LucidEra
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| LucidEra | |
|---|---|
| Type | Private |
| Founded | California 2005 |
| Headquarters | San Mateo, California |
| Industry | On-demand software |
| Website | http://www.lucidera.com |
LucidEra is an on-demand (aka SaaS) business intelligence (BI) solution provider.
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[edit] History
LucidEra was founded in 2005 by Ken Rudin, John Sichi, and Tai Tran.[1][2] Series A funding was led by Benchmark Capital and Matrix Partners. In 2007, LucidEra secured Series B funding led by Crosslink Capital.
The company's CEO, Ken Rudin, summarizes the vision: "Our ultimate goal is to be to BI what salesforce.com is to CRM and all kinds of transaction applications."[3] (Salesforce.com being a well-known SaaS company).
LucidEra is currently a privately held company headquartered in San Mateo, California.
[edit] Technology
LucidEra's offering is currently focused on analytics of CRM and ERP data. However, the analytics applications are not special-purpose built, rather LucidEra has developed a generic BI platform, upon which it builds vertical solutions.[4]
The company's technology is reliant on open source sofware such as JBoss,[5] Dojo Toolkit,[6] Mondrian,[7] and software from the Eigenbase Foundation.[8] LucidEra is a key contributor to the LucidDB project, which is hosted by the Eigenbase Foundation. Two of the founders of LucidEra, John Sichi and Tai Tran, are also executives of the Eigenbase Foundation.[1]
Much of the BI technology, particularly the ETL, metadata, and Column-oriented DBMS technology, is based on source code acquired from Broadbase, and has been extensively adapted to a modern SaaS architecture.[9]
[edit] Products
LucidEra launched its first offering, the forecast to billing application, in March of 2007.[10]
LucidSnapShots was released summer of 2007.[11]
In the fall of 2007, LucidEra announced availability of Revenue Lifecycle Analysis and Sales Analysis on Salesforce.com's AppExchange.[12]
[edit] Competitors
[edit] Traditional BI Companies
Other BI companies which can be classfied as traditional software vendors include:
- BusinessObjects (acquired by SAP in October, 2007)
- Cognos (acquired by IBM in November, 2007).
[edit] SaaS BI Companies
Other BI companies which also have a SaaS business model include:
- Cloud9
- Oco
- PivotLink (Formerly SeaTab)
[edit] References
- ^ a b Foundation. The Eigenbase Project. Retrieved on 2008-01-31.
- ^ Executive Team. LucidEra. Retrieved on 2008-01-31.
- ^ Farber, Dan (2007-03-06). LucidEra opens for business intelligence on demand. ZDNet. CNET Networks. Retrieved on 2008-01-31.
- ^ Oren, Tim (2007-05-25). Low Rent ETL and Analytics. Tim Oren's Due Diligence. Retrieved on 2008-01-31.
- ^ jrockit dump in clsIsBeingUnloaded in JRockit Newsgroups in Newsgroups
- ^ [Dojo-interest] Dynamically loading dojo elements
- ^ [Mondrian] Util.lookupCompound MatchType BEFORE
- ^ LucidDB Project FAQ
- ^ Swoyer, Stephen (2007-03-07). LucidEra Touts Rip-and-Don’t-Replace Outsourced BI. Enterprise Systems. 1105 Media. Retrieved on 2008-01-31.
- ^ Kemsley, Sandy (2007-03-06). LucidEra launches today. Column 2. ebizQ. Retrieved on 2008-01-31.
- ^ Gonsalves, Antone (July 25, 2007). LucidEra Unveils New Tools For On-Demand Forecast-To-Billing Application. Intelligent Enterprise. CMP Media. Retrieved on 2008-01-31.
- ^ LucidEra Sales Analysis Now Available on Salesforce.com's AppExchange. Business Wire. CNET Networks (2007-09-17). Retrieved on 2008-01-31.
