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    — Today, Kalido, the leading provider of agile information management
        software, unveiled the latest release of the Kalido(R) Information
        Engine(TM) that helps companies slash the time for data mart
        migrations and consolidations.
    — Companies have invested significant resources in their logical data
        models, taxonomies and glossaries. With this new release, customers
        will be able to exploit existing logical and physical models and
        taxonomies to build a new more agile data warehouse, delivering three
        key benefits:
        — Cost savings: Existing assets are re-used rather than recreated,
          with automated consolidation and migration tasks that reduce
          resource requirements.
        — Speed: Automation enables reverse engineering, accelerating
          conversion to a business information model and providing an agile
          data foundation for analytics. Existing models can be converted in
          hours instead of weeks.
        — Risk reduction: IT teams can improve governance and overall
          standardization by implementing standards during consolidation.
    — See today’s related release: “Kalido Information Engine Achieves

http://bit.ly/Kalido-on-Exadata        
     

New Release Enables Both IT and Business to Share Control

     
    — According to Gartner, “CIOs should be aware that data marts will
        emerge continuously in the organization. They should advise the
        business intelligence and data warehouse teams to plan for ongoing
        data mart consolidation and demand that a strategy for accomplishing
        it is in place.” (“Data Warehousing Trends for the CIO, 2011-2012,” M.
        Beyer, D. Feinberg, R. Edjlali, 27 January 2011)
    — Organizations seeking to migrate or consolidate their data marts onto
        new platforms will benefit from greater control in both business and
        IT environments:
        — Business teams improve data consistency and use of personnel as
          shadow data marts become unnecessary.
        — IT teams forge a continuous link from business requirements all
          the way through to data warehouse-driven reports and analytics.
    — Companies can download the business modeling component of the Kalido
        Information Engine for free at

http://www.kalido.com/business-modeling-community.htm        
     

Supporting Quotes

Ralph Hughes, chief systems architect, Ceregenics, said:

     
    — “What’s the value of yet another data warehouse in a large company? If
        you can’t consolidate existing BI applications and retire the legacy
        systems, your maintenance and operations costs are only going to go
        up. Kalido’s migration accelerators place all the requirements and
        design knowledge formerly locked in those legacy warehouses into the
        ‘consolidation hopper,’ giving companies a straightforward means to
        merge designs, meta data, and data in a single effort, allowing us to
        drive toward much more economical and intelligible total operating
        models for our enterprise business intelligence solutions.”
     
     

Bill Hewitt, president and CEO of Kalido, said:

     
    — “This new release delivers something the market has been wanting for
        years. By automating the migration process, we can breathe new life
        into old data warehouses and at the same time help customers
        consolidate existing marts faster and more efficiently than ever
        before. It clearly extends our market leadership as the only vendor
        providing agility and cost efficiency at the same time.”
     
     

Additional Resources

     
    — Join the Kalido Information Engine 9 SP1 launch webinar on “Overcoming
        the Top 5 Challenges in Data Mart Consolidation” on January 31 at 11AM

http://bit.ly/mart-challenges       — Join the February 7 webinar, “CIO’s View: Transforming Healthcare
        Using an Information-Centric Approach,” featuring Independent Health

http://bit.ly/Healthcare-CIO-webinar       — Visit the Kalido booth at TDWI Las Vegas to learn more and to get your
        complementary, signed copy of Ralph Hughes’ book, “Agile Data
        Warehousing.”
    — Join the conversation by joining Kalido’s online community, Kalido

www.kalidoconnections.com           @kalido
    — Visit the Kalido blog, “Kalido Conversations” at

http://blog.kalido.com        
     

About Kalido Kalido is the leading provider of agile information management software. Kalido enables companies to manage data as a shared enterprise asset by supporting the business process of data management. Kalido software has been deployed at more than 300 locations in over 100 countries, including 20 percent of the world’s most profitable companies as determined by Fortune Magazine. More information about Kalido can be found at: http://www.kalido.com .