S2 Systems Partners With Ardent Software, Inc., Data Warehouse Industry Leader With The Largest Installed Base Worldwide
Officials at S2 Systems, Inc., a leading global provider of electronic commerce software and professional services, have announced a strategic partnership with Ardent Software, Inc., a leading global data management software company.
The Ardent alliance is a key example of S2's commitment to continually increase product functionality through strategic partnerships. This partnership allows S2 to help its customers enhance the value and effectiveness of their data warehouses, as the company continues to deepen its product and service offerings supporting mission-critical business-to-business and business-to-consumer transactions.
S2 Systems provides industrial grade end-to-end e-commerce plumbing with vertically oriented business applications. Creating access to business-critical data stored in various locations and structures is a key component of S2's e-commerce solutions in providing application software, middleware and gateway solutions for businesses operating in some of the world's most data-intensive industries - including healthcare, retail, financial services and travel/transportation.
With their warehouses accumulating vast amounts of mission-critical data, businesses face the daunting challenge of finding data enterprise management tools capable of harnessing all of this critical information in a way that will boost productivity, improve the quality of products or services, and form a solid foundation for future planning. This partnership will enable S2 to access a broader range of data sources in the most efficient manner - creating yet even more value-added business applications for these target market industries.
"We have been looking for a strong partner with proven software to help us meet the rising data management concerns of our customers, who have expressed the need for more specific data marts, more specific data warehouses and an overall increase in data warehouse functionality," said Charles Nichols, S2 Systems product marketing manager. "Partnering with Ardent allows us to provide S2 customers with a full arsenal of data management tools."
"The rapid proliferation of decision support systems and e-commerce applications creates unprecedented volumes of data. This information must be carefully managed and readily available if it is to have any business value, " said Mikael Wipperfeld, Ardent Software's vice president of data warehouse marketing. "Ardent's data warehouse development and management tools - DataStage, Warehouse Executive and Quality Manager - form the enterprise-level infrastructure required to power the decision support systems and e-commerce solutions that S2 builds for its client base."
Ardent Software's family of database systems and warehouse development tools address the spectrum of data management issues, including all aspects of the mapping, modeling, manipulation and movement of data. Ardent Software's integrated data warehouse development and management tools and services streamline the design and implementation of data warehouses and data marts for the enterprise.
Ardent's DataStage, MetaBrokers, Quality Manager, and Warehouse Executive provide scalable, flexible, cost-effective data warehousing solutions for many of the world's leading companies. Ardent's data warehousing tools facilitate mainframe data migration, data cleansing, data transformation, meta data management, and ERP solutions.
Ardent Software is a leading global data management software company. Ardent develops and markets embedded databases and software tools for enterprise-scale applications and data warehouses. With worldwide sales and service operations, and 1,000 resellers in more than 50 countries, Ardent is one of the top software companies in the world. More than 60,000 customers and 2.2 million users in virtually every aspect of business and government use applications powered by Ardent's products and technologies to solve their complex data management problems. Ardent is headquartered in Westboro, Mass. The company's common stock trades on the Nasdaq National Market under the symbol "ARDT." For more information, visit Ardent's Web site at http://www.ardentsoftware.com.
S2 Systems, Inc. is a leading global provider of electronic commerce software and professional services. S2 focuses on electronic commerce gateway, electronic banking/payments, healthcare transaction processing and customer relationship management systems for healthcare, retail, financial services, and travel/transportation industries. With headquarters in Dallas and offices in Atlanta, Hong Kong, London, Maarssen and Melbourne, S2 Systems has licensed its products to more than 400 customers in 60 countries. For more information, visit the S2 Systems Web site at http://www.s2systems.com.