BURLINGTON and WESTBORO, Mass., Jan. 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Ascential Software Corporation , the enterprise data integration leader, and its strategic technology partner Kalido, a leading provider of adaptive enterprise data warehousing software, today announced a joint web presentation of an in-depth case study on Owens Corning. The company, a $5 billion leading provider of building materials systems and composite systems with 130 manufacturing plants across the globe, built in just 10 weeks a flexible enterprise data warehouse to support price optimization. Owens Corning implemented its Information Access Project (IAP) using the Ascential Enterprise Integration Suite(TM) to profile, cleanse, transform and move data from disparate systems and multiple applications into the KALIDO(R) application suite for adaptive enterprise data warehousing. The Webinar will take place on Wednesday, January 26 at 11:30 a.m. EST. Register online at: http://www.ascential.com/events/webcast.html or http://www.kalido.com/newsandevents/event.asp?event_ID=117.
Klaus Mikkelsen, global development leader, Information Systems, Owens Corning, will discuss how his organization overcame business challenges and IT technology infrastructure problems, and built strong partnerships with business leaders within the organization. Mikkelsen will also discuss Owens Corning's process for selecting technology partners for this project, the work undertaken during the 10-week project, and the significant business and IT benefits Owens Corning has achieved. These include streamlining operations, maximizing gross margin, and providing management with a single-view of the entire enterprise.
"To effectively compete in today's aggressive environment, Owens Corning required a comprehensive and detailed understanding of its global operations. Given the size, complexity and geography of our business, we needed a best-in- class enterprise data warehousing solution that could provide us with timely decision support," said Mikkelsen. "The combined solution from Ascential Software and Kalido has provided us with a game-changing infrastructure within a short timeframe."
"With the global Information Access Project (IAP), Owens Corning realized substantial improvement in productivity and operational efficiency in addition to reducing the sales cycle," said Mark Smith, CEO and senior vice president of research for Ventana Research. "The solution from Ascential Software and Kalido provides a flexible enterprise data warehousing solution with which Owens Corning powers this unique business intelligence initiative."
"We continue to see a strong need for data integration solutions in the manufacturing industry as global organizations such as Owens Corning seek to unify data from dozens of manufacturing plants and suppliers in order to support effective business processes," said Thracy Varvoglis, executive director of industry solutions at Ascential Software. "The Ascential Enterprise Integration Suite enables Owens Corning to gain a single view of
its global business and make confident business decisions based on accurate, consistent and reliable data."
"We highly commend the efforts of the Owens Corning business and IT teams, who collaborated closely to design a fully working enterprise data warehouse that met their business requirements within just 10 weeks -- a project that won them the InfoWorld100 award last year. The iterative nature of the KALIDO application suite supported the team by allowing them to rapidly build and modify their data warehouse in this short timeframe. The implementation has enabled Owens Corning executives to deliver millions of dollars in profits by acting upon the clear view of the business provided," added Andy Hayler, founder and chief strategist, Kalido.
About Owens Corning
Owens Corning is a world leader in building materials systems and composites systems. Founded in 1938, the company had sales of $5 billion in 2003. Additional information is available on Owens Corning's Web site at http://www.owenscorning.com/ or by calling the company's toll-free General Information line: 1-800-GETPINK.
About Kalido
Kalido provides adaptive enterprise data warehousing software to Global 2000 companies. The KALIDO(R) application suite (KALIDO) delivers consolidated views of enterprise performance and can immediately adapt them to major changes in the business such as mergers and acquisitions, reorganization, market consolidation, or new regulatory requirements. This improves the speed and accuracy of management and financial reporting without the cost and delay of operational system standardization. Kalido customers who have measured the business benefits of their projects have typically found they have derived annual savings of millions, and in some cases tens of millions, of dollars through improved management of their company performance and reduction of IT costs.
With KALIDO, companies can rapidly create and manage adaptive data warehouses and associated master data throughout their lifecycle, benefiting from the software's strategic flexibility, low cost and speed of deployment. An independently audited study shows that KALIDO saves as least 55 percent in ownership costs compared to custom-built approaches, a figure surpassed by real-life customer experiences. A typical KALIDO data warehouse implementation takes 2-5 months, as opposed to 9-18 months for conventional methods.
Kalido customers include some of the largest companies in the world, such as BP, Cadbury Schweppes, HBOS plc, Intelsat, Labatt Breweries of Canada, Owens Corning, Philips, Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Companies (Shell) and Unilever. These companies and many others use Kalido's award-winning software in over 100 countries for their enterprise-wide data warehousing and master data management projects.
A privately-held company, Kalido is headquartered in Burlington, Mass. and London, UK and has regional sales offices throughout the United States, United Kingdom, and France. More information about Kalido can be found at: http://www.kalido.com/.
About Ascential Software
Ascential Software Corporation is the leader in enterprise data integration. Customers and partners worldwide use the Ascential Enterprise Integration Suite to confidently transform data into accurate, reliable and complete business information to improve operational performance and decision-making across every critical business dimension. Our comprehensive end-to-end solutions provide on demand data integration complemented by our professional services, industry expertise, and methodologies.
Ascential Software is headquartered in Westboro, Mass., and has more than 3,000 customers and partners globally across such industries as financial services and banking, insurance, healthcare, retail, manufacturing, consumer packaged goods, telecommunications and government. For more information call 1-800-966-9875 (or 1-508-366-3888 from outside the U.S. or Canada) or visit the Ascential Software website at http://www.ascential.com/.
Media and industry analysts, contact Chas Kielt, director of media and analyst relations, at 1-508-599-7256 or chas.kielt@ascential.com.
Safe Harbor Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: This release contains forward-looking statements based on current expectations or beliefs, as well as a number of assumptions about future events, and these statements are subject to important factors and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements in this release address a variety of subjects including, for example, the functionality, characteristics, quality and performance capabilities of Ascential Software's products and technology; results achievable and benefits attainable through deployment of Ascential Software's products and provision of services; the ability of Ascential Software's products to streamline operations, improve customer support, expedite business transactions, and make better tactical and strategic decisions on the basis of the best available information; and improvements in operational performance and decision-making. The following factors, among others, could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in these forward-looking statements: the ability of the company to expand its market share; growth rates for the enterprise data integration software market; general business conditions in the software industry, the technology sector, and in the domestic and international economies; rapid technological change in the markets served by the company; dependence on international operations; global and geopolitical instability; compliance costs associated with regulations to which the company is subject, including the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, and the impact of such regulations; and difficulties that the company may experience integrating technologies, operations and personnel of completed or future acquisitions. For a detailed discussion of these and other cautionary statements, please refer to the filings made by Ascential Software with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including, without limitation, the most recent Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q. Ascential Software disclaims any intent or obligation to update any forward-looking statements made herein to reflect any change in Ascential Software's expectations with regard thereto or any change in events, conditions, or circumstances on which such statements are based. Ascential Software is not responsible for statements attributed to third parties within this release or in any materials referenced herein. Partnerships described herein shall be deemed to be strategic alliances only, and shall not imply the power of either partner to bind the other partner or to incur obligations on behalf of the other partner.
Ascential and Ascential Enterprise Integration Suite are trademarks of Ascential Software Corporation or its affiliates and may be registered in the United States or other jurisdictions. Other marks are the property of the owners of those marks.
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Klaus Mikkelsen, global development leader, Information Systems, Owens Corning, will discuss how his organization overcame business challenges and IT technology infrastructure problems, and built strong partnerships with business leaders within the organization. Mikkelsen will also discuss Owens Corning's process for selecting technology partners for this project, the work undertaken during the 10-week project, and the significant business and IT benefits Owens Corning has achieved. These include streamlining operations, maximizing gross margin, and providing management with a single-view of the entire enterprise.
"To effectively compete in today's aggressive environment, Owens Corning required a comprehensive and detailed understanding of its global operations. Given the size, complexity and geography of our business, we needed a best-in- class enterprise data warehousing solution that could provide us with timely decision support," said Mikkelsen. "The combined solution from Ascential Software and Kalido has provided us with a game-changing infrastructure within a short timeframe."
"With the global Information Access Project (IAP), Owens Corning realized substantial improvement in productivity and operational efficiency in addition to reducing the sales cycle," said Mark Smith, CEO and senior vice president of research for Ventana Research. "The solution from Ascential Software and Kalido provides a flexible enterprise data warehousing solution with which Owens Corning powers this unique business intelligence initiative."
"We continue to see a strong need for data integration solutions in the manufacturing industry as global organizations such as Owens Corning seek to unify data from dozens of manufacturing plants and suppliers in order to support effective business processes," said Thracy Varvoglis, executive director of industry solutions at Ascential Software. "The Ascential Enterprise Integration Suite enables Owens Corning to gain a single view of
its global business and make confident business decisions based on accurate, consistent and reliable data."
"We highly commend the efforts of the Owens Corning business and IT teams, who collaborated closely to design a fully working enterprise data warehouse that met their business requirements within just 10 weeks -- a project that won them the InfoWorld100 award last year. The iterative nature of the KALIDO application suite supported the team by allowing them to rapidly build and modify their data warehouse in this short timeframe. The implementation has enabled Owens Corning executives to deliver millions of dollars in profits by acting upon the clear view of the business provided," added Andy Hayler, founder and chief strategist, Kalido.
About Owens Corning
Owens Corning is a world leader in building materials systems and composites systems. Founded in 1938, the company had sales of $5 billion in 2003. Additional information is available on Owens Corning's Web site at http://www.owenscorning.com/ or by calling the company's toll-free General Information line: 1-800-GETPINK.
About Kalido
Kalido provides adaptive enterprise data warehousing software to Global 2000 companies. The KALIDO(R) application suite (KALIDO) delivers consolidated views of enterprise performance and can immediately adapt them to major changes in the business such as mergers and acquisitions, reorganization, market consolidation, or new regulatory requirements. This improves the speed and accuracy of management and financial reporting without the cost and delay of operational system standardization. Kalido customers who have measured the business benefits of their projects have typically found they have derived annual savings of millions, and in some cases tens of millions, of dollars through improved management of their company performance and reduction of IT costs.
With KALIDO, companies can rapidly create and manage adaptive data warehouses and associated master data throughout their lifecycle, benefiting from the software's strategic flexibility, low cost and speed of deployment. An independently audited study shows that KALIDO saves as least 55 percent in ownership costs compared to custom-built approaches, a figure surpassed by real-life customer experiences. A typical KALIDO data warehouse implementation takes 2-5 months, as opposed to 9-18 months for conventional methods.
Kalido customers include some of the largest companies in the world, such as BP, Cadbury Schweppes, HBOS plc, Intelsat, Labatt Breweries of Canada, Owens Corning, Philips, Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Companies (Shell) and Unilever. These companies and many others use Kalido's award-winning software in over 100 countries for their enterprise-wide data warehousing and master data management projects.
A privately-held company, Kalido is headquartered in Burlington, Mass. and London, UK and has regional sales offices throughout the United States, United Kingdom, and France. More information about Kalido can be found at: http://www.kalido.com/.
About Ascential Software
Ascential Software Corporation is the leader in enterprise data integration. Customers and partners worldwide use the Ascential Enterprise Integration Suite to confidently transform data into accurate, reliable and complete business information to improve operational performance and decision-making across every critical business dimension. Our comprehensive end-to-end solutions provide on demand data integration complemented by our professional services, industry expertise, and methodologies.
Ascential Software is headquartered in Westboro, Mass., and has more than 3,000 customers and partners globally across such industries as financial services and banking, insurance, healthcare, retail, manufacturing, consumer packaged goods, telecommunications and government. For more information call 1-800-966-9875 (or 1-508-366-3888 from outside the U.S. or Canada) or visit the Ascential Software website at http://www.ascential.com/.
Media and industry analysts, contact Chas Kielt, director of media and analyst relations, at 1-508-599-7256 or chas.kielt@ascential.com.
Safe Harbor Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: This release contains forward-looking statements based on current expectations or beliefs, as well as a number of assumptions about future events, and these statements are subject to important factors and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements in this release address a variety of subjects including, for example, the functionality, characteristics, quality and performance capabilities of Ascential Software's products and technology; results achievable and benefits attainable through deployment of Ascential Software's products and provision of services; the ability of Ascential Software's products to streamline operations, improve customer support, expedite business transactions, and make better tactical and strategic decisions on the basis of the best available information; and improvements in operational performance and decision-making. The following factors, among others, could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in these forward-looking statements: the ability of the company to expand its market share; growth rates for the enterprise data integration software market; general business conditions in the software industry, the technology sector, and in the domestic and international economies; rapid technological change in the markets served by the company; dependence on international operations; global and geopolitical instability; compliance costs associated with regulations to which the company is subject, including the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, and the impact of such regulations; and difficulties that the company may experience integrating technologies, operations and personnel of completed or future acquisitions. For a detailed discussion of these and other cautionary statements, please refer to the filings made by Ascential Software with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including, without limitation, the most recent Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q. Ascential Software disclaims any intent or obligation to update any forward-looking statements made herein to reflect any change in Ascential Software's expectations with regard thereto or any change in events, conditions, or circumstances on which such statements are based. Ascential Software is not responsible for statements attributed to third parties within this release or in any materials referenced herein. Partnerships described herein shall be deemed to be strategic alliances only, and shall not imply the power of either partner to bind the other partner or to incur obligations on behalf of the other partner.
Ascential and Ascential Enterprise Integration Suite are trademarks of Ascential Software Corporation or its affiliates and may be registered in the United States or other jurisdictions. Other marks are the property of the owners of those marks.
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