Sagent Technology, provider of turnkey solutions for bringing data marts to the Web, and Advent Software have announced an agreement to deliver an end-to-end data warehouse solution for investment management firms. Advent will embed Sagent`s technology - which consists of data movement and data access capabilities - as a part of Advent Warehouse.Sagent Technology is represented in South Africa by 360 Solutions.With Advent Warehouse portfolio managers and decision-makers in enterprise investment management organisations can harness information coming from a variety of sources in an open, easy-to-understand manner, and use it to make better, more timely decisions."Advent Software has been successful because it has always been able to deliver what the marketplace needed," says Ken Gardner, Sagent`s president and CEO. "With Advent Warehouse, they are once again demonstrating their ability to stay ahead of the competition by delivering the industry`s first data warehouse for investment managers. We are very pleased to have been chosen by Advent as their strategic partner for Advent Warehouse.""When we first started developing Advent Warehouse, we knew we had to address a series of requirements critical to our clients - performance, openness and scalability," comments Stephane Dubois, VP of product marketing for Advent."We chose Sagent because it is the only solution in the market that enables us to address these requirements."Sagent and Advent WarehouseAdvent Warehouse is a pre-built data warehouse solution specifically designed for investment management firms. It is an easy-to-use, scaleable and open data warehouse based on industry-standard relational database technology.Advent Warehouse uses Sagent`s data movement capabilities to extract data from Advent operational databases to build a data warehouse optimised for decision support purposes. Once the data warehouse is built, Advent Warehouse leverages Sagent`s data access capabilities to deliver information to end-users, whether they are using a Web browser or are in a client/server environment.

