- LucidEra
Infobox Company
company_name=LucidEra
company_
company_type=Private
foundation=California 2005
location=San Mateo, California
industry=On-demand software
homepage=http://www.lucidera.comLucidEra is an
on-demand (aka SaaS)business intelligence (BI) solution provider.History
LucidEra was founded in 2005 by Ken Rudin, John Sichi, and Tai Tran.cite web |url=http://www.eigenbase.org/foundation.html |title=Foundation |publisher=The Eigenbase Project |accessdate=2008-01-31 ] [cite web |url=http://www.lucidera.com/company/executive_team.php |title=Executive Team |publisher=LucidEra |accessdate=2008-01-31 ] Series A funding was led by
Benchmark Capital and Matrix Partners. In 2007, LucidEra secured Series B funding led by Crosslink Capital.The company's CEO, Ken Rudin, summarizes the vision: "Our ultimate goal is to be to BI what salesforce.com is to CRM and all kinds of transaction applications." [cite web |url=http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=4598 |first=Dan |last=Farber |title=LucidEra opens for business intelligence on demand |work=ZDNet |publisher=CNET Networks |date=
2007-03-06 |accessdate=2008-01-31 ] (Salesforce.com being a well-known SaaS company).LucidEra is currently a privately held company headquartered in San Mateo, California.
Technology
LucidEra's offering is currently focused on analytics of CRM and ERP data. However, the analytics applications are not special-purpose built, rather LucidEra has developed a generic BI platform, upon which it builds vertical solutions. [cite web |url=http://due-diligence.typepad.com/blog/2007/05/low_rent_etl_an.html |first=Tim |last=Oren |title=Low Rent ETL and Analytics |work=Tim Oren's Due Diligence |date=
2007-05-25 |accessdate=2008-01-31 ]The company's technology is reliant on open source sofware such as JBoss, [ [http://forums.bea.com/thread.jspa?threadID=600018569 jrockit dump in clsIsBeingUnloaded in JRockit Newsgroups in Newsgroups ] ]
Dojo Toolkit , [ [http://dojotoolkit.org/pipermail/dojo-interest/2006-April/006838.html [Dojo-interest Dynamically loading dojo elements ] ] Mondrian, [ [http://lists.pentaho.org/pipermail/mondrian/2007-March/000220.html [Mondrian Util.lookupCompound MatchType BEFORE ] ] and software from the Eigenbase Foundation. [ [http://www.luciddb.org/projectFaq.html LucidDB Project FAQ ] ] LucidEra is a key contributor to theLucidDB project, which is hosted by the Eigenbase Foundation. Two of the founders of LucidEra, John Sichi and Tai Tran, are also executives of the Eigenbase Foundation.Much of the BI technology, particularly the ETL, metadata, and
Column-oriented DBMS technology, is based on source code acquired from Broadbase, and has been extensively adapted to a modern SaaS architecture. [cite web |url=http://esj.com/business_intelligence/article.aspx?EditorialsID=8343 |first=Stephen |last=Swoyer |title=LucidEra Touts Rip-and-Don’t-Replace Outsourced BI |work=Enterprise Systems |publisher=1105 Media |date=2007-03-07 |accessdate=2008-01-31 ]Products
LucidEra launched its first offering, the forecast to billing application, in March 2007. [cite web |url=http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/column2/archives/2007/03/lucidera_launch_1.php |first=Sandy |last=Kemsley |title=LucidEra launches today |work=Column 2 |publisher=ebizQ |date=
2007-03-06 |accessdate=2008-01-31 ]LucidSnapShots was released summer of 2007. [cite web |url=http://www.intelligententerprise.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201201217 |first=Antone |last=Gonsalves
date=July 25, 2007 |title=LucidEra Unveils New Tools For On-Demand Forecast-To-Billing Application |work=Intelligent Enterprise |publisher=CMP Media |accessdate=2008-01-31 ]In the fall of 2007, LucidEra announced availability of Revenue Lifecycle Analysis and Sales Analysis on Salesforce.com's AppExchange. [cite web |url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2007_Sept_17/ai_n19521183 |title=LucidEra Sales Analysis Now Available on Salesforce.com's AppExchange |work=Business Wire |date=
2007-09-17 |publisher=CNET Networks |accessdate=2008-01-31 ]Competitors
Traditional BI Companies
Other BI companies which can be classfied as traditional software vendors include:
*BusinessObjects (acquired by SAP in October, 2007)
*Cognos (acquired by IBM in November, 2007).SaaS BI Companies
Other BI companies which also have a SaaS business model include:
* Cloud9
* Oco
* PivotLink (Formerly SeaTab)References
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