Pick Systems, a leading vendor of the multidimensional database management systems (MDBS), has appointed Sognio Consulting as a value added reseller (VAR). This is according to an announcement by Adrian Oxborrow, managing director of Pick Systems Africa.
"Aligning ourselves with Pick Systems, gives us the advantage of using one of the most resource efficient and stable databases on the market. Moreover, access to Pick`s excellent support structures provides us with an added benefit to offer to our clients," says Hennie Moolman, CEO of Sognio Consulting.
"Our relationship with Pick Systems has added a new dimension to our business. Pick Systems` products run on all of the popular non-proprietary hardware platforms in use today, including all major Unix systems and all Intel-based personal computers running Windows NT and Windows Workstation. In addition D3`s open application architecture and ODBC capabilities makes it a good product to work with," says Moolman.
Sognio Consulting has developed a high-level Windows-based business intelligence tool that calculates and displays data from multiple databases called Effectus Balanced Scorecard. Effectus automates the balanced scorecard methodology giving executives the ability to translate strategy into action. Its features include the ability to track corporate performance against strategic and operational indicators, measuring critical success factors and tracking key milestones relative to strategic initiatives.
By integrating all corporate data sources to one point for analysis, Effectus not only reduces the number of reports required, it gives a comprehensive overview of business performance at every level of the organisation.
According to Adrian Oxborrow, there will be a number of business benefits for both organisations.
"Sognio brings their expertise in consulting and knowledge of our products. The relationship with us will provide them with an excellent platform for developing applications for their customers. With the open architecture platforms provided by Pick, they will be able to sell Pick-based applications into virtually all environments, delivering solutions on customer-owned hardware. It`s also great to be able to support locally developed products that are designed for our market and offer a very cost-effective solution."
"Pick Systems are committed to it`s channel partners and they are key to our success, with over 80% of our products sold via the channel," adds Oxborrow.
"Pick`s D3 database offers better performance, with a far lower cost of ownership which makes it an attractive option for many of our clients. Leveraging Pick technology will allow us to provide excellent solutions for our clients," concludes Moolman.
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Pick Systems is the developer of D3(r), the firm`s latest-generation multi-user, multi-value database management system. D3 is an open system that supports ODBC, SQL and OSFI standards. D3 runs on a wide spectrum of hardware, including personal computers, midrange systems, and massively-parallel computing systems, and is available for the major varieties of UNIX, including IBM(r) AIX(r), Hewlett-Packard(r) UX, SCO OpenServer(tm) and UnixWare(r) 7, Sun Solaris, and Red Hat Linux and Linux-Mandrake(tm). The Microsoft(r) Windows NT(r) and Windows 95 operating environments are fully supported as well.
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 technology upgrade and project management.
Pick Systems is headquartered in Irvine, California with international sales offices in the United Kingdom, France, and South Africa. For more information on Pick Systems and its products, please visit the company`s web site at www.picksys.com.