Ardent Software Partners With Firstlogic

Ardent Software has announced a strategic partnership with Firstlogic, Inc., the developer of i.d.Centric data quality software that helps companies cleanse and consolidate data in database marketing, data warehousing, and e-business applications. Under the partnership agreement Firstlogic will develop and support a link between its industry-leading customer data quality tools and Ardent's DataStage Suite.

"Organizations implementing complex database marketing programs and e-business strategies depend on extensive data quality assurance. Together Ardent and Firstlogic are meeting this market need," said Mikael Wipperfeld, vice president of data warehouse marketing at Ardent Software. "This partnership allows our joint customers to take advantage of Firstogic's address verification, name parsing and extensive matching and consolidation capabilities inside the DataStage suite, the most comprehensive Business Intelligence (BI) Infrastructure solution available."

For more information about Firstlogic, visit http://www.firstlogic.com.

For more information about Ardent, visit http://www.ardent.com.