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2008, July 15th - Press Release
Kalido Delivers Fully Integrated Solution for Microsoft Business Intelligence
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New Release Enables Microsoft Customers to Fully Automate their Business Intelligence Infrastructure and Deliver Better BI to End-Users Burlington, MA – July 15, 2008
Claudia Imhoff, president and founder of Intelligent Solutions, Inc. said:
Bill Hewitt, president and CEO of Kalido, said:
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2008, February 7th - Review
Andy on Enterprise Software, An Insider's View - Peeking at Models
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With its latest release of its data warehouse technology, Kalido has introduced an interesting new twist on business modelling. Previously in a Kalido implementation, as with a custom build warehouse, the design of the warehouse (the hierarchies, fact tables, relationships etc) was done with business users in a whiteboard-style setting. Usually the business model was captured in Visio diagrams (or perhaps Powerpoint) and then the implementation consultant would take the model and implement it in Kalido using the Kalido GUI configuration environment. There is now a new product, a visual modelling tool that is much more than a drawing tool. The new business modeller allows you to draw out relationships, but like a CASE tool (remember those?) it has rules and intelligence built into the diagrams, validating whether relationships defined in the drawing make sense and are valid or otherwise as rules are added to the model. Once the model is developed and validated, it can be directly applied to a Kalido warehouse, and the necessary physical schemas are built (for example a single entity “Product SKU” will be implemented in staging tables, conformed dimensions and in one or many data marts) . There is no intermediate stage of definition required any more. Crucially, this means that there is no necessity to keep the design diagrams in sync with the model; the model is the warehouse, essentially. For existing Kalido customers (at least those on the latest release), the business modeller works in reverse as well: it can read an existing Kalido warehouse and generate a visual model from that. This has been tested on nine of the scariest, most complex use cases deployed at Kaliddo customers (in some cases these involve hundreds of business entities and extremely complex hierarchical structures), and seems to work according to early customers of the tool. Some screenshots can be seen here: http://www.kalido.com/resources-multimedia-center.htm
In addition to the business modeller Kalido has a tool that better automates its linkage to Business Objects and other BI tools. Kalido has for a long time had the ability to generate a Business Objects universe, a useful feature for those who deploy this BI tool, and more recently extended this to Cognos. In the new release it revamps these bridges using technology from Meta Integration. Given the underlying technology, it will now be a simple matter to extend the generation of BI metadata beyond Business Objects and Cognos to other BI tools as needed, and in principle backwards also into the ETL and data modelling world.
The 8.4 release has a lot of core date warehouse enhancements; indeed this is the largest functional release of the core technology for years. There is now automatic staging area management. This simplifies the process of source extract set-up and further minimises the need for ETL technology in Kalido deployments (Kalido always had an ELT, rather than an ETL philosophy). One neat new feature is the ability to do a “rewind” on a deployed warehouse. As a warehouse is deployed then new data is added and changes may occur to its structure (perhaps new hierarchies). Kalido’s great strength was always its memory of these events, allowing “as is” and “as was” reporting. Version 8.4 goes one step further and allows an administrator to simply roll the warehouse back to a prior date, rather as you would rewind a recording of a movie using your personal video recorder. This includes fully automated rollback of loaded data, structural changes and BI model generation. Don’t try this at home with your custom built warehouse or SAP BW. This is a key technology release for Kalido, a company who has a track record of innovative technology that has in the past pleased its customers (I know; I used to do the customer satisfaction survey personally when I worked there) but has been let down by shifting marketing messages and patchy sales execution. An expanded US sales team now has a terrific set of technology arrows in its quiver; hopefully it will find the target better in 2008 than it has in the past
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2008, January 22d - Press Release
Kalido Unveils Industry’s First Visual Business Modeler for Business Intelligence
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Burlington, MA – January 22, 2008 – Kalido, the active information management company, today announced the industry’s first visual business modeler for business intelligence (BI). An easy-to-use graphical design environment that introduces pioneering gesture-based modeling, Kalido® Business Information Modeler™ is the first and only solution that transforms the design, development, deployment and maintenance of BI infrastructures, significantly improving time to value for BI projects. Used in conjunction with the award-winning Kalido Dynamic Information Warehouse™, the modeler streamlines the development of data warehouses and rewrites the rules of change management, enabling BI directors and data architects to keep their BI infrastructures up to date at a fraction of the time and cost of traditional methods. A key component of the Kalido Information Engine™ (see related release, “New Kalido Information Engine Unlocks True Business Intelligence”), the Kalido Business Information Modeler provides the best way for business and IT to collaborate on delivering more accurate, consistent and timely business information. Traditionally, changes to BI infrastructures require cumbersome custom programming and static data modeling to keep multiple data models synchronized. The resulting disconnect between the design and the resulting physical infrastructure results in simple business queries taking weeks or months to deliver. With Kalido, that work can now be done in a fraction of the time, dramatically reducing costs and giving business users answers to their critical business questions faster than ever before. The new modeler gives BI professionals a common view of the business that promotes understanding and information accuracy, while for the first time delivering one consolidated view that can be understood by all participants and managed from a single platform. “I’ve seen a lot of logical models over the years, and most are created with isolated modeling tools, without direct connection to the data that will populate the model,” said Philip Russom, Senior Manager of Research at The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI). “Due to this disconnect, getting from the model to an actual deliverable – like data warehouse structures and reports – is an indirect and manual process that takes time and is prone to error. The new Kalido Business Information Modeler addresses this problem. It’s a click-and-drag tool that users of various technical levels can use collaboratively to build business models based directly on the data managed by the Kalido environment. The tool automatically translates the business model into semantic data structures in the warehouse – and in some leading BI platforms – resulting in an implementation of the model that is immediately usable. The productivity gains and collaborative insights enabled by such a tool are highly desirable benefits.” Key features and benefits of the Kalido Business Information Modeler include:
“The value delivered by business intelligence applications can only be measured by its impact on critical business decisions,” said Bill Hewitt, president and CEO of Kalido. “Businesses have been challenged for years for a way to unlock true intelligence about performance. The Kalido Business Information Modeler leapfrogs the market by eliminating the barriers and enabling companies to, for the first time, feel confident about the quality, consistency and timeliness of their business information.” The Kalido Business Information Modeler is expected to be generally available on March 1, 2008. The design module of the Kalido Business Information Modeler will be available as a free download from the Kalido website at www.kalido.com. The latest version of Kalido Dynamic Information Warehouse can be configured to connect to the Kalido Business Information Modeler for an additional license fee. For more information on the Kalido Business Information Modeler and Kalido’s full suite of information management products, please visit www.kalido.com. 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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2007, May 15th - Press Release
Kalido Powers Business Intelligence with Kalido Universal Information Director™
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New Kalido product extends operability with Cognos 8 BI; Reduces integration costs and improves deployment time for business intelligence programs Orlando, FL (Cognos Forum, Booth #13) - May 15, 2007 - Kalido, the active information management company, announced today the Kalido Universal Information Director™, a new addition to the Kalido Active Information Management software suite. The new product will extend operability to Cognos 8 Business Intelligence and ease integration with a number of the industry's most used business intelligence (BI) and performance management suites. Working in tandem with Kalido Dynamic Information Warehouse® (DIW), Kalido Universal Information Director will improve the ability of organizations to rapidly deliver accurate, consistent information to all business users regardless of which business intelligence tool they use. Despite standardization efforts, today's mid-market and global enterprises find themselves awash with multiple reporting tools. The new product will enable customers to deliver a seamless information management platform more quickly. Kalido's unique business modeling capabilities give customers the ability to view their corporate data in the context of their business. As an integral feature of Kalido's active information management software, the Kalido business model also provides the basis for a flexible, rapidly adaptable information architecture, ensuring that customers can quickly adjust their information to meet the constantly changing needs of their business. With Kalido Universal Information Director, this benefit will be more easily translated to BI and performance management tools, reducing the time from information creation to business decision. By reducing deployment time and improving overall integration, Kalido Universal Information Director will deliver fresh, relevant information to reporting tools such as Cognos® and Business Objects® more quickly and completely than ever before. "Our customers are accustomed to powerful applications that deliver valuable insight into their organizations," said Dave Laverty, Chief Marketing Officer at Cognos. "For years, Kalido has provided many of our customers with an adaptive information management architecture that can deliver accurate, consistent and accessible information. Now, with Kalido Universal Information Director, our product suites will be even more tightly integrated, thereby improving that benefit to our joint customers."
Kalido Universal Information Director delivers the following additional benefits:
"Kalido Universal Information Director provides technology discipline for the IT department and the ultimate in flexibility for the business user," said Bill Hewitt, president and CEO of Kalido. "Instead of relying on costly custom integrations, our customers will now have a seamless information management platform that rapidly delivers information in near real-time, dramatically improving corporate performance." Pricing for Kalido Universal Information Director will begin at $75,000. The product is expected to be generally available in the third quarter. Kalido will be providing demonstrations of the Kalido Universal Information Director this week in Booth #13 at the Cognos Forum in Orlando, Florida and Booth #108 at the TDWI Conference in Boston, Massachusetts. About Kalido
Kalido software is installed at over 250 locations in more than 100 countries with market leading companies. Headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts, Kalido is backed by Atlas Venture, Benchmark Capital and Matrix Partners. More information about Kalido can be found at: http://www.kalido.com.
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2007, May 1st - OEM Agreement
Kalido signs an OEM agreement with Meta Integration to embed the Meta Integration® Model Bridge (MIMB) technology within its Data Warehousing / Master Data Management solutions, for their metadata import/export and tool integration capabilities.
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