Panorama Supports New BI Standards Developed by XML/A Council

December 2002, Tel Aviv - Panorama joins the XML for Analysis (XMLA) advisory council. XML/A was formed by Microsoft and Hyperion to develop and define specifications that enable the easy deployment of sophisticated, analytically rich business intelligence (BI) solutions.

Panorama joins BI industry leaders in promoting standard XML message interfaces based upon the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) to define data access interaction between a client application and an analytical data provider working over the Internet.

XML/A is an open-standards-based messaging interface designed specifically for online analytical processing (OLAP) and data-mining functions. This interface will promote the standardization of the data access interaction between a client application, business intelligence systems and other applications over the Internet, extranet and intranet. These benefits enable businesses to develop and deploy Web-service-based BI solutions quickly and easily, with the integration of a wide-variety of advanced IT applications. The efforts of the XML/A Council will extend to the widespread adoption of business intelligence solutions by enabling a broader access of timely business information to users everywhere.

·Customers will gain the ability to protect server and tools investments and ensure that new analytical deployments will be interoperable,

·Developers will gain the ability to leverage existing developer skills and to use open access XML-based Web services, eliminating the need to program to multiple APIs and query languages, and

·Independent software vendors will be able to reduce complexity and costs for development as well as maintenance by writing to a single access interface.

Panoramas technologies, namely the Panorama NovaView e-BI Suite exploit the major advantages of XML/As vision. The Panorama e-BI technologies enable easy and secured access to information from the individual workstation to enterprise level via the Internet, intranet and extranet. Panoramas desktop and web clients offer unparalleled functionality and flexibility to power users, executives and entry-level knowledge workers. Additionally, Panoramas BI solutions are 100% compatible with Microsoft technologies. Panoramas technologies put the power of business intelligence to use.

To learn more about Panorama and the Panorama NovaView e-BI Suite technologies, visit: www.pansw.com.

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About XML/A    http://xmla.org
The XML for Analysis (XML/A) advisory council is comprised of business technology leaders spearheading the charge to develop and promote industry standards to define data access interaction between client applications and analytical data providers over the Internet.