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The Dataspace Partnership Portfolio

Each partnership we enter into has been chosen because it complements the services we offer and benefits our clients. These partnerships:

Allow us to stay abreast of the advancements that each of our partners is making, and share those advancements with our customers
Help us ease our clients’ acquisition of technologies and services
Ensure we develop and maintain a high level of competence in technologies that we see as critical to success

We have partnering arrangements in place with the following vendors and organizations:

With their FOCUS product, Information Builders was a leader in end user reporting even before the current data warehousing craze. Partnering with IBI gives us the ability to build business intelligence applications that serve audiences numbering to thousands of users. As opposed to some of the other leading BI vendors, IBI’s licensing models easily support deployments internally at our clients’ locations as well as deployments that serve their customers, suppliers and prospects. With their FOCUS and WebFocus toolsets, IBI applications can span from the mainframe to the web and on to the desktop. Information Builders is of particular interest to our clients because it is one of the few remaining, large, independent vendors of business intelligence products. They benefit from a devoted customer base that raves about IBI’s customer support. More information about IBI can be found at www.informationbuilders.com.

Established in the mid 1990's, QlikTech’s QlikView is seen as the up and comer in the OLAP and dashboarding space. QlikView gives us the ability to rapidly create customized, easy-to-use dashboards and is a key component of our rapid BI implementation toolkit. In a rare twist, we were introduced to QlikView by one of our clients, who was so impressed with the technology and the way that their executives have adopted it, that they asked us to be in a position to support it. For more information about QlikView, go to www.qlikview.com.

For years, SAP Business Objects has been considered a standard in business intelligence. The Business Objects product line supports both desktop and web-based business intelligence applications. In addition, Business Objects Xcelsius is a powerful dashboarding tool. Business Objects technology draws heavily on their “Universe”, the most capable of the user-focused metadata repositories. Over the years we have developed countless Business Objects systems. More information about Business Objects is available at www.businessobjects.com.

An area of growing interest both for us, and our clients, is cost-effective delivery of business intelligence and dashboards over the web. myDIALS is a software company that provides web-based dashboard tools that are accessed via a software as a service (SaaS) model. Our alliance with myDIALS allows us to provide customers with ubiquitous, inexpensive, pay as you go dashboard functionality. More information about myDIALS is available at www.mydials.com.

Our Netezza partnership allows us to offer our customers access to the world’s leading data warehouse appliance. Netezza combines hardware and database software to provide blazing performance to data warehouse applications. Dataspace customers using the Netezza rave about the geometric increases in performance they have experienced over their legacy data warehousing platforms. To explore Netezza, visit www.netezza.com.

Central Michigan University Research Corporation (CMU-RC) – Predictive analytics is one of the hottest topics in the world of business intelligence. But, effective predictive analytics demands experience and expertise. To provide our customers with access to that expertise, Dataspace has formed a unique partnership with CMU-RC, the consulting arm of Central Michigan University. This partnership gives us access to some of the leading minds in the predictive analytics space. CMU-RC is funded, in part, by grants from both SAS and IBM as well as some of the largest global corporations headquartered in Michigan. More information about CMU-RC is available at www.cmurc.com.

Online Tech – As information technology evolves, customers are frequently investigating the possibility of outsourcing the hosting and operation of their business intelligence infrastructures. To support this growing need, Dataspace has partnered with Online Tech. Based in Ann Arbor with redundant facilities in Flint, Michigan, Online Tech has become one of the nation’s top hosting providers. Our partnership allows us to offer our customers access to leading edge data warehouse and business intelligence technology while removing the headaches and overhead associated with maintaining the hardware and software. More information about Online Tech can be found at www.onlinetech.com.