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Kosmic-Databeacon deal
 India's Kosmic Technology Group has been chosen as certified international distributor by Canada's Databeacon Inc. Launch events in Chennai and Mumbai have been planned to introduce IT organisations in 5MBs to self-serve data analysis and reporting with Databeacon's Smart Client suite of products.
Kosmic Technology Solutions, a division of the Kosmic Group of Companies, has tied up with Databeacon, Inc. of Ottawa, Canada, in a partnership that will enable a new class of business intelligence tools to be available in the Indian market to serve the needs of small and medium businesses.
Kosmic will announce the availability of the Databeacon Smart Client 1.1 family of data analysis and reporting products for the Indian market at separate launch events in Chennai and
Mumbai.
The announcement seals Kosmic's partnership as a Databeacon Certified International Distributor. Smart Client is featured and priced for management and business analysts in mid-market companies or departments of larger organisations typical of India that are seeking lower TCO (total cost of ownership), easy integration with existing IT infrastructure, faster adoption of self-serve explorable reports for better decisions making across enterprises.
"We have never seen a new partner as aggressive and market-ready as Kosmic Technology Solutions," said Hans Galldin, Databeacon's president and CEO. "Nor have we seen an IT landscape as dynamic as India's is right now. We believe that as small and medium businesses in India brace up to compete with best of breed organisations worldwide, our partnership with Kosmic will be a chief catalyst in transforming how Indian 5MBs manage their business intelligence and make decisions that power their growth."
 Databeacon Smart Client is available in a standard as well as professional edition, priced at levels that are significantly lower than other competing products. Completely compatible with Microsoft's .NET Framework, Smart Client software offers multiple report views to ensure 100 per cent adoption of self-serve explorable reports, unparalleled support for Windows desktop tools, and no-touch deployment. Further, the suite of products is interoperable and supported across multiple server platforms and data sources, thus enabling seamless integration into existing IT
datacenters.
According to analyst group AMI Partners, there are approximately 46,000 Indian mid-market companies with between 100 and 999 employees. Between them, these companies spent $ 2.91 billion on IT in 2004. "Mid-market enterprises want fast, effective and affordable ways to serve the needs of web-based users," said K Muthiah, director, Finance and Marketing, Kosmic Group.
"Databeacon's no-touch smart client deployment of explorable reports is a great example of the kind of innovative products Kosmic Technology Solutions is introducing to deliver more value to Indian customers."
"We're most excited by Databeacon's report viewer, called Databeacon Player," says Muthiah. "Leveraging Microsoft .NET, Databeacon Player offers an analytical reporting interface within the framework of a multimedia player that both business and professional users find easy to use and make keener decision with. It's an evolutionary breakthrough converting vast pools of data into usable information that can be utilised to form better decision chains that enhance an organisation's strategic and tactical ability to get a leg-up on the competition.
In a recent study, entitled 'Profiling the Analytic End User for Business Intelligence', Forrester Research states that the vast majority (86 per cent) of analytic end-users are consumers of information rather than producers of analysis. According to Keith Gile, senior analyst at Forrester, the key to a successful implementation is targeting the solution to the appropriate end-user constituency. "Like it or not, many business and casual users will be forced to produce their own reports. As this occurs, the lines blur between business users and casual users, encouraging departments to select the tools best suited to address the immediate needs of the producers within those departments," says
Gile.
 Databeacon Smart Client Professional and Smart Client Standard 1.1 use Databeacon's Client OlAP Reporting Environment (CORE) to combine the best of rich client and thin client systems. Combined with the .NET Framework, Databeacon's CORE technology vastly improves web-based reporting and analysis experiences, while eliminating server loads and providing automatic end-user software upgrades.
The Databeacon Smart Client 1.1 product family extends its latin-1 (1508859-1) language localisation support to CJK (Chinese-Japanese-Korean) support, allowing Asian language users to apply advanced analytical capabilities to local language data.
Databeacon Smart Client Standard - Databeacon Smart Client Standard 1.1 offers "instant-on" deployment of reporting and data analysis from a Microsoft or Linux Web server to any PC with the .NET framework installed. Also included are three viewers designed to ensure 100 per cent adoption: Databeacon Web Reporter for casual use information consumers, Databeacon Player for more frequent data explorers, and Databeacon Insight for power analysts and report designers.
Databeacon Smart Client Professional - Databeacon Smart Client Professional 1.1 includes all the features of DatabeaconSmart Client Standard along with an Application Programme Interface (API) that provides a scripting language for creating custom data profiles. It also enables custom portal development and tight integration with existing system interfaces.
Kosmic Technology Solutions is part of the Kosmic Group of Companies and has established itself in the field of software development and deployment for the past several years. With an international presence around the world, Kosmic has emerged as a leader in the areas of enterprise applications, embedded systems and integrated business solutions.
Founded in 1995, Databeacon Inc is the award-winning developer of Databeacon Web Reporting and Data Analysis software. With more than 1,100 customers around the world, Databeacon's corporate headquarters are in Ottawa with more than 110 re-seller and OEM/ISV partners located in 27 countries.
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