Kickfire partners with best-of-breed open source providers to deliver the simplest, most cost-effective, and highest performing business intelligence and data warehousing solutions for the MySQL market. Providing such capabilities as query, reporting, analysis, data integration, and online backup these partners enable customers to quickly build robust, enterprise-class, end-to-end business intelligence applications on top of the Kickfire appliance.

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Strategic Alliance
Kickfire has partnered with Sun Microsystems to deliver the world's first MySQL database appliance and offers the industry's leading price performance for data warehousing. Kickfire is a MySQL MECA partner and ships a commercial MySQL Enterprise license with each of its appliances.

Sun Microsystems

The MySQL product portfolio is the most popular open source database software in the world. Many of the world's largest and fastest-growing organizations use MySQL to save time and money powering their high-volume Web sites, critical business systems, and packaged software. At www.mysql.com, Sun provides corporate users with commercial subscriptions and services, and actively supports the large MySQL open source developer community.

Sun Microsystems develops the technologies that power the global marketplace. Guided by a singular vision -- "The Network is the Computer"™ -- Sun drives network participation through shared innovation, community development and open source leadership. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the Web at http://sun.com.

Technology Partners
Our Technology partners provide innovative products that complement Kickfire's database appliance by enabling customers to quickly deploy and maintain complete business intelligence capabilities.

JasperSoft is the market leader in open source business intelligence (BI) and the most widely deployed BI product in the world. With more than 3 million downloads worldwide and more than 8,000 commercial customers in 96 countries, JasperSoft offers the most widely used open source business intelligence software in the world. The JasperSoft Business Intelligence Suite is comprised of an interactive reporting server, graphical and ad hoc report design interfaces, OLAP analysis, an ETL tool for data integration, and a Java reporting library for use with either stand-alone or embedded business intelligence applications. JasperSoft is based in San Francisco and is backed by leading venture capital firms Morgenthaler Ventures, DCM, Partech International, Scale Venture Partners and SAP Ventures. More information is available at www.jasperforge.org and www.jaspersoft.com. Click here for JasperSoft and Kickfire demo.

Pentaho is the commercial open source alternative for business intelligence (BI). Pentaho Open BI Suite provides comprehensive reporting, OLAP analysis, dashboards, data integration, data mining and a BI platform that have made it the world's leading and most widely deployed open source BI suite. Pentaho's commercial open source business model eliminates software license fees, providing support, services, and product enhancements via an annual subscription. In the years since Pentaho's inception as the pioneer in commercial open source BI, Pentaho's products have been downloaded more than three million times, with production deployments at companies ranging from small organizations to The Global 2000. More information is available at www.pentaho.com.

Talend is the first provider of open source data integration software. The company offers a completely new vision and shatters the traditional proprietary model by supplying open, innovative and powerful software solutions with the flexibility to meet the needs of all organizations. Talend makes data integration solutions available to organizations of all sizes, and for all integration needs. Talend's open source data integration solutions are used for integration between operational systems, for ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) for Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing, and for migration. They offer dramatic cost and time savings, unmatched performance, and the greatest level of flexibility.

Zmanda offers proven and cost-effective open source backup and recovery solutions. With the advantage of the open source development, Zmanda is able to provide its customers with the very best quality software such as Amanda and ZRM for MySQL . Zmanda's solutions are available at a fraction of the cost of incumbent proprietary vendors, providing its customers with a low cost of ownership and high return on their investment. The strong partnerships with various open source projects strengthens its ability to add functionality and provide the top-notch support expected by enterprise customers.