Ascential Software Leads Enterprise Data Integration Market in Product Content, Partnerships, and ETL Product Commitment
04 January 2005 - 12:30AM
PR Newswire (US)
Ascential Software Leads Enterprise Data Integration Market in
Product Content, Partnerships, and ETL Product Commitment
Independent Research Firm Puts Ascential Software's Strategy and
Vision Ahead of All Competitors in Enterprise ETL Report WESTBORO,
Mass., Jan. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Forrester Research
(NASDAQ:FORR) reports in a new study that Ascential Software
Corporation (NASDAQ:ASCL), the enterprise data integration leader,
received the highest scores for overall strategy and vision for
product content, partnerships, and commitment in the Enterprise
Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) Tools market. Ascential Software
was among the select companies that Forrester invited to
participate in its December 2004 report, "How to Evaluate
Enterprise ETL," in which the independent research firm answers the
question "who's the best?" in the enterprise ETL market. In this
evaluation, Ascential Software was cited as a leader in the ETL
tools market. "A successful vendor in the enterprise ETL market
should focus and differentiate, plus demonstrate the ability to
maintain value-added relationships with systems integrators,
technology leaders, and complementary application vendors," noted
Philip Russom, principal analyst, Forrester. Strategy, along with
Current Offering and Market Presence, is a key indicator in the
Forrester Wave(TM) methodology that was used to assess 14 ETL
products. According to Forrester, Ascential Software has
differentiated by delivering data integration capabilities plus
products for related functions like data profiling, data quality,
application integration, and mainframe data access. Ascential
Software is the only vendor in the study to provide all of this
functionality natively and on a single platform. Ascential Software
earned recognition for extreme ETL scalability, advanced
connectivity, a price/performance ratio that is more favorable than
that of other vendors assessed in the report, and complete
collaborative capabilities. Forrester relates that "a user reported
five billion rows processed into 12 dimensions per fact on a daily
basis, thanks to multiple server instances of Ascential
DataStage(TM) complemented by Ascential's Parallel Extender. Other
users reported high scalability out of the box, thanks to the
product's support of parallel processing for all components, linear
scalability as more hardware is added, and dynamic load balancing
in multinode (grid) configurations." In addition, Forrester notes
that "Ascential DataStage supports a very long list of data sources
-- mostly through native gateways to all the relational databases
-- and extract methods which range from ODBC to OLEDB to call
interfaces. Connectivity areas that differentiate Ascential
DataStage from other high-end tools include: multiple types of
services, support for a long list of products and standards for
message-oriented middleware, and, especially, mainframe data
access." "Forrester's Enterprise ETL report is satisfying to
Ascential Software because of the favorable assessment earned and
because of the recognition that we alone meet the broader
enterprise data integration requirements defined by Forrester,"
said Mark Register, chief marketing officer and vice president of
marketing, industry solutions and global alliances, Ascential
Software. "Ascential DataStage, our ETL solution, delivers added
value to end-users because it is part of the Ascential Enterprise
Integration Suite(TM), an end- to-end platform that provides all of
the components necessary for complete enterprise data integration,
including data profiling and data quality capabilities, meta data
management, service-oriented architecture, and parallel execution."
The Ascential Enterprise Integration Suite is a comprehensive data
integration solution that profiles, cleanses, and transforms data
from virtually any application or system regardless of data volume
or latency. Ascential Software's integrated offering is designed to
help companies streamline operations, improve customer support,
expedite business transactions, and make better tactical and
strategic decisions on the basis of the best available information.
The suite provides unlimited scalability through parallel
processing, complete meta data management, and any-to-any data
source and application connectivity, and delivers on-demand data
integration seamlessly within an enterprise's service-oriented
architecture. About Ascential Software Ascential Software
Corporation (NASDAQ:ASCL) is the leader in enterprise data
integration. Customers and partners worldwide use the Ascential
Enterprise Integration Suite to confidently transform data into
accurate, reliable and complete business information to improve
operational performance and decision-making across every critical
business dimension. Our comprehensive end-to-end solutions provide
on demand data integration complemented by our professional
services, industry expertise, and methodologies. Ascential Software
is headquartered in Westboro, Mass., and has more than 3,000
customers and partners globally across such industries as financial
services and banking, insurance, healthcare, retail, manufacturing,
consumer packaged goods, telecommunications and government. For
more information call 1-800-966-9875 (508-366.3888 if calling from
outside the US or Canada) or visit the Ascential Software website
at http://www.ascential.com/. Safe Harbor Statement under the
Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: This release
contains forward-looking statements based on current expectations
or beliefs, as well as a number of assumptions about future events,
and these statements are subject to important factors and
uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially
from those described in the forward-looking statements. The
forward-looking statements in this release address a variety of
subjects including, for example, the Forrester December 2004
enterprise ETL market report, the functionality, characteristics,
quality and performance capabilities of Ascential Software's
products and technology; results achievable and benefits attainable
through deployment of Ascential Software's products and provision
of services; and improvements in operational performance and
decision-making, the ability of Ascential Software's products to
provide a powerful framework for developing and deploying data
investigation, standardization, enrichment, probabilistic matching
and survivorship operations; the ability of Ascential Software's
products to facilitate data validation, cleansing or master data
entity consolidation for customers, locations and products and the
ability of Ascential Software's products to integrate enterprise
information, regardless of the sources, targets and timeframes. The
following factors, among others, could cause actual results to
differ materially from those described in these forward-looking
statements: the ability of the company to expand its market share;
growth rates for the enterprise data integration software market;
general business conditions in the software industry, the
technology sector, and in the domestic and international economies;
rapid technological change in the markets served by the company;
dependence on international operations; global and geopolitical
instability; compliance costs associated with regulations to which
the company is subject, including the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002,
and the impact of such regulations; and difficulties that the
company may experience integrating technologies, operations and
personnel of completed or future acquisitions. For a detailed
discussion of these and other cautionary statements, please refer
to the filings made by Ascential Software with the Securities and
Exchange Commission, including, without limitation, the most recent
Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q. Ascential Software disclaims any
intent or obligation to update any forward-looking statements made
herein to reflect any change in Ascential Software's expectations
with regard thereto or any change in events, conditions, or
circumstances on which such statements are based. Ascential
Software is not responsible for statements attributed to third
parties within this release or in any materials referenced herein.
Partnerships described herein shall be deemed to be strategic
alliances only, and shall not imply the power of either partner to
bind the other partner or to incur obligations on behalf of the
other partner. DATASOURCE: Ascential Software Corporation CONTACT:
Chas Kielt Ascential Software Corporation, +1-508-599-7256, ; or
Mary Keith of Porter Novelli, +1-617-897-8281, Web site:
http://www.ascential.com/
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