Skytide's Analytical Platform Wins eWeek's 7th Annual Excellence Awards Program For Analytics And Reporting

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Opportunities are being created by new technology and by customers' interest in new ways of using that technology.

San Mateo, California (PRWEB) June 18, 2007

Skytide, announced today that eWEEK, a Ziff Davis Media publication and one of the IT industry's leading enterprise magazines, has named the Skytide Analytical Platform™ 2.0 a winner in eWEEK's seventh Annual Excellence Awards program in the Analytics and Reporting category. Skytide was a winner over Business Objects' CrystalReports and Noetix Enterprise Technology Suite 5.5.

"We are honored that Skytide was recognized for excellence in analytics and reporting over more traditional players in this industry, such as Business Objects. Companies are faced with tremendous data analytics challenges. High data volumes, complex formats and immediacy of results all part of the business environment, but not easily handled with traditional analytical methods. Skytide offers a new way to deliver analytics across all data, at extreme volumes, and with near real-time results. Skytide has delivered immediate value to its customers by providing a way to understand data in ways never before possible," said Keith Feingold, CEO and president, Skytide.

The award was based on Skytide's ability to deliver advanced analytical capabilities to enterprise users, without relying on a data warehouse. Key benefits noted in the award process included:
•Skytide gives companies the ability to directly access and analyze non-relational and relational data sources without the time consuming ETL process other business intelligence solutions demand;
•Skytide can analyze very large volumes of data in near real-time;
•Skytide enables analysis and reporting directly against XML, HTML, HTTP, and log files, enabling companies to correlate and analyze ALL the data, not a shredded sub-set;
•Skytide does not require data to be restructured into a star or snowflake schema, and there is therefore no requirement to transport all of the data into a dedicated relational repository;
•Skytide offers ad-hoc reporting to allow easy drill-down into the data sets.

The eWEEK Excellence Awards program provides enterprise IT professionals with a benchmark for assessing a wide range of technology products and services. Evaluating the entries this year was a panel of experts including eWEEK Labs analysts and eWEEK Corporate Partners, providing a unique mix of technical and real-world analysis.

"The Excellence Awards program allows us to make recommendations about products that respond to the complex and dynamic demands that eWEEK readers are facing," said eWEEK Editorial Director Eric Lundquist. "Opportunities are being created by new technology and by customers' interest in new ways of using that technology."

Proceeds from this year's Excellence Awards program will be donated to the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, in support of programs that leverage technology

About The Skytide Analytical Platform 2.0
The Skytide Analytical Platform is a next-generation business analytics solution that provides unprecedented insight into what's driving business performance. The Skytide business analytics solution analyzes all available data, including structured, unstructured, and extensible data (such as XML and web logs), thereby providing a complete view of business performance and enabling better decisions and improved processes. The powerful analytics solution uses a Modeling Layer to create analytical models, an Analysis Layer to discover relationships across all data sources, and a Presentation Layer to provide insight via reports, dashboards, and spreadsheets.

About Skytide
Skytide is a leading provider of next-generation analytical solutions that deliver an unprecedented view into what is driving business performance. Skytide's award-winning technology uses XML as a common layer to dramatically reduce system complexity while offering advanced functionality that cannot be achieved by traditional BI tools based on outdated relational technology. Application areas for Skytide include network services, contact centers, and other areas of business that generate significant volumes of mission-critical unstructured and semi-structured data. Skytide partners include IBM, Sun Microsystems and Inxight. Based in San Mateo, Calif., Skytide is a privately held company funded by Granite Ventures and El Dorado Ventures. For more information about Skytide, please visit http://www.skytide.com.

About eWEEK
eWEEK, "the enterprise newsweekly," is the essential technology information source for builders of enterprise infrastructure. eWEEK enables readers to successfully evaluate, deploy and leverage new technology solutions for competitive advantage. The publication delivers to its readers news, technology evaluations, and strategic analysis on the technologies, platforms, and trends that impact enterprise-wide computing. eWEEK reaches 400,100 enterprise technology buyers who are evaluating and purchasing technology solutions for their company. eWEEK delivers news, analysis and technology reviews in print and on a daily basis on the Web.

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