Jack McKittrick a former 10-year Cognos veteran founded Celerus in 1997 in Ottawa, Canada. Jack was lucky enough be at Cognos during the birth of BI in the early 1990’s. As an early BI practitioner, Jack loved watching business users finally get access to their data and turn it into information. At that point he became hooked on BI and left Cognos to form Celerus.
Celerus is a Latin derived word and loosely translates to “swift”. The essence of BI is quickly putting information into the hands of business people so they can use it. As our business cycle continues to speed up, this only increases in importance.
Celerus can be pronounced one of two ways:
ce-le-rus as in “Celery” with the “us” replacing the “y”
so-lah-rus as in “Solaris”
Either way is fine with us.
Celerus, as a privately held consulting company, is focused on delivering best of breed custom-built BI solutions for its clients. Its core values are:
Exceptional customer service – our true measure of a successful engagement is the customer’s perception of us.
Delivery – we always deliver a high-value working BI solution.
Independence – we you engage us; we give you the best advice and guidance that we have. We don’t work for the BI vendors; we work for you.
“Opening doors to your information”