Kalido® Universal Information Director ™

 

Kalido Universal Information Director works with the Kalido® Dynamic Information Warehouse™ to export business models from the data warehouse to Business Intelligence applications such as BusinessObjects Designer, Cognos Framework Manager and Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services. 

Kalido Dynamic Information Warehouse is an adaptive, business model-driven system for preparing, implementing, and managing data warehouses. Kalido Universal Information Director automates BI configuration when connecting one or multiple BI products to a data warehouse. Kalido Universal Information Director brings the power of the Kalido business model to drive BI tools throughout the enterprise, and helps to keep reports and analyses upto- date with underlying changes to the warehouse.

Kalido Universal Information Director consists of the following software components:

  • Model configuration logic and User Interface
  • Integration Services, through which Universal Information Director requests services from Kalido Dynamic Information Warehouse
  • Meta Integration Technology Model Bridge (MIMB), a metadata movement solution capable of exporting models to a number of BI applications

The diagram below illustrates the software components and general deployment architecture:

 

Kalido Universal Information Director Client Minimum Hardware Requirements:


 CLIENT

 CPU: 

    1 GHZ CPU

 RAM: 

    2GB RAM 

 Disk Capacity: 

    15 GB Disk

NOTE: Universal Information Director requires the following software: .NET 3.5

Kalido Universal Information Director Client Platform:

- Windows XP SP2 Professional

- Windows 2003 Server SP2 Enterprise

- VMware Server

- VMware ESX Server 3.5

Kalido Dynamic Information Warehouse Minimum Requirement:

UID 1.1 Kalido DIW 8.3 M7
UID 2.0 Kalido DIW 8.4 SP1
UID 2.0 SP2 Kalido DIW 8.4 SP2
UID 2.1 Kalido DIW 8.5
NOTE: For more information on Kalido Dynamic Information Warehouse, please reference the Kalido Dynamic Information Warehouse platform support matrix.

Business Intelligence Software:

 Vendor / Product UID 1.1 UID 2.0 UID 2.0 SP 2 UID 2.1
 Business Objects Designer XI  XIR2  XIR2 / XIR3  XIR2 / XIR3 XIR3.1
 Cognos Framework Manager  8.2 8.3 8.4 8.4
  Mircosoft SQL Server 2005 & 2008 Analysis Services  N  9.0   9.0 9.0

Notes

Items not on this list are not offically supported.

Last updated December 31st, 2009.