Letıs face it. Despite most vendorsı hype about how unique their products are, our industry is awash in a sea of me-too products that do essentially the same thing in a superficially different way. The DBMS Editorıs Choice Awards recognize emerging products that solve existing problems in new ways or that create opportunities no one even thought of before. These innovative products are blazing new trails that others are likely to follow.
For a complete description of this awards program, including eligibility guidelines, please see the announcement published in January 1998.
The editors of DBMS have selected these six new products as winners of our first Editorıs Choice Awards. Winners are listed in alphabetical order by product name
| ActaLink for SAP R/3 Acta Technology, Palo Alto, CA; 650-691-2500; www.acta.com ActaLink is a data extraction, transformation, and loading tool specifically designed to build data marts and data warehouses from data stored in SAP R/3 and other enterprise databases. |
| AvantGo Product Family AvantGo Inc., San Mateo, CA; 650-638-3399; www.avantgo.com AvantGo links handheld computers such as the 3Com PalmPilot to enterprise database applications, Intranets, and the Web. |
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DataMerchant Cognos Inc., Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; 613-738-1440; www.cognos.com/datamerchant DataMerchant lets data suppliers package, sell, distribute, and meter the use of relational data over the web. |
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AlphaBlox Enlighten AlphaBlox Corp., Mountain View, CA; 650-526-1700; www.alphablox.com AlphaBlox Enlighten lets developers build custom decision support applications by assembling reusable Java applets. |
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TopTier Product Suite TopTier Software Inc., San Jose, CA; 408-360-1700; www.toptiersw.com
TopTierıs server, client, and middleware products enable hypertext-like navigation and browsing of heterogeneous data sources. |
The DBMS 1998 Editor's Choice Nomination Guidelines