Arbor Offering Capitalizes on Red Brick DecisionScape(SM) Environment of
Comprehensive Decision Support Products, Services, Methodology and
Partnerships; Links OLAP and Analytic Applications to Best-in-Class Data
Warehousing
LOS GATOS, Calif., June 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Red Brick(R) Systems, Inc.
(Nasdaq: REDB), The Data Warehouse Company(R), today announced support for
Arbor Integration Server. Arbor Integration Server, announced separately
today by Arbor Software (Nasdaq: ARSW), is a suite of graphical tools and
scalable data integration services that minimize the time and expense to
create, deploy and manage analytic applications. Companies that require
best-in-class OLAP solutions and analytic applications in their data
warehousing architecture should benefit from reduced cost-of-ownership,
time-to-deployment and administrative overhead through the integration of Red
Brick DecisionScape(SM), Red Brick's leading decision support environment,
with Arbor Integration Server.
Arbor Integration Server, currently in beta and planned for availability
later this year, supports custom, on-demand and packaged analytic applications
through the rapid assembly of reusable dimensions, hierarchies and calculation
logic centrally maintained in a shared, enterprise OLAP metadata catalog.
Arbor Integration Server makes it easy to combine the speed-of-thought query
performance, rich calculation capability and analytic application breadth of
Arbor Essbase OLAP Server with the scalability, extensibility and
sophisticated data management capabilities of Red Brick's innovative,
server-integrated decision support products included in Red Brick
DecisionScape.
"We are very excited about the opportunity to deliver fully-optimized OLAP
solutions to our customers and partners through this partnership with Arbor,"
said John Reid, senior director of Business Development at Red Brick. "The
combination of Arbor Integration Server and its superior OLAP development
environment with Red Brick DecisionScape solutions, and our joint focus on
analytic applications, enable our customers and partners to build and deliver
tangible, high-value decision support solutions."
"Our partnership with Red Brick reinforces the commitment both companies
have to analytic applications and a multi-tier, hub and spoke data warehousing
architecture that leverage the power of OLAP technology," said John Dillon,
president and CEO of Arbor Software. "Red Brick's DecisionScape environment
and Arbor Integration Server provide our mutual customers with a scalable
relational data warehouse staging area coupled with Arbor's high-performance,
scalable Arbor Essbase OLAP Server for rapidly delivering a wide range of
application specific analytic data marts."
The Red Brick Advantage
Red Brick's tight integration with Arbor Essbase enables users to build
Arbor Essbase cubes from a Red Brick data warehouse, conserving time and
resources through a single interface and combining the best of both OLAP and
relational data warehouse technologies into a single development environment.
Users can also benefit from being able to quickly and easily drill through
Arbor Essbase to atomic-level data stored in Red Brick's RDBMS.
Red Brick provides a comprehensive data warehousing architecture through
its integrated and server-based rapid DSS application development and data
extraction/transformation capabilities; highly optimized aggregate management
system; and unique data mining functionality. This architecture is designed
to provide customers with the lowest cost-of-ownership through integration and
optimal performance, while offering the richest, most sophisticated analytic
environment available in the decision support market today. The Red
Brick-Arbor Integration Server solution provides all the advantages of OLAP on
the front-end, while delivering all the benefits of Red Brick high scalability
and performance on atomic-level data.
Companies can create and deliver industry-focused analytic applications,
such as sales analysis, channel performance, product and customer
profitability, EIS, demand planning and sales forecasting, using Arbor
Integration Server in the Red Brick DecisionScape environment. These analytic
applications benefit from direct access to detailed Red Brick data, extending
value in industries such as financial services where complex calculations
require drill-through from an OLAP data cube. The centralized metadata
catalog in Arbor Integration Server helps promote calculation reusability,
reducing the processing time and burden on the client side and increasing
overall cost-efficiency in the decision support architecture.
Arbor Software
Arbor Software Corporation develops and markets enterprise OLAP software
for management reporting, analysis and planning applications. Arbor's
products are used by more than 1,600 corporations worldwide, spanning a broad
range of industries, business applications enterprise data warehousing
architectures. Arbor's customers include BankBoston, Los Angeles Times,
PEPSICO, Prudential and Sears. Arbor's products are sold direct, as well as
through system integrators and resellers worldwide, including Comshare,
Fujitsu, i2 Technologies, IBM, Lawson Software, Mitsubishi, PeopleSoft, SQL
Financials and Walker. Arbor's offices are located in the United States,
Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan and the United Kingdom.
Information on Arbor products and services can be found at
http://www.arborsoft.com. Arbor can be reached via e-mail at
info@arborsoft.com or by calling 800-858-1666 (US) or + 44 1344 664000
(International).
About Red Brick
Red Brick Systems, Inc. is a premier provider of data warehousing
solutions. Through Red Brick DecisionScape, a comprehensive, integrated
environment of products, services, methodology and partnerships, Red Brick
helps its customers and partners improve the quality, speed and accuracy of
their business decision-making. Red Brick's leading expertise and innovative,
server-integrated technology deliver scalable decision support solutions for
data warehousing, data marts, OLAP and data mining. Red Brick is based in Los
Gatos, Calif., with 290 employees worldwide and FY97 annual revenues of
approximately $43 million.
Information about Red Brick is available on the World Wide Web at
http://www.redbrick.com. News releases and corporate background information may also
be retrieved by fax. For an index of available materials, please call
800-758-5804, and enter PIN #105756.
NOTE: Red Brick, the Red Brick logo, RISQL and The Data Warehouse Company
are registered trademarks and Red Brick DecisionScape is a service mark and
trademark of Red Brick Systems, Inc. Arbor and Essbase are registered
trademarks of Arbor Software Corporation. Any other product or company names
may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
SOURCE Red Brick Systems, Inc.
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CONTACT:
Carolyn Hughes of Red Brick Systems,
408-399-7216, or chughes@redbrick.com; or Joanna McMillan of
Arbor Software, 408-541-4035, or jmcmillan@arborsoft.com
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