Celequest's LAVA is the industry's first BI hardware appliance designed to bring critical information to users at the lowest possible total cost of ownership. With LAVA, operational workers can track up-to-the-second key performance metrics, spot emerging trends and make faster business decisions. By combining data integration, analytics, end-user dashboards and tools for collaboration in one plug-and-play appliance, LAVA can be deployed at a cost that is much lower than existing tools that deliver operational BI.

LAVA was designed to support all sizes of operational BI deployments with an architecture that delivers information in a few seconds, regardless of query volume or number of users. To achieve this, LAVA uses a patent-pending streaming data flow engine to cache data and analytical information in memory and stream it to large numbers of users, ensuring uniform query response times as more users are added. With LAVA, a complete operational BI solution can be deployed in days, not months or years. LAVA plugs right into an existing network and includes data integration, analytics, end-user dashboards and tools for collaboration.

Our judges were all impressed by Celequest's innovative approach. One noted that "by utilizing a combination of hardware and software to create a BI appliance, LAVA facilitates the adoption of BI technology by deploying organizations. It includes a wide spectrum of BI and data integration technology and functionality. By offering LAVA through several hosting options, including on-demand and as a managed service, Celequest provides organizations with a wide range of choices on how to most economically utilize it."

Three configurations of the LAVA appliance are available and offer a choice in form factor, features and price. LAVA SMB Edition is priced at $75,000, LAVA Standard Edition is priced at $125,000 and LAVA Enterprise Edition is priced at $175,000. Each configuration includes unlimited seat licenses and support for unlimited dashboards and data sources.

Congratulations to Celequest for earning the silver award in this year's contest!

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