Tapestry 2.0 Leverages Source, Transformation &Management Capabilities for a Scaleable Data...

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 18, 1997--D2K Incorporated, the leading provider of end-to-end knowledge distribution systems, announced today Tapestry 2.0. This product release includes enhancements in mainframe, mid-range, and package application sources as well as new targets. Additionally,

Edward Young, president and CEO of D2K explained, "D2K's goal is to bring data currently trapped in databases, applications and warehouses to the end user in a format they can easily use. To that end, Tapestry's end-to-end solution extracts, transforms, moves and loads data to the warehouse or mart, and then delivers that information to the desktop.

"In release 2.0, we've strengthened Tapestry's ability to scale up, from departmental to enterprise solutions, along with the customer's requirements. By tracking the multiple heterogeneous sources and complex transactions in a single meta data catalog, reconciliation of the data, and its meaning, is automatic. Additionally, by supporting Oracle and Informix parallel loaders, customers can work within the ever-decreasing window available for warehouse refreshes," continued Young.

Eric Lan, vice president of engineering for D2K noted, "Tapestry's ability to scale to the customer's needs is supported from many angles. From day one, our extensible, object oriented transformation engine included many transformations and the ability to plug in user defined functions. With this capability, customers can easily wrap in their own transformation and cleansing requirements. This flexibility delivers the most comprehensive engine-based transformations available today.

"To develop the operations management side of warehousing," continued Lan, "D2K has added a new statistics module for Tapestry 2.0 called Metrics. By integrating Metrics with event-driven scheduling, messaging capabilities, and Internet access -- all previously available with Tapestry -- we've created a complete package which will enable systems administration, notification, and load balancing from anywhere in the world."

The new features in Tapestry 2.0 include the following (all sources accessed natively): -0-

Data Sources: MVS: IDMS, Adabas and Teradata; VMS: RDB, RMS; AIX:

DB2, ODBC, Oracle, SQL, Informix; DEC Alpha NT:

Informix, ODBC, Oracle, SQL; OS/400: DB2

Data Targets: OS/400: DB2; VMS: Oracle; UNIX: Sybase IQ; AIX:

Oracle, Informix, Sybase, DB2, ODBC; DEC Alpha NT:

Oracle, Informix, SQL, ODBC, NT: Sybase IQ

Parallel Loaders: Oracle and Informix

Packaged Applications: SAP

Systems Management: Metrics

The original features from Tapestry 1.5 are (all sources accessed natively): -0-

Data Sources: MVS: DB2, VSAM, IMS, SQL; UNIX/NT: Oracle, Sybase,

Informix, SQL

Data Targets: UNIX & NT: Oracle, Sybase, Informix, SQL Server

Packaged Applications: PeopleSoft

Systems Management: Admin, Director

Availability:

Tapestry Server runs on UNIX, or NT. The Tapestry base product, which includes one server, is priced at $75,000 for the UNIX version, $50,000 for the NT version. The Metrics Module is available for $15,000; the SAP Dynamic Mapper is priced at $25,000; and MVS sources are $35,000. Tapestry 2.0 will ship beginning of Q1 1998.

D2K's charter is to be the leading provider of information infrastructures, which become the framework for the delivery, distribution and sharing of corporate knowledge across global environments. D2K's headquarters are in San Jose, Calif. with sales and development labs in Singapore and San Jose, Calif., and a development lab in the UK. The company's World Wide Web address is http://www.d2k.com .

CONTACT: D2K, Inc.

Julie Birney Cecilio, 408/487-8883

jbcecilio@d2k.com