Seagate Software, a leader in business intelligence software, today announced a decision to enhance its open architecture with support for Informatica Corporation`s Business Components and PowerConnect. Informatica`s new technologies will provide Seagate Software customers with additional choices for accessing business intelligence information and deploying analytic applications.
Seagate Software enables organizations around the world to rise above the data collection challenge, focus on solving business problems, and become more responsive to changing information. Its business intelligence and analytic applications provide access to and analysis of a wide range of data sources. This information can then be easily shared and delivered throughout an organization.
Business Components and PowerConnect from Informatica Informatica Business Components are software building blocks that significantly reduce the complexity of accessing operational data and populating analytic applications. Informatica PowerConnect is a family of packaged software products that help customers easily extract data and metadata from ERP and other legacy applications.
Enhancing Seagate Software`s Open Architecture
Seagate Software maintains an open architecture for its integrated business intelligence and analytic applications to give customers a choice in how they want to view, access and analyze information. Support for Informatica technologies will allow joint customers to quickly deploy sophisticated analytic applications, without the need for programming, and provide new methods of analyzing their corporate data.
"Informatica`s initiative to change the way companies use information complements our global vision to help businesses gain competitive advantage by bringing together their people and information," said Tony Wind, vice president of product management at Seagate Software. "Extending our support for Informatica`s Business Components and PowerConnect will strengthen our position in the burgeoning business intelligence market."
"Having Seagate Software, a leading business intelligence vendor, committed to support Business Components and PowerConnect is a key factor in our ability to offer customers the freedom to change the way they access business information," said Diaz Nesamoney, president of Informatica. "With Seagate Software`s solutions, customers are exposed to an open business intelligence system including ad hoc query, enterprise reporting and application creation capabilities delivered in a scalable infrastructure."
For more information on Seagate Software business intelligence applications, please contact our web site at Error! Bookmark not defined. or call the Seagate Software sales department at 1-800-877-2340. For more information on Business Components and PowerConnect, please refer to yesterday`s releases from Informatica.
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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 Reports, Seagate Desktop Management Suite, Seagate Holos, Seagate Info, 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.
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Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, Informatica develops and markets enterprise software products and services that enable many of the world`s largest companies to build and manage business intelligence and analytic applications across the enterprise. Informatica has more than 400 Global 2000 customers worldwide and maintains partnerships with Cambridge Technology Partners, EDS, Ernst & Young, Microsoft, PeopleSoft, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, SAP AG and Siemens Business Services. For more information, call (800) 653-3871, or visit Informatica`s Web site at Error! Bookmark not defined..
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