PRESS RELEASE - For immediate release

BIReady releases Version 4.5

New York, July 28, 2010

It is our privilege to notify you of the general availability of BIReady Version4.5, the acknowledged standardized data warehouse automation software.

Since Data Warehouse Automation becomes more and more accepted in the market and our user community is growing rapidly, this intermediate release of BIReady is covering a diversity of customer requested enhancement, for the easiness of usage of BIReady.

Multiple job schedule option, materialized views, increased performance, workflow optimization, DW health checks and reporting are among them.

Also brand new functionality is available:

*) MySQL is now a support database

*) State oriented fact tables are supported

This unique functionality, close to what is known as Kimball type 6, or as other people call ‘the twin timestamp approach’.

In short: In such a fact table each row represents the state of an object during a period of time in which this state didn't change. It is a kind of type 2 approach to the fact table.

Imagine an insurance company and claim reporting in particular, including open reserves and paid amounts as of the time of the end of a period. These reports must show the state of the claim and related policy as of the reporting date, not at the time of the transactions, nor at the time that the report is run.  With a traditional transaction-oriented fact table and "Type 1" or "Type 2" dimensions this is quite complex and error-prone, but with a state-oriented fact table the query is very simple.  This will cut development time, allows reports to run much faster, and will reduce the maintenance costs significantly.

If you want to understand all the details, please request the State Oriented Fact Table White paper (at ww.BIReady.com, or an email to info@BIReady.com).

By the end of this year version 5 will be released with even more functionality and features, including another graphical display of the model and data marts, optimized restart capabilities and integration with ETL tools (This means that the BIReady generated ETL statements can be executed by third party ETL tools, as an alternative for our own engine).

The latter will be very valuable for (larger) organizations that already have huge BI and ETL investments in place. It also opens the door for using BIReady as a prototyping tool or communication between IT and Business enabler, where the production environment already in place can remain.

 “With our growing user community (over 150 people have installed BIReady) we can truly rely on the enhancements that we got from them. It is our pleasure to fulfill their wishes as much as we can, with a direct effect of even higher customer satisfaction.”

Says Gertjan Vlug, CEO and owner of BIReady:

“We are also very pleased with the recognition of world leading analysts. Lately we were very well positioned by Forrester in the ‘Agile Data Warehouse Report’, mentioned as an interesting solution in the Gartner Data integration Magic Quadrant and extensively researched for Ovum’s Technical Audit.”

About BIReady:

BIReady is the vendor of a software product that automatically designs, generates and populates Enterprise Data Warehouses and Data Marts, based on organizations’ Business Model.

This unique product, named after the company, replaces intensive manual labour, traditionally done by specialized consultants. Besides time and costs savings of over 50% during the realization phase and every maintenance project, this also enables companies to be agile by making Business Intelligence more responsive to business needs, at the speed the business requires. Finally organizations are able to align to business strategy in time.

BIReady is a fast growing, highly innovative company, with a broad partner network across the world. Because of BIReady Business Intelligence is not only achievable for the fortune 1000 companies but also for SMB organizations.

The installed client base of BIReady includes Retail, Insurance, Services, Automotive, Government, Manufacturing, Healthcare and E-Business organizations.

Note to the editor:

For more information, please contact:
Gertjan Vlug

Phone: +31 621 288125

E-mail: Gertjan.Vlug@BIReady.com