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To: Steve Wagner who wrote (7814)	5/14/1998 3:14:00 PM
From: Mark Oliver	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9124

This sounds interesting, but is Quantum in the business of selling this kind of software? Regards, Mark Quantum Corp. Creates a "Virtual Data Warehouse" to Win the 1998 Best Practices Award From the Data Warehousing Institute Business Wire - May 13, 1998 14:35 %QUANTUM QNTM BRYO %CALIFORNIA %COMPUTERS %ELECTRONICS %COMED %PRODUCT V%BW P%BW ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MILPITAS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 13, 1998--Quantum Corp. (NASDAQ/NMS:QNTM), a leader in the mass storage industry, has been awarded the 1998 Best Practices in Data Warehousing Award for Meta Data Management from The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI). This competitive award from TDWI is widely recognized by information technology (IT) practitioners and winners were chosen based on practices that: showed innovative solutions to common problems faced by data warehousing practitioners; can be followed by others; and resulted in large, measurable impacts on the business success of their organization. Quantum's information services (IS) department created, what has been termed, a "virtual data warehouse" -- a unique strategy combining several different technologies allowing Quantum's nine global business operations to meet crucial reporting requirements by providing on-demand available reporting for all of the company's transactions. This multi-server strategy allows the preservation of continuous robust on-line transaction processing while also allowing rapid business reporting: neither business function is hindered by the other and work can be completed in a much shorter time frame. "Our challenge was to make all transaction and operations data from our Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system available to end users as working business information -- and to do this globally with a number of different business units," said Kevin Conway, program manager. "What made our implementation different was our global teamwork -- we shared the work and shared the success. "Business Systems Analysts (BSAs) at each site led the way by understanding user operational information requirements, building queries, and teaching classes. Regional IS programmers/analysts provided technical assistance as the need arose. This teamwork allowed global sites to learn from each other and made the implementation proceed more quickly and with a higher degree of user acceptance." The success of the "virtual data warehouse" can be quantitatively measured. Some functional groups have reported that what used to take 15 different reports and 16 hours to obtain, now takes five minutes and one report. End users are intensely trained to use the system and can operate independent of IS support to obtain their operational information. With this combination of technology, Quantum is able to achieve support ratio of 250 users to only one programmer/analyst. "This system allows us real time access to data in consolidated reports which streamlines data processes," said Diana Chan, manager of strategic process management in the corporate materials group at Quantum. "This real time access allows us to make smarter business decisions. We can now track where products are in transport, if suppliers are providing deliveries on time, and vendor price differences that we can pass on to our buyers and managers immediately. All of these help us reduce costs and serve our customers and partners more effectively." "We applaud Quantum Corp. for their proven success in data warehousing. They provide a Meta Data Management model for others to follow," said Steven Crofts, President of TDWI, the leading voice in education in the data warehousing industry. The different technologies Quantum utilized to create this "virtual data warehouse" were: HP 9000 Enterprise Servers, Oracle RDBMS (Relational Data Base Management System), Oracle Applications, NoetixViews from Aris Software, Inc., and BrioQuery from Brio Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:BRYO). Key implementation consulting services were provided by Integral Results, Inc. in curriculum development and BrioQuery training, and technical consulting was performed by Aquarius Technologies, Inc. About Quantum Founded in 1980, Quantum Corp. (www.quantum.com) is a diversified mass storage company with leadership positions in both fixed and removable storage markets. In calendar 1997, Quantum was the highest volume global supplier of hard disk drives for personal computers and the worldwide revenue leader for all classes of tape drives. The company sells a broad range of storage products to OEM and distribution customers worldwide. Quantum's sales for the fiscal year ending March 1998 were $5.8 billion. Note to Editors: Companies and products mentioned are for identification purposes only and may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. CONTACT: Quantum Corp. Erika Powelson, 408/324-7416 erika.powelson@quantum.com