QueryObject System Version 3.0 Released for IBM Mainframes
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QueryObject Systems Corporation has announced the release of the new Version 3.0 of its QueryObject System data mart software specifically for the MVS S390 mainframe operating system used by IBM, Amdahl, and other hardware vendors. This new version - the only system currently shipping for building multi-dimensional analytical environments directly on MVS mainframes - allows data intensive industries such as telecommunications, healthcare and insurance, and financial services to achieve competitive advantage by more rapidly analyzing larger volumes of corporate data than is possible using other data mart systems. Through the QueryObject System, data is efficiently and responsively deployed to knowledge workers over Internets, corporate networks, or as a portable object for stand-alone and mobile computing.

The version 3.0 QueryObject Engine, which builds the high-content QueryObject data marts, can now do so directly on the mainframe and directly from typical mainframe data sources such as DB2, ISAM and VSAM - with full support for heterogeneous joins. A new single pass loader allows the Engine to process increased volumes of data into a QueryObject while substantially reducing build times - typically to well within normal production shift windows. The QueryObjects are then made available for analysis using industry standard Business Intelligence tools, on the QueryObject Server, Personal Edition; Enterprise Edition; or WEB Edition.

QueryObject Systems Corporation is a member of the IBM Solutions Developer Program.

Release of 3.0 Furthers QueryObject System's Large Data-to-Internet Strategy

"This MVS version of the QueryObject System is an important component of our strategy to provide data intensive industries with the ability to rapidly analyze large volumes of corporate data over Internets," said Robert Thompson, the company's president and chief executive officer. "Much of today's strategic business data resides on mainframes and the QueryObject System is the leading solution for turning that data into compact analytical objects that can then be deployed for responsive analysis over corporate intranets and extranets using the new QueryObject WEB Server.

"This is a ground-breaking product release, which brings important new Business Intelligence functionality to the mainframe world, and we are particularly grateful for IBM's hardware and porting assistance through the IBM OS/390 Partners in Development Program."

"Current approaches to deploying data warehousing applications include complex data movement and staging processes from host systems to other platforms," said Doug Lynn, Program Director, Meta Group. "Since most organizations hardwire these data feeds directly into analytical applications, adaptability to flexibly support new application requirements is unacceptably low. The OS/390 version of Query Object System provides the adaptability sought by IT organizations that want to minimize the irretrievable cost of moving data, and leverage the workload management prowess of OS/390."

QueryObject Version 3.0 Features

The QueryObject Engine Version 3.0 runs on OS/390 version 2.5 and above and is priced in North America at $275,000 per installation. The QueryObject Engine Version 3.0 is also available to run on Windows NT 4.0, Sun Unix, Solaris version 5.6, DEC True 64, HP-UX version 10.29 and SNI Reliant Unix-M version 5.43.

Native access to source data, including the ability to perform heterogeneous joins is through ISG's Navigator, which is included with the Engine. Relational data sources across all supported platforms include DB2, DBMS, Informix, Ingres, relational ODBC and OLE/DB data sources, Oracle, RdbSQL, Redbrick, SQL/MP, SQLServer and Sybase. Supported non-relational data sources include C-ISAM/D-ISAM, delimited text files, Enscribe, MUMPS, ADABASE, flat files, non-SQL OLE/DB sources and VSAM.

The recently released QueryObject Data Mart Server allows the resulting QueryObjects -- whether built on MVS, UNIX or WindowsNT-based engines -- to be deployed from Windows NT or UNIX WEB or LAN servers, or on Win 95/98 or WIN NT workstations.

About the QueryObject System

The QueryObject System allows data intensive organizations such as telecommunications, healthcare and insurance, or financial services companies to achieve competitive advantage by rapidly analyzing very large volumes of complex business data over Internets or corporate networks, or on stand-alone or mobile PCs.

The system easily transforms source data into a compact, highly distributable data mart -- a QueryObject -- that can be analyzed using industry standard tools and techniques. Where other products store data physically, the QueryObject System produces an analytical object that uniquely represents complex data relationships as polynomial equations. This resulting QueryObject is a small efficient mathematical index of all the relevant dimensions and metrics, including direct keys back to the granular source data

The QueryObject provides a high number of concurrent users with more responsive access to greater information volumes than is possible using traditional data marts, while maintaining a proportionally smaller, easier to distribute, footprint. The polymorphic nature of the QueryObject schema allows simultaneous use -- through an ODBC, JDBC and OLE/DB interface -- by most industry-standard analytical tools and techniques including spreadsheets, ad hoc queries, multidimensional analysis and data mining.

The QueryObject System engine, which transforms relational or flat-file data into QueryObjects, runs on Mainframe, UNIX and Windows NT servers. QueryObject data marts are then distributed to UNIX or NT WEB or LAN Servers or to desktop or laptop clients for user analysis. North American pricing for the engine, regardless of the number of users, ranges from $50,000 to $275,000 depending on platform. Deployment servers are priced based on usage.

About QueryObject Systems Corporation

QueryObject Systems Corporation is a publicly held company headquartered in Uniondale, New York with a wholly owned European subsidiary headquartered in the United Kingdom.

For more information about QueryObject Systems Corporation and its technologies, visit the Web site at http://www.queryobject.com.