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Business Intelligence Visionary Andre Boisvert Joins Saama Technologies Advisory Board
| Quelle: Saama Technologies
CAMPBELL, CA--(Marketwire - October 11, 2007) - Saama Technologies, a leading provider of
Business Intelligence and data management solutions, today announced the
appointment of Andre Boisvert to its advisory board. Mr. Boisvert is a
30-year veteran of the software industry and a pioneer in the development
of the Business Intelligence market.
"We are delighted to have Andre join our advisory board," said Suresh
Katta, Saama CEO. "He has led and developed strategies for many of the
software industry's most well-known companies. His background in Business
Intelligence, coupled with his current leadership role in leveraging open
source technologies, will not only benefit Saama's customers, it will
benefit the industry. As Saama extends its business to include analytical
applications, Andre's visionary capabilities will be of great value to our
management team."
Mr. Boisvert began his career with IBM, where he spent 13 years in senior
management positions across sales, marketing and R&D. After IBM, Mr.
Boisvert went on to Cognos and Oracle, where he was senior vice president
of worldwide marketing and a member of Oracle's management committee. In
2000, Mr. Boisvert became president and COO at SAS Institute, the world's
largest privately held software company with revenues nearing $2 billion
annually. In 2003, Mr. Boisvert became chairman and CEO at Sagent
Technologies and in 2004 he successfully completed the sale of Sagent
Technologies to Group 1 Software.
In 2004, Mr. Boisvert co-founded Pentaho Corporation, the world's leading
open source business intelligence platform. Mr. Boisvert also serves as
chairman of Compiere, the world's leading integrated open source ERP and
CRM company, and Zenoss, the leading open source network and system
monitoring company. Additionally, he is an outside director at UBmatrix,
Palamida and Odyssey Financial Technologies.
"I am honored to have been invited to be part of the talented team at Saama
Technologies," said Boisvert. "The company has immense growth potential in
the relatively untapped analytics applications marketplace."
About Saama Technologies
Saama is a Business Intelligence and data management solutions company
founded in 1997. Saama solutions span the entire spectrum of client needs,
from strategy through architecture and delivery, including roadmap, data
integration, analytics, dashboards, data mining and meta-data management.
Saama customers are knowledge workers, from operational managers to senior
executives, in large and mid-size high-tech, financial services, life
sciences, manufacturing and education enterprises throughout the world. For
more information about Saama, visit www.saama.com.