Science & Technology
Science and Technology
Science and Technology
Wed, March 11, 2009
Tue, March 10, 2009 Kalido: Netezza and Kalido Deliver First Model-Driven Data Warehouse Appliance
WASHINGTON, DC--(Marketwire - March 10, 2009) - Gartner BI Summit
-- [ Netezza Corporation ] (
-- As part of the partnership, Netezza and Kalido will collaborate to develop industry-specific solutions to meet key business requirements across a number of industries, including life sciences, financial services and consumer packaged goods. These solutions will be based on the best practices of both companies and delivered with pre-built models, load processes and dashboards.
-- The [ Kalido Information Engine ] is the industry's most advanced and comprehensive platform for design, development and operation of [ well-governed data warehouses ]. Kalido's Business Information Modeler provides collaboration between IT and business users to deliver up to the minute business requirements and ensure end-to-end consistency of data definitions. By deploying Kalido together with Netezza [ data warehouse appliances ], customers now can have industry-leading performance and scalability, as well as the confidence that their data is accurate, consistent and relevant.
-- Joint customers will significantly reduce the time and effort needed to build a data warehouse: Netezza automates much of the database administration activities, such as hardware configuration and tuning, while Kalido automates much of the development, such as physical schema management, data load, exception management, integrated master data management and BI configuration.
-- In addition, the solution can quickly meet new business requirements for joint customers: Netezza scales out to handle new data sets, while Kalido's automation and flexibility reduce the cost of implementing enhancements by as much as 95 percent.
-- For more information on the partnership, please visit [ www.kalido.com/netezza ] or [ www.netezza.com/kalido ].
Quotes
Claudia Imhoff, president and founder, Intelligent Solutions, said:
-- "It is increasingly critical for organizations to quickly develop, deliver and maintain data warehouses in the most cost-effective manner. This collaboration between Netezza and Kalido combines the best of both worlds -- speed, performance and scalability with rapid iteration, flexibility and a business-focused approach to delivering requirements."
Jim Baum, president and CEO, Netezza, said:
-- "With Kalido's ability to solve some of the biggest information management challenges facing companies today, Netezza can offer customers a new way to solve a myriad of challenges, including corporate performance, profitability analysis and third-party data management. We're excited to bring this combined solution to the market."
Bill Hewitt, president and CEO of Kalido, said:
-- "Netezza is a leader in getting business users what they want; information at their fingertips. By combining the two solutions, we can now address the ultimate challenge in the BI world; speed to deploy, performance and flexibility in one solution. Our industry-specific solutions approach will dramatically accelerate the speed of implementation as well, reducing the time to value for our customers."
About Netezza
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About Kalido
Kalido delivers industry leading solutions for turning bad data into meaningful business information. Developed through years of successful best practice implementations, Kalido's robust, business-model driven information management engine governs data across the enterprise and automatically feeds information to industry standard BI platforms. Kalido software is implemented at over 250 locations in more than 100 countries with market leading companies. More information about Kalido can be found at: [ http://www.kalido.com ].
