Relational Solutions, Inc., of Westlake, Ohio, announces the acquisition of Visual Integration Studio(VIS) from Crossrhoades LLC., a Nevada based company.
VIS is a powerful data integration, ETL (extraction, transformation and load) and process automation tool that integrates data. It will round out Relational Solutions (RSI) product offerings and enable RSI to offer a complete solution for data integration, data warehousing and business intelligence solutions. VIS will be integrated into the POSmart Suite completing RSI’s end-to-end solution for Consumer Goods manufacturers and distributors. The POSmart Suite now includes Visual Integration Studio, POSmart Data Manager and BlueSky BI Portal for reporting and analysis.
(PRWEB) March 24, 2005 -- Relational Solutions, Inc., a company providing
data warehousing and business intelligence solutions since 1996, today announced
that they have completed the acquisition of Visual Integration Studio (VIS) from
Crossrhoades, LLC. VIS is a powerful data integration, ETL (extraction,
transformation and load) and process automation tool that integrates data from
any data source to any target database or file type. VIS supports standard
VB.NET code for data transformation and data cleansing. VIS will round out
Relational Solutions product offerings and enable RSI to offer a complete
solution for data integration, data warehousing and business intelligence
solutions. It will be integrated into the POSmart Suite of products offered by
Relational Solutions making it a truly end to end business intelligence solution
for Consumer Goods manufacturers and distributors. The POSmart Suite now
includes Visual Integration Studio, POSmart Data Manager and the BlueSky
Business Intelligence Portal for reporting and analysis.
Visual
Integration Studio is the only data integration tool that offers three different
deployment options, .NET executables, .NET components (DLL’s) and the actual
VB.NET source code for .NET application developers. This offers complete
flexibility to .NET developers saving them countless hours of hand-coding. Its
powerful visual design studio provides simple drag and drop of data sources and
elements.
“VIS will enhance POSmarts capability to offer consumer goods
companies the ability to easily get access to sales data. We can streamline the
process of integrating POS, syndicated data and internal data so management can
easily see what is selling, where, identify issues and take action quickly,”
said Janet Dorenkott, VP at RSI.
“This was a strategic acquisition for
Relational Solutions. Visual Integration Studio provides us with a unique
solution and a competitive advantage. It will be fully integrated into our
POSmart application over the next few weeks. Our vision is to offer our
customers a complete end to end solution for small and mid-sized businesses at a
price point that will give them an exceptional return on investment,” said Rob
York, President at Relational Solutions, Inc.
“We chose Relational
Solutions because we believed they had the knowledge, vision and understanding
of the business that would take the customer to the next level. We feel very
good about the decision and excited to see RSI embed it in their POSmart
solution,” said James Rhoades, Principal at Crossrhoades.”
About
Relational Solutions, Inc.
Relational Solutions, Inc., is a Westlake, Ohio,
software and consulting company offering solutions in data warehousing, data
movement and business intelligence. Their focus remains on the consumer goods
industry where their POSmart Suite provides easy integration of EDI data, point
of sale data and data from third parties including AC Nielsen and IRI. Their
open solutions allow companies to integrate internal data with sales information
giving companies a more complete view of their business. In addition, the
architecturally sound model of POSmart follows standard data warehousing
fundamentals and therefore provides companies with an architecture that supports
growth and change. Many companies leverage POSmart to become their enterprise
data warehouse and business intelligence solution. Located at 24601 Center Ridge
Road, Westlake, Ohio 44145. www.relationalsolutions.com
About
Crossrhoades.
Crossrhoades is a Nevada based company providing data
integration options through Visual Integration Studio. www.crossrhoades.com
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