Pick Systems Africa, a developer of multi-user, multi-value database management system (DBMS) software, today announced a marketing agreement with FarSight Technologies whereby it will distribute the company`s One Up software, a low-cost intuitive management reporting, database query and analysis tool.
Designed specifically for business users who need immediate access to critical data, One-Up provides rapid and easy access to corporate legacy databases at a fraction of the cost of competitive products.
"Rapid access to mission critical business intelligence is a universal need," said Adrian Oxborrow, managing director of Pick Systems Africa. "Because most existing products require knowledge of database structure, analysts are required to produce reports for management. We developed One Up to give non-technical users and even senior managers the ability to generate tabular and graphical reports themselves based on their relevant data without having to understand database technology."
The combination of One Up with Pick Systems` robust D3 DBMS provides users with the ability to extract the information they need, when they need it, quickly and easily. More importantly, each `View` can be saved and re-used, and it always brings up the latest data available in the database."
"By offering the One Up solution, we are providing our value-added resellers with yet another new revenue opportunity for both new and existing customers," continued Oxborrow.
"Comparable solutions were traditionally reserved for large enterprises due to the high cost. One Up`s attractive price and powerful feature set make it ideal for small and medium-sized businesses. This new addition to our product portfolio is yet another example of our commitment to being a one-stop shop for our channel partners." - One Up Overview One Up provides direct, rapid user access to large relational databases, including Pick Systems` D3 DBMS. It is priced considerably lower than competitive products, yet it still provides about 80 percent of the functionality.
The product features a very intuitive user interface that is designed to be easy to understand and use by both technical and non-technical business managers, analysts and senior executives. Technical users can create data universe, or "views," which can be used by analysts and managers to create their own reports without having to understand the underlying complexity of the data or databases. In addition, users do not need to know which of several databases their particular data is stored on. One Up also supports online access to multiple databases, even if those databases are on different computers and stored in different database products.
One Up can generate columns, crosstabs, charts, maps and detailed reports using a single drag-and-drop interface. Users can define their own drill-down paths through their data, save those views, and then reuse the stored templates to retrieve and display the latest data available in the database, a key time-saving feature. Since it is ODBC-compliant, it also supports other database servers such as IBM`s DB/2 and its new Universal Data Base (UDB), Oracle, Sybase, Informix and Microsoft SQL Server, among others.
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D3 Pick Systems` D3 DBMS is a sophisticated development environment, which provides the basis for client/server applications, data warehouses and web-enabled databases. D3 offers rapid economical application design, development and deployment with scalability from a single client up to thousands of clients. It also provides seamless integration with Windows environments. Additional features include built-in B-trees, true-compiled FlashBASIC* language, Access Query Language (AQL*) with speed and ease-of-use, unlimited views of information, business rule support, triggers, ODBC and SQL connectivity. D3 also offers direct APIs to Visual Basic and an HTML language tool, named FlashCONNECT*).
Pick Systems Africa
Pick Systems Africa is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Pick Systems Inc., based in Irvine, California. Pick Systems is a leading developer of multi-user, multi-value database management system (DBMS) software. A pioneer in the industry, the Company introduced its first multi-value DBMS in 1973. Pick Systems markets its database solutions worldwide through a network of more than 250 value-added resellers supporting 2,000 VAR-developed applications. Pick Systems` primary markets, served through the Company`s network of VARs developing industry-specific vertical applications, are: manufacturing, distribution, medical, financial services and wholesale/retail.
Pick Systems For nearly three decades, Pick Systems, Inc. has been developing database technology. D3*, the company`s latest-generation multi-user, multi-value database management system, is an open systems environment, which supports ODBC, SQL and OSFI standards. D3 runs on a wide spectrum of hardware, including PC, midrange and massively-parallel computing systems and is available for most varieties of UNIX* including IBM AIX*, SCO OpenServer*, Hewlett-Packard* UX, and Red Hat Linux in addition to Microsoft* Windows NT* and Windows* 95 operating environments. Pick markets its products worldwide through a network of over 800 VARs who offer more than 4,000 Year 2000-compliant, commercially-available applications. The Professional Services division provides Pick`s customers with assistance in all aspects of project management.
Pick Systems is headquartered in Irvine, California with international sales offices in the United Kingdom, France, South Africa and Singapore. The company employs approximately 135 people worldwide. For more information, please visit the company`s newly redesigned web site at www.picksys.com.