Kalido Selected as a Top 100 Emerging Company for 2002 by Computerworld

Business Wire, Jan 14, 2002

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LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 14, 2002

Kalido Ltd. has been selected as a "Top 100 Emerging Company for 2002" by Computerworld, a leading information technology magazine in the US.

This prestigious award came just ten months after the official launch of the company (see URL: www.kalido.com/download/computerworld.pdf). Kalido Ltd.'s information integration software, KALIDO(TM) Dynamic Information Warehouse, is deployed in over 85 countries worldwide at leading global companies such as Unilever, the Royal Dutch/Shell Group and Philips. Kalido Ltd. is the only British company on Computerworld's Top 100 Emerging Companies for 2002 list.

"In selecting the Computerworld Top 100 emerging companies for 2002, the editors and panel members emphasized innovation," said Maryfran Johnson, editor in chief of Computerworld. "These companies are creating products or services that present a new and creative approach to an IT issue, while demonstrating that they have the foundation, vision, and strategy to succeed in the years ahead."

The KALIDO warehouse enables large organizations to integrate information across their numerous IT and operational systems in order to improve business performance and enhance corporate agility. The solution's unique Adaptive Data Architecture means it can readily adapt to business change, often resulting in faster implementations at lower cost. This solves one of the primary pains plaguing today's global enterprise: "information disconnect."

The issue of "information disconnect," data stored in disparate locations and inconsistent structures, is impeding organizations' ability to gain true business insight through traditional data warehousing and promised enterprise applications such as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Supply Chain Management (SCM). The KALIDO solution is designed to overcome this issue by drawing together all of the information contained in these systems through a non-invasive approach that assumes that organization and technology structures will change.

Through the KALIDO warehouse, global organizations can incrementally grow an enterprise-wide information integration system and ultimately measure their business performance at a local, regional and global level. An independently evaluated model developed by Shell Services International Ltd. found that the return on investment was 50 per cent greater through a KALIDO implementation rather than a custom-built data warehouse solution.

"To be selected by Computerworld as a Top Emerging Company for 2002 underscores the value our global customers are receiving from the KALIDO warehouse," says Andy Hayler, CEO of Kalido Ltd. "Our approach is a fundamental departure from traditional data warehousing, which is not adequate for capturing information when companies are undergoing change. KALIDO technology gives enterprises the means to integrate business information continuously from across the entire organization using standard reporting tools so they can measure performance more accurately even while going through volatile change."

The Top 100 Emerging Companies nominees were critiqued on their ability to demonstrate value to corporate IT operations as well as their capacity to be innovative, creative and successful in the IT world. Judges included a panel of Computerworld editors as well as a select group of IT industry influencers.

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About Kalido Limited

Kalido Ltd., a software venture originally founded by the Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Companies (Shell), provides information integration solutions for reference data integration and federated data warehousing. Kalido Ltd. and its affiliates have world-wide operations in US and Europe, providing sales, high-level consulting, technical support and training. Kalido Ltd. works closely with large system integrators for the deployment of the global projects. The KALIDO(TM) software is in production in over 85 countries world-wide with multi-nationals such as Shell, Unilever and Philips. For more information on the company, visit the web site at http://www.kalido.com.