Data Access for SUPRA® Now Available on AIX for RS6000

CINCINNATI, Ohio – July 27, 2007 – Cincom is pleased to announce the addition of IBM RS6000 running the AIX operating system as a server platform for the Data Access component of its Business Intelligence for SUPRA product suite. Now, in addition to the Windows platform, users have direct access to SUPRA operational data through the SQL language from the RS6000 machine. This enables them to access current information without the need to migrate data and without making changes to operational data or existing applications.

Business Intelligence for SUPRA (released in April 2007) is Cincom's product suite that addresses the requirements for using operational data for strategic analysis. Business Intelligence for SUPRA provides an integrated set of Data Access, Data Warehouse and multi-dimensional analytics solutions to maximize the value of the users' SUPRA PDM data. This enables users to transform volumes of data from their transactional systems into analytic information. Multi-dimensional analysis then enables them to quickly reveal business performance and trends and also explore new analysis areas.

Business Intelligence for SUPRA provides:
Efficient extraction of SUPRA data using knowledge of PDM structures
Easy transformation of non-relational data to a relational form
A rich set of system components for re-shaping the data for analytic processing
Solid support for OLAP queries
Web application development productivity through analytics components
Excellent GUI report design
Seamless integration of analytics with reports
For more information, please visit www.cincom.com/bi4supra.
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