illuminate Solutions Named “Cool Vendor” by Leading Analyst Firm

Vendors selected for the “Cool Vendor report” are innovative, impactful and intriguing.

BARCELONA, Spain and MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.— on 28 May 2008

illuminate Solutions (http://www.i-lluminate.com), pioneer of the correlation database management system (CDBMS) technology for building data-driven data warehouses, data marts and analytics applications, today announced that it has been included in the list of “Cool Vendors” in the Cool Vendors in Data Management and Integration, 2008 report by Gartner, Inc.

The March 2008 report, authored by analysts Ted Friedman, Andreas Bitterer and Donald Feinberg, highlights vendors “that offer innovative approaches and technology.” illuminate was listed in the Gartner Report, which calls attention to technologies “for improving the scalability of databases and data warehouses integrating data for delivery to SaaS-based applications, integrating geo-spatial data sets, and ensuring the integrity of data moving across applications and data structures. Each of these areas will grow in importance as organizations work toward managing information as a strategic corporate asset.”

We think Gartner really ’gets’ how the correlation database can solve the ad hoc analysis problem,” noted Kirsten Chapman, illuminate’s vice president of global marketing and alliances. “By indexing every single data value, our value-based storage can handle unpredictable queries at very fast speeds, using our unique incremental and associative queries. We invite more organizations to test our technology with our free POC offer.”


About Gartner’s Cool Vendors Selection Process

Gartner’s listing does not constitute an exhaustive list of vendors in any given technology area, but rather is designed to highlight interesting, new and innovative vendors, products and services. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness of a particular purpose.

Gartner defines a cool vendor as a company that offers technologies or solutions that are: Innovative, enable users to do things they couldn’t do before; Impactful, have, or will have, business impact (not just technology for the sake of technology); Intriguing, have caught Gartner’s interest or curiosity in approximately the past six months.

About illuminate Solutions, S.L.

illuminate Solutions, headquartered in Barcelona, Spain, is the pioneer of the correlation DBMS (CDBMS) for building data warehouses. By automatically creating a data-driven schema and indexing 100 percent of data during the raw data loading process, a CDBMS nearly eliminates the need for predesign. A CDBMS data warehouse is compact due to its unique value-based storage™ (VBS) model, which stores each unique data value only once. A CDBMS eliminates the trade-off between performance and flexibility that so often frustrates IT and business users alike, and dramatically lowers the time/cost of data warehouse deployment and management.

illuminate’s products: iLuminate, its CDBMS engine, and a full tool suite for data access: iCorrelate, for exploration; and iAnalyze, for light analytics, dashboards, and mapping.

illuminate sells exclusively through IT consulting services and management consulting companies in the Americas. In Europe, products are sold direct and through a partner network. European customers include BBVA, CAIFOR (LA CAIXA), ARAG, IESE, ZURICH, infojobs and RORI, among others.

For more information, visit www.i-lluminate.com.