DWCH running after hours:
biz.yahoo.com
Be careful to do your own due diligence, however. This story does not seem to be NEW as this release from NOVEMBER 4 shows
<<(BSNS WIRE) Datawatch Joins Microsoft Data Warehousing Alliance
Datawatch Joins Microsoft Data Warehousing Alliance
Business/Technology Editors
CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 4, 1998--
Datawatch's Revolutionary Monarch Data Pump lets IT
professionals populate and refresh data marts and data warehouses
built on the Microsoft SQL Server platform
Microsoft Focus on Windows NT Expo - Datawatch Corporation
(NASDAQ:DWCH), a leading provider of Enterprise Reporting and Service
Center software, today announced that it has qualified for acceptance
into the Microsoft Data Warehousing Alliance. With its Monarch(tm)
Data Pump product, Datawatch joins an elite group of software vendors
who support Microsoft's expanded Data Warehousing Framework, an open
architecture for development of data warehouse solutions based on
Microsoft SQL Server(tm) 7.0. Alliance members include Datawatch,
Cognos, Ardent, PLATINUM, Prism Solutions, Sagent Technology,
Informatica and others.
Monarch Data Pump is a Windows NT Server(tm) application that
lets companies acquire, transform and propagate data originating in
ASCII and ANSI report files. Monarch Data Pump gives IT professionals
a means to quickly populate and refresh data marts and data warehouses
built on Microsoft's SQL Server 7.0 database, move legacy data into
BackOffice applications, and migrate to the NT platform from competing
platforms.
"Existing reports and reporting systems represent an important
source for data to be loaded into data marts and data warehouses,"
said Steve Murchie, data warehousing product manager at Microsoft. "By
letting users acquire, transform and move report data to Microsoft SQL
Server 7.0, Monarch Data Pump fills a need that is not addressed by
vendors who offer table-to-table data transformation solutions."
"Reports mask the complexities of underlying applications and
database schema," said Marc Peterson, senior vice president of North
American operations at Datawatch. "Data contained in reports has
already been extracted, cleansed and denormalized. The power of a
report-based data conversion solution is its ability to exploit all
the knowledge and metadata inherent in existing reporting systems.
Monarch Data Pump provides a practical, quick-to-implement solution
for IT professionals who need to extract and transform data from
legacy systems and don't have the time or resources to decipher
database schema and program logic."
"Companies are finding it is very difficult to build and maintain
the complex code needed to extract and prepare data for decision
support databases," said Robert Craig, vice president of Application
Architectures at Hurwitz Group, an IT consulting firm in Framingham,
Mass. "The extraction and transformation products are complicated and
expensive, and often require in-depth knowledge of arcane data
structures and legacy databases. Datawatch has realized there is an
opportunity to use existing reports to source decision support
databases, which should simplify and accelerate the data transition
process.">>
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