I'm back from the Gartner Business Intelligence Summit in Washington, D.C., where I got to meet with several vendors doing some exciting new things in the BI space.
A quick recap of my meetings with Kalido, Fujistu, and Sybase:
On Monday, I sat with John Evans, Director of Marketing for Kalido, the Boston-area-based BI company. Evans told me about Kalido's business model-driven information engine, and also gave me a preview of the company's latest announcement.
Kalido has partnered with data warehouse appliance Netezza (see the Mar. 10 press release here), and Evans emphasized that his company hopes to create new business opportunities with this partnership. In this tough economy, companies want (and need) the triple threat of scalability, performance, and flexibility with their warehouses, and that's what Netezza will bring them, said Evans. Other benefits of the BI architecture include a low total cost of ownership (TCO), as well as efficiency -- the architecture is quick to build, with some customers implementing in as little as 30 days, reported Evans.
On the second day of the conference, I met with three representatives from Fujitsu, the world's third-largest IT firm. Given their size and reach, Fujitsu's customers represent a wide variety of industries, but Amiya Chand, Practice Director of BI Practice, informed that when it comes to their BI offerings, Fujitsu is a huge player in healthcare.
And in breaking news, Norm McKay, Fujitsu's VP of Business Intelligence, mentioned that Fujitsu "is close to launching" a new master data management (MDM) solution -- and that at the conference, MDM was a topic that seemed to be resonating with the attendees.
Later, I talked to Sybase, a leading company in database technology. Director of Product Marketing Lisa Hopkins gave a great presentation and overview of their latest data warehousing and mining tool, Sybase IQ 15. The latest version of IQ promises to "deliver high-performance enterprise analytics and data warehousing with dramatically faster results at a low cost" -- something that Hopkins and I agreed the market certainly demands right now.
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