Press Release

Sydney, Australia - May 7, 2014 - Varigence Australia is pleased to announce that Antares Solutions have become Consulting Partners under a formal agreement.

Under the agreement Varigence Australia will support Antares Solutions in providing training, consulting, implementation, and first line support in Biml and Mist for Antares clients. Through this partnership Varigence will work with Antares to deliver advanced Business Intelligence (BI) solutions.

“By combining our cutting edge business intelligence technologies with the implementation and consulting expertise of Antares Solutions, we will be able to provide incredible value and service to the end user,” says Paul Schmidt, Varigence Australia General Manager.

“This is a good fit for us - Varigence Australia’s approach is to reduce complexity and cost, but still deliver optimal results with outstanding technology, people and tools. This is also the Antares way.” says Simon Cheadle, Antares Solutions Chief Executive Officer.

Mist is an integrated development environment (IDE) for authoring Business Intelligence Markup 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.

Julio Acuna, the Head of Data Solutions at Antares believes that “the breadth of Antares’ solutions offering is greatly improved by our partnership with Varigence. We can now approach traditional problems related to Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence implementation in a more agile and consistent way. With these tools, the winners are with no doubt are our customers.”

Varigence is the creator of Business Intelligence Markup Language (Biml), and has been building BI accelerator tools since 2008. By employing a mix of deep experience in BI solutions, Varigence applies the best innovations from application development to enterprise Business Intelligence, whilst offering an unprecedented level of accessibility to the end-user.

For media inquiries, please contact media@varigence.com.au or Rowland Parr (Antares Solutions) 02 8275 8811

For partnership inquiries, please contact partners@varigence.com.au

For customer inquiries, please contact sales@varigence.com.au or info@antaressolutions.com.au