Prometheus Research, Cirrus Technologies, and Command Prompt Announce Solution for Open-Source-Based BI

LOS ANGELES, May 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Three companies known for innovation and expertise in PostgreSQL-based technologies today announced that they will partner for a combined solution to deliver robust, scalable business intelligence at an affordable price. Prometheus Research, Cirrus Technologies and Command Prompt, exhibiting together at the Gartner BI Summit, promised to deliver a custom, end-to-end BI solution, from data warehousing to dashboards, for under $100K.

"Basing your BI solution on a reliable, open source technology like PostgreSQL lets you spend money where it counts—on answering BI questions that are critical to business," said Julia Ridgely, Vice President for Product Strategy at Prometheus Research. "There's no longer a need to spend hundreds of thousands on proprietary platforms with huge license fees just to get to the same endpoint--access to basic business metrics."

The solution is built on Stado from Cirrus Technologies, a powerful and flexible analytical environment ideally suited for BI and analytical processing. Stado scales linearly while still appearing as a single database to applications, allowing users to leverage low-cost hardware. "Stado, being fully open source, allows organizations to focus their budgets on solving problems instead of on proprietary hardware and software to run their data warehouse," said Jim Mlodgenski, CEO of Cirrus Technologies.

Command Prompt is the leading provider of PostgreSQL professional services including training, engineering, consulting and architecture. It specializes in the integration of PostgreSQL into customers' existing environment, helping them lower total cost of ownership, create flexibility, and engineer reliability for any PostgreSQL-based solution they may require.

Customers can then take advantage of HTSQL, Prometheus Research's instant web API, and HTRAF, its application toolkit. Together, these tools allow organizations to roll out basic web-based BI applications--including reports, dashboards, and ad hoc queries--in fewer than 15 minutes.

"There are a lot of pretty BI demos out there," Ridgely said, "but they hide an ugly truth: BI can be more complex—organizationally as well as technically—than most people ever anticipate. We want our customers to spend their dollars on things that will deliver value, not software licenses."

About Prometheus Research LLC

Prometheus Research, based in New Haven, Conn., is a software development and professional services company innovating web-based tools to make accessing data easier. HTSQL is a web-to-SQL translator that serves as an instant data access layer for relational databases, speeding application development and reducing complexity. HTSQL is free for open source databases. For more information on HTSQL, visit htsql.org or htsql.com (for commercial licensing and support). You can call +1 (800) 693-9057 or reach us by e-mail at [email protected].

About Cirrus Technologies, Inc.

Cirrus Technologies is a consulting and product development organization dedicated to providing scalable data architectures and specializing in cloud and database application development, application integration, and architectural strategy. For more information on Stado, visit stadocloud.com or, for Stado services, cirrusql.com.

About Command Prompt, Inc.

Command Prompt, Inc. is the oldest and largest dedicated PostgreSQL support provider in North America. Since 1997, we have been developing, supporting, deploying and advocating the use of the World's Most Advanced Open Source Database. We are the only company deploying a commercially viable, enterprise database replication system for PostgreSQL. Command Prompt is also the provider of Mammoth PostgreSQL, the only complete and supported PostgreSQL distribution available. For more information on Command Prompt, visit www.commandprompt.com.

SOURCE Prometheus Research LLC