SANTA CLARA, CA - July 1, 2002 - IAF Software, Inc., a leading
business intelligence solutions provider, today announced IAF
Coaster(TM) and IAF Vista(TM), brand-new online analytical processing
(OLAP) management and analytical tools designed exclusively to
support the powerful new OLAP capabilities in Oracle9i Database
Release 2. IAF Coaster and IAF Vista allow companies to put corporate
data to practical use by enabling business users to quickly and
easily access information stored in OracleR databases.
"Oracle has fully integrated multi-dimensional technology directly
into Oracle9i Database. We firmly believe that this will greatly
increase the ability for a large number of Oracle database customers
to rapidly deploy powerful analytic applications at a reasonable
cost," said Akihide Ito, co-founder and CEO of IAF Software and
IAF Consulting. "IAF is pleased to support Oracle by offering
IAF Coaster and IAF Vista - BI management and analytical tools
that are specifically designed for the OLAP option of Oracle9i
Database Release 2."
About IAF Coaster
IAF Coaster is the first commercial design and management
tool targeted toward the Oracle9i OLAP option. This innovative
metadata management tool allows customers to create and manage
their own analytic models without changing data structures in
a corporate data warehouse. This unique solution helps to speed
the design and administration of OLAP analytic models by leveraging
patent-pending technologies, such as flexible modeling features
and powerful segmentation functions.
About IAF Vista
IAF Vista is an easy-to-use development and deployment environment
for Web-enabled OLAP applications that allows business users to
create OLAP reports by wizard, without support from corporate
IT staff. By replacing complex BI tools, IAF Vista enables business
users to easily share data analysis know how and company information.
To meet the needs of both IT and business users, IAF Vista has
two versions -- a Java-client version that is used for complex
business intelligence functions and an HTML-client version which
enables simple queries and OLAP analysis from a Web interface.
Availability
IAF Coaster and IAF Vista will be shipped in September 2002. Beta
testing will start from the end of July 2002. For information
about IAF Software's Beta Program, please contact beta@iafsoft.com.
About IAF Software
IAF Software, Inc. was established in the United States in 2000
by IAF Consulting, the only independent consulting company focusing
on Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence market in Japan. IAF
Software was spun out of IAF Consulting to bring the company's
Business Intelligence software solutions to the United States
and Japanese companies. IAF's customers include NTT Group, Toshiba
and Fujitsu. Additional information about IAF Software is available
at www.iafsoft.com.
For additional information about IAF Software:
Shinji Matsumoto
IAF Software, Inc.
(408) 247-8880
smatsumo@iafsoft.com
IAF Coaster and IAF Vista are trademarks of IAF
Software, Inc. Oracle is registered trademark of Oracle International
Corporation. All other brand or product names are trademarks or
registered trademarks of their respective holders.
