Altair and Zeal Group Partner to Resell and Implement HiQube Business Analytics Solutions

TROY, Mich., April 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Altair Engineering, Inc. today announced that Zeal Group of Tokyo, Japan, has become a reseller and implementation partner of Altair's HiQube business analytics and performance optimization platform. Zeal is renowned as one of Japan's leading integrators of business intelligence (BI) technology from the world's major software development corporations. The partnership brings deep system integration knowledge to deliver HiQube-based analytics solutions that optimize business performance for organizations throughout Japan.

"The flexibility of HiQube's platform makes it ideal for the Japanese market, where many companies are seeking to incorporate analytics within their BI stack with ability to scale these solutions as the business grows," said Tsunaki Kawamoto, HiQube sales and partner manager for Japan. "The great majority of Zeal's business focuses on BI solutions with system integration partners and for large corporations, and HiQube will be an important addition to Zeal's lineup of offerings to serve a broad range of companies."

"The demand for detailed business analytics is rapidly growing within the Japanese market place," said Satomi Watanabe, general sales manager for Zeal Group.  "We see HiQube playing a pivotal role in our solution delivery model by providing a powerful analytics platform that works in concert with the many business systems we develop and deploy.

"HiQube's foundation, deeply rooted in simulation and optimization, delivers crucial intelligence to aid in sales and management planning," Kawamoto explained.  "Zeal's HiQube-based solutions will allow planning personnel to independently analyze business activity, leveraging numerical methods, to deliver richer insight for improved business performance," he said. "We look forward to working closely with Zeal to further the value of corporate IT investments and data through advanced analytics solutions."

Zeal Corporation, established in 1991, supports both technology and people to improve the analytical power of its customers, situated in Japan and abroad.

About HiQube

HiQube is a new-generation, optimization-driven business analytics platform to maximize business performance. Unrivaled in speed, HiQube distinctively delivers in-memory performance with traditional BI scalability for large data stores. It provides a self-service user experience as an end-to-end BI solution or a complementary software stack extension for high-end business analytics. To learn more, try HiQube live or download a free trial license, visit www.hiqube.com.

About Altair

Altair Engineering, Inc. empowers client innovation and decision-making through technology that optimizes the analysis, management and visualization of business and engineering information. Privately held, with more than 1,500 employees, Altair has offices throughout North America, South America, Europe and Asia/Pacific. With a 26-year track record for high-end software for engineering and computing, enterprise analytics solutions, and innovative product design and development, Altair consistently delivers a competitive advantage to customers in a broad range of industries. To learn more, please visit www.altair.com or www.simulatetoinnovate.com.

SOURCE Altair Engineering, Inc.