It has been an entire week since I arrived at Infobright in my new job as Interim CEO.  Getting to know the team is always fun and generally delivers a surprise or two.  My surprise came on the morning of the second day when I woke up and realized I likely had food poisoning.   I recall going out to dinner the night before with two senior members of the team.  My first thought was that they had actually attempted to poison me, but was relieved to find out that one other dinner partner from the night before was also sick and “enjoying” the same symptoms of food poisoning.   Therefore, I concluded, we were just unlucky and I was not being pursued by the Infobright Management Team. 

Over the course of the week my goal was to learn more about our users and customers.  What I found was that both Community Users and Enterprise Customers are finding ICE and IEE surprisingly easy to make quick progress with.  They are telling us that they have urgent business problems that require an analytic database that is much easier to install, set up and run BI tools against.  They are also telling us that they can achieve results in areas that previously were out of reach using the legacy databases and BI tools they have been using.  In the first week at Infobright the themes of ease-of-use and beyond expectation results were clear and present when listening to customers and users describe their success. 

So, when I consider my intended goal of providing more focus to Infobright, the focus must be in building products that fit market segments where ease-of-use and easily attainable performance are valued.  This doesn’t sound like the high end of Data Warehousing to me where highly complex MPP architectures and teams of DBAs spend their time.  It sounds like the realm of Departmental IT and SMB where business leaders are in a hurry to gain access to data and answers without the lead time and pain of complex architectures and high costs. 

So this is the focus you will likely hear more about from Infobright.  We have ground breaking technology and products that are doing well and will continue to progress in the areas of ease-of-use and easily attainable performance.   

You will find me accessible and interested in your experiences with Infobright products and services.  I am very interested in hearing from you with input on our products and how best to serve you as both community and Enterprise customers.   Please feel to contact me at Mark.Burton@infobright.com . 

All the best, 

Mark