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Datawatch Contributes Unique Solutions to Microsoft Data Warehousing Alliance 2000 Partnership
LOWELL, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 30, 1999--
Datawatch's Monarch Data Pump Products Easily Populate and Refresh
Data Marts and Data Warehouses on Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 --
Directly from Report Print Files
Datawatch Corporation (NASDAQ:DWCH), a leading provider of enterprise reporting solutions, announced today its continuing commitment to tight integration with Microsoft-based solutions as a Microsoft Data Warehousing Alliance 2000 Partner. An original member of Microsoft's Data Warehousing Alliance, Datawatch offers its Monarch Data Pump product line as a means to quickly build data marts and warehouses for SQL Server 7.0.
"Datawatch's Monarch Data Pump products expand the capabilities of SQL Server's Data Transformation Services (DTS) by enabling IT professionals to build data marts and warehouses with data sourced from output files," said Andy Hoover, group industry manager for Business Intelligence, Microsoft Corp. "With Monarch Data Pump, customers can now use output files without direct access to the production database. This enables customers to easily incorporate external data into their data mart application."
Monarch Data Pump is unique in its use of historical report print files, business documents such as invoices or purchase orders, EDI transmissions, DB load files or any ASCII or ANSI output as a live data source. Data Pump's powerful data recognition and parsing engine extracts, transforms, and loads data from print files into data marts and warehouses, no matter how "load unfriendly," or complexly formatted, the print file might be.
Datawatch offers two versions of Monarch Data Pump:
-- Monarch Data Pump(TM) Personal Edition, a new client-based version of Data Pump, which automatically publishes Microsoft Excel and Access files.
-- Monarch Data Pump(TM) Enterprise Server Edition, which in addition to publishing Microsoft Excel and Access files, also populates Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 via with ODBC connectivity and provides NT server-based multi-threaded, high volume data conversion for an entire enterprise.
The Aberdeen Group's Bob Moran, vice president of DSS Research, said, "Monarch Data Pump neatly solves the problem of extracting and exporting data from legacy systems on a regular basis. It's a practical, quick-to-implement data conversion solution that will benefit both IT professionals and non-technical users."
How Monarch Data Pump Works
Monarch Data Pump uses special parsing and recognition technology to extract data from report files produced on any mainframe, midrange, client/server or PC system, including complex reports with headers, footers and multiple sort levels. Powerful scripting and scheduling features give it the ability to perform automated lights-out processing. Users can configure Monarch Data Pump to poll a specified location on their network and watch for the arrival of a specified report. When the report arrives, Monarch Data Pump will "wake up" and process the file automatically.
About Monarch Data Pump, Enterprise Server and Personal Editions
Monarch Data Pump Personal Edition runs on Windows 95, 98 and NT. Monarch Data Pump Enterprise Server Edition runs on Windows NT. It provides ODBC data connectivity, multi-threaded processing and network administrative features not found in the Personal Edition.
Both products also export files in many popular formats, including Microsoft Access, Excel, FoxPro, fixed length text, delimited text, Monarch Portable Report Format (PRF), for use with Datawatch's Monarch report viewing and analysis tool, and more.
Both Monarch Data Pump products are available directly from Datawatch. Monarch Data Pump, Personal Edition is also available through Ingram Micro. Minimum system requirements are a 75 Mhz Pentium processor or better with 32 MB of RAM and at least 20 MB of free disk space.
About Datawatch
Datawatch Corporation is a leading provider of enterprise reporting and support center solutions that help organizations increase productivity, reduce costs and gain competitive advantage. Datawatch products are used in more than 20,000 companies, institutions and government agencies worldwide.
Monarch/ES is a scalable Enterprise Reporting solution that leverages existing reports and reporting systems. The Monarch/ES enterprise reporting solution set includes the Monarch/ES report server for report archiving and report distribution over LANs; the Monarch/ES Web report portal for Web-based report retrieval and analysis via the Internet; Monarch/ES Report Publisher for automated delivery of reports via MAPI-compliant email; and Monarch Data Pump for data replication and migration.
Datawatch is best known for its desktop report mining application Monarch, which has sold more than 300,000 copies, with localized versions in English, French, German and Japanese. Monarch lets users extract and manipulate data from ASCII report files produced on any mainframe, midrange, client/server or PC system.
Datawatch works with VARs, integrators, consultants and independent software vendors who sell and support Datawatch products. In addition, Datawatch works with OEM customers who embed Datawatch components and technologies in their own solutions.
Monarch, Monarch/ES, Monarch Data Pump, Monarch/ES Web, and Monarch/ES Report Publisher are trademarks of Datawatch Corporation. All other trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.
Datawatch Corp. 900 Chelmsford Street, Tower 3, 5th Floor, Lowell, MA 01851-8100 Phone: 978-441-2200 Fax: 978-441-1114 www.datawatch.com.
CONTACT:
Datawatch
Cheryl Delgreco
617-723-4004
cdelgreco.msi@shore.net
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