Dear Mohamoud,
Thanks, your comment seams tiemly, stock went up more than 2 points. see below press release on TM1.
December 8, 1997
Latest Audited Benchmark Confirms Applix TM1 More
Responsive Than
Arbor and Oracle; TM1 Real-Time OLAP Completes 118,000
Queries
Before Competitors Process Just One; Provides Fastest
Time-to-Results With No Waiting
WESTBORO, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 8, 1997--Applix, Inc.
(NASDAQ:APLX), the leader in real-time OLAP, today announced unparalleled
results for the Analytical Processing Benchmark-1 (APB-1), an
industry-standard On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) benchmark defined by
the OLAP Council. The results, audited by the National Software Testing
Laboratory, verify that Applix TM1 is the best solution for customers who can't
afford to wait for answers to complex, business-critical scenarios.
The benchmark, used to test performance and scalability of OLAP products,
showed that TM1 delivers first query results 625% and 2,300% faster than
competing products from Oracle and Arbor Software, respectively. Despite
running on less powerful hardware, TM1 completed the first 118,000 queries
before Oracle Express was ready to run a query. TM1 completed the entire
benchmark before Arbor Essbase answered a single query. Additionally, in
performing the benchmark tests, TM1 created a database that was more than
100 times smaller than the database created by Oracle Express and more than
300 times smaller than that created by Arbor Essbase.
"While the benchmark results are extraordinary, they come as no surprise to
MTV," says Jeff Polner, director of financial planning at MTV Networks.
"TM1's instant, real-time processing enables us to drive our business based on
up-to-the-minute data. We rely on TM1 because it is the only OLAP solution
that gives us the utmost flexibility, data precision, and ability to turn on a
dime--all of which are essential for making the smartest business decisions."
Benchmark Results Power TM1's Real-Time Claim
The APB-1 benchmark measures the time taken to load changed data, to
pre-process it for queries, and then to run 250,000 complex queries. The Applix
TM1 results, audited by the National Software Testing Laboratories (NSTL),
indicate that in real-world applications, TM1 will permit users to have completed
and acted upon sophisticated iterative analyses at least an hour before any
benchmarked competitor's database is even ready for use. Even more
impressive, it can do this on more modest servers--or even notebook
computers--while competitors' products demand expensive servers.
"I am very pleased to see Applix joining Arbor and Oracle in running the OLAP
Council benchmark and these results vindicate the TM1 approach to
RAM-based calculation," says Nigel Pendse, lead author of The OLAP Report
(www.olapreport.com). "TM1's excellent results prove that real interactive
analysis is possible with complex OLAP applications and are a nail in the coffin
of the old batch pre-calculation approach."
TM1 took just 13 minutes to load and pre-process the incremental data, while
Oracle Express took 83 minutes and Arbor Essbase required overnight-batch
style processing time of 304 minutes. The processed TM1 database was
23.2Mb (barely half the size of the input data), while Express required 2621 Mb
and the Essbase database exploded to a startling 7372Mb (hundreds of times
larger than the input data). In fact, the entire TM1 database was significantly
smaller than the Essbase database index alone.
This efficient data storage means TM1 can easily handle larger, more complex
applications, enabling companies to perform critical analyses that they otherwise
could not. Because TM1 creates a database many orders of magnitude smaller
than competing products, companies can use TM1 to create dramatically new
analysis applications. It also means TM1 requires less hardware and disk space
to run effectively, resulting in lower cost-of-ownership. The TM1 benchmark
test was conducted on a computer with dual 200MHz processors and 500M
RAM; competitive product benchmarks were performed on much more costly
computers with quad 200MHz processors with 1G RAM.
"The APB-1 benchmark is verifiable proof that TM1 does what Applix
claims--delivers instant meaning from complex business data," says Wayne
Eckerson, director of the business intelligence & data warehouse services and
senior consultant at the Patricia Seybold Group, a strategic research and
consulting firm based in Boston. "The results demonstrate TM1's strength in
simplifying and speeding access to OLAP data to support strategic financial
decision making processes." About TM1: Pioneering RAM-Based OLAP for
Large-Scale Analysis
Since 1984, TM1 has advanced the art of RAM-based OLAP for real-time
analytical processing, targeting the financial OLAP class of applications. Applix
TM1 has patented technology that makes real-time OLAP feasible, including
calculation in memory, cell-based multidimensional rules and security. With the
introduction of two-way replication, TM1 is the only OLAP environment
designed for real-time, collaborative financial applications for workgroups and
the enterprise. More than 2,000 companies worldwide benefit from TM1's
real-time analytical processing. Without waiting, TM1 delivers results to the
hardest questions, and gives users control over vast amounts of rapidly changing
data. About Applix
Applix, Inc., (NASDAQ:APLX) headquartered in Westboro, MA, is a leading
provider of software for managing customer interaction, real-time decision
support and office productivity across globally networked, extended enterprise
environments. The company provides cross-platform client/server,
network-centric, webtop and thin-client computing solutions throughout its core
offerings: Applix TM1, real-time analytical processing for financial decision
support systems; Applix Enterprise, customer satisfaction software; Applix office
automation solutions, including Applix Office for UNIX/NT and Anyware Office
for Java-based desktops; Applixware, an open suite of desktop and development
tools for accessing, analyzing and communicating information in real-time; and
Applix Anyware, an application development and deployment solution that
leverages Java to customize and deploy Applix's full suite of applications. Applix
has offices worldwide and can be found on the world wide web at
www.applix.com .
CONTACT: Applix, Inc.
Lawson Abinanti/Jillian Harvey-Asquith
(425) 688-0104/(508) 870-0300
labinanti@applix.com
jha@applix.com
or
Neva Group
Leah Goldman/Kevin Anderson
(617) 441-4000 x222/226
lgoldman@neva.com
kanderson@neva.com
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