FAQ for Queplix®
Tell Us About Your Company
Queplix® is a data integration and data management company. Our products enable customers to securely integrate, deploy and manage cloud and on-premise applications and data with speed, simplicity and automation. Uniquely, no programming or SQL is required. We integrate relational, Big Data, object and NoSQL data sources in any combination. Our advanced data virtualization and powerful data management automatically harmonize the data between applications. We enable powerful data services layer for the deployment of a true services oriented architecture (SOA). Our software as a service (SAAS) can be accessed via QueCloud or installed in any data center. Queplix has key partnerships with Salesforce, Netsuite and other leading SAAS companies. We have thousands of users around the world, serving customers such as The Home Depot, Homesite and Sony Ericsson.
Our mission is to deliver the data integration and data management software that powers enterprise business around the world.
Our vision is to provide a single enterprise platform and architecture to implement, view and manage all of your key data integration and data management activities, both current and past, across multiple and disparate data sources and to enable this without requiring that our customers use any SQL or any programming. No other vendor can do this today.
When was Queplix™ founded?
In 2004 and then recapitalized around the development of new product for data virtualization in 2009.
How many customers does Queplix have?
We have thousands of users among the largest of Fortune 500 and Global 1000 companies. At this time we are adding customers every month.
Tell us about your leadership? Executive Management?
Mark Cashman, Chief Executive Officer. With over 17 years of experience in the technology industry, Mark leads the management team as CEO of Queplix®. Prior to joining Queplix, Mark served as Vice President of Business Development at enterprise mobility vendor Agito Networks, where he established strategic partnerships with partners including AT&T, Cisco, Aruba, Motorola, and Microsoft. Refer to our management team page for more information.
Steven Yaskin, Chief Technology Officer and Founder. Steve is a founder of Queplix, and serves as Chief Technology Officer of the company. Steve led Queplix through its growth since 2004, and has extensive expertise in enterprise applications and databases, metadata extraction, search and security. Prior to co-founding the company, Steve was CEO of Priority Consulting, and held senior consulting roles at Covansys (now NYSE: CSC) and BSG. Refer to our management team page for more information.
Michael Zuckerman, Chief Marketing Officer. Michael is the Chief Marketing Officer for Queplix and leads both the marketing and business development teams. Prior to joining Queplix, Michael served as Vice President for Marketing in three public companies over ten years. This included roles as Senior Vice President, Marketing at I-many, Inc. (IMNY-Nasdaq), Senior Vice President, Marketing at Immersion Corporation (IMMR-Nasdaq) where he also served as Senior Vice President and General Manager, and Vice President, Marketing at Verity (VRTY-Nasdaq) which was acquired by Autonomy, Inc. (AU.L). During Michael's tenure at Verity worldwide market share grew in enterprise search from 40% to over 65%. Refer to our management team page for more information.
Pinaki Mukerji, EVP and Chief Product Officer. Pinaki is Executive Vice President and serves as the Chief Product Officer of the company. Prior to joining Queplix, Pinaki served as Senior Vice President, Platform Technology R&D (2008 to July 2011) and Vice President, Data Integration R&D (2001 to 2007) at Informatica® Corporation (INFA). During Pinaki's tenure with Informatica® they experienced significant success and growth and deployed very successful products such as PowerCenter®. Refer to our management team page for more information.
Where are your offices? Who can we speak with?
You may contact our sales, systems engineering and professional services teams through our main switchboard in California. We have three major regional entities within the United States which also cover Canada. There is a regional executive in charge of operations within those geographies and they manage all teams and resources in the field. They can make sure you get the right help you need and would love to hear from you. We are establishing our representation around the world at this time and expect to be introducing key partners in Asia, South America, Europe (United Kingdom) and the Middle East very shortly. In some areas we also have Value Added Resellers (VARS) which are available for support and sales.
What is the break through technology in your system?
First, we operate in a 100% object oriented paradigm and make it easy to bring objects and relational entities together. This is what lets us solve the cloud integration problems so elegantly. Objects, relational, xml ... it all looks the same in our dashboard and that's what makes integration so simple. We do this through data virtualization and we've added our own special additions to uniquely empower our products. All of our technology can be provided in a cloud based saas model with our QueCloud, or we can provide a VMWare® based instance for you to install on-premise.
Second, our architecture is based upon a persistent metadata server - a powerful new class of software infrastructure that drives advanced data virtualization. We can easily scale beyond point integrations and ETL limitations to build out multi-application virtualization for master data management, business intelligence, data warehouse and data mart population and much, much more.
Third, in our newest systems, QueCloud and our on-premise Queplix Virtual Data Manager, do not require the use of SQL or programming. None at all. Advanced data virtualization unlocks your from legacy proprietary tools like SQL and opens up the power of the system for business users.
What is absolutely compelling and unique about Queplix? Why is your product a "must have" for my company?
Queplix products a strong return on investment in the reduction of costs and time for the implementation of data integration. The more complicated the integration the more we will save you. These savings can be on the order of 75% or more.
In the long term we enable true data mobility. We free your most important asset (next to your employees), your business information, and we enable you to re-purpose it easily from one application system to another.
What is data virtualization? What is advanced data virtualization?
Data Virtualization is presentation of data as an abstract layer, independent of underlying database systems, structures and storage. That abstraction is the core of the definition of data virtualization and key to the automation, power and ease-of-use of any of our solutions. There are four key components to basic data virtualization:
Virtualized – accessible in one place through metadata;
Abstracted – into one consistent format (object);
Federated – connectivity allows you to pull data together (globalization); and
Presentation – allows formatting for consuming applications.
Basic data virtualization introduces the concept of separating the data from the applications. This unlocks proprietary data locked in old, legacy applications. Some of this is packaged as middleware data federation.
Advanced data virtualization takes this further by separating the proprietary tools from the applications, by eliminating the use of SQL. Advanced data virtualization also wraps the architecture around a persistent metadata server. The persistent metadata server core extends the power of the system in many ways to integrate with more data sources and scale to enteprise levels.
Advanced data virtualization also converts everything to objects in the dashboard – instead of working with a relational view of the world an object view more easily enables the integration of disparate sources. Further advanced data virtualization enables globalization – a concept which leverages the power of virtual fields and virtual entites.
All of this enables companies to securely integrate and deploy business intelligence, cloud, SaaS-based and on-premise applications and data with speed, simplicity and automation. Critical customer, product and financial data can be integrated across applications in hours and then the consistency of data managed automatically. This speed, simplicity and high degree of automation deliver strong return on investment and can reduce your application integration and data management expense by over 75% for a single integration. We bring even more substantial value to business intelligence where customers tell us we can reduce the time for implementation by up to 90%. Each additional integration brings greater savings and return on investment.
How can you do this when others have been unable to do this?
The basic architecture is very different from any other approach.
We started and designed, from the ground up, to deliver a persistent metadata server. When the first system was in prototype everyone started to feel the disruptive power this technology could exert across a multitude of information technology problems. Only 10 to 15 short years ago you did not wake up and say "I'm going to order three application servers...." Yet a few years later you did (!)
What really differentiates data virtualization?
There are several major areas of differentiation and each brings many additional components of differentiation. In short, these areas include automation, user interface and architecture. Architecture enables much more detailed differentiation which we can explain feature by feature. Our architecture enables us to improve upon the features for basic data virtualization, the advanced data virtualization features that only we provide and finally the Intelligent Data Management™ and Data Harmonization™ which is unique to Queplix.
There is a detailed discussion on this in several of our blogs and here in our website - you can find it here in the technology advantage page. Also see our video’s – there is a comparison of our QueCloud™ (Virtual Data Manager™ and ETL as well as a report from IdealNet (ask us for a copy).
The essence of our magic is our persistent metadata directory – technically, we are a persistent metadata server with additional workflow for harmonization, security and data management. We turn everything into an object model – most other systems are limited by the internal limitation of working with SQL. That, and our knack for building great UI and wrapping it up with well thought out automation have worked magic. We're excited about our technology and we're out to change the way the world integrates and manages their data. We have some companies and customers Really Excited about what they can do with Queplix. Our engineering team is building products which they are convinced will change the architecture of data centers in the future.
Who else can tell me more about data virtualization and how it contrasts with traditional application and data integration using ETL, EAI, EII and middleware tools?
Download our white paper on this topic - register for our technical library and find out how advanced data virtualization compares to these other technologies. ETL teams love our technology - try our system and find out why. We reduce setup and labor with our automation over 75%. We can scale far beyond point solutions. And all without using any SQL.
What is your vision for the future?
It is our consistent view that data integration at the lowest level of scale and data management at the highest level of scale should be viewed as one problem as opposed to two problems. They are part of a continuum that includes the need for data integration that scales from integrating any two applications, to then integrating most of the major applications within an enterprise and then perhaps to the completed implementation of what we would describe as Virtual Master Data Management™ (note 1).
Beyond data integration, your visibility and management of your data is key and also part of this continuum. Your data and the key information that organizes your data (your metadata) are part of key visibility for your enterprise that need to be unlocked from proprietary vendor structures and made visible for the benefit of your enterprise. The links that integrate this data need full visibility. You need to see and understand the transforms that tie any two applications together and scale that visibility through a view to your enterprise that allows you a unified view to your data quality, data governance and data compliance.
Advanced data virtualization can uniquely present an enterprise-wide vision for data integration and data visibility at all levels of scale, from a single point implementation to a full enterprise wide deployment. No other technology can do this. This positions advanced data virtualization as a new, powerful, and disruptive technology with broad sweeping implications for the future of information technology management. Please refer to our video "Vision For The Future of Data Integration" on our home page.
Note 1: Virtual Master Data Management™ is also called VMDM™ or Virtual MDM™. All three are trademarks of Queplix, Inc.
What is your deployment model?
QueCloud™ provides all of the functionality we offer as a public cloud based offering. We offer many out-of-the-box Application Software Blades™ to get our customers up and running quickly.
Queplix® Virtual Data Manager™ can be purchased as a virtual software appliance which you can install on-premise. It brings all of the QueCloud™ functionality back into your data center.
I want to try it now! How can I do that?
You can DOWNLOAD our FREE product, Virtual Data Viewer™ from the link on our homepage. This FREE product provides functionality that you cannot get anywhere else. Tools that even come close will generally cost you over $100,000. Try it out now. It will become an essential tool for you. Here is more information on Virtual Data Viewer.
How easily can I set up the system? Do I need to hire SQL consultants and plan on several man months of implementation?
Very easily. And absolutely not. Set-up will be fairly easy. And no, you don't need to speak SQL. We're object oriented and we make life easy for you. Think about solving business problems. Breathe in the good air. Think less about drawing wiring diagrams between SQL tables, setting up a meeting down the hall to figure out what that database schema really looks like and breathe out the bad air. Life can be much better and the IT and line of business teams can be much more productive. And look, we all know SQL and we appreciate it. It’s a philosophical difference and we give you freedom of choice. Our automation makes it easy, if you have just the security permissions, to get a large jump on a problem that would ordinarily tie you up for weeks and perhaps months.
What about data migration? What about mergers & acquisitions? Can you help?
Yes. Queplix Virtual Data Manager is incredibly useful for supporting data migration. We can unlock your data and help you move it from one system to another. Our professional services team or our partners can help get it done quickly. Data migration due to merger and acquisition happens all the time in Global 1000 companies and Queplix Virtual Data Manager can play a significant role for you in reducing costs and speeding implementation. We can help you with migrations from legacy systems. We have experienced people that have supported Vantive migrations on our professional services team and we're looking at many more.
What about data quality? Do I need separate tools? Can you help?
Yes. Queplix Data Quality Manager is integrated into all of our systems to help you automatically resolve data quality issues before you try to integrate the data and then automatically moving forward.
What applications can I connect to "out of the box" without purchasing any other features, consulting, special coding or anything else? I have a few applications we developed in house using Oracle® and IBM DB2® - how can I connect these?
Applications such as SalesForce.com®, Netsuite®, Taleo® and RightNow®, PeopleSoft®, Siebel®, SAP® Enterprise Resource Planning and many more will all integrate easily and harmonize automatically out of the box. Check out list of Application Software Blades - we make it very easy to leverage the power of the system. We have special Application Software Blades that enable you to integrate your custom applications. We offer "out of the box" support for web services, JDBC, .Net - ODBC and support for custom API's. Oracle, IBMDB2 custom applications - you can integrate those yourselves with our powerful blades.
What standards do you support?
We support many software industry standards including JDBC, .Net Framework, ODBC, Web Services and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).
What intellectual property do you have? Can you tell me about it?
We have various patents in process and unfortunately we cannot share anything about the details of this intellectual property at this time.
Are you hiring? Are there jobs at Queplix?
Queplix is an Equal Opportunity Employer and we will be delighted to receive your resume. We have a multitude of new positions up on our Careers page.
What other resources are available?
This website includes pages and links to instant video that overviews multiple topics about the company and our products. This can be accessed without registration. Please refer to the Collateral Page and click the Video Library link on the left.
You can also register via the "Next Steps" box on the right side of every page in this website. Click on White Paper Download and register to get access to white papers and recorded webinars.
