South Africa has been targeted as a key territory for the new data warehousing initiative from Ardent Software and IBM. The two companies have teamed to develop DataStage/DB2 for Adabas, which integrates the IBM DB2 Universal database and OLAP server with DataStage, Ardent`s extraction, transformation and loading (ETL) tool.
DataStage/DB2 for Adabas will enable Adabas customers running mainframes to implement and populate Unix-based IBM data marts or data warehouses for a wide range of enterprise-scale applications, including customer relationship management (CRM) systems. The partnership applies to operations in Germany, the United Kingdom and South Africa, where Software AG has a total of 1 040 Adabas customers.
It is intended that other Adabas customer sites worldwide will later be targeted, including some 4 460 installations at blue-chip corporations.
"South Africa has one of the highest pro rata penetrations of Adabas in the world," says Simon Jeggo, GM of Ardent Africa. "This agremeent with IBM is targeted at giving these customers the ability to move data previously locked in their legacy systems into data marts or warehouses built on open Unix systems. The consequence will be significant price/performance benefits and a wide selection of third-party business tools for customers."
Jeggo estimates that Adabas users can speed deployment and reduce costs by more than 70% by using DataStage/DB2 to automate the data extraction and movement process.
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