Deal Radar 2008: Lucidera

LucidEra, the on-demand business intelligence solution provider was founded in 2005 by Ken Rudin, John Sichi and Tai Tran. We had featured Ken Rudin, the CEO of LucidEra last year in an interview.

Why BI Appliances?

By David Hatch, Guest Author As I wrote in last week’s blog entry, the term “appliance” is now being applied to BI. This term is used to define a technology offering that combines some form of software with some form of either hardware or other platform software (see Wikipedia URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_appliance for a really detailed

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“BI Appliances” are Entering the Fray

By David Hatch, Guest Author In May of 2007, Cognos announced the availability of “Cognos Now!”, a “BI Appliance”/SaaS BI offering that comes via the acquisition of Celequest this past January. In June, Ingres (an open source database provider) announced the completion of work on a “BI Appliance” with JasperSoft (a provider of open source

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