Kalido Expands Customers' Platform Choices

Kalido Ltd, a provider of information integration solutions, announced the availability of Kalido 6.1 with Microsoft SQL Server 2000 support.

Kalido incorporated support for SQL Server due to demand from customers and the scalability of the database. The increased functionality will enable customers to use Kalido for all information-integration projects, including e-commerce, enterprise performance management, customer relationship management (CRM) and enterprise data warehousing.

"Kalido 6.1 is a significant step in our strategy to provide organizations with open and flexible information integration," said Andy Hayler, CEO of Kalido Ltd. "Kalido on SQL Server 2000 increases our value to customers who wish to use Microsoft platforms."

Kalido 6.1 and Microsoft SQL Server 2000 deliver an end-to-end federated warehouse providing a coherent view of enterprise information that readily adapts to business change. Kalido complements SQL Server solutions utilizing SQL Server services, yet cutting in half database implementation effort and slashing the ongoing maintenance burden.

META Group verified that in a Kalido data warehouse ROI study, Kalido saved 35 percent on implementation costs and 55 percent on maintenance costs, and implementation was 33 percent faster than custom-build solutions.

"Microsoft SQL server 2000 and Kalido technologies work in synergy to integrate information across the enterprise," said John Eng, Lead Product Manager, SQL Server from Microsoft Corporation. "Kalido compliments SQL server solutions providing a rapid and scalable federated approach to business intelligence."

Kalido federated warehouses take advantage of all of the features of SQL Server 2000, providing pre-built, highly-optimized stores that can be easily accessed for business use.

Major benefits of Kalido include

• Builds and maintains warehouses
• Controls reference data for multiple perspectives and standardization
• Generates and maintains data-marts for use in business analytics
• Faster implementations with less effort than traditional approaches
• Independence from intense business change

Additionally, Kalido's unique reference and repository suite provides a central and collective view of all corporate data, offering multiple perspectives to support both strategic and tactical insights.

Kalido partners with industry leaders worldwide such as Acuma, Aexis, ACTA, Business Objects, Cognos, Information Builders, Microgen Kaisha and Origin to help maximize existing strategic technology investments.

"Royal Dutch Shell is expecting time and budget savings as a result of using Compaq solutions and Kalido," said Iain Stephen, Compaq UK Business Manager, Industry Standard servers. "We support moves by data warehousing solution providers to offer expanded platform choices, such as this new version of Kalido on SQL Server. These will make Compaq even more attractive to our large corporate customers."

About Kalido

Kalido Ltd, a software venture from the Royal Dutch Shell Group of Companies (Shell), provides Information Integration solutions for reference data management and federated data warehousing. Kalido Ltd has worldwide operations in US, Europe and Australia providing sales, high-level consulting, technical support and training. Kalido works closely with large system integrators for the deployment of the global projects. Kalido has been implemented in 120 sites in over 85 countries worldwide with multi-national companies such as Shell, Unilever and Philips. For more information on the company, visit us on the Web at www.Kalido.com.

Contact Kalido Ltd, Laurie Cox, 44-207 934 3249, laurie.cox@Kalido.com.