Wed 21 Mar 2007
Appliances are truly a great way to accelerate and simplify deployments of different software solutions. Basically you buy a box that has everything you need on it and is ready to roll….BI is joining this wave by putting data warehouse solutions on appliances and even some reporting capabilities.
What I find even more interesting than hardware appliances is VIRTUAL APPLIANCES….. which are basically software appliances such as VMware & MS Virtual Server. These things are amazing. We just shipped our full suite of products pre-configured and pre installed on a Virtual appliance and people around the world are downloading and using BI in minutes!!! In just a few days we shipped hundreds of those and we can barely supply the demand.








