Software AG's SourcePoint Receives Industry Praise; Datamation Selects Automation Tool as...

RESTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 14, 1996--Software AG, a dynamic leader in the growing data warehouse market, today announced that SourcePoint, its Windows-based data warehouse population tool, was selected by Datamation as a finalist for the data warehousing "Product of the Year Award."

SourcePoint is the industry's first product to simultaneously automate the extraction, transport and population of a data warehouse through its innovative Parallel Data Acquisition technology, reducing the cost of ongoing data warehouse management.

The Datamation Product of the Year Award is awarded annually to products and companies that best serve the needs of enterprise computing professionals. Other candidates for this year's data warehousing category include Red Brick Warehouse XTP, (finalist), and SAS 6.11, (category winner).

"SourcePoint's Parallel Data Acquisition technology offers an alternative to manually populating a data warehouse," said Richard Rist, director of Software AG's Open Data Warehouse Program. "It is further evidence of Software AG's commitment to provide customers with a comprehensive data warehouse program that solves their information needs."

SourcePoint enables users to build data warehouses using parallel processes to isolate the target DBMS from the extraction and transport mechanism, minimize the need to create files, reduce the potential for errors, and ensure the data integrity while reducing storage requirements. By using SourcePoint, users can significantly reduce the amount of time needed to populate a data warehouse, by as much as 60 percent.

This is the second time Software AG has been recognized by Datamation for a technically superior product. Last year, Software AG's ESPERANT, its SQL query and reporting tool, received the 1994 Datamation "Editor's Choice Award."

Software AG is the 10th largest independent software firm in the world. With 26 years of successful enterprise-wide experience, the company develops and markets open, multi-platform software solutions. Its products include: ENTIRE for developing and deploying distributed computing solutions; NATURAL, MIDRANGE Systems "Buyer's Choice Award," for application engineering; award-winning ESPERANT, a state-of-the-art query and reporting tool (and winner of PC Week Labs "Top Product of the Year," and the 1994 Datamation "Editor's Choice Award"); and ADABAS for database management. In 1994, Software AG launched a successful Open Data Warehouse Program that has already garnered three awards: DB Expo's RealWare Award in Data Warehousing in collaboration with The ERTL Company, Inc.; a 1995 Datamation Quest Award for data warehousing for its collaboration with the State of Minnesota; and a 1996 DCI Excellence in Business Information Award for its work with the State of Minnesota.

Software AG with primary locations in Darmstadt, Germany and Reston, VA provides products and services to companies in more than 80 countries worldwide, including Fortune 500 companies and federal, state and local government agencies. Founded in 1969, Software AG reported revenues of $533 million (US) in 1994. -0-

ADABAS, ENTIRE and NATURAL are registered trademarks of Software AG. ESPERANT is a trademark of Software AG.

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