Burlington, MA – January 21, 2009
- Kalido today announced that its business-model-driven approach has becoming increasingly adopted by the industry as evidenced by recent industry recognition and the significant expansion of the Kalido Partner Program.
Industry Recognition
- When naming Kalido in the Intelligent Enterprise Editors’ Choice awards as a “Company to Watch,” the editors say, “The only thing you can count on in business is change, so Kalido has done well as a pioneer of flexible modeling with its Kalido Information Engine.”
- Customers save significantly using Kalido’s flexible applications, as outlined in the current issue of TDWI’s BI Journal. In a case study on Abbott Laboratories, the article details, “It’s difficult to put a price on agility, [Peggy Mathias, manager of HQ IT application for Abbott] argues, citing the geographical reorganization that Abbott completed in just two weeks after it went live on Kalido. An effort like that would have been extremely costly—chiefly in terms of person hours—using Abbott’s old, loosely federated system.”
- In a recent entry on Forrester Research’s Information and Knowledge Management blog, analyst Boris Evelson cites the complexity of today’s BI stacks, saying the “slightest change at the source application or source database can potentially trigger dozens, sometimes hundreds of changes for all of the downstream components.” The blog continues, “Even though there are no technologies today that can automate such a change with a single click of a button, [Kalido] automates at least part of that end-to-end BI lifecycle.” (“BI Crystal Ball – Next Gen BI may be closer than you think,” Forrester Research, Inc., October 6, 2008)
- In the short year since its inception, the Business Modeling Community Forum has collected more than 600 members, 50+ business models and 150+ unique discussion threads on business modeling. To access the Forum, please visit www.kalido.com/bmcf.
New and Expanded Partner Relationships
- In addition, Kalido has added more than a dozen new systems integrator and reseller partners to the Kalido Partner Program, significantly expanding the number of Kalido-trained consultants available to customers.
- These partners can now bring their expertise to bear in concert with Kalido to offer customers a fully automated, business-model-driven solution that improves the quality of their information management system.
- Partners can capitalize on the competitive advantages that Kalido implementations deliver to projects, such as faster time to value, higher project success rates and better alignment with business requirements.
- New Kalido partners include: Acxius, Adaequare, Analytics8, CLD Solutions, DATASKILL, Intersect Solutions, NewVantage Partners, Sense Corp., Systems Resource Group and USM Business Systems.
- Additionally, Kalido is expanding its relationship with leading integrators SAIC and Cognizant.
- SAIC, a long-standing partner with Kalido, will now combine their knowledge of Kalido’s enterprise-class information management platform with SAIC’s deep industry experience and knowledge in the Oil & Gas market.
- Cognizant has increased its investment in Kalido-trained consultants.
Quotes
David Fussichen, Partner at Analytics8, said:
- “By working together, Kalido and Analytics8 can deliver successful business intelligence and master data management programs more quickly and efficiently. As a result, we’re able to provide greater value to our customers while maintaining or even increasing our profitability.”
Bill Hewitt, president and CEO of Kalido, said:
- “Now more than ever, customers are demanding faster time to value and less risk in their information management projects. Business modeling provides a new way to focus on what matters and automate the mundane tasks typically associated with information management. With our partner expansion, we have increased the availability of Kalido-trained consultants, as well as expand our ability to reach new market opportunities.”
About Kalido
Kalido delivers industry leading solutions for turning bad data into meaningful business information. Developed through years of successful best practice implementations, Kalido’s robust, business-model driven information management engine governs data across the enterprise and automatically feeds information to industry standard BI platforms. 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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