Sybase Inc fleshed out its data warehouse story last week, naming more than 50 third party independent software vendors to a Warehouse Works programme. The company is offering SQL Server, Replication Server, Enterprise Connect and IQ Accelerator with Open Client and Open Server application programming interfaces for the job (CI No 2,666). It claims 125 tools in the programme covering four data warehouse development areas: data transformation, assembly, distribution and access. Companies that have signed on the line include Paris, France-based Business Objects SA, Austin, Texas-based Evolutionary Technologies International Inc with its ETI-Extract Tool Suite for automating data collection, transformation and migration, and Platinum Technology Corp target Trinzic Corp, Redwood, California, with Forest & Trees Decision Support System and InfoPump. On-line analytical processing software includes Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Pilot Software Corp’s LightShip for performance planning and analysis, London-based Holistic Systems Ltd’s Holos multidimensional and analysis tool, and Eden Prarie, Minnesota-based Prodea Software Corp’s ProdeaBeacon decision support tool. And the other backers include Cognos Software Inc, Prism Solutions Inc and Apertus Technologies Inc.
