Spain-Based Start-Up illuminate, in Correlation DBMS, to Buid Data Warehouses

illuminate Solutions, in correlation database management system (CDBMS) technology for building data-driven data warehouses, data marts and analytics applications, announced that it will begin selling its database engine and tool suite
in North America on April 14, 2008. It also announced an initiative to
build—at no cost to participants—a data warehouse for up to 10
Teradata, Netezza, NeoView or other large analytics customers, using
all the same data sources that feed each one’s existing warehouse. The
announcement was made at the DAMA International Symposium & Wilshire Meta-data Conference, which is taking place March 16-20 in San Diego, Calif.

illuminate appears on the Gartner BI Summit 2008 Hot List, which is the list of 10 companies Gartner encourages people to follow in the coming year. Highlighted at the Summit
was the ability of the company’s CDBMS to create data-driven schemas on
the fly, while loading raw source data. illuminate also shared
information on its unique value-based storage (VBS) model. This model
requires that data values be stored only once in a 100 percent indexed
database, which is the basis for its exceptional performance,
flexibility and compact size.

The Super-Size Proof of Concept
illuminate is prepared to build data warehouses for
up to 10 Teradata, Netezza, NeoView or other large, well-designed and
optimized information management infrastructures. The goal is to prove
that a CDBMS warehouse does not need pre-design, is fast-to-build and
is a fraction of the size of their existing systems.

Proof of Concept Details

illuminate will build DWs for up to 10 organizations
Organizations must have complex analytics data storage systems
Includes using all the same raw data sources
No charge, no commitment to purchase

Proof of Concept Results

Demonstrate fast data warehouse build—fully functional duplicate of entire database
Demonstrate correct functionality—all data is loaded and is selected accurately
Demonstrate flexible access—experience the added value of the VBS technology

"There’s so much hype out there that it’s
impossible for people to figure out what’s real," said Kirsten Chapman,
illuminate vice president of global marketing and alliances.
"Everybody’s trying to solve the speed/flexibility problem for users,
but they’re all focused on better, faster, cheaper
ways to do fast queries. Users want answers fast, not fast queries. And
they don’t always know in advance what they want to know. Our
technology eliminates the need to pre-design a warehouse or to
reprogram and reload the data when someone wants something new. The
only way to really prove that what we do isn’t magic is to prove it in
a bold way."

Software Availability and Pricing
Pricing for the iLuminate CDBMS engine is calculated by the number of records loaded (per million) and begins under $45,000 with additional concurrent user licenses.

Pricing for the illuminate data access tool suite:
iCorrelate, exploration tool—$25,000 per seat;
iAnalyze, light analytics, dashboards and mapping—$1,500 per seat; and
iLuminate SDK, for custom analytics applications development—no charge

The first-year cost of an average configuration,
including installation, is approximately $295,000. All licenses carry a
20 percent annual maintenance fee based on then-current list price.

Availability for the software in North America
begins April 14, 2008. Customers in North and South America can buy
illuminate’s software exclusively through IT consulting services firms
and management consulting companies. In Europe, the software is sold
direct, as well as through a partner network. The company has seven
customers in Latin America and 33 customers in Europe.

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