INFORMATION BUILDERS SAY PC/FOCUS RELEASE 5.5 NOW AVAILABLE
by CBR Staff Writer| 25 April 1990
Information Builders Inc, New York says that PC/Focus release 5.5, which includes Direct/Connect for micro-to-mainframe co-operative processing, is now available: it provides MS-DOS applications with real-time access to major mainframe databases including Focus, DB2, SQL/DS, IMS, IDMS, and VSAM; the new release also has an all-new user interface, enhanced transaction processing language, and an add-on local area networking option; it costs $1,300.
Oracle Discoverer
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| Developer(s) | Oracle Corporation |
|---|---|
| Stable release | 11.1.1.4.0 (11g Release 1 Patch Set 3) |
| Written in | Java |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Type | business intelligence |
| Website | Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer 11g |
Oracle Discoverer is a tool-set for ad-hoc querying, reporting, data analysis, and Web-publishing for the Oracle Database environment. Oracle Corporation markets it as a business intelligence product. It was originally a stand-alone product, however it has become a component of the Oracle Fusion Middleware suite, and renamed Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer.[1]
Cognos (Cognos Incorporated) was an Ottawa, Ontario-based company making business intelligence (BI) andperformance management (PM) software. Founded in 1969, at its peak Cognos employed almost 3,500 people and served more than 23,000 customers in over 135 countries.[1]
Originally Quasar Systems Limited, it adopted the Cognos name in 1982. Cognos is a fragment scissored off the Latin word "cognosco," which means "knowledge from personal experience".[2] January 31, 2008, Cognos was officially acquired by IBM.[3] The Cognos name continues to be applied to IBM's line of business intelligence and performance management products.
In January 2010, as part of a reorganization of IBM Software Group, Cognos software and software from recently acquiredSPSS were brought together to create the Business Analytics division.
