Westmont, IL (9 November 1998) - Silvon business partner, Acacia Technologies, announced that its new Business Intelligence product, ClearView (powered by Silvon DataTracker), will be available by year-end. ClearView will be a component of Acacia's PRMS enterprise resource planning solution.
ClearView is designed to provide analytical views of the data acquired and stored by PRMS and KBM. The ClearView product will feature predefined analytical views, measurements, and reports. Each of these components is customizable to fit the specific needs of the organization.
"There's a tremendous amount of valuable business information hidden within the voluminous amounts of raw data captured by companies each day. ClearView will help turn that raw data into meaningful, decision-support information that managers can use," said Ken Ramoutar, vice president of worldwide marketing at Acacia Technologies. "With ClearView, clients will be able to use existing transaction data from PRMS or KBM to quickly analyze a variety of business management performance indicators."
"The integrated approach to ERP and online analytical processing (OLAP) systems allow our clients one-stop shopping," Ramoutar added. " Our goal is to allow our clients to achieve the full benefits of Business Intelligence faster and at lower costs."
ClearView's push-button graphical user interface (GUI) will offer executives deeper insight into sales and marketing measurements, such as:
Using ClearView, knowledge workers will be able to easily review and analyze important information - existing within their ERP systems - and quickly find the answers they have been seeking which can lead to new business opportunities. For example, a user can view information such as sales channel results, sales of individual products and individual customer purchases. These three major areas play a key role in company success and customer retention.
The product also includes full application interfaces to PRMS or KBM. Acacia Technologies provides four product families to the IBM AS/400 marketplace as well as a suite of implementation and analysis tools. These include:
The current releases of the four Acacia products are Year 2000 compatible.
Acacia Technologies, with headquarters in Lisle, Ill., is a division of Computer Associates International, Inc. This division is responsible for the development, support, marketing and sales of PRMS, KBM, Warehouse BOSS, and Quick Response Engine. The objective of Acacia Technologies is to meet the evolving needs of manufacturing and distribution businesses through a set of solutions built on the AS/400 client/server technology. Acacia Technologies can be reached by visiting http:/www.acaciatech.com on the World Wide Web, or calling 1-800-523-5260.
Computer Associates International, Inc. (NYSE: CA), with headquarters in Islandia, N.Y., is the world leader in mission-critical business software. The company develops, licenses and supports more than 500 integrated products that include enterprise computing and information management, application development, manufacturing and financial applications. CA has over 11,000 people in 160 offices in 43 countries and had revenue of $4.7 billion in fiscal year 1998. CA can be reached by visiting www.cai.com, emailing info@cai.com , or calling 1-516-342-5224.
Offering both AS/400 and Windows NT-based high volume Supply Chain decision support solutions, Silvon DataTracker is a business intelligence system that provides extensive reporting and analysis capabilities to help managers optimize their businesses.
Silvon Software is a global application data mart (ADM) solutions provider headquartered in the western Chicago suburb of Westmont, Illinois, with international offices in UK and Australia. For the past 10 years, Silvon has been delivering multi-platform business intelligence ADMs for the industrial supply chain segment, including manufacturing (discrete and process), wholesale/distribution and retail. The company's DataTracker suite is currently installed in more than 900 sites worldwide, and supported by a network of OEMs, value-added resellers and independent distributors. Silvon has strategic alliances with industry leaders such as IBM, Microsoft, JDA Software, Acacia (div. Computer Associates), MAPICS, Marcam Corporation and Orcom Systems. More information about Silvon is available by calling 800-874-5866, or via the company's home page on the Internet at: www.silvon.com.
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