Sunnyvale, California-based Influence Software Inc has licensed D2K Inc’s Tapestry data transformation and migration tool for integration with the IKW Influence Knowledge Warehouse for SAP. IKW for SAP is a packaged data warehouse application for SAP R/3 and the manufacturing industry. The addition of Tapestry, which replaces Influence’s own-developed data transformation tools, will give customers the ability to extract, transform and load data from additional data sources, including mainframes, AS/400s and Unix. Influence and San Jose, California-based D2K have an OEM and joint marketing agreement that includes cross marketing and sales. The joint product should be available by the end of September, and is currently in testing at prime beta site AlliedSignal Inc. D2K, which already provides access to PeopleSoft Inc ERP applications as well as R/3 from Tapestry, plans to add support for Baan NV and other ERP packages in the future. The deal with Influence is not exclusive, and D2K has formed the ERPE Enterprise Resource Planning Empowerment alliance, which also includes Microstrategy Inc, Seagate Software Inc and InfoSpace Inc, companies that also plan to use Tapestry as a way to link into corporate ERP applications.
