Data mart company Sagent Technology and USinternetworking, Inc, an Internet computing services (ICS) company, have announced a partnership to deliver data mart-based decision support solutions over the Internet, based on a fixed monthly subscription price model.
These data mart solutions will offer rapid return on investment, low risk, and predictable price/performance at a fraction of the cost of deploying an inhouse system.
The new partnership is targeting the Web-enabled data warehousing segment of the emerging market for branded outsourcing services, which overall is expected to grow to a $21,1bn business by 2001, according to Forrester Research.
Combining Sagent`s turnkey decision support product, the Sagent Data Mart Solution, with Sagent`s Professional Services and USi`s global network of mission-critical Internet data centre facilities, makes advanced data warehousing possible for a broader segment of the market than ever before.
Organisations can now focus on their competencies, rather than the technical issues associated with deploying a decision support effort.
"Sagent and USi are offering a fast, simple way to implement data marts without the risks, up-front costs, and headaches of inhouse IT projects," says Ken Gardner, president and CEO of Sagent Technology.
"Just finding the scarce design and implementation expertise can be a barrier to IT implementations. Sagent and USi remove that barrier and also provide a reliable hosting infrastructure. If you have a PC with a modem connected to a phone line, we can do the rest. It really is that simple. And using Sagent`s pre-built data mart templates, development is fast."
"The USi/Sagent partnership represents something revolutionary in the IT market," comments Chris Poelma, senior executive VP and chief technology officer at USi. "By combining USi`s robust data centre infrastructure and telecomputing capability with Sagent`s applications and domain expertise in delivering turnkey data marts, implementations that have historically taken years to complete are compressed into tightly packaged 30- and 60-day deliverables."
* Sagent Technology is represented in South Africa by 360 Solutions.
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