Sagent Technology has detailed its plans to "embrace and extend" the new data warehousing technologies to be delivered by Microsoft later this year. By tightly integrating its capabilities with the new Microsoft technologies, Sagent aims to take another step in making it easy and cost-effective for organisations to implement Web-enabled data marts.Sagent is represented in South Africa by 360 Solutions.Sagent`s solution is a turnkey offering that consists of product functionality and comprehensive professional services. Sagent`s capabilities include data movement functionality for building data marts and intuitive end-user functionality for accessing data marts."This is a big year for the data warehouse market," says Susan Andre, MD of local Sagent distributor 360 Solutions. "By providing a technology platform that makes it easier for organisations to deploy solutions with less cost and effort, Microsoft is going to have a major impact on making data warehousing mainstream. Through the work Sagent and Microsoft have been doing together to integrate our capabilities, we will enable rapid and cost-effective deployment of data marts to the Web without much risk.""A critical component for us to be successful in the data warehouse market is to have partners embrace our technologies and deliver added value to organisations," comments Jim Ewel, group product manager for Microsoft SQL Server. "By making strong commitments to the Microsoft platform and being one of the early adopters of our technologies, Sagent is taking a leadership position in helping us make Microsoft Windows NT Server and SQL Server a powerful platform for decision support solutions."From its founding in June 1995, Sagent Technology has had a key objective of letting organisations take maximum advantage of the ease of use and price/performance benefits of the Microsoft platforms when deploying data marts. Sagent`s client products support Windows 95 and Windows NT, and the Sagent application server runs on Windows NT. In June 1995, Sagent was selected as one of the initial vendors to license Visual Basic for Applications, and in May 1997, Sagent was chosen to be a member of Microsoft`s Alliance for Data Warehousing.Sagent has been working closely with Microsoft on a number of initiatives to take an "embrace and extend" approach to supporting Microsoft`s new initiatives in the data warehouse market.
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