Labels:text | screenshot | illustration OCR: SOFTWARE AG SHOWS INITIATIVE DB2 Oracle Adabas Key to Software AG's push into the hot data warehousing Sybase Informix CA-Ingres market is its Open Data Warehouse Initiative. The lack of inte- gration among the elements of data warehousing - data analysis and modeling, data extraction, multidimensional databases, query, etc. - has been the bane of the warehousing movement. With SourcePoint, an automated warehouse manager, as the center- Passport Natural piece, Software AG is attempting to provide an end-to-end solution, Other Extractors says Richard Rist, Software AG's Data Warehouse Division. Rist describes SourcePoint as an intelligent agent that runs on a Unix platform. Based on parameters set by the user, the agent DSS Agent SourcePoint API receives manipulated data and handles blocking, buffering, delivery to and loading of the server. Software AG's Natural and Carleton's Passport handle data extraction and mapping. Natural For data modeling, the vendor uses Natural Engineering SourcePoint Agent Engineering Workbench, and supports Bachman's Bachman/Analyst, TI's Workbench IEF, KnowledgeWare's ADW and others. Databases supported include Adabas, Oracle, Sybase, Informix and CA-Ingres. End-user query and decision support tools include the vendor's Esperant and MicroStrategy's DSS Agent. Esperant SOURCE: SOFTWARE AG
