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3Com Selects PLATINUM Repository as Foundation for Global Warehouse, Improves Data Consistency and Executive Decision Making
PLATINUM Repository utilizes business rules to simplify warehouse management; maximizes data availability for financial and manufacturing analysis
ANAHEIM, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 16, 1999-- Data Warehouse Institute--Today at the Data Warehousing Institute Conference, PLATINUM technology (NASDAQ:PLAT - news) announced that 3Com has selected PLATINUM Repository as the critical foundation for its global data warehouse initiative. PLATINUM's Repository will improve the availability and accuracy of 3Com's financial and manufacturing data by enforcing consistent business rules across its global enterprise. The repository is the cornerstone for acquiring, maintaining, and exploiting metadata throughout the enterprise, reducing application development costs, speeding data warehouse development, and enabling organizations to derive greater value from their information assets.
3Com, a 13,000-employee organization with revenues of more than $5 billion, chose PLATINUM Repository to integrate metadata from many disparate data marts that prevented business users from leveraging data for consistent decision making. The repository will help 3Com better analyze critical financial and manufacturing metrics, such as revenue targets by product or by business unit; comparisons of forecasts to actuals; analysis of gross margins across product lines or by territories; availability and customer use of various discounting offers; and assessment of manufacturing costs, processes, and delivery dates. The corporate data warehouse, which will be rolled out to 2,500 end users in the United States, Latin America, and Asia Pacific, will enable 3Com to provide executive managers and sales representatives with a dashboard view of data customized to their individual needs.
''The PLATINUM Repository will ensure user confidence in financial and manufacturing information across the enterprise and dramatically improve their access to it,'' said Ari Bose, director of architecture, strategy, and information management for 3Com. ''We chose this repository because it offers the sophisticated functionality, intuitive user interface, and integration with third-party tools that are critical components to successfully developing and managing an effective worldwide data warehouse.''
3Com is implementing the repository to enforce common business rules and data definitions company-wide, resulting in effective analysis of financial and manufacturing data and better decisions. For example, the repository will help business units consistently define data and perform calculations so that numbers, statistics, and trend information can be accurately compared and analyzed across divisions. In addition, 3Com will leverage the solution to track how data is used, how often it is used, and who uses it most frequently, allowing effective maintenance of the warehouse environment.
''PLATINUM has provided us with the start we need to launch a successful corporate data warehouse,'' Bose said. ''PLATINUM Repository is the critical foundation we require to better support 3Com managers and executives in their decision making. PLATINUM delivers a valuable combination of tool functionality, consulting expertise, and a true commitment to helping us succeed.''
PLATINUM's Repository Strategy
PLATINUM Repository exponentially increases organizations' success with warehouse implementation and application development. By providing a foundation for acquiring, maintaining, and exploiting metadata throughout the enterprise, PLATINUM Repository helps organizations reduce application development and maintenance costs and derive more value from existing information assets. PLATINUM has a 10-year proven track record in enterprise repository with more than 500 implementations worldwide. PLATINUM's leadership in metadata management is further underscored by the company's strategic, long-term repository development partnership with Microsoft.
About PLATINUM technology International, inc.
PLATINUM technology International, inc., headquartered in Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois, had 1998 revenues of $968 million. PLATINUM provides software and services that help IT organizations manage and improve the IT infrastructure. Solutions include database and systems management, data warehousing and decision support, application lifecycle, Internet commerce, and Year 2000 reengineering. For information visit www.platinum.com.
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