Philip Howard on IT-Analysis.com

The Information Agenda

Philip Howard, Bloor Research — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 06:00:00 +0100

Most organisations recognise that they have issues with data but there are so many things you need to do that it is difficult to envisage a roadmap that will take you to an integrated and holistic information environment. [Read More...]

A different approach to operational BI

Philip Howard, Bloor Research — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 06:00:00 +0100

InterSystems has just introduced DeepSee, which offers a somewhat different approach to operational BI. [Read More...]

Oracle and the X-Men

Philip Howard, Bloor Research — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 06:00:00 +0100

Oracle has just announced the Oracle Exadata Storage Server and the HP Oracle Database Machine as its answer to the likes of Netezza and other appliance vendors. The project went under the codename of Sage, one of the X-Men. [Read More...]

Speculation, Streams, Warehousing and the X-Men

Philip Howard, Bloor Research — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 06:00:00 +0100

What might IBM and Oracle be doing about data warehousing [Read More...]

IBM, BEP and CEP

Philip Howard, Bloor Research — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 05:55:00 +0100

IBM has made a big move into the event processing market. It may be early days (InfoSphere Streams is not actually released yet) but the company will have a big impact on the market. [Read More...]

Netezza goes spatial

Philip Howard, Bloor Research — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 06:00:00 +0100

At its annual user conference Netezza is launching a spatial engine developed in conjunction with IISI. The performance advantages it brings could have a significant impact on the spatial analytics market. [Read More...]

1010data

Philip Howard, Bloor Research — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 06:00:00 +0100

1010data is a data warehousing provider. However, unlike many less well-known names in this space 1010data has a pedigree. [Read More...]

Data Integration Platforms

Philip Howard, Bloor Research — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 06:00:00 +0100

We have recently completed some primary research into the data integration market and this article highlights some of the results. [Read More...]

Managing the BI delivery process

Philip Howard, Bloor Research — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 06:00:00 +0100

There is significant value to be had if you manage your BI delivery processes [Read More...]

Yawn wars

Philip Howard, Bloor Research — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 06:00:00 +0100

The latest update on what's being happening in the data warehousing space [Read More...]

The Sybase Analytic Appliance

Philip Howard, Bloor Research — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 06:00:00 +0100

Sybase is delivering an appliance in conjunction with IBM and Logica. How does it stack up? [Read More...]

Entering the data mining fray

Philip Howard, Bloor Research — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 06:00:00 +0100

Information Builders has announced a data mining tool called RStat based on the open source R statistical language. Could RStat become a significant competitor to SAS and SPSS? [Read More...]

SDRS and the EU Data Retention Directive

Philip Howard, Bloor Research — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 06:00:00 +0100

Sun and CopperEye have combined to create an appliance for Telcos and ISPs [Read More...]

Accurate test data

Philip Howard, Bloor Research — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 06:00:00 +0100

Traditional approaches to test data involve sampling (and then masking) from your existing data. However, there are advantages to generating the data from scratch. [Read More...]

Mixed query workloads - making it work

Philip Howard, Bloor Research — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 05:55:00 +0100

This is the last of three articles about mixed query workloads, discussing (briefly) its major characteristics. [Read More...]

Ingres - an update

Philip Howard, Bloor Research — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 06:00:00 +0100

Behind the scenes Ingres has been doing some interesting things, not least the recent open sourcing of OpenROAD. [Read More...]

Microsoft buys DATAllegro

Philip Howard, Bloor Research — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:00:00 +0100

Microsoft has announced its intention to acquire DATAllegro - this will have a major impact on the data warehousing market. [Read More...]

Prodiance ups the ante

Philip Howard, Bloor Research — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 06:00:00 +0100

Prodiance has released a new version of its spreadsheet management application that includes significant new capabilities. [Read More...]

Trends in web analytics (and performance monitoring)

Philip Howard, Bloor Research — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 06:05:00 +0100

A couple of companies are doing interesting things with web analytics, both with respect to customer analytics and transaction performance monitoring. [Read More...]

Real-time goes green

Philip Howard, Bloor Research — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 06:05:00 +0100

It turns out that real-time data integration has significant cost advantages over traditional batch. [Read More...]

Stibo - the oldest software company?

Philip Howard, Bloor Research — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 06:00:00 +0100

Stibo Catalog is a product information management within the MDM space. However, it does much more than just PIM. [Read More...]

Latest data warehousing news

Philip Howard, Bloor Research — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 06:00:00 +0100

An update on various vendors and their goings on in the data warehousing space [Read More...]

Cognos integrations with IBM

Philip Howard, Bloor Research — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 06:00:00 +0100

Cognos recently discussed how it would be integrating (at an infrastructure level) with IBM solutions. [Read More...]

Database clustering

Philip Howard, Bloor Research — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 06:00:00 +0100

Clustering (and to a lesser extent grid) seems to be all the rage nowadays - at last the database market is catching up with Oracle RAC. [Read More...]

EXASOL: another data warehousing vendor

Philip Howard, Bloor Research — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 06:00:00 +0100

EXASOL is a column-based in-memory data warehousing solution with interesting optimisation and high performance capability [Read More...]

Mixed query workloads - why it is a problem

Philip Howard, Bloor Research — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 06:00:00 +0100

In the second of this three part series I discuss the problems associated with mixed query workloads [Read More...]

How do you know your migration worked?

Philip Howard, Bloor Research — Tue, 27 May 2008 06:00:00 +0100

How can you test whether you have correctly completed a (data/content) migration project? TRUcompare provides an answer. [Read More...]

A new approach to data integration

Philip Howard, Bloor Research — Wed, 21 May 2008 06:00:00 +0100

expressor software has introduced a new semantically-aware data integration tool that should improve collaboration and reduce development effort. [Read More...]

Spreadsheets and GRC

Philip Howard, Bloor Research — Thu, 15 May 2008 06:00:00 +0100

GRC software does not incorporate spreadsheet management capabilities and, hitherto, providers of that latter could not easily be integrated into GRC environments. With Compassoft's latest release that has changed. [Read More...]

Vertica ventures into the cloud

Philip Howard, Bloor Research — Tue, 13 May 2008 06:00:00 +0100

Vertica has just announced support for Amazon cloud-based data warehousing. What are we to make of this departure? [Read More...]