Oracle Announcements This Week, April 1, 1996
Date: 1996/05/05
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Oracle Announcements This Week Week of April 1, 1996
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ORACLE ANNOUNCES SUPPORT FOR BUSINESS OBJECTS 4.0 Charter Warehouse Technology Initiative (WTI) Member Provides New Data Analysis Capabilities for Relational Data in Oracle7
Oracle and Business Objects customers now have new, powerful multidimensional data analysis capabilities with the announcement of Business Objects 4.0, Business Objects' new integrated query, reporting and multidimensional analysis tool capable of accessing relational data in Oracle7--the world's leading relational database for data warehousing. This announcement results from Business Objects' charter membership in the Oracle Warehouse Technology Initiative (WTI), an alliance program formed in June 1995 as part of Oracle Warehouse--the industry's most comprehensive solution of products, services and partners for data warehousing. Oracle Warehouse offers customers a choice of Oracle tools or others--including Business Objects 4.0--for their data analysis needs.
GROWTH AND DESIRE FOR GREATER OPERATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS LEADS TRAK INTERNATIONAL TO ORACLE APPLICATIONS
TRAK International, to ensure continued growth and bring the benefits of information technology to all areas of it's business, has chosen Oracle Corp.'s Oracle Financials and Manufacturing & Distribution applications to streamline business operations. TRAK International, the leading manufacturer of rough-terrain material handling equipment, is already using Oracle General Ledger and Account Payables. The company plans to implement the rest of the modules by Nov. 1996.
ORACLE AND DIGITAL TO DELIVER MULTIMEDIA SOLUTIONS TO ENTERPRISE AND PUBLIC NETWORKS
Oracle Corp. and Digital Equipment Corporation announced that they are working together to make available the Oracle Video Option on the Digital AlphaServer platform. The Oracle software and Digital hardware allow the deployment of video-enabled applications over virtually any network--corporate LANs, Intranets, ISDN and broadband public networks. The combined Oracle/Digital technology enables enterprise customers to deploy video over corporate networks, and service providers such as cable television operators and telecommunications companies to offer interactive television technology to consumers. To extend the range of scalability and availability advantages, Oracle is also working to leverage Digital's next-generation, high-performance, scalable Interconnect technology.
ORACLE ANNOUNCES ORACLE7 FOR TANDEM'S NEW SERVERNET TECHNOLOGY-BASED UNIX SYSTEM
Oracle Corp. announced the immediate availability of Oracle7 on Tandem's new UNIX system-based Integrity S4000. The Integrity S4000 is the first product incorporating Tandem's new ServerNet technology, a key benefit of which is to allow data to flow within the server without first going through a processor--effectively eliminating throughput restraints within a system. ServerNet support is part of Oracle's customer commitment to integrate Oracle products with high-performance, state-of-the-art technologies.
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