Business Objects, the world`s leading provider of integrated enterprise decision support tools, and Profound Solutions today announced that their products, BUSINESS OBJECTS BROADCAST SERVER and TRAILBLAZER will work together to provide customers with enhanced report distribution options.
Announced today, BROADCAST SERVER is an integrated report and broadcast server that enables customers to provide personal information broadcasting via email, pager, and fax to their users throughout the enterprise. [Editors` note: please see related press release dated September 29, 1998.] TRAILBLAZER is an easy-to-use report distribution tool that allows users to publish and access reports in their native format using internet technologies. TRAILBLAZER will expand the automatic report distribution features of BROADCAST SERVER by managing multiple report versions and automatically expiring old reports.
BROADCAST SERVER will schedule, run, and publish reports automatically to TRAILBLAZER. TRAILBLAZER can then notify users that the report is available on its server. Through a subscription service, users can choose to receive notification of a report`s publication. Once notified, users can then view, download, or print the report. For remote users, TRAILBLAZER uses digital certification and virtual private network (VPN) technology to secure reports.
"BROADCAST SERVER allows a true, three-tier distributed component architecture (DCA) that shifts report processing to powerful back office servers," said Crispin Read, director of BUSINESSOBJECTS product marketing. "TRAILBLAZER can further optimize customers` usage of BROADCASTSERVER by offering multiple report versions plus the ability to automatically expire and purge reports."
"TRAILBLAZER revolutionizes the delivery mechanism of information via the internet or an organization`s intra/extranet," said Tom Bailey, vice president, technology, at Profound Solutions. "Critical business information is shared in native formats - we`ve eliminated the need to convert all content to HTML prior to publishing."
Availability
BROADCAST SERVER is expected to enter beta in October 1998. BROADCAST SERVER is a replacement product for the existing BUSINESSOBJECTS DOCUMENT AGENT SERVER(. Pricing will be announced at availability.
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About Profound Solutions
Profound Solutions, a next generation software company, engineers innovative solutions that enhance corporate Internet strategies. TRAILBLAZER, Profound`s flagship product, reduces corporate dependency on the IT department by publishing content in its native format. TRAILBLAZER uses the familiar, easy-to-use Windows Explorer interface, thus eliminating the need for formalized training while enhancing a user`s acceptance of the technology and their contribution to an organization`s content management strategy. Learn more about Profound Solutions and TRAILBLAZER at http://www.profoundsolutions.com.
About Business Objects
Business Objects is the world`s leading provider of integrated enterprise decision support tools. Business Objects products provide non-technical business users with access to information stored in data warehouses, data marts, and packaged business applications. Business Objects provides a complete suite of decision support tools including query, reporting, online analytical processing, data mining, and DSS administration for both client/server and internet environments. Business Objects has sold more than 870,000 licenses to over 6,700 organizations in more than 60 countries worldwide.
Business Objects a division of Usko Software may be reached by phone (011) 807-0777 or on the world wide web at http://www.businessobjects.com. The Company`s stock is publicly traded under the ticker symbol BOBJY.
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