king to grab a large share of what it sees as a potentially lucrative market, Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois-based Platinum Technology Inc has formed a business intelligence operation to sell its tool set as point product software offerings. The company said it has now aligned each of its business units with a component of its Poems Platinum Open Enterprise Management System, encompassing data warehousing, data management, systems management, application development and business intelligence tools. The business intelligence unit will be headed by vice-president Fred Rook, formerly the chief technical officer and general manager of the Data Access and Connectivity Business Unit for Platinum acquisition Trinzic Corp (CI No 2,737). The unit’s products include Forest & Trees, its visual development environment, ProReports, its ad-hoc query and reporting tool, ProServer, which supports production reports on the server, ProViewer, enabling the viewing and running of pre-designed reports, SQLAssist, an ad-hoc query builder, and Platinum report facility, a 3270-based DB2 report facility for query and report generation. Meantime, the company said it is shipping Version 2.0 of its ObjectPro application development tool under Windows NT. AIX and HP-UX versions are due by year end.
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