For Application Development & Program Management Professionals

Market Overview: Enterprise Data Modeling

A Steady State Market Prepares To Enter A Transformational New Phase

by Jeffrey S. Hammond, Noel Yuhanna, October 17, 2008

Over the past five years, selecting a data modeling tool has meant choosing between three leading vendors: CA, Embarcadero Technologies, and Sybase. In a slowly growing market, these vendors have focused most of their efforts on taking share from one . . .

For Business Process & Applications Professionals

Vendor Snapshot: Illuminate Solutions Breaks Through Traditional BI Barriers

by James G. Kobielus, August 8, 2008

Illuminate Solutions is a young Spain-based analytic database vendor that offers a compelling new approach optimized for complex, dynamic, ad hoc queries. Illuminate's correlation database uses what it calls "value-based storage" to greatly reduce the . . .

For Application Development & Program Management Professionals

Information Fabric: Enterprise Data Virtualization

An Emerging Trend That Will Revolutionize Access To Information

by Noel Yuhanna, Mike Gilpin, January 9, 2006

Enterprises are facing the growing challenges of using disparate sources of data managed by different applications, including problems with data integration, security, performance, availability, and quality. Business users want fast, real-time, and reliable . . .

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The Revival Of The Enterprise Data Model

Integration Data Models Will Ease Integration And Leverage Investment

by Jost Hoppermann, Ken Vollmer, September 9, 2004

Enterprise data models (EDMs) have been in use for years — in reality or on a conceptual level only. The future will see a revival of EDM. This revival will not drive boil-the-ocean-sized modeling efforts anymore but will be based on the use and re-use . . .

HP Buys Automation: Consera And Novadigm

by Frank E. Gillett, Galen Schreck, Richard Fichera, Natalie Lambert, February 4, 2004

Hewlett-Packard is buying two companies to add heterogeneous server automation capabilities to its Adaptive Enterprise strategy. Novadigm brings automated server configuration management and Consera adds data center planning and modeling capabilities.

Algorithms From the Leading Predictive Modeling Vendors

by Lou Agosta, December 16, 2003

The heart of the predictive model is the algorithm which generates a prediction by relating upstream, independent variables to a downstream dependent one. There are a 101 ways of relating these terms.

Comparing a Single Cube vs. Multi-Cube Data Modeling Approach to Financial Planning and Budgeting Applications

by Keith Gile, December 19, 2002

The data architecture of the planning and budgeting application under review needs to match the data architecture (either distributed or centralized).

Reverse Data Model Is Not the Enterprise Reporting Missing Link

by Keith Gile, December 27, 2001

Reverse data modeling technology represents an opportunity to extend the useful life of some legacy reporting systems, but should not be misinterpreted as a replacement for the data warehousing technology stack.

For Application Development & Program Management Professionals

Data Modeling Tools Market Update: ERwin s Crown Is Slipping

by Carl Zetie, November 6, 2001

ERwin was once the unquestioned leader in data modeling tools, but it is showing signs of under-investment and release difficulties. Clients selecting a data modeling tool today should look more closely at Sybase PowerDesigner or Embarcadero ER/Studio.

Data Modeling Best Practices for Data Warehousing

by Lou Agosta, July 5, 2001

Data modeling for structured commercial business applications will remain focused on the by now classic entity-relationship diagram and its implementations, including the data warehousing star schema.

For Application Development & Program Management Professionals

Enterprise Application Integration Modeling Tools

by Henry Peyret, June 26, 2001

This new class of tools is able to provide modeling capabilities outside EAI, able to generate or exchange metadata information about data mapping or workflow models with integration solutions running interfaces.

Market Overview: Data Modeling Tools and Trends, 2001 Update

by Carl Zetie, April 30, 2001

While core capabilities including physical generation and ease of use, remain central to the decision, pay increasing attention to the emerging road maps from these vendors for their intentions to address the object/relational gap.

Quest Enters Data Modeling Tools Market, Sideways

by Carl Zetie, April 24, 2001

Existing customers should press Sybase for a clarifying announcement in this regard, with assurances of continued support and/or confirmation that Quest is acting simply as an OEM, as soon as possible.