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PWI Launches MARS™
Business Intelligence Framework for Enterprise Messaging.
November 29, 2001 - PWI, Inc., a provider of solutions
for advanced communications and analytics today launched the
Metering, Analysis and Reporting Studio (MARS™) and announced
that United Messaging is its first client to use MARS™
in a live production environment.
United Messaging provides outsourced
messaging and collaboration services to large and mid-sized
enterprises.
MARS™, first introduced
at Microsoft’s MEC 2001 conference in Orlando on September
30, is the first and only business intelligence framework
developed specifically to deliver high-performance reporting
of provisioning, usage, security and network performance data
within advanced communications environments.
Powered by Microsoft® SQL
Server™ 2000 Analysis Services, and PWI formulated data
collection agents, transfer services and MDX queries, MARS™
can be rapidly and flexibly tailored to empower intelligent
decision making for the diverse functional areas of Application
Service Providers and corporate enterprises.
“We were looking for two
things”, said Don Montgomery, Director of Product Marketing
for United Messaging. “First, was a solution to provide
us with new insights across multiple functional areas of our
business. Second, was the need for an analysis and reporting
capability that would also be flexible enough to respond to
new business intelligence needs as our business expands”,
continued Montgomery.
As a charter client for MARS™,
United Messaging took advantage of the opportunity to shape
a solution that would address their specific business intelligence
and reporting needs. “United Messaging provided us with
some very useful insights on the functional requirements for
MARS™”, said Konstantin Malkov, Ph.D., President
and Chief Technology Officer for PWI. Attendees at MEC provided
PWI with validation that the architectural design and functional
utility of MARS™ were on track with the broader set of
industry needs. “More importantly, we found that MARS™
was unique in its ability to empower the end user and allow
them to flexibly mange their own ad hoc business intelligence
needs”, continued Malkov.
“PWI had already established
themselves as a value-added partner for United Messaging and
we knew they would get the job done in a way that would best
leverage our IT budget”, said Montgomery.
Up until now, companies looking
to satisfy their metering, analysis and reporting needs would
either purchase and integrate a packaged product suite or
commission the development of a custom solution. MARS™
is a reusable framework and an integral part of the complete
and advanced communications solutions PWI provides its clients.
About PWI
Headquartered in Red Bank, New Jersey, PWI (www.pwicorp.com)
provides software development solutions to Fortune 1000 and
Global enterprises. By combining elite Russia-based academia
with technical know-how and pragmatic business acumen, PWI
delivers industrial-strength solutions for advanced communications,
business intelligence, collaboration and workflow. Through
its distributed development model, PWI works with its clients
to expand their IT capabilities and extend their IT budgets
to create competitive advantages and unmatched ROI.
About United Messaging
United Messaging provides outsourced messaging and collaboration
services to large and mid-sized enterprises, handling over
1,000,000 e-mails each business day. With a focus on messaging
and collaboration, complete implementation and support services,
and best-of-breed applications such as Microsoft Exchange
2000, Lotus Domino, iPlanet Messaging Server, and BlackBerry
Wireless Services, United Messaging is uniquely positioned
to deliver smarter enterprise messaging solutions.
The company is headquartered
in Malvern, PA with facilities across the U.S. and in Europe.
For more information, contact United Messaging at www.unitedmessaging.com,
or (888) 993-5088. United Messaging is a registered trademark
of United Messaging, Inc. All other trademarks mentioned herein
are either trademarks and /or registered trademarks of their
respective owners in the United States and/or other countries.
Contact Information:
For PWI, Inc.
Gregory Salvato
(732) 212-8110 ext. 235
gsalvato@pwicorp.com
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