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Technology Stocks : Sagent Technology, Inc. (SGNT) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Paul Oberlin who wrote (83)	12/31/1999 9:24:00 AM
From: Carl R.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 220

Yes, Sagent sells a complete solution, and thus it is inherently low-end. Buying a Sagent solution is as opposed to buying a specialized data warehousing product from say Informatica or Ardent, and then buying a BI product from say Cognos or Business Objects, and then buying a reporting tool from say Actuate. Buying all the pieces separately would no doubt yield a more powerful, more customized solution, but would be much more expensive. This key is that while a Sagent solution is much less expensive and easier to implement, it seems to be more than sufficiently powerful and flexible. I also believe that Sagent is targeting their solution for specific applications. There is nothing inherently wrong with being low-end. Consider that MSDOS was a low-end operating system. Carl