LogiXML

I met recently with Arman Eshraghi, CEO and Founder of LogiXML and wanted to provide an overview of their company and offering, Logi 9.  LogiXML is a primarily a privately held company (with a recent $5M investment from Updata Partners), with headquarters in McLean, VA.  They list well over 100 current customers, in 13 industry groups. 

Logi9, released in January of this year, is a Java based enterprise reporting platform.  It includes report designer, report distribution, dashboard, and OLAP capabilities, which are also available as standalone products.  The platform also includes a data source mapping and ETL feature that allows for access to a variety of disparate data sources.  Logi9 was built from the ground up on the .Net platform, and utilizes an XML based architecture.  They support standard interface protocols such as SQL, ODBC and JDBC, so they connect to most data source applications (e.g., SQL Server, Oracle, MySql).  Logi9 is server based and leverages standard web technologies such as AJAX – there is no client side code which makes software upgrades easier since you don’t have to worry about pushing code out.  The combination of the XML foundation and the server based architecture allows LogiXML to distribute upgrades and patches to the platform with little or no impact to client applications.

They offer a free of charge scaled down version of their product, available at FreeReporting.com.  This is a complete reporting tool aimed at developers and power users.  The support is self service, in that you have to diagnose your own problem via the developer network or discussion forums that LogiXML supports.

Their implementation consulting services are primarily focused around installing and integrating the Logi product in the client environment.  They offer both on-site training in McLean and on-line training, with courses in product administration and report building.

LogiXML is following a recent trend by forming partnerships with data warehouse appliance vendors Vertica and Dataupia to integrate with their products.  Their partner program includes OEM, reseller, and alliance partners such Vertica and Dataupia.

While Logi9 is relatively new (released in the past 3 months), the LogiXML product has been around for almost 6 years, which leads me to believe that the product is stable.  The one concern I have is around the server based architecture – performance on the client side may suffer if the network speed is lacking, since there is nothing stored on the client.  However, I think the trade-off in ease of upgrade is well worth the response time concern, particularly since most networks these days are sufficiently fast to handle this additional data.

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