WhereScape and ICC Announce Strategic Partnership

SOURCE: WhereScape

Chicago, IL – May 6, 2013 –WhereScape, a provider of agile development software for modeling, building, extending and automating data warehouse development, announced today it has signed a strategic partnership with ICC, a leading provider of enterprise technology solutions with more than 500 consultants worldwide.  The announcement was made at the TDWI World Conference where WhereScape is exhibiting in booth #302.

“This is a partnership based on tremendous synergy and a shared vision to utilize automation to help deliver data warehouse and business intelligence solutions to the customer much faster without compromising quality,” said Wayne Eckerson, a leading thought leader in the business intelligence field for more than 20 years and Director, BI Leadership, a TechTarget research service.  “WhereScape and ICC form an impressive alliance under which organizations will reap the benefits of faster time to value from their data warehousing and BI solutions.”

ICC has developed an agile delivery model for business intelligence that delivers high performance solutions that meet its clients’ data management, reporting and analytic demands. ICC applies agile principles to its development to condense total time to develop and deploy business intelligence solutions.

“We are delighted to be partnering with WhereScape and are already finding a variety of use cases across

our practice areas,” said Jim Gallo, National Director of Business Analytics at ICC.  “This partnership is

fueled by a common desire to reduce the cost of data warehouse implementations through the use of

agile methods coupled with WhereScape’s world-class ETL solution built for this specific purpose.”

Added Mark Budzinski, general manager of WhereScape USA, “WhereScape and ICC are two companies that are truly committed to agile delivery and a ‘no-nonsense’ results orientation.  Our joint customers are going to benefit greatly.”

About ICC
ICC, based in Columbus, Ohio, is a leading provider of enterprise technology solutions. With a staff of over 500 highly trained consultants, we are experts in Strategy, User Experience, Visual Design, Engineering, Project Management, Business Analytics and Quality Assurance. Using these skills, we develop and deploy innovative, business-critical solutions that enable Fortune 500 and mid-market organizations to improve operational efficiencies. Our Business, Digital and Technology solutions give our clients a competitive advantage that helps them drive revenues and increase margin.

ICC is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and an IBM Premier Business Partner. Clients include Nationwide, Cardinal Health, McGraw Hill, the State of Ohio, and Honda.  ICC is committed to serving its clients, community and country by developing U.S.-based leaders who work hard to strengthen the American economy. More information is available at http://www.icctechnology.com.

About WhereScape

WhereScape designs, develops, sells and supports WhereScape 3D, the industry’s first data warehouse planning tool; and WhereScape RED, the industry’s first and best integrated development environment for building, deploying, managing and renovating data warehouses.

WhereScape’s products are used in every kind of business intelligence project found in today’s commercial environment: from normal-form enterprise data warehouses and data vaults, through user access layers and tiers of dependent data marts, to standalone data marts and reporting systems.

Our more than 600 customers are active and satisfied users of our technologies, and report that, with WhereScape’s products, they are able to build data warehouses with fewer people, few if any diversions, missed deadlines or unmet user expectations, and in record time: in days or weeks, instead of months or years.  WhereScape has offices in Portland, Oregon; Auckland, New Zealand; and Reading, UK.  For more information, please visit www.wherescape.com.