REDB - Some significant alliances have been formed in the last couple of days. This should strenthen there datawarehousing offerings substantially. I have run into them a couple of times working with IBM and they definitely have a good product. With the alliances with Cabledata and Caribou Lake Software they should have a formidable solution suite.
**THIS POST CONTAINS INFO ON BOTH ALLIANCES FORMED IT THE LAST 2 DAYS.
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(PR Wires) DJ: Red Brick and Caribou Lake Software Team Up to Deliver W
DJ: Red Brick and Caribou Lake Software Team Up to Deliver Web-Based Data
Warehousing Solutions
Caribou Lake to Resell Red Brick DecisionScape(SM) Products in Customized
Internet and Intranet Analytic Solutions
LOS GATOS, Calif., Dec. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Red Brick(R) Systems, Inc.
(Nasdaq: REDB) today announced a strategic partnership with Caribou Lake
Software, a leading provider of software products and services focused on
data management, data analysis and Java Internet/Intranet technologies, to
deliver customized, web-based data warehousing solutions for
mission-critical business decision-making.
The partnership is designed to help customers create powerful, new web
analytic applications and migrate existing analytic applications to the web.
Red Brick's products will help Caribou design powerful solutions that use a
single web interface to deliver fast, scalable and cost-efficient analysis
of detailed corporate data, for both internal and external applications.
"We are very pleased to provide the technology that will power Caribou Lake
Software's data warehousing solutions," said Paul Rodwick, vice president of
Marketing at Red Brick. "As the web matures as a delivery vehicle for data
management and analysis, customers demand proven Internet and Intranet
solutions and expertise to help them gain competitive advantage. Caribou's
products and services are well-positioned to help customers achieve quick
and successful analytic solutions."
"Red Brick offers leading technology and expertise in data warehousing that
highly complements our application design efforts in web-based solutions for
our clients," said James K. Rye, data warehouse practice manager at Caribou
Lake Software. "The combination of Red Brick's database and tools with our
web application expertise brings a highly valuable product to customers who
need multi-user access to detailed, business-critical data analysis."
Caribou Lake Software is a new partner in the Red Brick Solutions Partner
Program, designed to support active service and application solutions
partners who are dedicated to fostering rapid and superior decision support
solutions for small-to-large businesses.
Caribou Lake Software will resell Red Brick DecisionScape products in its
QuickStart Web data warehouse services. Caribou's QuickStart Web data
warehouse offers lower risk, managed costs and an increased likelihood of
success in projects that provide business competitive advantage through a
single interface. The QuickStart Web data warehouse is designed to provide
a secure structure for large amounts of heterogeneous data, and to integrate
customer and supplier supply chains using standard technology.
Red Brick's history of expertise and innovative technology for data
warehousing provides a rich and comprehensive base on which to build
successful business analytic solutions. Red Brick DecisionScape includes
integrated products, services, methodology and partnerships designed
specifically for data warehousing and decision support projects.
Red Brick Warehouse is an open relational database management system built
from the ground up to support data warehousing. Red Brick Warehouse offers
significant capabilities for a data warehousing environment such as:
* A family of leading, unique join and indexing technologies
* A high-performance loader
* Red Brick Data Mine(TM), server-integrated data mining
* Red Brick Vista(TM), server-integrated aggregate navigation and
management
* Intelligent parallelism
* Red Brick Warehouse Administrator(TM), a GUI administration tool
* Real-time data updates with query concurrency
* Superior support for very large, complex data models and high numbers of
users
Red Brick Formation(TM) is a data extraction, transformation and movement
tool designed to ease complex data transformations for large amounts of data
in an easy-to-use, graphical, data flow paradigm.
Red Brick also offers SQL-BackTrack(TM) for Red Brick Warehouse, a leading
backup and recovery solution for very large database administration
requirements.
About Caribou Lake Software
Headquartered in Minneapolis, with offices in Milwaukee/Chicago and San
Francisco, Caribou Lake Software is a leading provider of software products
and services focused on mission-critical applications based on RDBMS, data
warehouse and data mart technologies using Java Internet/Intranet access.
Caribou's application development experience spans developing new
applications, extending current ones to the web and migrating obsolete ones
to newer technologies.
Caribou Lake Software was recently named to Information Week's Top 100
Internet/Intranet Solution providers (10/5/98).
Working with Caribou Lake Software's expert consultants and the JSQL(TM)
product suite, companies such as Seagate Technology and Roberts Express have
realized significant return on investment in implementing serious
Internet/Intranet applications. Caribou Lake's consultants have extensive
small-to-large scale experience with data warehouse, data mart, RDBMS and
Internet/Intranet application architecture, design, development and
deployment. Built to last -- the company's development approach emphasizes
future maintainability. More information about the company may be obtained
at www.CaribouLake.com.
About Red Brick
Red Brick Systems, Inc. is a premier provider of data warehousing solutions.
Through Red Brick DecisionScape, a comprehensive, integrated environment of
products, services, methodology and partnerships, Red Brick helps its
customers and partners improve the quality, speed and accuracy of their
business decision-making. Red Brick's leading expertise and innovative,
server-integrated technology deliver scalable decision support solutions for
data warehousing, data marts, OLAP and data mining.
Information about Red Brick is available on the World Wide Web at
www.redbrick.com. News releases and corporate background information may
also be retrieved by fax. For an index of available materials, please call
800-758-5804, and enter PIN #105756.
NOTE: Red Brick and the Red Brick logo are registered trademarks, Red Brick
Vista, Red Brick Formation, Red Brick Data Mine and Red Brick Warehouse
Administrator are trademarks and Red Brick DecisionScape is a service mark
and a trademark of Red Brick Systems, Inc. SQL-BackTrack is a trademark of
BMC Corporation. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the
property of their respective holders.
Caribou Lake Software and the Caribou Lake Software logo, JSQL, Jsvr, Jpass,
Jtunnel, Jauth, Jsockets, and Jdbcache are registered trade marks of Caribou
Lake Software Inc.
Except for the historical information contained herein, the matters
discussed in this news release include forward-looking statements that
involve risks and uncertainties described from time to time in Red Brick's
filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The Company
refers you to the "Risk Factors" in the most recent Annual Report filed with
the SEC on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 1997 and the most
recent Quarterly Report filed with the SEC on Form 10-Q for the quarter
ended June 30, 1998. These documents contain and identify important factors
that could cause the actual results to differ materially from those
contained herein, including, without limitation: Competition; Sales and
Marketing Repositioning; Dependence on New Products and Rapid Technological
Change; Feasibility of In-Process Technology; Dependence upon Key Personnel;
and Dependence on Continued Growth of the Data Warehouse Market.
/CONTACT: Carolyn Hughes of Red Brick Systems, Inc., 408-399-7216, or
chughes@redbrick.com; or James K. Rye of Caribou Lake Software, Inc.,
651-592-6321, or jrye@CaribouLake.com/
08:01 EST
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(COMTEX) B: RED BRICK: Red Brick and CableData partner for data wareh
B: RED BRICK: Red Brick and CableData partner for data warehousing solutions in
customer care and billing
DEC 1, 1998, M2 Communications - Red Brick Systems, Inc.
(NASDAQ:REDB) today announced a strategic partnership with CableData
Inc. to deliver customer care and billing data warehousing solutions
powered by Red Brick DecisionScape products, including Red Brick
Formation and Red Brick Warehouse. CableData, a leading provider of
customer management and billing systems to the global communications
and utilities industries chose Red Brick products to increase
performance and scalability in the analysis of cable, telephony and
internet services data.
CableData's StarGate data warehousing solution will incorporate Red
Brick products to power quick, efficient responses to queries in areas
such as customer relationship management, targeted revenue campaigns
and customer loyalty programs. Red Brick Formation, Red Brick's new
data extraction tool, will provide data transformation and movement
functionality in CableData's StarGate solutions.
"CableData's innovative applications will be able to take advantage |
