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Align Data Management Roles To Create Stronger Business Value
The continuing explosion in data volume, increasing numbers of business users, growing data complexity, compliance requirements, need to support global operations, and growing need for real-time...
DBAs Gain Advanced Yet Usable Features For Heterogeneous DBMS
Vendors continue adding new and improved database administration features to their database management systems (DBMS) to automate more functions, yet enterprises with large and complex environments...
The Need For Speed, Services, And SaaS Is Shaping The Integration Future
Integration remains a high priority for enterprises in 2011 to 2012, leading Forrester to mine client inquiries and interview industry experts for insight into the latest integration trends....


Database Security Solutions Mature While The Market Consolidates
Ease Of Use, Integration, Reliability, And Low Cost Make It A Compelling Solution
Over the past six months, Forrester interviewed 26 companies using Microsoft SQL Azure to find out about their implementations. Most customers stated that SQL Azure delivers a reliable cloud database...
An Overview Of The Enterprise Database Management System Market In 2013
Business demand for more applications, larger databases, and new analytics initiatives is driving innovation and growth in the database market, with new options for cloud, in-memory, mobility,...
Road Map: The Business Intelligence Playbook
In the face of rising data volume and complexity and increased need for self-service, enterprises need an effective business intelligence (BI) reference architecture to utilize BI as a key corporate...

Many large organizations have finally “seen the light” and are trying to figure out the best way to treat their critical data as the trusted asset it should be. As a result, master...
Over the course of this year, I’ve spoken with many organizations that are continuing to expand their usage of information-as-a-service (sometimes called data services) to support new business...
Forrester is currently running a database management survey assessing the state of the database market. We are surveying companies across various verticals to understand the type of DBMS...
This data chart examines ETL adoption trends based on a survey of 173 professionals who have purchased ETL software at their organizations.
Informatica, IBM, Oracle, SAP, SAS, Ab Initio, And Talend Lead, With Pervasive, Microsoft, And iWay Close Behind
In Forrester's 60-criteria evaluation of enterprise extract, transform, and load (ETL) vendors, we found that Informatica, IBM, Oracle, and SAP maintain leadership positions thanks to their ability...

Improves Online Transaction Processing And Data Warehouse Performance And Delivers A Consolidation Platform
Forrester recently interviewed 16 Oracle customers who use Oracle Exadata to find out about their implementations. Most customers stated that Oracle Exadata exceeded performance and high-availability...
Four Leaders And Four Strong Performers Compete For A Share Of The Enterprise Cloud Database Market
Cloud database offerings represent a new space within the broader data management platform market, providing enterprises with an abstracted option to support Agile development and new social, mobile,...

Overcoming RDBMS Limitations Enables New Application Patterns
Business growth and speed are driving new application and data requirements that demand different approaches to data management. Although relational databases are great for most business...
Informatica Helps Archive Data To Improve Performance And Lower Cost
Like most large organizations, EMC struggles with the performance and manageability of mission-critical applications because of increased data volume and user numbers. In the past, EMC added more...
This presentation discusses database security trends and drivers, current database security challenges, why enterprises should focus on an enterprisewide database security strategy, the three pillars...
Seven Leaders, Six Strong Performers, And Two Contenders Compete For Share Of The ADV Market
Enterprises find advanced data visualization (ADV) platforms to be essential tools that enable them to monitor business, find patterns, and take action to avoid threats and snatch opportunities. In...

Specialized Data Management Options Abound — Are Any Right For Your Apps?
Growth in the volume and pace of business is driving new application and data requirements that are often well beyond the design limits of existing relational database technologies. These include...
IBM, Imperva, And Sentrigo Lead, With Application Security, Oracle, And Fortinet Close Behind
In Forrester's 147-criteria evaluation of database auditing and real-time protection vendors, we found that the market is rife with mature products. IBM, Imperva, and Sentrigo lead the pack because...
Planning Helps Improve Security And Meet Regulatory Compliance Requirements
Hackers continue to break into critical databases across the globe, largely because of gaps in database security implementations and lack of cohesive controls. Although enterprises can pass...
Database Security Solutions Mature While The Market Consolidates
Enterprise databases continue to experience growing attacks despite enhanced security processes and increasing database security approaches. Security gaps in solutions persist in intelligent...
This presentation discusses database security trends and drivers; current database security challenges; why nonproduction environments such as test, development, Q&A, and staging are equally...

IBM, ANTs Software, And EnterpriseDB Offer Innovative New Options
Database migrations have always been complex, time-consuming, and costly due to proprietary data structures and data types, SQL extensions, and procedural languages. It can take up to several months...
Lately I have been getting quite a few inquiries on database migrations asking me about migration approaches, best practices, and tooling. Some of the reasons why companies are looking...