Sagent Optimizes Business Intelligence Solution On Sun Systems
Sagent On Sun Delivers Unmatched Scalability for SunGard Securities
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 17, 2001--Sagent (Nasdaq:SGNT - news), a leading provider of Business Intelligence solutions, today announced that the company has recently optimized the Sagent Solution version 4.5i for Sun Enterprise Servers and the Solaris(TM) Operating Environment (OE). The scalability of the Sagent solution on the Sun Solaris platform provides Sagent users with enhanced customer relationship management, and other business intelligence operations for rapid return on investment and competitive advantage.
Additionally, recent testing of the Sagent Solution on Sun systems at SunGard Securities Processing (NYSE:SDS - news), a global leader in integrated IT solutions and eProcessing for financial services, confirms that the integration of Sagent's business intelligence solution and the Sun Solaris platform can deliver optimal scalability to business users.
``After a thorough technical evaluation and proof-of-concept, we selected Sagent, hosted on Sun systems, as our business intelligence software platform,'' said Doug McFadden, senior vice president, SunGard. ``The Sagent-Sun combination proved to be the most scalable of all the vendors we evaluated.''
``As Sagent enterprise customers demand greater levels of performance and scalability, it is natural for Sagent to extend its solution from Windows NT to the Sun Solaris platform,'' said Steve van den Berg, vice president, business development, Sagent. ``By working closely with Sun, we are now able to fully exploit our massively parallel architecture and deliver to our customers a technically superior and scalable package that meets their requirements to help understand, target and interact with their customers.''
``Information is imperative for today's global organizations, and business intelligence solutions, like Sagent, designed to quickly deliver and enhance data to business-critical applications within the enterprise are essential,'' said Karen Richards, director, eCRM and business intelligence, Sun Microsystems. ``Sun and Sagent are addressing customers' demand for top performance and superior scalability required in today's highly-competitive business climate.''
The Sagent Solution Performance
The ability of the Sagent Solution on Sun systems to scale in direct proportion to increased processing power was measurably assessed by conducting internal tests at Sagent, then by optimizing the Sagent Solution at Sun facilities. Using real-world system configurations and industry standard data structures for testing, there was a three times performance improvement from Sagent internal systems to the Sun servers that had three times as many processors. The Sagent Solution's parallel architecture--based on a pipeline execution that allows Sagent applications to run parallel across servers, within servers, or within Sagent execution Plans--enables Sagent to achieve this level of scalability.
About SunGard
SunGard (NYSE:SDS - news) is a global leader in integrated IT solutions and eProcessing for financial services. SunGard is also the pioneer and a leading provider of high-availability infrastructure for business continuity. With annual revenues in excess of $1 billion, SunGard serves more than 10,000 clients in more than 50 countries, including 47 of the world's 50 largest financial services companies. Visit SunGard at sungard.com.
About Sagent
Sagent's suite of Business Intelligence solutions enables companies to measurably impact their business by implementing highly successful customer relationship and financial management initiatives. Through Sagent's powerful enabling technologies, organizations can easily and rapidly turn company data into relevant information that can be used for effective decision-making, analysis and reporting. Information can be extracted from multiple sources (internal and external), optimized for decision support and delivered in a customized format for Web-based or client applications. Even the most complex analytic application can be developed in weeks, not months.
More than 1,500 companies have selected Sagent software to enhance customer retention, cross-sell/up-sell, improve customer service, increase efficiencies of marketing campaigns, streamline business operations, analyze financials, and reduce costs. Customers include AT&T, BP Amoco, Boeing Employees Credit Union, Bristol Meyers, British Telecom, California State Automobile Association, Citibank, GPU Energy, Hughes Aircraft Employees Federal Credit Union, Johnson & Johnson (UK), Kemper National Insurance, Provident Central Credit Union, Safeway and Siemens. Sagent retains strategic relationships with partners such as Advent, Commerce One, Compaq, EDS, IBM, Microsoft, NEC, SAS and Sun Microsystems. Sagent is headquartered in Mountain View, California, and can be reached at sagent.com.
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