LONDON, 28 August 2001: Kalido Ltd, a specialist data warehouse provider, and Informatica Corporation, the leading provider of enterprise analytic software, today announced they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to form a technology, sales and marketing partnership to deliver a sophisticated data warehouse solution. The two primary benefits joint customers can realize will be faster implementation times and quicker return on investment resulting from the low cost of systems maintenance of their data warehouse once live.
Informatica PowerCenter® data integration software provides the capability to consolidate data from a multitude of disparate enterprise systems that can be loaded directly into the Kalido data warehouse. The Kalido data warehouse solution enables information to be very easily manipulated, no matter how complex the business environment or how often the structure of the data changes.
“Together, we hope to create an extremely powerful, elegant software solution for customers who need a state-of-the-art, packaged data warehouse that enables complex analysis and provides improved business insight,” said Bart Foster, senior vice president of worldwide marketing at Informatica. “Underlying application data models constantly evolve as companies grow and their analytic needs change. Coming from its origins within the Shell Group of Companies, the Kalido data warehouse was built specifically to handle just this type of dynamic environment.”
Development has already begun for this planned technology partnership. At its core, the Informatica PowerCenter data integration platform will be integrated with the Kalido data warehouse. PowerCenter helps companies integrate information from numerous disparate systems across the enterprise, such as eBusiness servers, web logs, ERP systems, relational databases, legacy systems and more. As a result of the alliance, it is anticipated that companies will be able to accelerate their implementation by taking advantage of Informatica’s and Kalido’s combined integration, storage and analytic capabilities.
“Companies should choose carefully before investing in analytic technologies to ensure they are capable of handling the increasingly complex data environments of multi-channel business today,” said Andy Hayler, CEO of Kalido. “Acknowledged as the industry standard data integration platform, Informatica PowerCenter 5 can easily handle the highly complex environments for which the Kalido warehouse is designed. By pairing our products, we aim to provide the deepest analytical insights into business data available on the market, across our customers’ entire businesses.”
About Informatica
Informatica provides enterprise analytic software that enables decision makers to transform business insight into competitive advantage. Informatica provides the industry's only integrated set of analytic products, including a powerful data integration platform, a suite of cross value chain analytic applications, and soon real-time delivery of personalized analytics via web, wireless and voice. More than 1,300 customers, including over half of the Fortune 100, rely on Informatica software to integrate, analyse and deliver critical information to managers, executives and other decision-makers to optimise business performance. Our list of global customers includes 3Com, AMD, American Airlines, BMW, Borders Group, Chevron, Cisco, CNET, Deutsche Bank, eBay, General Electric, Hewlett-Packard, MetLife, Motorola, Philips, Polo Ralph Lauren, Sprint and UBS. For more information, call 01628 511311 or visit the Informatica Web site at http://www.informatica.com/.
About Kalido Limited
Kalido Ltd. is headquartered in London with additional operations in Houston, Singapore and Melbourne. The company provides global performance management technology for large corporations. The company's flagship product KALIDO Data Warehouse, now in its sixth release, has a unique, patents-pending design, which allows disparate data structures to be meaningfully compared. This design enables global organisations to better analyse their business-critical data and evaluate costs and revenue regardless of geographical locations or major business changes such as re-organisations and mergers/acquisitions. KALIDO is currently used in over 85 countries in global organisations such as Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Companies (Shell) and Unilever. Kalido Ltd. is a spin-off software company from the IT services arm of Shell.
Its heritage as part of the Royal/Dutch Shell Group of Companies benefits customers in a variety of energy and non-energy sectors including pharmaceuticals, logistics and government organizations. It can apply proven solutions and extensive resources today to help customers achieve the bottom-line, tangible results that matter most. http://www.kalido.com/.
