Kalido, the active information management company, today announced major enhancements to its flagship product, Kalido(R) Dynamic Information Warehouse(TM) (DIW). The new version delivers dramatically improved automation capabilities to further streamline deployment, a new user interface driven by best practices from Kalido implementations, and increased scalability and performance. As a core component of the Kalido Information Engine(TM) (see related release, "New Kalido Information Engine Unlocks True Business Intelligence"), Kalido DIW dramatically enhances BI initiatives across the enterprise by delivering "true intelligence" with the critical information layer needed to make better strategic decisions.
BURLINGTON, Mass. (Business Wire EON) January 22, 2008 --
Kalido, the active information
management company, today announced major enhancements to its flagship
product, Kalido® Dynamic Information Warehouse™
(DIW). The new version delivers dramatically improved automation
capabilities to further streamline deployment, a new user interface
driven by best practices from Kalido implementations, and increased
scalability and performance. As a core component of the Kalido
Information Engine™ (see related release, “New
Kalido Information Engine Unlocks True Business Intelligence”),
Kalido DIW dramatically enhances BI initiatives across the enterprise by
delivering “true intelligence”
with the critical information layer needed to make better strategic
decisions.
"A number of our clients find that information about their business,
customers and products is not always easily accessible or reportable - a
problem that becomes even more complex and time consuming as their
businesses change," said Robert Haddad, senior vice president at Project
Performance Corporation. "That's why we recommend Kalido. Implementing
Kalido as a company's information foundation means our customers are
able to report on the state of their businesses with confidence,
leveraging truly accurate information to drive business results. This
latest version of Kalido Dynamic Information Warehouse takes that one
step further, with improved usability and new features that increase
automation and enable quicker data warehouse delivery and maintenance."
The new version delivers a range of enhancements that empower customers
with consistent, accurate information to feed enterprise BI
applications. The new user interface reduces ramp-up time and includes
significant performance improvements in data loading, staging area
management and suspense processing. In addition, the latest version
supports the Kalido Business Information Modeler (see separate news
release), which fosters a collaborative union between business users and
IT professionals to accelerate the delivery of information through
pioneering visual modeling capabilities.
“The demand for providing consistent data has
introduced new challenges as silos of static data models and BI systems
were not designed to unify and model information across the enterprise,”
said Mark Smith, CEO & executive vice president, Research at Ventana
Research. “Kalido Dynamic Information
Warehouse provides a dynamic and interactive set of modeling,
integration and collaboration capabilities that help leverage BI and
RDBMS investments.”
Unlike traditional data warehouse approaches, Kalido DIW easily
accommodates business change by enabling users to incrementally build on
existing data models, rather than go through the time-consuming and
costly process of re-designing, re-architecting and re-building.
Additionally, robust history tracking capabilities provide a bulletproof
audit trail critical in today’s
compliance-aware environment.
New features and enhancements in Kalido DIW include:
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Improved look and feel – Optimized
screens based on user testing enhance user productivity, making users
more productive, faster.
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Increased scalability -- Extended support for very large
dimensions, including new features to help customers minimize
implementation time and cost.
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Enhanced staging area management capabilities –
New wizard-generated “feeds”
define how staging tables are loaded, reducing the need for
separately-defined ETL programs.
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New reference data loader – an
end-to-end loader that operates in conjunction with the staging tables
and leverages the power of the underlying database server for enhanced
processing performance.
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New suspense processing capabilities –
non-conforming data can be automatically routed to suspense tables
where errors can be quickly identified and rectified.
“With this latest release, we are
dramatically enhancing the value customers can receive, regardless of
which BI platform they choose to deploy,”
said Bill Hewitt, president and CEO of Kalido. “Kalido
has delivered on this promise hundreds of times, and with this latest
release, we are well poised to dramatically expand the use –
and business value – of Kalido around the
world.”
About Kalido
Kalido delivers active information management for business. Developed
through years of successful best practice implementations, Kalido's
robust, business model-driven information management engine
automatically feeds information to end users through their BI tools,
making them more productive far more quickly and reducing internal costs.
With Kalido, users never again have to wait for months to answer
fundamental questions about business performance –
which products are selling, which customers are profitable, and which
markets are most promising.
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.
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