After splashing out $100m for IRI Software Inc’s Express family of analytical processing tools (CI No 2,684), Oracle Corp has announced a veritable cornucopia of data warehousing products, services and partnerships, all packaged as the Oracle Warehouse, and designed to put all of its goods for that market under one roof. New stuff includes an Oracle Parallel Server 7.2 release tweaked for sorting. The company said 7.2 will deliver twice the performance of 7.1, with drill-down analysis performing up to 10 times as fast. Release 7.3, which goes into beta testing next month and will ship by end of the year, will pr ovide additional parallel indexing, complex queries and drill-down analysis functions. Discoverer 2000 is the company’s answer to front-end data manipulation. It comprises different levels of complex query and data retrieval tools and is essentially designed to hide complex query structures and SQL expressions from the user, while it requests and retrieves information. The company is also shipping Oracle7 Multidimension for Solaris and Digital Unix: the product is a mechanism for storing complex data types, including spatial data, such as maps and digitised images. Other products include Oracle Open Gateways, which connects the database to other data sources, such as Information Systems Account Marketing, and flat files. The company has also signed up more than 30 independent software vendors and partners for the initiative, including Austin, Texas-based Evolutionary Technologies Inc, whose Extract tool manages meta data and transforms legacy data for use; Andyne Computing Ltd for its Andyne GQL decision support tool for relational data sources, and Andyne Pablo, its decision support tool for multidimensional data sources; Princeton, New Jersey-based Logic Works Inc for its data modelling tool; and Sunnyvale, California-based Prism Solutions Inc.
