Software Futures, a company in the Computer Configurations Holdings group, has signed Pretoria health care IT specialist Execusys as a value-added reseller of the Red Brick data warehouse database. Under the VAR agreement, Execusys will resell Red Brick into the health care market where technical director Nicky Botha says "we are negotiating as many as eight sales". Botha says Execusys identified Red Brick as the best option for a data warehouse engine. "As a company we are committed to Informix for application development and online transaction processing. But when it came to data warehousing we needed a database developed specifically for that application. Red Brick was our first and only option." Execusys, whose other directors are MD Koot du Plessis and R&D director Coenie Hammann supplies facilities management services to nine medical aid companies across South Africa and Namibia. The key driver creating a need for data warehousing, says Botha, is the move to managed health care. "As managed health care becomes a trend, so health care companies have an urgent need for detailed information about their businesses. With data warehousing they can begin to obtain information about diagnosis, operations and medicines. Without this information they cannot control costs, a critical factor in an industry continually under cost pressure." Execusys will offer Red Brick on IBM`s AIX as the most cost-effective data warehousing platform. Software Futures will initially implement data warehouses on behalf of Execusys, but Botha says her company is training up rapidly to provide their own implementation and support. "We have enjoyed significant success in the health care industry ourselves," says Aubrey van Aswegen, GM of Data Futures at Software Futures. "With the specialised skills of Execusys, we see Red Brick rapidly becoming the data warehouse database of choice in this market."
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