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AlphaBlox Web-based Data Analysis Product
Source: InfoWorld.com Published: Dec 1997
George Schussel reviews new AlphaBlox Web-based Data Analysis Product. Start-up company AlphaBlox details a Java based application development system built on components at DCI’s Client-Server and Database World conference. The vendor in early 1998 will unveil a product called AlphaBlox Enlighten, for building customizable data-analysis applications, such as sales analysis, customer retention, and risk analysis. The intent is to enable both Web-based deployment and administration. Elements of Enlighten include Java-based components called Ready-to-Use Building Blocks; InterBlox, an application assembly framework; and BASE (Blox Application Server Environment), a server environment for distributing applications across the Web. “What they have is an n-tier architecture, with a Web application server that is developed in Java and produces Java code for interfacing with a back-end database for running applications,” said analyst George Schussel, of DCI Software Conferences & Expositions, in Andover, Mass. “The conclusion is, they are the first company that I know of to build a complete Java-based multitier application server product,” Schussel said.
