Andy Hayler
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"Andy Hayler", is a data warehousing professional and food critic. He led the creation of the dynamic data warehousing architecture within Royal Dutch Shell that he later commercialized as the KALIDO Active Information Management software product of Kalido, the Shell subsidiary founded by Hayler in 2001. In 2002, Hayler was selected for the "Top 10 Innovators" list by the editors of Red Herring (magazine)/Red Herring, the magazine of business technology innovation and entrepreneurism.

His "London Transport Restaurant Guide" was published by Macmillan Publishers/Macmillan in 1994, and his website was chosen in 2006 by The Guardian as one of the top 10 food web sites.

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The market-leading flexibility of the KALIDO enterprise data warehousing and master data management software is based on the technology covered in this patent. The additional distinction of having our technology US-patented further bolsters the uniqueness of our software - a claim that was first validated by the UK-patent in 2003.

As soon as companies want to combine information with data in a differently structured system, that inherently cannot be in real time. It would be extremely difficult.

The people who are most enthusiastic about this are Hewlett-Packard and IBM. They just love this. I would argue that for 99 percent of business reasons there are very few cases where you really need it. There are instances where it is needed, but they are the exception, not the rule.