Scientific
Applications:
SAGENT BRINGS EII & GRID SUPPORT
TO THE MASSES
Sagent OpenLink enables 3rd-party and Grid applications to access multiple
data sources and perform analytics.
Sagent, a leading provider of enterprise business intelligence solutions,
announced the availability of Sagent OpenLink, a new product that allows any
ODBC or JDBC-compliant software application to leverage the analytical power
of Sagent's Data Access Server.
The announcement was made at META Group's METAmorphosis PLUS! Conference &
Technology Showcase, San Diego. Business analysts who work with business
intelligence tools such as Actuate, Brio, Business Objects, Cognos, Crystal
Decisions and Microsoft Excel can now use Sagent to transparently incorporate
advanced analytics into their existing reports and business performance
management solutions.
Application developers can use Sagent OpenLink to query information from
data warehouses and heterogeneous operational systems, then integrate,
transform and deliver architected data sets that are fully accessible via
SQL.
"Sagent spent the past year talking to customers and partners and taking a
critical look at our corporate strategy and technology," said Dave Henry, vice
president of Marketing. "Based on customer input and current shortcomings in
the industry's data integration products and solutions, we saw an opportunity
to add the missing pieces of the Enterprise Information Integration (EII)
puzzle: seamless BI tool integration, concurrent access to diverse data
sources, and a component-based analytical engine.
With Sagent OpenLink, the company has made a critical transition into an
open, best-of-breed middleware platform for analytical and operational
applications. Sagent technology is bridging the gap between the isolated
worlds of data warehouses and operational applications to enable a new
generation of intelligent business applications."
Companies have invested heavily in query and reporting and OLAP tools, and
often employ multiple solutions across the enterprise. However, these front-
end BI tools can only access a single data source at a time and have analytic
capabilities that are restricted by physical database schemas. When combined
with the Sagent platform, these BI tools become powerful analytic
applications, enabling users to access data from multiple sources and
calculate new metrics for their analyses, such as profitability forecasts,
customer segmentation and time-period variances.
The Sagent Data Access Server and Sagent OpenLink provide strategic
leverage to the BI development lifecycle by allowing business users to
validate additions to analytical applications before the underlying databases
or MOLAP cubes are changed.
"EII technologies increasingly will bolster customer data integration
initiatives, but they won't supplant ETL-powered data warehouses that drive
many business intelligence solutions," said Doug Laney, Vice President, META
Group. "We advise enterprises to consider adopting forms of data integration
that meet both analyst-driven data integration and data warehouse development
needs."
Sagent OpenLink is compatible with the Sagent 4.5i Access Server and is
immediately available for beta testing by Sagent customers, partners and
prospects. General availability is planned for Q1 2003.
About META Group
META Group (Nasdaq:METG) is a leading research and consulting firm,
focusing on information technology and business transformation strategies.
Delivering objective, consistent, and actionable guidance, META Group enables
organizations to innovate more rapidly and effectively. Our unique
collaborative models help clients succeed by building speed, agility, and
value into their IT and business systems and processes.
About Sagent
Sagent's patented technology fundamentally changes the way that data
warehouses are built and accessed. Sagent's unique data flow server enables
business users to easily extend the structure of a data warehouse with new
analytics that support immediate business needs.
This technology is at the core of Sagent's ETL, EII and business
intelligence solutions, as well as multiple partner solutions that address the
needs of specific vertical and functional application areas. Sagent has more
than 1,500 customers worldwide, including: AT&T, Boeing Employees Credit
Union, BP Amoco, Carrefour, Citibank, Diageo, Heineken, Kawasaki, Kemper
National Insurance, La Poste, NTT-DoCoMo, Siemens, and Singapore Telecom. Key
partners include Advent Software, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, HAHT Commerce,
Hyperion, Microsoft, Satyam, Sun Microsystems, and Unisys.
The company also maintains a business partnership with CDC Software
Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary and software unit of chinadotcom
corporation, which includes a strategic investment in Sagent. Sagent is
headquartered in Mountain View, California.
http://www.sagent.com
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