Coglin Mill has announced the release of several new RODIN editions designed specifically for smaller to medium sized organizations that have previously considered themselves too small to implement a full data warehouse or data mart architecture to support business intelligence efforts.

Like many, these organizations generally use a query-based reporting tool that may not be living up to promises. It's no surprise if users find they don't have a properly architected data warehouse or data mart infrastructure under these conditions. Trying to use query-based reporting tools against operational data may eventually cause user frustration.

RODIN Select Editions

If a small budget and lack of skilled resources have been the barriers that have prevented your organization from addressing the issues plaguing your current business intelligence-reporting environment, meeting your needs may now be at hand with the RODIN Select Editions.

RODIN Data Asset Management has long been the System i tool of choice by larger organizations such as HSBC Bank (Worldwide), Caterpillar Logistics, Office Depot (Europe) and many others for implementing enterprise data warehouses. However, the same award-winning technology now is within the reach of smaller organizations. Their needs are generally not as complex, nor the scope of their projects as broad, so these users don't need all the bells and whistles of the flagship RODIN Enterprise version.

Instead, the RODIN Select Editions may be perfect for your organization. The RODIN team has taken some of the more advanced features and functions and split them into optional modules. The base edition is still extremely functional nevertheless and will work perfectly well for many organizations.

Should you need additional capabilities, however, you can decide which modules are suitable and fit within your budget. For a limited time, RODIN Select Edition licenses are available on a subscription basis for as little as $5,400 per year (including maintenance and support). Alternatively, traditional permanent licenses are available at extremely attractive prices too. With this kind of pricing, there's little excuse to continue to struggle within an inefficient, incomplete, and restrictive query-and-reporting environment.

RODIN DB2 Web Query Edition

Also new from RODIN is the RODIN DB2 Web Query Edition that automatically integrates RODIN's extensive metadata into a DB2 Web Query environment. Whenever you create a data set table in RODIN, the table is automatically available for reporting from within DB2 Web Query. More importantly, RODIN's descriptive metadata is made available too.

While building your data warehouse in RODIN, developers can enter unlimited descriptive text at both the table and column levels to describe the business usage. This is automatically included in the DB2 Web Query metadata.

Should you need to modify a table, it's not a problem because the changes are also reflected immediately in Web Query. Your report authors won't have to guess at the meaning or usage of a table or column. RODIN also allows you to define subject area models (e.g. star-schema data marts) including the logical join relationships between the tables. These models are also transferred to the DB2 Web Query metadata, avoiding the need to define them a second time. Again, any descriptive text belonging to the model is included too. For a limited time, RODIN DB2 Web Query Edition licenses start at just $7,200.

About Coglin Mill

Coglin Mill has been developing software for IBM midrange systems since 1985. Early software products included a major distribution and financials package designed specifically for organizations with complex requirements and an advanced set of utilities to help manage the development and production environments in mainly large System/38 installations. The company has been solely focused on the AS/400, iSeries and now System i platforms since its inception and has a very long history of successful product development. Coglin Mill became an IBM Business Partner in January 1986 and has been an Advanced Member of IBM's PartnerWorld for Developers program for many years. Today, the company is solely focused on development and support of its flagship product, RODIN Data Asset Management. Named after the famous sculptor, RODIN is widely recognized as the premier software suite available for the development and management of sophisticated data warehousing environments on the IBM System i platform. Coglin Mill is a privately held company, owned and managed by the original founder and a highly experienced management team, all of whom have a minimum of 20 years experience in the IT industry with as much as 15 years in the DW/BI arena. Corporate offices are in Adelaide, Australia, and Rochester, Minnesota. For more information, visit http://www.thinkrodin.com/, call 866-RODIN-DW, or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..