Ardent Software Speeds The Deployment Of Business Intelligence And Analytical Applications For SAP Users
Ardent Software, Inc., a leading global data management software company, has announced its active support for the SAP Business Information Warehouse (BW) through a series of products and services enabling users to leverage both SAP and non-SAP data for decision processing. DataStage Release 3.6, Ardent's industry-leading data integration product suite for data warehouse creation and management, provides immediate enhanced SAP support with its Packaged Application Connection Kit (PACK) for SAP R/3. The company will soon augment that support with a PACK for SAP BW. Ardent will be demonstrating both tools at SAP's Sapphire show on September 13 in Philadelphia.
Ardent's DataStage Extract PACK for SAP R/3 enables users to extract data directly from SAP R/3 systems natively and integrate it with data from other sources, leveraging the powerful visual design process of DataStage for modeling and deploying source-to-target transformations and loads. This process is supported by an extensive set of built-in libraries for complex transformations. Ardent's DataStage Load PACK for SAP BW adheres to the SAP standard interface protocol, BAPI, supporting high performance loading of the Business Information Warehouse from heterogeneous sources.
"As ERP solutions become increasingly complex, end-users will require more powerful data management tools to successfully integrate these systems with data marts and warehouses throughout the enterprise," said Henry Morris, research director at International Data Corporation. "Ardent's SAP extraction and population products represent the type of tools companies will need to maximize existing investments in large ERP systems."
"It is important that companies implementing SAP and other ERP solutions leverage the data generated by those systems in their business intelligence and analytical applications. When managed effectively, this information can be an invaluable strategic asset," said Mikael Wipperfeld, vice president of data warehouse marketing at Ardent Software. "Ardent's DataStage PACKs for SAP R/3 and SAP BW meet our customers' demand for tools that help maximize the efficiency of their SAP data warehousing solutions."
The SAP R/3 system is the world's most successfully deployed client/server business software supporting diverse enterprise functions such as accounting and controlling, production and materials management, quality management and plant maintenance, sales and distribution, and human resource / project management. The SAP BW is designed specifically for decision support needs, and is optimized for SAP R/3 systems. SAP BW is open to different source systems, and includes a broad range of predefined reporting templates geared to the specific needs of particular industries and user types, such as production planners, financial controllers, or human resources directors. Ardent's DataStage PACK products extend support for heterogeneous sources.
Ardent's DataStage Extraction PACK for SAP R/3 is available today. Supported platforms include Microsoft Windows NT (Intel and Alpha NT). Support for all major UNIX platforms will be shipping within 60 days. Ardent's DataStage Load PACK for SAP BW will be shipping within 60 days. Supported platforms will include Microsoft Windows NT (Intel and Alpha NT) and all major UNIX platforms. For more information about Ardent's SAP-enabled products, visit the Ardent Software Web site at http://www.ardentsoftware.com.
Ardent Software's data integration solutions streamline the design and implementation of business intelligence, analytical, and e-business applications 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 integration offerings provide the industry's most powerful infrastructure platform from department to data center, and facilitate heterogeneous 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 data integration software for data warehouse and analytical applications, and embedded databases and tools for developing and deploying packaged operational applications. 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, Massachusetts. 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.