Relational Solutions, Inc., of Westlake, Ohio, announces the acquisition of Visual Integration Studio(VIS) from Crossrhoades LLC., a Nevada based company.

VIS is a powerful data integration, ETL (extraction, transformation and load) and process automation tool that integrates data. It will round out Relational Solutions (RSI) product offerings and enable RSI to offer a complete solution for data integration, data warehousing and business intelligence solutions. VIS will be integrated into the POSmart Suite completing RSIs end-to-end solution for Consumer Goods manufacturers and distributors. The POSmart Suite now includes Visual Integration Studio, POSmart Data Manager and BlueSky BI Portal for reporting and analysis.

(PRWEB) March 24, 2005 -- Relational Solutions, Inc., a company providing data warehousing and business intelligence solutions since 1996, today announced that they have completed the acquisition of Visual Integration Studio (VIS) from Crossrhoades, LLC. VIS is a powerful data integration, ETL (extraction, transformation and load) and process automation tool that integrates data from any data source to any target database or file type. VIS supports standard VB.NET code for data transformation and data cleansing. VIS will round out Relational Solutions product offerings and enable RSI to offer a complete solution for data integration, data warehousing and business intelligence solutions. It will be integrated into the POSmart Suite of products offered by Relational Solutions making it a truly end to end business intelligence solution for Consumer Goods manufacturers and distributors. The POSmart Suite now includes Visual Integration Studio, POSmart Data Manager and the BlueSky Business Intelligence Portal for reporting and analysis.

Visual Integration Studio is the only data integration tool that offers three different deployment options, .NET executables, .NET components (DLLs) and the actual VB.NET source code for .NET application developers. This offers complete flexibility to .NET developers saving them countless hours of hand-coding. Its powerful visual design studio provides simple drag and drop of data sources and elements.

VIS will enhance POSmarts capability to offer consumer goods companies the ability to easily get access to sales data. We can streamline the process of integrating POS, syndicated data and internal data so management can easily see what is selling, where, identify issues and take action quickly," said Janet Dorenkott, VP at RSI.

This was a strategic acquisition for Relational Solutions. Visual Integration Studio provides us with a unique solution and a competitive advantage. It will be fully integrated into our POSmart application over the next few weeks. Our vision is to offer our customers a complete end to end solution for small and mid-sized businesses at a price point that will give them an exceptional return on investment," said Rob York, President at Relational Solutions, Inc.

We chose Relational Solutions because we believed they had the knowledge, vision and understanding of the business that would take the customer to the next level. We feel very good about the decision and excited to see RSI embed it in their POSmart solution," said James Rhoades, Principal at Crossrhoades."

About Relational Solutions, Inc.
Relational Solutions, Inc., is a Westlake, Ohio, software and consulting company offering solutions in data warehousing, data movement and business intelligence. Their focus remains on the consumer goods industry where their POSmart Suite provides easy integration of EDI data, point of sale data and data from third parties including AC Nielsen and IRI. Their open solutions allow companies to integrate internal data with sales information giving companies a more complete view of their business. In addition, the architecturally sound model of POSmart follows standard data warehousing fundamentals and therefore provides companies with an architecture that supports growth and change. Many companies leverage POSmart to become their enterprise data warehouse and business intelligence solution. Located at 24601 Center Ridge Road, Westlake, Ohio 44145. www.relationalsolutions.com

About Crossrhoades.
Crossrhoades is a Nevada based company providing data integration options through Visual Integration Studio. www.crossrhoades.com

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