MD Susan Andre, who made the move from Johannesburg to Cape Town to spearhead Sagent SA's plans for the Cape region, says that 65% of large companies will have some form of representation in the Cape within two years. "Cape Town is a business magnet, not only for its natural beauty, location and international affiliations, but also its growing economic …
Sagent establishes Web-based data analysis unit
Sagent Technology has established a new unit charged with developing Web-based data analysis applications. The new group will be headed by analytics expert, Dan Feldman, former CEO of Abacus Concepts and co-creator of StatView, a top-selling data analysis software package. Feldman will oversee the creation of a new class of browser-based data analysis tools. These applications will enable decision-makers throughout …
SQL Server 7 bundled with Sagent 4
Sagent Technology has become the first decision support vendor to bundle Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 with its recently announced Sagent Solution 4.0 Internet enterprise intelligence offering.
Capespan sweet on Sagent
Capespan, South Africa's largest fruit and wine exporter, has installed Sagent's Data Server in an initiative to optimise its information delivery systems. Capespan was founded from the merger of exporting giants Unifruco and Outspan and is the fifth largest fruit exporter in the world. Its market is split between Europe (60%), North America, the Middle and Far East. The company …
Sagent SA goes to market with channel strategy
Sagent SA, the full lifecycle data warehousing company, has announced its channel strategy. This has been initiated by an agreement with FTC, a software development company specialising in project management. Sagent entered the local market in February through the formation of its own subsidiary, which has the sole rights to distribute Sagent's range of data warehousing tools in Southern Africa.
Sagent brings enterprise intelligence to the Web
Sagent Southern Africa has announced version 4.0 of the Sagent Solution, the enterprise intelligence system architected for high performance and scalability on the Web. Unlike front-end-oriented business intelligence and OLAP systems, Internet enterprise intelligence solutions operate as fully integrated, end-to-end systems that enable users to acquire and organise information stored in corporate data sources (known as back-end data processing), as …
Gensec implements Sagent data mart for analysts
Gensec, the investment banking group, is implementing a historical pricing and volatilities data mart. This is the first phase of a data warehouse project for the rationalisation of several databases onto one platform. Sagent SA, the data warehouse solutions company, has been contracted to design and implement the data warehouse and install the Sagent data mart solution. Sabir Munshi, group …
Sagent teams with IBM on DB2
Sagent Technology has announced an agreement with IBM to integrate its Sagent Solution with IBM's DB2 Universal Database. The initiative will help provide mutual customers with an integrated intelligence solution for delivering information to users over the Web. The Sagent Solution is an enterprise intelligence offering that enables users to acquire and organise information stored in corporate data sources (known …