John O'Brien CTO and Co-founder of Dataupia is up briefing the Independent Analyst Platform. John is highlighting three of the differences that the Dataupia Satori brings to the market.

1. Non-disruptive
2. Continuously scalable
3. Highly cost effective

Another upside to Dataupia is that it is a very "green machine"
The ideal market for Dataupia is right in the mainstream data warehousing space ODS, routine business intelligence and long term data needs arena.

John is sharing the 36 month plan for the company and it looks good. Dataupia got its early traction in the telco market working with firms like Subex, Sendio, Tektronix and others. The massive amounts of Call Data Records (CDR) records collected by the telcom industry makes them a great fit for an appliance solution like Satori Server.

Lastly, the aim of Dataupia isn't to come in and "rip and replace" your existing database installation the appliance is actually designed to site next/over your existing architecture and add power to what you already have. The upside here is that you don't waste money by tossing out what you have and as you scale the Satori Server environment you see significant cost savings over the traditional route of upgrading Oracle, DB2 and SQL Server.

Phoenix Temperature Update: 109 F at 4:00PM

Tag: Business Intelligence, Independent Analyst Platform, Dataupia

Yeah!!! Greg Battas CTO of the Neoview Group at HP gets the Golden Power Point Award for starting off his IAP presentation today with a a powerful and simple slide that contained te following: "here's what we do", "here's where it fits" and "here's where we win". So with that said here is what YOU need to know.

What it is: Integrated hardware/software warehouse platform built on low cost commodity parts but using special software.

Where it fits
EDW, ODS or Challenging Data marts
Shared Services environment mixed workload
3 -300 TB raw data
Complex query processing
High SLA environment

Where they win
Mart/warehouse consolidation
Teradata Migration
*Replacement
*Dual vendor strategy
*Offloading with high service levels
Outgrown Oracle implementations

See other posts I've done on HP recently:
HP and Business Intelligence
Is HP Serious about Business Intelligence?

Phoenix Temperature Update: 103 F at 11:35AM

Tag: Business Intelligence, Independent Analyst Platform, HP

Bill Hewitt, President and CEO, Kalido started his presentation with a quote that he said in October 2006. It sets the stage for the core value proposition that Kalido is delivering in the industry.

“In the future, information will be delivered as a service, where information producers, information consumers, and information managers will create, consume and distribute information in near real-time.”

The Kalido Information Engine:
Kalido Business Information Modeler
• Patent-pending, gesture-based modeling speeds model development
• Multiple interface layers for business, data architects and operations
Kalido Universal Information Director
Kalido Dynamic Information Warehouse
• Robust enterprise functionality automates and streamlines warehouse deployment
• Flexible business model-driven warehouse manages and tracks all changes to data
• Seamless integration to multiple Business Intelligence Platforms
• 100% wizard-driven, allows report changes in hours instead of days
Kalido Master Data Management
• Business-model-driven, subject-area-independent MDM
• Customizable work flow, web-services based API and reporting tables for easy integration

Kalido delivers a shared business model that can be understood by all sides, the information providers, consumers and the administrators/managers in between.

They are showing how the MDM system works, its nice that they have distilled a mission critical function to a simple and intuitive UI, being that I am more a business person if I get it then it must be simple.

This is my first time seeing Kalido in action. I am impressed.

Phoenix Temperature Update: 96 F at 10:35AM

Tag: Business Intelligence, Independent Analyst Platform, Kalido

Roger Hodskins, Vice President, Marketing and Alliances for Lumigent is covering the world of compliance and audits. Lumigent specializes in Enterprise Database Auditing And Real-Time Protection. The core strategy they employ is to Discover, Assess, Monitor, Alert/Report, Secure data centric to compliance and regulatory issues.

The product line up includes Lumigent® Audit DB™, a unified solution for data auditing, security policy management, and database assessment. The solution delivers audit of information access and use, and identifies security weaknesses. And Lumigent® Log Explorer® , a transaction analysis and data recovery solution for SQL Server.

With the way data is spreading across the enterprise I don't think that simple policy based strategies are ever going to solve the compliance issue for companies with significant data. It seems that an automated software based solution is basically madatory for any large company.

Phoenix Temperature Update: 96 F at 8:55PM (where's my sweater?)

Tag: Business Intelligence, Independent Analyst Platform, Lumigent

Edwin van der sanden CTO, Corizon gave us an overview of the Corizon platform that they have 6+ years of R&D behind it's designed to make it easy for you to create composite applications or mashups. These types of tools bring significant time and money savings to the enterprise when you need to combine the processes and information found in multiple applications. They provide the design environment along with the run time components to build and maintain the application.

Once completed the applications can stand alone, sit in a portal or be embedded in packaged applications. In todays dynamic M&A atmosphere most companies could probably put this type of solution to use in multiple places. sometimes building the bridge between applications can be the better solve than collecting and integrating and storing the data coming from them.

Phoenix Temperature Update - 110 F at 3:55PM (thank God its cooling down)

Tag: Business Intelligence, Independent Analyst Platform, Corizon

Dr. Dave Schrader, Director of Marketing, Teradata is starting out with Active Enterprise Intelligence and hitting the following points.

Active
Better, faster decisions that drive actions
Responsive and agile, sense and respond

Enterprise
Consistency – single view of the business
Scope – across appropriate business functions
Reach – new operational users, processes, and applications

Intelligence
“Strategic” Intelligence, aligned to drive
“Operational” Intelligence, backed by the facts

So the question is, can your company do this with your business intelligence? Teradata tends to be on the leading edge of where most business intelligence installations are. The recent launch of an Analytical Platforms family of solutions from Teradata will open the door for more of you to experience this type of BI/DW value. Here's a link to a recent post I did on the launch

Phoenix Temperature Update - 109 F at 12:15 PM (the good news is it only feels like 107 F)

Tag: Business Intelligence, Independent Analyst Platform, Teradata

Kristina Kerr Senior Product Manager for Microsoft Business Intelligence is presenting and helping the group connect the dots of the Microsoft business intelligence strategy. In the world of information overload Microsoft is using SharePoint to organize and deliver our business information more relevant and focused. Kristina makes an interesting point around the "vision" slide in her deck...this slide is old and that's good because Microsoft has had a BI strategy in place for 10 years and they are on target and executing to their plan.

The basics of the Microsoft plan is to help you as a user get to the following:
"Personal and Organic" BI and "Shared and Intentional" BI

Goal for Self Service Personal/Organic Business Intelligence
Easy discovery of data
Simple intuitive tools Adhoc
creative and agile

Goal for Shared and Intentional Business Intelligence or Performance Management
Consistent Corp definitions, KPI's
Corporate Polices and processes
Contextual and accountable

Microsoft continues to show greater levels of integration within its various applications pulling business intelligence and performance management onto the desktop and making the average user unaware that they are using business intelligence. All of which is positive.

Phoenix Temperature Update - 106 F at 11:15 AM

Tag: Business Intelligence, Independent Analyst Platform, Microsoft

Good morning from Phoenix and the Independent Analyst Platform (IAP) Informatica's Karen Hsu is kicking things off this morning talking about the Informatica platform and it's continued growth and focus with on-demand integration, enterprise data integration and b2b data integration. This three way approach is a good strategy for Informatica. The b2b Data Exchange offering is the newest part of the solution providing a platform that can handle integrated business partner data.

Other recent changes include Informatica's ability to do real-time data integration and its recent acquisition of Identity systems that now adds multilingual name matching to the Informatica suite.

Phoenix Temperature Update - 99 F at 8:15 AM

Tag: Business Intelligence, Independent Analyst Platform, Informatica

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Bob Eve Vice President Marketing and David Besemer CTO at Composite Software were first up this afternoon and they are rolling out the Composite Discovery Appliance a product aimed at business analysts, managers and analytical business professionals. It does structured data search and works like a search engine.

The system interface looks a lot like a Google search box, the results from a search resemble standard search results except these results contain tables that contain what your looking for, the cool thing is that the algorithm behind the search is smart enough to identify relationships between different sources and tables. So if you enter "Widget", "Shawn", "Acme" the top result will have all three tables combined "Product', "Sales Rep" and "Customer" and when you select that top result you will get the report along with relationship navigation for the data behind it. The part that the user doesn't see is the query with three way table join that makes the final results possible...way cool.

After running the search you can save the results and the saved reports will then show up in future search results. This also enables sharing of reports by everyone on the system. The solution is appliance based so its hardware and software combined and pre-configured. The pricing model is smart too, perpetual for 150K plus support or subscription for $7,500 for initial set up 4k per month.

Phoenix Temperature Update - 109 F at 2:30 PM

Tag: Business Intelligence, Independent Analyst Platform, Composite Software

Kevin Quinn, VP Product Marketing for WebFocus presented some solid examples of how WebFocus serves their clients. And then did a fast demo and built a report with WebFocus in just a couple minutes. The best part about the demo is that while report building is easy, WebFocus has a feature that lets you turn your report into an active report so that it can be shared in countless ways through portals, emails etc. The simplicity and scalability is a a real feature here for giving large user bases access to business intelligence. Other cool things include integration with open source to speed up new features in WebFocus and mobile support for reporting.

Director of iWay Product Marketing Vincent Lam followed next with an iWay Software overview. iWay is the integration product offered by Information Builders and is operated as a separate brand and company within IBI. The solution services integration needs in seven different ways.

1. Data Warehouse
2. Real-time DW
3. Operational data access
4. Federated query
5. SOA
6. Process-driven BI
7. Enterprise Search

I've always thought of Information Builders as a well kept secret. They have several great products, large customer base and solid technology they don't have the high profile that some of their competitors have. They should be on your list when looking at integration and business intelligence solutions.

Phoenix Temperature Update - 108 F at 12:30 PM

Tag: Business Intelligence, Independent Analyst Platform, Information Builders

Up first this morning is SAP and Business Objects. Paul Clark, Senior Director of Marketing at Business Objects kicked things off with a presentation on Enabling Closed-Loop Strategy for Enabling Execution a couple of key takeaways are that compliance and governance need to be integrated into your processes not an afterthought outside of the on going day to day business. The underlying key to successful closed-loop strategy is part culture and part software, the culture part is probably the hardest and it includes getting everyone involved with business intelligence. The access to information continues to be the key to this strategy.

Dan Kearnan Director, SAP Business Intelligence did a great job of covering how Business Objects is fitting into the SAP Ecosystem in short the migration for SAP customers to get fundamental BO services is fast and easy. BO plans to continue to work with other data sources as it has in the past and wants to stay data agnostic going forward. From a technology standpoint its clear the merger of these two companies is a solid fit but SAP still has a long road ahead of it with regards to fully integrating the power of a combined SAP/BO. The first phase seems to be in place with many of the logical features of BO already snapped onto the stack.

Aaron Mahimainathan Senior Director, Platform Marketing SAP wrapped up the presentations and talked about leveraging business intelligence and information management foundations. Giving us insight into the MDM side of the solution

Good session its great that SAP did 2 hours we needed it just to get a high level view of all that's happening with SAP/BO.

Phoenix Temperature Update - 100 F at 10:30 AM

Tag: Business Intelligence, Independent Analyst Platform, SAP

I'm in Phoenix this week at the Independent Analyst Platform an event hosted by Rick van der Lans. Rick has managed to get an incredible list of BI/DW experts to spend 3 days meeting with vendors here in Arizona.

The group includes:
Mike Ferguson
Richard Hackathorn
Mark Madsen
David Loshin
Clive Finkelstein
John Zachman
Bill Inmon
Peter Aiken
Alec Sharp
Barry Devlin
Claudia Imhoff
Gwen Thomas
Nancy Williams
Krish Krishnan
William McKnight
John Ladley and others

Today's vendors include SAP/BO, Information Builders, iWay Software, Composite Software, Serena Software

Tag: Business Intelligence, Independent Analyst Platform

Check out the data injustice videos while your there. Magic 8 Ball is my favorite.

Tags: Dataupia, data, business intelligence