LAS VEGAS, NV -- November 16, 1998, Silvon Software, Inc. today announced the availability of Silvon DataTracker 3.0 the application foundation for building and managing supply chain focused data warehouses and analytic applications in an open platform environment. This new release of Silvon DataTracker features storage, performance and ease-of-deployment enhancements designed specifically to deliver large and dynamic application data marts on Microsoft SQL Server 7.0.
"Silvon DataTracker 3.0 blends the data warehousing power of SQL Server 7.0 and Silvon’s many years of supply chain knowledge to deliver high-powered and scalable application data mart solutions for manufacturers, distributors, and retailers," said John H. Hughes, senior vice president of sales & marketing at Silvon. "SQL Server 7.0 and Microsoft Windows NT provide the world-class platform that will scale when information rich businesses like those in the supply chain need it. That scalability is extremely critical with an application foundation like Silvon DataTracker which takes advantage of leverages a SQL Server 7.0 databases for enterprise-wide access by users."
"Silvon DataTracker 3.0 and SQL Server 7.0 are a proven combination for providing highly scalable, enterprise-wide, business performance management solutions," said Steve Murchie, data warehousing product manager at Microsoft Corp. "This has certainly been demonstrated by several customers, including HarperCollinsPublishers, who is using SQL Server and Silvon DataTracker in a mission-critical decision support environment with high volumes of granular data and numerous remote users requiring access to and detailed analysis of sales, inventory and profitability information."
"Silvon DataTracker running on Microsoft SQL Server allows our 200-plus users to take action in a proactive manner because we are now able to assess the profitability of our titles very efficiently," said Stuart Mowat, director of decision support systems at HarperCollins. "Today, our end-users can quickly and easily analyze more than 200 gigabytes of data at any given time, including key point-of-sale information. This has allowed HarperCollins to reduce our overall return rate to 30 percent, which alone has saved the company nearly $50 million."
Silvon’s Hughes added that Silvon will additionally leverage Microsoft OLAP Services to deliver highly adaptable user-centric solutions. "OLAP Services will allow our customers to analyze data from large Silvon DataTracker data warehouses in specifically configured data mart nodes, providing greater flexibility in the way data is analyzed within the enterprise," he said.
In addition, Hughes said that the next release of Silvon DataTracker scheduled for 1Q99 will include Microsoft technologies standards such as OLE DB for OLAP to enhance user connectivity and to provide a high-performance, back-end system to the rapidly growing base of Business Intelligence consumers. According to Hughes, OLE DB for OLAP will become the seam between analytic applications and the data management infrastructure around which Silvon will deliver solutions employing the best technology available in each supply chain industry segment.
For more information, call (800) 874-5866, visit Silvon’s Web site at www.silvon.com, or e-mail the company at info@silvon.com.
Created by a world-class development team, Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 is the leading Windows NT Server-based database, bringing business advantage and improved decision-making to all levels of the organization through the power of data warehousing, industry solutions and interoperability with Microsoft Office. Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 enables independent software vendors and customers to build and deploy scalable database solutions for e-commerce, line of business, mobile computing and data warehousing. Microsoft SQL Server is a member of the Microsoft BackOfficeŽ family, a set of servers that make it easy to build, manage and deploy powerful business solutions.
Silvon Software is a global supply chain-focused solutions provider headquartered in the western Chicago suburb of Westmont, Illinois. For the past 10 years Silvon has been delivering multi-platform analytic applications to enterprises within the manufacturing, wholesale/distribution and retail industry segments. These applications are driven by the Silvon DataTracker application foundation, which stores and maintains large volumes of data in an efficient, highly scalable format for enterprise-wide access and viewing by business users and decision makers. Silvon DataTracker is currently installed in more than 1,000 sites worldwide and supported by a network of OEMs, value-added resellers and independent distributors.