Vendor Relationships

Athena IT Solutions is vendor agnostic in order to provide our clients with the advice and recommendations that is best for them. We do maintain informal relationships with many of the premiere software vendors in the data warehousing, business intelligence and performance management industry to enable us to enhance the solutions we develop for our customers. We wish to provide expertise in many technologies without having to pledge allegiance to any particular vendor.

We have been involved in the design, building and implementation of business solutions that used the following technologies:

Database
Oracle, IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, Sybase, MySQL, Informix, Oracle Rdb

Extract, Transform & Load (ETL)
Informatica, IBM WebSphere DataStage (formerly Ascential), BusinessObjects Data Integrator, Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) (formerly Sunopsis), Oracle Warehouse Builder (OWB), Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) & Data Transformation Services (DTS), Cognos DecisionStream, ETI, Prism, and custom coding

Business Intelligence (BI) Tools
Business Objects (including formerly Crystal Reports), Cognos, Hyperion (including Brio), Information Builders WebFocus and others

On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) Tools
Hyperion Essbase, MicroStrategy, Cognos Analysis Services (PowerPlay), Computer Associates Eureka, Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services

Vendor User Groups

Rick Sherman is currently an Informatica Regional Users Group (RUG) co-chairman. For more information is available at the Informatica User Groups website.