QueryObject System Highlights IBM Support
for Version 3.0 Release
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QueryObject Systems Corporation, a member of the IBM Solutions Developer Program, recently highlighted IBM's support for their recent release of version 3.0 of the QueryObject System for OS/390, IBM S/390's flagship operating system.
"We're very pleased about the release of version 3.0 of the QueryObject System for OS/390," says Tom Fox, S/390 Business Intelligence Segment Executive. "Business Intelligence is all about deriving new insight and competitive advantage from data that you already own. Leading products such as QueryObject with an engine native to the S/390 operating system, enable companies to leverage the classic strengths and workload management capabilities of S/390 to rapidly analyze and manage large volumes of data." QueryObject System has been a member of IBM's S/390 Partners in Development since September 30, 1998. S/390 Partners in Development provides support to developers building solutions on the S/390 platform.
"This OS/390 (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 their corporate data over Internets," adds 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 Internets using the new QueryObject WEB Server. This is a ground-breaking 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 S/390 Partners in Development Program."
QueryObject Version 3.0 Features
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 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 WindowsNT 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 for analysis using industry standard Business Intelligence tools on the QueryObject Server, Personal Edition; Enterprise Edition; or WEB Edition on WindowsNT 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.