Scangraphics® Unit, Sedona® Partners with
Acxiom® Corporation To Distribute SpatialVision
Leading Data Warehouse Vendor to Introduce SpatialVision
to the Financial Services Market
Limerick, PA - November 5, 1998 - Sedonaâ GeoServices, Inc., a Scangraphicsâ company (Nasdaq: SCNG), today announced that Acxiom® Corporation (Nasdaq: ACXM) has chosen to offer SpatialVisionÔ to its customers in the financial services and banking arena.
Acxiom is widely respected as a leader in providing concise and accurate data to business users on demand. Additionally, they are experts in evaluating and offering state-of-the-art tools for optimizing the access and use of warehoused data. SpatialVision will be added to Acxiom's suite of tools, and will focus on business geo-intelligence solutions.
"Sedona's SpatialVision is an ideal fit for our financial services clients," said Jim Womble, Acxiom Alliances Division Leader. Womble adds, "Our goal is to help businesses identify, manage, and respond to their marketplace. SpatialVision's dynamic business geo-intelligence power combined with its ease of use and intuitive interface can help us to help our customers. SpatialVision is extremely portable and can easily be tailored to our client's environments, making it a valuable offering."
Colin Matthews, Sedona's president commented, "We are very excited about the partnership between Acxiom and Sedona. This mutually beneficial relationship strengthens our abilities to provide industry specific solutions, as well as data content to our customers. Our offering integrated with Acxiom's Solvitursm will include data products with data integration and analysis; data warehousing with decision support tools; and industry solutions with modeling and analytical capabilities."
SpatialVision provides, easy-to-use, timesaving features to optimize a business's rapid return on information investments by exploiting the geo-spatial components of business data. Businesses can use SpatialVision to manage accounts better, provide visual decision support information, to support site planning, for resource management and in any application where tabular spatial data is easier to understand when delivered visually.
Developed purely with Sun Microsystems' Java (Nasdaq: SUNW), SpatialVision is platform independent and has been designed for optimal performance and deployment with the Internet and corporate Intra and Extranets. Use of Java enables simple, cost effective customization, adaptation to various environments and rapid development of complimentary and discipline-specific applications. SpatialVision integrates with Oracle8i Spatial (Nasdaq: ORCL) and can be run locally or remotely. Sedona is teaming with Acxiom to tailor SpatialVision to clients' specific needs.
Companies interested in evaluating SpatialVision can register on the Sedona website, www.sedonageo.com. Sedona will be offering full use evaluation versions of the commercial release of SpatialVision to attendees who visit their booth (#314), or in the Oracle Spatial Pavilion (#1038) at Oracle OpenWorld at the Moscone Center in San Francisco from November 8-12. Sedona will also be hosting a drawing for a free PalmPilot® at the booth.
For more information about Sedona's powerful and intelligent business geo-intelligence software, contact Sedona at 1-800-SEDONA2 or visit www.sedonageo.com.
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About Acxiom
Acxiom Corporation provides a wide spectrum of data products, data integration services, mailing list services, modeling and analysis and information technology outsourcing services as well as data warehousing and decision support services to major U.S. and international firms. Founded in 1969, Acxiom is headquartered in Conway, Arkansas with operations throughout the United States and in the United Kingdom and France. Acxiom's World Wide Web address is (URL) http:\\www.acxiom.com or e-mail to info@acxiom.com. Acxiom's toll free number is 1-888-322-9466. Acxiom is a registered trademark of Acxiom RTC, Inc.
About Oracle8i
Oracle8i is the latest generation of the world's leading database and the first designed specifically to be an Internet development and deployment platform. Oracle8i enhances Oracle8™'s industry-leading technology with special features that make it extremely easy to create robust and scalable Internet and corporate Intranet applications. Oracle8i also extends Oracle's proven technology leadership in the areas of transaction processing, data warehousing, and high availability to handle the demanding performance, business intelligence, and continuous access needs of Internet users.
Oracle8i Spatial is the leading technology for spatial data management. Oracle8i Spatial allows users and application developers to seamlessly integrate their spatial data into enterprise applications and fully leverage the scalability, reliability, and performance of the Oracle8i database.
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