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illuminate shifts to indirect sales for warehouse wares, seeks more funding Krishna Roy, 451 Group | 26 November 2008 We think an indirect sales route is the right way to go for illuminate since it should enable the startup to make headway in the all-important US market and bring a number of other attendant benefits without increasing its internal cost base. Management is clearly being strict about the partners it wants on board. We applaud that and some of the loftier values required...read more
OLAP: In Fashion Or Old-Fashioned? Boris Evelson and James G. Kobielus with Rob Karel and Norman Nicolson—Forrester | 7 November 2008 Expect illuminate, which recently established its North American headquarters, to gain significant adoption among data warehouse (DW) and business intelligence (BI) users and system integrators and also to expand its partnerships with complementary software, hardware, and hosting providers. See the August 8, 2008, "Vendor Snapshot: Illuminate Solutions Speeds Ad Hoc BI Through Innovative Storage, Indexing, And Metadata" report...link to order report
Vendor Snapshot: Illuminate Solutions Speeds Ad Hoc BI Through Innovative Storage, Indexing, And Metadata James G. Kobielus with Rob Karel, Boris Evelson, Merv Adrian and Norman Nicolson—Forrester | 8 August 2008 Illuminate Solutions is a young Spain-based analytic database vendor that offers a compelling new approach optimized for complex, dynamic, ad hoc queries. Illuminate's correlation database uses what it calls "value-based storage" to greatly reduce the size of the analytic database and the need for manual data modeling. The vendor's approach enables the analytic database—without manual redesign, tuning, or optimization—to continually deliver fast response to complex, dynamic, ad hoc queries...link to order report
Illuminate's Correlation Database Accelerates, Expands BI Queries James E. Powell, TDWI | 9 April 2008 As data warehouses grow from gigabytes to terabytes, getting information into (and out of) such data stores starts to take its toll on performance. Data queries and analysis return results more slowly, and table-oriented scans for information take considerably longer, discouraging users to probe deeper into their data and ask questions that can reveal new customer relationships or trends...read more
illuminate Solutions Named “Cool Vendor” by Leading Analyst Firm Gartner, Inc. | 26 March 2008 "Gartner defines a cool vendor as a company that offers technologies or solutions that are: Innovative, enable users to do things they couldn't do before; Impactful, have, or will have, business impact (not just technology for the sake of technology); Intriguing, have caught Gartner's interest or curiosity in approximately the past six months"...read complete press release
illuminate Solutions takes its correlation database and toolset to the U.S. Krishna Roy, 451 Group | 24 March 2008 illuminate Solutions' free POC accompanying its US launch is all about proving its correlationdatabase and BI tools have an edge over rivals. It uses value-based storage, which stores each value in a record onceso the database has a small footprint and correlation techniques to automatically create a data-generatedschema from raw data during loading. The POC therefore aims to show that a warehouse can bebuilt swiftly without pre-design and can occupy a smaller footprint than the customer's existing one. The startup is making major investments in the US and...read more
Directly from the Gartner BI Summit 2008 in Amsterdam here is the Hot List! Philippe Nieuwbourg, Business Intelligence Network | 5 February 2008 After a year of consolidation and the birth of four main leaders in BI market (IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and SAP) Gartner sees a new birth of young and innovative companies. Here is the list of companies you should follow in 2008 with links to their web sites...read more
illuminate Solutions: a new addition to the datawarehousing crowd Krishna Roy, 451 Group | 3 December 2007 Data-warehousing vendor illuminate Solutions hails from Spain, where it has built up acustomer base, and subsequently expanded into Latin America, the US and Europe. In thepast six months or so, it opened sales and support offices in the Netherlands and France, aswell as a sales office in Madrid, as part of ongoing expansion plans. The company'stechnology for data warehousing was funded and developed under a different incarnation,although it was subsequently rebuilt from scratch in 2005...read more |
