Owens Corning Information Access Project Powered by Ascential Software and Kalido Delivers Impressive ROI
January 25 2005 - 2:22PM
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Owens Corning Information Access Project Powered by Ascential
Software and Kalido Delivers Impressive ROI Owens Corning IT
Executive to Showcase Rapid Enterprise Data Integration Deployment
BURLINGTON and WESTBORO, Mass., Jan. 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
Ascential Software Corporation (NASDAQ:ASCL), 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
(NASDAQ:ASCL) 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 . Safe Harbor Statement under the Private
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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
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DATASOURCE: Ascential Software Corporation CONTACT: Chas Kielt of
Ascential Software Corporation, +1-508-599-7256, ; or Zoe White of
Kalido, +44 20 7934 4432, ; or Mary Keith of Porter Novelli,
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