(EDITOR'S NOTE: The solution name has since been changed to Sales DecisionMart(TM) as part of Silvon's recently announced DecisionMart series of business intelligence solutions.)
Westmont, IL--February 23, 1999--Silvon Software, Inc. today announced the first in a series of new packaged business intelligence applications for Supply Chain organizations. This first application will be marketed by Silvon with Microsoft Corporation and with Compaq Computer Corporation.
The goal of the new Data Mart applications is to reach a broader segment of the market with complete pre-built, entry-level packages. The first solution in this series, Silvon SalesTracker/eNT (Entry), is designed to provide manufacturing and wholesale distribution supply chain companies with a sales analysis solution that will allow them to track operational effectiveness, analyze/predict business changes and prepare/address competitive threats.
Initially developed for Microsoft NT and SQL Server 7.0, Silvon SalesTracker/eNT is fast to install, easy to use and value priced for fast growing small- to mid-sized companies. "Silvon’s application expertise has been captured in software by integrating data extraction, data model development and business rule processing with flexible, simple end-user access," said John Hughes, senior vice president of worldwide sales and marketing at Silvon. "Our business intelligence application series addresses a major gap in the market between limited function, roll-your-own desktop tools and best-of-breed, high-cost data warehousing/OLAP approaches. With Silvon SalesTracker/eNT, companies can start small and grow their use of the system without hitting the wall like they do today with desktop OLAP tools."
"Compaq’s overall goal is to enable organizations to effectively manage and leverage data to solve specific business problems more quickly, more easily and at low cost of ownership, with the widest range of highly integrated platforms," said Andreas Knoepfli, Director, North America Enterprise Solutions and Partner Marketing of Compaq Computer Corporation. "It is clear that packaged data mart solutions, like Silvon SalesTracker/eNT, along with the new release of SQL Server from Microsoft and Compaq’s industry leading systems and distribution capabilities, will broaden the market significantly for supply chain-specific business intelligence solutions."
"Silvon SalesTracker/eNT is an excellent solution for supply chain companies seeking a business intelligence solutiona said Andrew Hoover, group industry marketing manager of Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing at Microsoft. "The high-performance software technology offered by Silvon, combined with the proven scalability inherent in SQL Server 7.0 and market leadership and service offered by Compaq, assures that Silvon’s business intelligence series offerings is a winning combination."
Silvon SalesTracker/eNT is designed to simplify and speed up the process of user access and analysis of meaningful sales- and marketing-related information based on the client’s business management system data. By simplifying the integration with these business systems as well as islands of disparate data, Silvon SalesTracker/eNT can easily extract and automatically create a real-time management tool built using a comprehensive data model with a rich set of predetermined business rules for analysis. Silvon SalesTracker/eNT delivers a solution to sales, marketing and financial analysts and managers. This solution is tailored to provide business performance answers such as: detailed sales performance by geography; by individual representative by product; market segmentation; product line profitability; exclusion reporting; trend analysis; returns analysis; promotion and pricing analysis; and more user defined rules. Silvon SalesTracker/eNT is built around an architecture that provides critical flexibility and scalability. This architecture is Silvon’s Application Foundation that allows clients to start small and grow to meet future needs without costly software and hardware changes. Clients can add applications, create new business rules and expand the capabilities of their Silvon Application Data Mart system.
The software for Silvon SalesTracker/eNT is available through Silvon for $16,500 (for a 5-user license). The complete solution featuring hardware, software and installation services can be assembled for under $35,000. For more product information or partnering opportunities, contact Silvon Software at 1-800-874-5866, visit Silvon’s Web site at www.silvon.com/sst, or e-mail the company at info@silvon.com.
Since 1987, Silvon Software has focused on software-based business optimization solutions for manufacturing, wholesale distribution and retail organizations. Silvon solutions are predicated on the fact that better business understanding will empower the move toward an optimized Supply Chain organization. Silvon clients benefit from improving business practices and profitability by leveraging analytic information on customer, supplier, and operational profitability measurement. The company’s products 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, navigation and OLAP analysis 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.