Data warehousing firm Kalido has released a new tool, Business Information Modeler, intended to improve enterprises' ability to drive value from their business intelligence tools.
Today, many organisations have built world-class BI environments using the tools that are available, only to find these tools are not suited to managing that environment, said Bill Hewitt, Kalido chief executive at Kalido.
He suggested that the number of participants in its beta-testing programme was testament to the problems IT leaders face managing their BI systems.
“The adoption of this groundbreaking technology is just one more data point that the pain suffered from BI is not from the BI tools directly, but rather from what’s behind the BI," he said.
One of those beta testers, Dean Robinson, Great American Financial Resources iteration manager, said it had helped his company foster a collaborative process between IT and the Business.
“It increases productivity by eliminating the need to create and maintain the model both in a diagramming tool and in the Kalido warehouse,” explained Robinson. “By using the Kalido Modeler, it is simple and quick to deploy the model to, or extract the model from the data warehouse.”
To date, over 300 practitioners have joined the Business Modeling Community Forum and 1,500 copies of the tool have been distributed.
Business Information Modeler helps users define their BI requirements, providing an easy way for business analysts and managers to communicate their information needs to IT, Kalido claimed.
