Vertical Velocity - An Offer for Software Vendors!

Integrate TARGIT Business Intelligence Suite with Your Own Business Solution

Whether your company has developed a business solution or has adapted an existing business solution to specific verticals in the market, you can now integrate TARGIT’s Business Intelligence software to your product by joining TARGIT’s Vertical Velocity programme - the easiest and fastest Integration Programme in the software industry.

Vertical Velocity is created by TARGIT’s OEM team: TARGIT BI Acceleration - the team that created the first “click and go” BI solution in the world, TARGIT Business Analytics. The product has later been renamed TARGIT BI Acceleration.

The Vertical Velocity concept allows companies to integrate TARGIT Analysis Suite with their own solution easily and expediently. Based on the TARGIT BI Acceleration concept, the solution features a well-proven software architecture that is built using generic applications from TARGIT and allows outside developers to create a TARGIT BI Acceleration solution on top of existing technologies. The final product represents a win/win/win solution:

1. Your product gets extended capabilities and thus strengthened sales presence in the marketplace.
2. TARGIT gets an OEM partner and the opportunity to sell more software.
3. Customers get a stronger, more powerful product that will enhance their business.

Requirements

1. You (your company) have developed a business solution either as an ISV or adapted an existing solution to a specific vertical.
2. The solution is either established with a solid customer base or has the potential to be so (critical mass).
3. The solution is or will be fairly homogenous seen across the installed base (at customers).
4. Customers must accept the “contained” technology. (As an example, TARGIT uses Microsoft SQL Server as a standard component in BI Acceleration).
5. The pricing between TARGIT BA and your vertical solution must “match”. If your solution pricing is much lower than TARGIT BI Acceleration the customers will be reluctant to buy into a BI solution that also requires additional licensing (i.e. Microsoft SQL Server, etc.).

In addition there are technical and in-house requirements for Vertical Velocity partners that are important to ensure success.

1. Skilled Developers. TARGIT has extensive experience in training / educating both end-users and technical staff on TARGIT software and OLAP methodology. We will naturally provide the same opportunity to any OEM partner.
2. For Additional technical requirements, have an in-depth look at our technical Vertical Velocity documentation that can be acquired by contacting TARGIT Marketing.

The Project

Having met the basic requirements and set up an OEM agreement with TARGIT, your company will be equipped with a set of tools to integrate BI Acceleration into your own solution. The package from TARGIT is designed to ensure that you have everything needed to make the final product ready to market.

1. TARGIT delivers software, tools, templates, descriptions and guidelines
2. Your company develops the solution
3. TARGIT verifies that the solution conforms to established standards
4. TARGIT builds and launches the product including license automation and built-in software update functionality
5. Go-to-market

With TARGIT BI Acceleration now thoroughly tested and matured at large OEM partners like Microsoft Business Solutions, SAP, SuperOffice and in business verticals as different as accounting, healthcare and human resources, the solution can also leverage your company’s software offering and expand your opportunities in the marketplace.
 

A BI Acceleration Sample solution is available for download. The BA Sample solution is an example of a simple Vertical Velocity implementation and comes with a Microsoft Access demo source database for demonstration of some of the Vertical Velocity implementation options.

The BI Acceleration Sample is available for download here:

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