C-Byte's All-In-One Program, Complete Warehouse, Offers Deployment of Production Data Warehouse in 90 Days
Establishes C-Byte as Premier Provider of Best-of-Breed Components and Services for Rapid Implementation of Decision Support Systems
Calgary, Alberta, Canada (PRWEB) June 28, 2005 -- Building on its reputation,
C-Byte, Inc. unveiled Complete Warehouse, its first packaged offering for
deployment of an operational data warehouse/decision support system (DSS) within
90 days. Complete Warehouse is an all-in-one program that combines best-of-breed
components with C-Byte's proven methodologies and services to implement a data
warehouse for a fixed price. This is the first packaged offering from C-Byte's
Decision Advantage Program, a family of methodolgies, services, partnerships and
offerings that leverages C-Byte's experience and reduces customer risk
associated with building a data warehouse/DSS.
Typical data
warehouse/DSS projects can require six to 18 months or more to implement, and
costs can quickly escalate into multi-millions of dollars. While other vendors'
"solutions" only offer rapid development of a disposable, proof-of-concept
prototype data warehouse, Decision Advantage's CompleteWarehouse program
establishes an operational data warehouse to meet current business needs and
serve as the foundation for future requirements.
"C-Byte is proud of its
large systems track record," said Trevor Biscope, C-Byte's chairman. "We've
packaged our design and implementation knowledge into a set of proven,
business-oriented methodologies to deliver working data warehouses in a very
short timeframe. The Complete Warehouse program lets our customers begin their
data warehouse project on a small scale, building the foundation of an
enterprise-wide DSS strategy which produces near-immediate business benefits at
a very competitive price."
Complete Warehouse includes C-Byte's Decision
Advantage Implementation services to guide a customer through the steps to
building a successful system using modern transactional analysis, workshop and
dimensional modeling methodologies that ensure the value of the resultant data
warehouse. C-Byte is uniquely capable of assessing the business requirements of
a data warehouse/DSS through interviews and a series of comprehensive workshops
that involve executives and seniour management, business analysts and the user
community in the definition and logical design of the system. By focusing the
customer on business issues, not system technology issues, C-Byte sets the stage
for a rapid and successful deployment and a production quality data warehouse.
Available immediately, C-Byte's Complete Warehouse system price start at
$500,000 US. The Complete Warehouse package includes the following components:
Decision Advantage Implementation services and methodologies; Oracle or Informix
RDBMS supporting 32 or 64 users; Business Objects or MicroStrategy query tools
for 10 to 32 users; and a choice of C-Byte's four Intel Itanium (IA-64)
processors, C-Byte's Intel Xeon with eight processors or C-Byte's Intel Pentium
4 with eight processors. One year of hardware and software maintenance is also
included.
About C-Byte
C-Byte, Inc., based in Calgary, Alberta,
Canada, is uniquely capable of delivering robust and scalable Data Center Ready
open systems solutions that are guaranteed to perform. C-Byte minimizes
customers' risk, enabling implementation of complex business applications that
support critical needs, based on C-Byte's breakthrough architecture, a
comprehensive portfolio of proven migration services and offerings, and an
established set of partnerships with the industry's best-in-class.
For
further information, phone C-Byte inside the US 800-393-5804, outside the US at
403-770-7818, or visit our Web site at http://www.c-byte.com
Complete Warehouse Partner
Endorsements
Oracle:
"Oracle has worked with C-Byte on implementing
some of today's most successful open data warehouses. The combination of
Oracle's industry-leading data warehousing software and C-Byte's powerful
systems encapsulated with services focused on the delivery of working solutions
will create a powerful competitive advantage for our mutual customers. Oracle
continues to invest in data warehousing across all its product suites and is
excited to be participating with C-Byte in making data warehousing solutions
more accesible and beneficial to a wider audience" said Polly Sumner,
vice-president of Worldwide Alliances.
"Oracle Business Intelligence,
integrated with our existing systems, maximizes the power of our data by
allowing us to make better decisions as well as improve our margins and overall
business performance." -- Margaret Schwartz, Director of Retail Information
Abbey National
"The Oracle data warehouse paid for itself very quickly,
in about six months. Since then the warehouse has continued adding significant
value to Amazon.com's business." -- Mark Dunlap, Data Warehouse Program Manager,
Amazon.com
"Oracle9iAS Portal has enabled our field sales people to
become more productive. They use the portal's unique Business Plan Template to
manage customer information and drive revenue, and the customer feedback has
been very positive." -- Wendel Willis, Digitization and
Customer Data
Manager.
Business Objects:
"Business Objects is very excited to have
been selected by C-Byte for the Decision Advantage Complete Warehouse program,"
said David Kellogg, vice president of corporate marketing at Business Objects
"The combination of market leading integrated query, reporting, and OLAP
technology from Business Objects with the business-focused packages from C-Byte
produces a powerful data warehouse solution that will address today's business
requirements and provide a foundation for growth and change. C-Byte's Decision
Advantage Complete Warehouse program combines key technologies and services to
provide customers with a compelling warehouse solution. We are pleased to be a
part of it."
"Caterpillar, one of the most successful brick and mortar
companies in the past century, is today leading by example by applying internet
and business intelligence technologies to improve its 'operational excellence'
and deepen customer relationships," said Joel Weingarten, vice president and
general manager of the extranet business unit for Business Objects.
"We
selected Business Objects because of its success and proven leadership in the BI
industry and its solutions' ease of use, powerful reporting, and scalability,"
said Professor Dr. Ottmar Beckmann, Director of IT at Volkswagen AG. "Thanks to
Business Objects, we look forward to giving Volkswagen AG employees, from
finance and product development to purchasing and production, and our
subsidiaries worldwide a real-time view of business which will lead to improved
customer service and satisfaction."
"We have always placed a focus on
using technology to deliver innovative services to our customers, and our strong
partnership with Business Objects over the years has helped us to achieve these
goals." David Guzman, senior vice president and CIO of Owns &
Minor.
MicroStrategy:
"MicroStrategy is pleased to be partnering with
C-Byte in delivering The Complete Warehouse," said Sanju K. Bansal,
MicroStrategy's chief operating officer. "This program aims at building
successful decision support systems and reducing the risks of failure via the
application of C-Byte's proven methodologies and MicroStrategy's DSS product
line. With the CompleteWarehouse package, rapid, cost effective decision support
has come of age."
"eBay selected MicroStrategy because of its exceptional
user scalability and its ability to support advanced reporting and analysis,
MicroStrategy also provides excellent query performance with our rapidly growing
multi-terabyte data warehouse." Brad Peterson, CIO eBay
"We chose
MicroStrategy because of the remarkable ease with which we can deploy reports
via the Web to thousands of employees across the company." Tom Ruvoli,
Technology Business Manager, Data Warehouse, Ace Hardware Corporation.
"Campbell Soup Company is utilitizing MicroStrategy Report Services for
Sales, Finance, Customer Service and Marketing applications. MicroStrategy
Report Services provides many options for presenting highly formatted
information in a consistent user-friendly format. This exciting new reporting
capability also leverages our existing MicroStrategy investment." Paul Williams,
Director IT, Campbell Soup Company.
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