List Moderator - Request

[Patrick A. Lynch]

Hi Dorothy,

I am already a member of this list for some time, and wonder how 
appropriate it would be for me to post the following to the list:

I am currently involved in a research project to determine an 
appropriate 
data warehouse architecture given the rise of business application 
vendors 
utilising either a data warehouse or data mart to implement their 
offerings. I would be interested in hearing directly from or about 
vendors 
(i.e. contact me personally outside of this list) concerning their 
product 
offerings within a larger architecture.

Specifically, I would like to know two things about vendors:
1).     To what degree have you aligned your product strategy with an 
underlying data warehousing architecture - e.g. vertical/horizontal 
applications on enterprise data warehouse/data marts...etc.
2.      How important are vendor alliances, channel agreements and 
reseller 
agreements within the context of the data warehouse market? With whom 
have 
you formed significant agreements/alliances.

Any help would be greatly appreciated...
Patrick Lynch
mailto:dw@esrc.ucc.ie
Executive Systems Research Centre
University College, Cork, Ireland.
Tel.: +353 21 903338
Fax.: +353 21 271566