Sagent Technology Offers Educational Data Mart Design Clinics; Sagent Professional Services' Experts Share Real-World Experience At Free Events
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Sagent Technology, Inc., provider of a leading turnkey solution for bringing data marts to the Web, announced that it will conduct a free, six-city educational Data Mart Design Clinic. These half-day events, designed by Sagent Professional Services' data mart experts, are purely educational and offer a practical approach to identifying, understanding and solving the most pressing problems in data warehousing, based on the fundamental principle that design is key to successful implementation of a data warehouse.

The Sagent Data Mart Design Clinic is specifically tailored to people directly involved in data warehousing projects including, data warehousing developers, project leaders, data architects, consultants, and IT managers. Attendees will learn elements of data warehousing design such as, how to reduce project risk and costs through design, designing for high performance, aspects of the star schema design approach, how to test the data warehouse before deployment, and how to use the Web to drive the design process.

"Data warehousing professionals will greatly benefit from Sagent Professional Services' design clinics," stated Mike Venerable, vice president, Sagent Professional Services. "Our experts have spent thousands of hours designing and building data warehouse solutions for Fortune 1000 companies around the world, which enables them to provide real-world instruction, not abstract theory."

DESIGN CLINIC SCHEDULE
  The Sagent Data Mart Design Clinic schedule is as follows:

  Orlando, Florida                   Hartford, Connecticut
  February 23, 1999                  March 16, 1999
  Renaissance Orlando Resort         Hartford Marriott, Farmington

  Long Beach, California             Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  March 2, 1999                      March 23, 1999
  Renaissance Long Beach             Park Hyatt

  Seattle, Washington                Columbus, Ohio
  March 9, 1999                      March 30, 1999
  Seattle Hilton                     Hyatt Regency Columbus

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

To receive additional information or to register for the Sagent Data Mart Design Clinic, call 888/777-0154, or visit Sagent's Web site at: http://www.sagenttech.com/events/design_clinics.html.

ABOUT SAGENT TECHNOLOGY, INC.

Sagent Technology was founded in June 1995 to make business data more usable by bringing it closer to decision-makers. The Sagent solution lets organizations bring data marts to the Web quickly and costeffectively with a turnkey offering that includes best-of-breed products and comprehensive professional services. Sagent is a privately-owned company that was co-founded by Ken Gardner and John Zicker.

Its customers include JP Morgan, MCI, Bell South, Jiffy Lube, barnesandnoble.com, Siemens, Nordstrom, SureCare Health Plans, Cellstar, and Eddie Bauer. The company has strategic relationships with Oracle Corporation, Microsoft Corporation, ADP, Advent, Unisys, USinternetworking and Ralph Kimball Associates. Sagent is funded by Crosspoint Venture Partners, El Dorado Ventures, Greylock Limited Partnerships and U.S. Venture Partners. Sagent's Web site is located at http://www.sagent.com.

Sagent's Web site is located at http://www.sagenttech.com.