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Trends 2009: Master Data Management

Findings From Forrester's August 2009 Global Master Data Management/Data Quality Online Survey

by Rob Karel, October 23, 2009

Forrester continues to witness growing enthusiasm for master data management (MDM) initiatives across all industries, and in many cases those visions are slowly becoming reality. Yet while many large organizations work to either improve an existing MDM . . .

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Trends In Data Quality  (582 KB PPT)

by Rob Karel, October 23, 2009

This set of data charts will examine key trends in data quality gleaned from Forrester's August 2009 Global Master Data Management/Data Quality Online Survey.

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2009 Update: Evaluating Integration Alternatives

Scenario-Based Guidance For Choosing Products That Provide Application, Process, And Data Integration Features

by Ken Vollmer, Rob Karel, Larry Fulton, Noel Yuhanna, January 26, 2009

Technical innovation and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity continue to drive the evolution of the integration marketplace, leading to a market with a significantly different array of features and tools than what existed just 18 months ago. In . . .

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Topic Overview: Business Intelligence

by Boris Evelson, November 21, 2008

Business intelligence (BI) is a set of methodologies, processes, architectures, and technologies that transform raw data into meaningful and useful information. It allows business users to make informed business decisions with real-time data that can . . .

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Using CEP To Improve Customer Service

A Case Study Of A European Mobile Telecommunications Company

by Charles Brett, May 14, 2008

Telecommunications companies confront a high volume of inbound calls that deal with many different topics and problems. It is important for these companies to have valuable interactions with their customers as quickly as possible, whether they are solving . . .

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Information-As-A-Service: Delivering Real-Time Information Drives Market Toward The Mainstream

by Noel Yuhanna, Mike Gilpin, May 2, 2008

Increasing business demand for near-real-time delivery of high-quality information in context is driving enterprise architects and application developers toward new service-oriented ways of accessing and integrating enterprise information. Earlier-era . . .

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Winning In A Unique Technology Niche

Succeeding With A Consistent, Targeted Business Model

by Merv Adrian, Rob Karel, December 11, 2007

Many technology industry firms squander the opportunity to craft a go-to-market strategy that leverages truly differentiated technology, target markets, and business models. A careful examination of these should drive practices for customer acquisition, . . .

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Canonical Information Modeling Is Key To Many Information-As-A-Service And SOA Strategies

by Mike Gilpin, November 15, 2007

Forrester recently surveyed 1,017 decision-makers at North American and European enterprises on the adoption of service-oriented architecture (SOA) and related technologies including information-as-a-service (IaaS). Compared to other SOA technologies . . .

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Market Overview: Open Source ETL Tools

An Attractive Alternative To Custom Code

by Rob Karel, Michael Goulde, November 6, 2007

As open source, community-driven software continues its evolution from an interesting experiment to a viable technology alternative for enterprises, additional market segments develop open-source alternatives. The latest segment in the trend is open source . . .

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Ab Initio: Get To Know High-End Transaction Processing's Mysterious Leader

by Rob Karel, Merv Adrian, November 5, 2007

Enterprise architects and information managers often have to face very high value information management, performance, complexity, and scalability challenges. Only some find technology solutions that can tackle these challenges, but Ab Initio is a vendor . . .

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SAS Institute: A Strong Performer In Enterprise ETL With A BI And Analytics Focus

The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q2 2007

by Rob Karel, May 2, 2007

SAS Institute's Data Integration Studio (SDIS) remains a Strong Performer with good server capabilities, strong connectivity, user-friendly tools, and a world-class support and training organization. SAS ETL adoption remains primarily within its SAS business . . .

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Oracle Is A Leader In Enterprise ETL With A Free, Bundled Solution For Its DBMS

The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q2 2007

by Rob Karel, May 2, 2007

With the long awaited "Paris" release of Oracle Warehouse Builder 10gR2 (OWB) finally available, Oracle has delivered a scaleable, user-friendly, and feature-rich ETL solution at a much more attractive price than its competitors: Free! Base OWB functionality . . .

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Sybase Enters The Enterprise ETL Market As A Contender

The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q2 2007

by Rob Karel, May 2, 2007

Sybase's Sybase ETL product can be a useful project- or departmental-based ETL tool for easy to moderate integration challenges as an alternative to custom code. But the product does not yet offer the necessary scalability, connectivity, user friendliness, . . .

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Pervasive Software: A Strong Performer In Enterprise ETL Targeted At ISVs And Integrators

The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q2 2007

by Rob Karel, May 2, 2007

Pervasive Software's Business Integrator Pro and Data Integrator products do not compete head to head on scalability, user friendliness, and feature richness compared with most of the other enterprise ETL vendors we evaluated, but that is in line with . . .

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Microsoft Is A Strong Performer In Enterprise ETL When Targeting Microsoft Shops

The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q2 2007

by Rob Karel, May 2, 2007

With the release of SQL Server 2005 Integration Services (SSIS), Microsoft has significantly improved on its previous Data Transformation Services (DTS) ETL offering as a valuable data integration tool for homogeneous Microsoft platform customers. While . . .

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Business Objects: A Leader In Enterprise ETL, With A Strong Focus On Information Management

The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q2 2007

by Rob Karel, May 2, 2007

Business Objects' Data Integrator is a relatively affordable enterprise-class ETL solution that incorporates comprehensive information management capabilities — further enhanced by its acquisition of data quality management vendor Firstlogic. Data Integrator . . .

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iWay Software Is A Strong Performer In Enterprise ETL With Broad Connectivity

The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q2 2007

by Rob Karel, May 2, 2007

iWay Software, a subsidiary of Information Builders, is best known for its world-class information connectivity and also leads all vendors in its platform support and real-time connectivity options. iWay Software's ETL product, DataMigrator, offers a . . .

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Informatica: A Leader In Enterprise ETL, With A Pure-Play Solution

The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q2 2007

by Rob Karel, May 2, 2007

Informatica holds the second-place spot, following IBM, in the Leaders category with a highly scalable and user-friendly enterprise ETL integration suite of its own, with its PowerCenter product at the core and popular add-ons such as Data Quality and . . .

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The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise ETL, Q2 2007

IBM And Informatica Lead, With Business Objects And Oracle Close Behind

by Rob Karel, May 2, 2007

Forrester evaluated leading enterprise extract, transform, and load (ETL) vendors across 68 criteria and found that IBM and Informatica maintain leadership positions in enterprise ETL thanks to their ability to scale and perform batch and operational . . .

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IBM Leads In Enterprise ETL With A Comprehensive Information Management Suite

The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q2 2007

by Rob Karel, May 2, 2007

IBM leads the way in the next evolution of the enterprise ETL market with its introduction of IBM Information Server (IIS), which embeds comprehensive data integration and data management capabilities into a suite enabling seamless collaboration between . . .

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Information Fabric 2.0: Enterprise Information Virtualization Gets Real

by Noel Yuhanna, Mike Gilpin, April 9, 2007

Forrester's information fabric vision of enterprise information virtualization has evolved as enterprises have implemented more parts of the vision and as vendors have extended information-as-a service (IaaS) products to deliver broader capabilities. . . .

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Information-As-A-Service: What's Behind This Hot New Trend?

by Mike Gilpin, Noel Yuhanna, March 22, 2007

Information-as-a-service has exploded on the scene over the past two years, moving from an obscure topic to one of the top usage scenarios in service-oriented architecture (SOA). Forrester expects that in 2007, a majority of large enterprises will add . . .

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Evaluating Integration Technology Options

Scenario-Based Guidance For Application, Process, And Data Integration

by Ken Vollmer, Rob Karel, March 19, 2007

The wide range of packaged integration alternatives, and resulting significant overlap of features and functions among the various product categories, make it difficult for enterprise architects to select the best alternative to meet their integration . . .

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Open Solutions Alliance Pursues Application Integration

by Michael Goulde, March 12, 2007

On February 13, 2007, several service and integration companies working with open source software formed a new consortium, the Open Solution Alliance, to facilitate integration and foster adoption of open-source-based solutions. A few years ago, several . . .

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Information Server Takes IBM One Step Closer To Delivering Information-As-A-Service

by Rob Karel, Noel Yuhanna, December 28, 2006

Today, enterprise architects and information managers find it difficult to collaborate because metadata is not easily shared and synchronized across their tools and processes. Recently, IBM began to move toward a solution for this problem when it announced . . .