The market shift identified in the Gartner Group research is forcing many vendors to re-package their product lines through creative marketing campaigns that attempt to brand query, reporting and OLAP point solutions as "enterprise suites." The greatest challenge for traditional Business Intelligence vendors, however, will be their ability to develop and deliver an infrastructure that truly integrates all of their products.
"Customers are demanding enterprise solutions, and the Business Intelligence industry is aligning itself with Seagate Software`s Enterprise Information Management vision in an attempt to mirror the success of our product suite," said Greg Kerfoot, chief executive officer at Seagate Software. "Our competitors understand the vision, but they clearly do not understand the complexities involved in developing and deploying a single integrated system to tens of thousands of users. Over the past four years, we have successfully worked through these complexities with our customers. We are fully aware of the pains our competitors will face when they realize thelimitations of their fragmented point solutions and then attempt to deploy them as enterprise-scalable Business Intelligence infrastructures."
Seagate Software has always believed that the true value of a Business Intelligence system designed to scale across the enterprise comes from its infrastructure. Seagate Crystal Info is currently entering its fourth generation of delivering proven enterprise scalable solutions to customers. The upcoming version of Seagate Crystal Info (code named Polaris) is expected to ship in CYQ498.
Seagate Crystal Info: Delivering Proven Enterprise Scalability Today The enterprise Business Intelligence suite market is predicted to mature by the second half of 1999. However, Seagate Software today remains unchallenged as the scalability leader in the Business Intelligence information delivery market. As a core component of its Enterprise Information Management strategy, Seagate Crystal Info`s unique and unequalled architecture continues to deliver unrivalled scalability to Seagate Software customers with successful enterprise implementations of over 10,000 seats; the top 50 customers each average over 2500 users on a single integrated system. Current large implementations include Pepsi, Bankers Trust, Aetna, Tektronix, and TCI.
Seagate Software`s product suite includes the leading query and reporting functionality of Seagate Crystal Reports, the pioneering OLAP technology of Seagate Holos, and the free availability of the Seagate Worksheet OLAP-client, all backed up by the tried and true enterprise delivery infrastructure of Seagate Crystal Info.
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About Seagate Software
Seagate Software, a subsidiary of Seagate Technology, Inc., develops tools and applications for Enterprise Information Management (EIM); the solution for the growing need of corporations for superior information delivery, analysis and availability. Seagate Software`s diverse technology and breadth of leading products -- including the award-winning Seagate Backup Exec, Seagate Crystal Info, Seagate Crystal Reports, Seagate Desktop Management Suite, Seagate Holos, Seagate Manage Exec and Seagate WinINSTALL -- make it uniquely qualified to deliver EIM with an integrated infrastructure. Seagate Software has established strategic relationships with Compaq, Hewlett-Packard Company, IBM, Informix, Microsoft, Netscape, Novell, Oracle, PeopleSoft and other industry leaders, and markets its products worldwide, through distributors, value-added resellers, systems integrators, retailers, and OEMs. Seagate Software`s home page address on the World Wide Web is http://www.seagatesoftware.com.
Seagate Technology, Inc. (NYSE:SEG) is a leading provider of technology and products enabling people to store, access, and manage information. The Company is committed to providing best-in-class products to help people get information when, where and how they want it. Seagate is the world`s largest manufacturer of disc drives, magnetic discs and read-write heads, an innovator in tape drives, and a leading developer of Enterprise Information Management software.
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