February 28, 2005 - London
MindTree Joins Kalido’s Systems Integrator Program
The tie up will further help MindTree customers derive higher value from Kalido application suite
Burlington, Mass. and London, UK - February 28, 2005 - MindTree Consulting, an international IT Services company, today announced that it has joined the systems integrator (SI) program of Kalido, the leading adaptive enterprise data warehousing software provider. Building upon its work with Kalido with existing customers, MindTree has formalized its relationship with Kalido to provide large-scale business intelligence initiatives based on the KALIDO application suite (KALIDO).
MindTree has already worked with Kalido to bring millions of dollars in additional revenue and cost savings to Global 2000 organizations worldwide. Through its previous work, MindTree understands not only the unique strengths of the KALIDO software but also the impact on the data warehousing project scope and timescale, ensuring that business intelligence initiatives provide the most immediate and tangible value possible.
MindTree is establishing a Kalido Practice around the number of consultants who are trained and have worked on KALIDO projects in the UK and Asia Pacific.
Kalido’s adaptive data warehousing software enables MindTree to quickly deliver actionable and quantifiable benefits from their business intelligence systems due to its unprecedented flexibility, speed and agility throughout business change.
Launched in July 2004, Kalido designed its global systems integrator program to ensure that current and future customers can receive technical expertise from qualified professional services consultants worldwide. As part of the program, systems integrator members train and certify a team of their consultants in the KALIDO software and develop a Kalido capability within their organization to lead project implementations.
“In the past year, particularly since the formal opening of our U.S. headquarters, Kalido has experienced impressive growth and demand for the KALIDO application suite,” said Chris Worsley, vice president, business development, Kalido. “Kalido’s continuous and rapid expansion necessitates that we work with companies who not only provide skilled consulting and implementation services to our customer base, but who also see the market potential for KALIDO. As we grow, we want the Kalido business in these systems integrators to also grow. We’ve chosen MindTree because of their proven experience and great reputation of providing both technical and strategic value to their customers.”
About MindTree
MindTree Consulting is an international IT company that delivers affordable business and technology solutions through global software development. Co-headquartered in Somerset, NJ and Bangalore, India, the company approaches technology initiatives in a business context, with the industry knowledge of a seasoned management team and employees exceptionally skilled in technology, business analysis and project management. MindTree Consulting develops applications to help companies enhance their enterprise operations. The company also delivers R&D services and designs re-usable building blocks for hi-tech companies. MindTree is the world's youngest company to be assessed at Level 5 in both CMMi and P-CMM. MindTree has been ranked among the top five Great Places to Work in 2004 in a study conducted by Grow Talent Company and Businessworld. MindTree has also been rated as one of the Best Employers in India for the second consecutive year in 2004 by Hewitt Associates, please visit
www.mindtree.com.
About Kalido
Kalido provides adaptive enterprise data warehousing software to Global 2000 companies. The KALIDO® application suite (KALIDO) delivers consolidated views of enterprise performance and can rapidly adapt them to major changes in the business such as mergers and acquisitions, 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. More information about Kalido can be found at:
http://www.kalido.com.