David Lutz's Blog

In my role at Infobright, I frequently work with many customers and prospects who express desires for capabilities that they feel they can't do with the current versions of Infobright.  Sometimes that is the case - sometimes not.  But where a need isn't aligned to a feature, function or methodology - whether it's a requirement, desire, or "nice to have" - I record and communicate that internally to Product Management and Engineering.

As many of you are aware, Infobright's origins are in the Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence and Analytics arena and therefore supported functionality was focused on those features and functions most commonly found and used in production environments.  What might not be well-known is that our User Community has been educating us on other areas and use cases where Infobright is a particularly good fit for some of its core benefits around simplicity, ease of use, and low cost.  And by moving into those new use cases, we have received requests for functionality that was not originally anticipated.

Consider this a formal request - What would you like to see in Infobright?  Is it an absolute requirement, or a desired "nice to have" capability?  Is it something that currently exists but you would like to see changed?  Let me have it!

Here's an example:

"The Infobright Loader included with ICE is a high-performance load mechanism that absolutely blows away traditional techniques.  It supports multiple file formats and has a certain degree of flexibility.  But, as such, it is still a subset of MySQL's loader and offers a subset of its flexibility in format and execution.  Continued refinement of the Infobright Loader toward complete alignment with the MySQL Loader would be welcomed."

Feel free to comment to this here on the blog posting, or post to our forums, or send me an email.  I get them and appreciate them all!