Digital Commerce Technologies Inc. (DCTI) entered into a strategic partnership Altair Engineering to resell and provide implementation services in the Americas for HiQube.
HiQube is a high-performance simulation-driven business intelligence and data analytics solution for guided decision-making. HiQube's multi-dimensional engine empowers stakeholders across the enterprise to connect dynamically to multiple data stores and ad hoc data sets.
DCTI, a global information technology services provider, made its first sale of HiQube to Iowa’s Cedar Falls Utilities (CFU), since solidifying its partnership with Altair Engineering. Within its unique multi-dimensional engine, the driver for the sale was HiQube’s ability to easily capture and analyze over 10 years of utilities usage data from legacy sources, the company stated.
“The utilities market is under increasing pressure from government regulators to implement smart technologies for improved energy efficiency while meeting customer demand for reduced costs, and HiQube’s what-if analyses and simulation helps them achieve this,” said Ravi Kunju, regional managing director at Altair, in a press release. “Altair selected DCTI as its first reseller for HiQube in the Americas because of its expertise in the utilities market, which was proven in its success at Cedar Falls Utilities.”
Within single unified database architecture, HiQube combines three data management methodologies, hierarchical, relational and multi-dimensional. This enables users to perform self-directed drill-down, drill-through, and ad hoc queries as well as “what-if” analyses.
Users can explore a multitude of key performance indicators (KPI) and create relevant and personalized reports quickly, in real time as a result of this. While offering deep domain expertise in growth industry verticals for fast, cost-effective implementations, the channel partner agreement will extend support locally.
In March 2009, the company announced that the students at a Seattle-area high school were using Altair Engineering's OptiStruct software to help build robots for the national FIRST Robotics competition. FIRST which stands for "For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology" is an annual robotics competition. It aims to build science, engineering and technology skills in young people, of high school age.
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