Pine Cone Systems Continues International Expansion; Signs Up Distribution Partners In Italy And Portugal
Pine Cone Systems Inc., a leading provider of data warehousing administration and management software solutions, has announced its continued expansion in Europe with the signing of international distribution agreements with Datamat in Italy and Novabase in Portugal.
"The data warehousing market is maturing very rapidly, resulting in an increasing demand for Pine Cone's data warehousing management software solutions in Europe," said Pine Cone President and CEO Dennis McCann.
"With their extensive data warehousing expertise, both Datamat and Novabase are uniquely qualified to resell Pine Cone's products. We look forward to developing mutually beneficial, long-term relationships with both companies."
Datamat, established in 1971, is a leading provider of IT solutions in Italy. The company provides systems integration, consulting, application development, and specialized third party software products to the finance, public administration, telecommunications, aerospace and defense sectors.
Datamat's Data Warehouse Unit was established over five years ago, during which time Datamat has provided third party software technology and consulting services to more than 20 of Italy's leading firms.
"We are very pleased to announce our distribution partnership with Pine Cone Systems which we believe will enable us to consolidate our presence in the data warehouse market in Italy," said Paolo Brunelli, business manager, Data Warehouse Products.
"Pine Cone's products will allow Datamat to provide support in not only in building data warehouses, but in ensuring the proper management and best return on investment for our clients."
Novabase Suporte a Decisao is a company within the network of companies of Novabase S.A. which are dedicated to providing information technology (IT) solutions to the Portuguese market. Novabase Suporte a Decisao provides specialized decision support solutions with expertise in the areas of data warehousing, EIS, data quality and data mining.
"Our partnership with Pine Cone is important to Novabase Suporte a Decisao because we focus on providing solutions that address all of our clients' needs in the area of decision support," said Luis Salvado, Member of the Board of Novabase Suporte a Decisao.
"Pine Cone's products are the best way to fill the gap we see today in data warehouse management. This relationship will allow us to further consolidate our position as both leaders and innovators in this area in Portugal."
Pine Cone Systems, founded by Bill Inmon, the father of data warehousing, was first to market with the only complete set of software products specifically designed to help companies proactively manage their data warehouse/data mart environments.
Pine Cone's offering provides historical and real time feedback concerning the direct effectiveness and usefulness of the warehouse in accomplishing its primary mission; empowering the end user to make insightful business decisions. No other products provide this capability in as comprehensive, easy to use and in-depth way.
The company's partners include: BMC Software, Brio Technology Inc., Business Objects, Cognos Incorporated, Digital Equipment Corp., Fiserv, Hewlett-Packard, Informatica Corp., Information Advantage Inc., Informix Software Inc., Intelligent Solutions Inc., NCR Corp., Oracle Corporation, SAS Institute, Storage Technology Corp., Sun Microsystems Computer Company, and Sybase Inc.
For more information, see http://www.pine-cone.com.