Dun & Bradstreet Software Corp has now launched the first of its Unix applications from the former Management Science America base in Atlanta. It now has general ledger, accounts payable and currency management and other financial and logistics applications will follow throughout next year. Kent County Council here in the UK was the first beta test site for the new Unix versions and says that the new products enable it to reduce significantly the unit costs of functions such as paying invoices and processing journals. Unixes currently supported are Data General Corp’s DG/UX, Hewlett-Packard Co’s HP-UX and ICL Plc’s DRS Unix, and the applications will be available under Digital Equipment Corp OSF/1 on Alpha AXP by mid-1993. The new products incorporate a Cobol compiler from Micro Focus Plc and Gresham Telecomputing Plc’s TP+ transaction processing monitor for Unix. Integrated General Ledger and Currency Management starts from $43,000; Accounts Payable from $41,000. The company also has its Smartstream decision support products ready to ship under Unix at the end of the month. The products were unveiled under OS/2 earlier this year and represent D&B Software’s first steps into client-server computing. Smartstream, Smartstream Analyzer and InterQ are aimed at organisations that want to reduce host computer cycles, automate application workflow and provide better information access to users at the desktop, while enabling customers to re-engineer business processes. They require Microsoft Corp’s Windows at the desktop and at present the server end is supported only under DG/UX and HP-UX Unixes. The suite includes parts of Cognos Inc’s Powerplay, Powersoft Corp’s PowerBuilder and Sybase Inc’s Sybase SQL Server; prices for the suite start at $73,000.
