Data and Database Management Software
Software facilitates data profiling.
Press Release Summary:
Integrating data discovery with data cleansing capabilities, TS Discovery v5 allows IT and business users to collaborate on enterprise data quality initiatives. With data browser, users can identify data anomalies and cleanse data directly, ahead of data use elsewhere in enterprise. Users can also set up and monitor data standards over time. E-mail notification feature informs key personnel when data values do not meet predefined requirements.
Original Press Release:
Harte-Hanks Announces the Release of TS Discovery Version 5 for Data Profiling
- Latest release from Harte-Hanks Trillium Software allows IT and business users to collaborate on enterprise data quality initiatives; new enhancements help tackle data integration challenges -
BILLERICA, Mass., Feb. 14 / -- Trillium Software, a division of Harte-Hanks (NYSE:HHS) and a leading provider of Total Data Quality (TDQ) solutions, today announced the general availability of TS Discovery Version 5. This version tightly integrates Harte-Hanks Trillium Software's data discovery capabilities with its market-leading data cleansing capabilities in TS Quality, and is designed to deliver a new level of sophistication in data profiling functionality.
"TS Discovery places users in control at the forefront of the data management process, providing access to information via a special-purpose data browser that is very user-friendly," said Spencer Joyner, corporate officer and vice president, Harte-Hanks. "In addition, TS Discovery Version 5 offers enhanced monitoring and real-time querying capabilities that allow organizations to implement this solution in compliance, identity management and fraud detection applications. It is a data profiling solution for today."
Seamless Integration of Data Profiling and Cleansing
Version 5 tightly integrates two Harte-Hanks Trillium Software offerings - - TS Discovery (for data profiling) and TS Quality (for data quality) -- by incorporating cleansing of data into the TS Discovery data browser. Business and IT users alike can use the special-purpose data browser to identify data anomalies and cleanse data directly, ahead of data use elsewhere in the enterprise. The data browser features a way for users to correct and format the data, either with the help of a built-in TS Quality interface, or by recoding values in new columns to export later into business applications. TS Discovery's collaborative environment also supports multiple users working together on strategic initiatives such as data governance.
Monitor Compliance to Standards Over Time
Users also have the ability to set up and monitor data standards over time, the company reports. TS Discovery Version 5 includes an e-mail notification feature to inform key personnel when data values do not meet predefined requirements, such as threshold values or information missing from critical data fields. Users also can receive alerts on critical changes and errors and use the TS Discovery data browser to drill down on those errors. These monitoring capabilities also can be programmed as part of a job flow with TS Discovery Version 5's command-line capability.
"TS Discovery users also have new versatility in how deep into their organization's data or how focused a profiling effort they wish to choose," said Len Dubois, vice president of marketing for Trillium Software at Harte- Hanks. "In Version 5, TS Discovery introduces the ability to investigate dynamic entities, or source data, that are outside the TS Discovery server process. By doing so, users can either take advantage of the deep data relationship analysis and performance benefits available with the data browser/server process, or perform standard profiling on source systems for monitoring and compliance applications. Users may choose to profile all rows and tables automatically, or use TS Discovery 5.0's powerful filtering and conditional searching of data and metadata to focus the analysis and save time."
According to Dubois, TS Discovery Version 5 gives users the ability to uncover data issues, automatically, consistently and with context, to deliver deeper, more complete results. Its unique architecture allows users to ask questions about the data and to uncover data problems that they might not have known. "Compared to a more simple data profiling process, which allows users to ask specific questions about the data, TS Discovery 5.0's data investigation process intelligently and automatically identifies common issues with content, context, patterns, and relationships across and between entities, so users don't have to do this analysis on their own," he said.
The company reports that TS Discovery Version 5 also delivers these benefits:
o A more sensible snapshot of data through source system discovery and analysis -- TS Discovery reads data from source systems and automatically collects information about entities, including count of attributes, count of rows and their lengths, schema details and a documentary description.
o An ability to spot difficult-to-find data anomalies through a powerful drill-down -- TS Discovery offers an intuitive user interface that makes users highly productive in finding "needle-in-a-haystack" data problems. TS Discovery does not require exhaustive SQL queries. The drill-down functionality enables users to display a set of rows, an individual row and even individual attribute values within a row.
o Greater convenience through sophisticated scheduling and monitoring automation -- TS Discovery includes a built-in scheduler that allows users to schedule activities such as data loads, key and dependency analysis to run immediately or at a later date and time. Online monitoring helps users track progress of activities on individual schedules.
o Greater ease through automated report generation and distribution -- TS Discovery makes sharing reports and information easy. The software generates customized reports from any of its displays and in a variety of formats; among them HTML reports or any popular Windows desktop product.
"TS Discovery 5.0 helps companies in their drive to deliver on key strategies in the enterprise, such as SOA [service oriented architecture], CDI [customer data integration], and MDM [master data management]," Dubois said. "The release of Version 5 and its seamless integration with TS Quality, delivers a platform that optimizes data governance initiatives by making the process of data discovery and data quality available to both business users and IT. For the first time, business users are empowered to take action to improve enterprise data."
A detailed introduction to TS Discovery 5 and other new features is available at www.trilliumsoftware.com/
About Harte-Hanks
Harte-Hanks, Inc., San Antonio, TX, is a worldwide, direct and targeted marketing company that provides direct marketing services and shopper advertising opportunities to a wide range of local, regional, national and international consumer and business-to-business marketers. Harte-Hanks Direct Marketing improves the return on its clients' marketing investment with a range of services organized around five solution points: Construct and update the database -- Access the data -- Analyze the data -- Apply the knowledge -- Execute the programs. Expert at each element within this process, Harte-Hanks Direct Marketing is highly skilled at tailoring solutions for each of the vertical markets it serves. Visit the Harte-Hanks Web site at www.harte-hanks.com/ or call (800) 456-9748.
Harte Hanks Trillium Software provides businesses with Total Data Quality solutions -- a full complement of technologies and services providing global data profiling, data cleansing, enhancement, and data linking for e-business, customer relationship management, enterprise resource planning, supply chain management, data warehouse, and other enterprise applications. Use of the Trillium Software System(R) by many of the world's largest and most successful companies has made Trillium Software the leader in its marketplace. For more information about Trillium Software and its offerings, call (978) 436-8900, or visit Trillium Software online at www.trilliumsoftware.com/ .
CONTACT: Patricia Mercier of Harte-Hanks Trillium Software, +1-978-436-2794, patricia_mercier@trilliumsoftware.com;
