Business Information Warehouse. With our integrated warehousing capability, we can help our customers realize the full potential of their investment in SAP's information architecture."

The Prism Executive Suite is the first solution for deploying business intelligence applications that combines the power and flexibility of warehousing tools with the ease of use of data mart tools. It delivers these benefits through its leading-edge systems architecture and innovative application of server-side JAVA. The Prism Executive Suite includes:

• Prism Warehouse Executive -- an integrated development environment that provides the speed, power and flexibility to acquire, transform and integrate all the data users require to populate warehousing databases. The Executive supports R/3 data extraction and transformation, as well as migration of legacy and operational data to R/3 solutions.
• Prism Warehouse Directory- - a comprehensive meta data directory that exploits the power of the Web to allow users to manage, navigate and access all warehoused data.
• Prism Quality Manager -- a data quality solution that lets users audit, manage and improve the quality of information across the entire enterprise. Prism offers a version of the Quality Manager specifically designed for R/3 data quality analysis and management.

Founded in 1991, Prism Solutions, Inc. pioneered the data warehousing market to help companies understand, manage and use business information effectively. Today, Prism provides comprehensive solutions to deliver business intelligence applications. In addition to its corporate headquarters in Sunnyvale, California, Prism has regional offices in nine U.S. cities and international offices in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland and United Kingdom. More information about Prism may be found by visiting the company's Web site at http://www.prismsolutions.com