Press Release

Greenville, SC, USA and Sydney, Australia – March 31, 2014 - Varigence Inc, developers of the leading business intelligence tools Biml and Mist are pleased to announce the formation of Varigence Australia. The Varigence suite of products are changing the economics for Microsoft BI development as it provides powerful tools to reduce BI delivery costs and better leverage a business’s metadata.

Adoption of the Varigence technologies has been rapidly expanding in the US and Europe and now through the formation of Varigence Australia, these premier tools for business intelligence and data warehouse development are far more accessible to businesses in Australia and New Zealand.

“Australia and New Zealand have been among our fastest growing markets over the past year. Varigence Australia will enable us to better serve our current partners and customers, while helping to continue the growth that the Biml ecosystem has enjoyed in Oceania.” Scott Currie, CEO, Varigence.

Varigence Australia will provide sales, support and marketing services for all Varigence customers and partners in Australia and New Zealand. By working with partners and independent consultants they will be providing implementation training and first line support to assist other BI professional services to create more value for their clients. Biml and Mist bring the level of innovation to business intelligence that the tablet brought to the PC through end-user accessibility and more cost effective and faster BI delivery.

“We believe that Varigence Australia’s BI tools will deliver better business intelligence faster and far more affordable than ever before to Australian and New Zealand businesses. Mist and Biml will provide access to a higher level of business intelligence with greater agility for businesses in our region, at a time when competitive edge means everything” Paul Schmidt, General Manager – Varigence Australia

To celebrate their launch Varigence Australia is a platinum sponsor of the PASS SQL Saturday in Melbourne on 5th April 2014.

About Varigence Australia
Varigence Australia will provide sales, support and marketing services for all Varigence customers and partners in Australia and New Zealand. They will partner with BI professional services and independent consultants to introduce Varigences suite of products. Varigence Australia will provide implementation training and first line support for Mist, Biml and all other Varigence BI tools. The management team consist of Paul Schmidt (General Manager) and Peter Avenant (Director of Technology) formerly from Avelytics Pty Ltd. www.varigence.com.au

About Varigence
Varigence brings the best innovations in business intelligence architecture to market through application development and by delivering enterprise business intelligence faster, easier and in a much more economical framework. They are the creator of Business Intelligence Markup Language (Biml) and have been building business intelligence accelerator tools since 2008. Through innovative easy to use tools, Varigence products offer an unprecedented level of business intelligence accessibility to the end-user and have delivered state-of-the-art business intelligence solutions to companies of all sizes, from internet start-ups through to Fortune 100 companies.

About Scott Currie
Scott Currie is the founder and CEO of Varigence, Inc. Scott is also the creator of Business Intelligence Markup Language (Biml). Prior to founding Varigence, Scott worked for 7 years at the Microsoft Corporation.

About Biml/Mist
Mist is an integrated development environment (IDE) for authoring Business Intelligence Mark-up Language (Biml) code and data assets. Mist leverages visual design capabilities and debugging features to provide a unified experience for managing entire business intelligence solutions, including relational modelling, data transformation packages, and OLAP cubes. Mist also incorporates modern programming IDE features, including text editors with syntax highlighting, Intelliprompt and quick-info displays, source control integration, and multi-monitor support. Combined with the capabilities of Biml to automatically generate huge amounts of data assets from metadata, reuse code, enforce patterns and best practices, Mist changes the economics of building business intelligence and data warehouse solutions.

About Pass SQL Saturday
SQLSaturday is a training event for SQL Server professionals and those wanting to learn about SQL Server. Sessions will be presented by some of the best SQL Server trainers, consultants and professionals in the region. The Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) was co-founded by CA Technologies and Microsoft Corporation in 1999 to promote and educate SQL Server users around the world. Since its founding, PASS has expanded globally and diversified its membership to embrace professionals using any Microsoft data technology. With a growing membership of more than 100K, PASS supports data professionals throughout the world who use the Microsoft data platform. http://sqlsaturday.com/296/eventhome.aspx

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