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Panorama from x88 Software

Tony Rodriguez, Chairman and CTO of x88 Software, gave Jos van Dongen of Tholis Consulting and Mark Madsen of Third Nature, and me a demo of their new Panorama value-oriented database engine and Pandora data discovery/profiling tool.

Impressive demo! This product takes slicing and dicing of massive amounts of data to a new level. It has nice features for surfacing the formats or templates of data values, like street addresses, zip codes, etc. It also can search phonetically and probabilistically, so you can find 'loose' matches on a search phrase. And so on...

I wonder, however, about who would buy this product... A data modeling or data quality specialist would find this tool very useful. It certainly fits the requirements for an exploratory data warehouse. But, duplicating the terabytes from an enterprise data warehouse into this engine would not be feasible. If you target smaller companies as the platform for their primary data warehouse, will these companies have the sophistication to realize the business value inherent in this tool?

Take a look. What is your opinion?

  Posted by rhackathorn on December 4, 2008 10:54 AM |

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