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Yes to Cleveland event in Washington D.C.
The Rainmaker Group
recently had the opportunity to represent Cleveland
on an economic development trip to our nation’s
capital. The trip provided an opportunity to
meet with Senator DeWine, Senator Voinovich,
Mayor Campbell, and many leading business leaders
from in and around Cleveland. Not only was the
trip great fun, but many good contacts were
made by all. If your organization is not involved
in Say Yes to Cleveland you should check them
out at http://www.yescleveland.org.
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The
Rainmaker Group Expands Lead Program
Join our expanding network of business
associates who are earning generous commissions
just for recommending the Rainmaker Group to their
clients. This is
a great opportunity to provide value-added service
to your clients and increase your revenues.
The program provides you with the essential
product and business information to make such
a recommendation with complete confidence.
Program Benefits
o You receive a commission
upon closed sales
o You provide a value-added
service to your clients
o No long-term commitment
or investment
o Secured web site for product
information, lead tracking,
and more.
To learn more, sign-up
for our webcast presentation on May 27, 10:00-10:40
am (eastern standard) by emailing your name,
phone, and email address to sales@rainmakerworks.com
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Information
is not knowledge
– Albert Einstein It
is a capital mistake to theorize before one
has data
- Sir Author Conan Doyle
A prudent question
is one half of wisdom
- Francis Bacon
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The Rainmaker Group
is growing. If you are interested in learning
our opportunities please visit the careers section
of our web site at www.rainmakerworks.com
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| Rainmaker
Group Joins ProClarity Partner Network
Akron, Ohio (PRWEB) April
5, 2004 – Rainmaker Group, today announced
that it has joined the ProClarity Partner
Network as an Authorized partner. The ProClarity
Partner Network is a comprehensive program
designed to create highly successful business
Intelligence partnerships that increase customer
performance and success with solutions built
on the ProClarity® Analytics Platform.
In partnership with ProClarity, the leading
provider of analytic platform technology for
the enterprise, Rainmaker Group leverages
ProClarity’s enterprise-class custom
analytic applications platform for solving
sophisticated business intelligence problems
and improving business performance.
The Rainmaker Group is
the proven partner for data warehousing in
Ohio. The Rainmaker Group has extensive experience
in database design, optimization, and custom
software engineering. Our project teams have
worked with Albrecht Grocery Co., Buehler
Foods, Goodyear, and Firestone on sophisticated
data warehouse and reporting solutions.
“We are very excited
to be a ProClarity Partner. We recognize the
value ProClarity applications provide to our
clients when dealing with advanced analytics,”
said Chad Symens, president Rainmaker Group.
“The integration with Microsoft’s
data warehouse solutions creates a very compelling
and complete solution for our customers to
draw the maximum value from business intelligence.”
“ProClarity is pleased
to partner with Rainmaker Group, a leading
firm in the data warehousing and Business
Intelligence industry, which allows both of
our organizations to continue our strong growth
and success in the BI market,” said
Jamie Cooper, vice president of corporate
marketing for ProClarity Corporation. “The
ProClarity Partner Network enables our partners
to better leverage ProClarity’s award-winning
analytic application development platform
for delivering custom applications and integrate
their domain expertise in order to help companies
make more informed business decisions and
improve business performance.”
About Rainmaker
Group
The Rainmaker Group is the proven partner
for data warehousing, ProClarity implementation
and support, and custom software engineering
in Ohio. Our teams are skilled at working
with clients throughout the full life-cycle
of data warehousing and business intelligence
projects. Headquartered in Akron, Ohio the
Rainmaker Group serves clients throughout
the U.S. To learn more, visit www.rainmakerworks.com
or call 330-705-8703.
About ProClarity
Corporation
ProClarity Corporation’s industry-leading
application development platform helps customers
build sophisticated custom analytic solutions
that enable decision makers to make more insightful
choices faster. These solutions, based on
business processes, decision-making workflows
and existing database and software technologies,
feature patented visualizations, web-like
navigation and powerful calculations to transform
information into individual understanding.
Headquartered in Boise, Idaho, ProClarity
has regional sales and services offices in
Europe and Asia-Pacific. Founded in 1995,
ProClarity supports more than 1600 customers
globally including AT&T, Ericsson, Hewlett-Packard,
The Home Depot, Pennzoil QuakerState, Reckitt
Benckiser, Roche, Siemens, USDA, Verizon and
Wells Fargo. To learn more, visit www.proclarity.com
or call +1 208.344.1630.
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Rainmaker
Group Announces Quick Start Framework
Custom Data warehouse in less than
45 days The
Rainmaker Group has a framework for
designing, building, and implementing
a custom data warehouse within 30-45
days including the implementation of
ProClarity for data analysis (OLAP).
“Our new framework
is a key differentiator for the Rainmaker
Group” said Chad Symens President.
“We are directly supporting our
clients requirement to get the technology
into the end users hands faster.”
Many organizations
are investigating the benefits of data
warehousing but are scared-off when
consulting company’s quote six
months (or longer) to do the job. Middle-market
companies are not going to spend $250,000
on a data warehouse without truly understanding
the benefits.
The Rainmaker Group
approach is completely different. Built
on customer feedback to directly address
the need for rapid implementation our
approach adapts the best practices of
the spiral development methodology advocated
by Bill Inmon, and now being used extensively
by the Department of Defense and leading
commercial organizations.
Contact the Rainmaker
Group today for more information –
sales@rainmakerworks.com
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EVENT
SUMMARY
The Rainmaker Group hosted our first Data
Warehouse Best Practices event at the City
Club of Cleveland on April 7. The attendance
was super with over 50 area companies represented.
The keynote speakers were Bill Inmon, the father
of data warehousing, Mike Lebben Senior Technical
Account Manager from ProClarity, and Chad Symens
President of Rainmaker Group. The feedback on
the event was outstanding so we have committed
to hosting a Data Warehouse Best Practices
event each quarter. The next session is tentatively
targeted for September so stay tuned.
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Bill Inmon spoke about the Return on Investment
of a data warehouse and how companies are making
the financial justification. Bill made some
very relevant points regarding the hidden costs
of traditional reporting based on research he
was commissioned to conduct. The cost to create
one report in a standard computing environment
can be between $25,000 and $1,000,000. This
figure assumes the full process of finding,
gathering, integrating, and staging the data
and then building the customized report. In
a computing environment with a data warehouse
the same report would cost between $250 and
$10,000 because while the same tasks are required
to work the data and build the report, they
are front loaded into the build of the data
warehouse and do not have to be duplicated for
each report. This is important because the cost
of building a report in the data warehouse environment
decreases over time while the cost to build
a reporting in the traditional computing environment
stays the same, or could even increase over
time.
Bill Inmon’s
second presentation discussed emerging trends
in data warehousing. He discussed in detail
the emergence of very large data stores and
how segmenting them into frequently and infrequently
accessed data is a good way to handle the
issue. Interestingly if a detailed data access
study is conducting much of the data will
be found to be infrequently used. Bill Inmon
advocates moving that data to an archival
data store as opposed to the primary data
store. Bill Inmon also discussed new technologies
which are emerging for mining of unstructured
data like text within emails. Just as one
example there are very exciting possibilities
for customer service departments to mine customer
communications for keywords and identify trends.
Video and audio of Mr. Inmon’s presentations
will be posted to our web site at www.rainmakerworks.com
in June so check back and enjoy the complete
presentations.
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