Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Kalido's Business Information Modeler

Today, I received an update from Kalido on the Business Information Modeler Engine. This is what Kalido claims about the product.

"Kalido Business Information Modeler provides a graphical design interface that can be used to develop and refine business requirements for new and existing information. Instead of modeling data and their structures, the Kalido Business Information Modeler allows you to model the actual parts of your business; customers, products, assets, transactions, even people – and define how you want to see information in context. Even better, the Kalido Business Information Modeler can be used to change and update your model directly against the Kalido Dynamic Information Warehouse, allowing you ultimate flexibility in meeting the information needs of your business. The Kalido Business Information Modeler dramatically improves your ability to meet the needs of your business when it requires it – not when how it’s stored determines it".
The product is due for March 2008. I am waiting to experiment on the new features it claims. I will be evaluating the product on the following questions.
  1. Can an in-house data warehouse be easily migrated into Kalido?
  2. Will the business layer completely abstract the data layer?
  3. Is it just a visual aid for creating/maintaining your data model?
  4. Will the data in the warehouse be used by the tool to help the modeler provide real-time feedback on the errors and the inconsistencies of the new model that he plans to implement?
I will be writing more on this interesting product after I get a practical hands-on. Visit www.kalido.com for more details.

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