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DataFlux Data Management Platform

Philip Howard, Bloor Research — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 07:00:00 +0100

Along with new releases from lots of data warehousing vendors, TDWI has also seen in the formal announcement of the DataFlux Data Management Platform which was previously known as the Unity project.... [Read More...]

Netezza Advanced Analytics

Philip Howard, Bloor Research — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 07:00:00 +0100

As usual at TDWI there are a series of announcements from major vendors. Not least of this year's releases has been the introduction of the Netezza TwinFin iClass, which follows on from last month's... [Read More...]

Aster Data 4.5

Philip Howard, Bloor Research — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 07:00:00 +0100

Releases�come thick and fast�during TDWI. One of the more interesting announcements this week is Aster Data nCluster version 4.5. Aster Data's mission is to support what it calls big data... [Read More...]

Vertica at TDWI

Philip Howard, Bloor Research — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 07:00:00 +0100

Vertica, along with various other companies, has made a major announcement at this week's TDWI, namely with respect to Vertica 4.0. This is a major release by any measure with the product being in... [Read More...]

The Informatica Event

Philip Howard, Bloor Research — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 07:00:00 +0100

Last week I attended an Informatica analyst event. There was a lot to digest but here are some highlights. To begin with, the company talked about its acquisition of Siperian. I have already... [Read More...]

Making sense of it all 2

Philip Howard, Bloor Research — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 07:00:00 +0100

In the previous article with this title I discussed the consolidation of the MDM market. The same thing is happening in the CEP (complex event processing) market. However, here matters... [Read More...]

Making sense of it all 1

Philip Howard, Bloor Research — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 07:00:00 +0100

When we published our most recent Market Update on MDM, just last August, there were half-a-dozen pure play vendors in the transactional MDM market. Now there are half that number. I need... [Read More...]

Bribery

Philip Howard, Bloor Research — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 07:00:00 +0100

You often hear security officers, not to mention vendors, talk about fraud detection and prevention but you seldom never in my experience) hear anyone talking about Bribery. However, in the... [Read More...]

Columns aren't enough anymore

Philip Howard, Bloor Research — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 07:00:00 +0100

I have been preaching the columnar message for data warehousing for the best part of ten years. That argument has been won. However it is now clear that columns on their own aren't enough. Yes,... [Read More...]

Calpont finally comes to market

Philip Howard, Bloor Research — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 07:00:00 +0100

It's been a long time coming but Calpont has finally come to market with InfiniDB. Actually, it launched the open source Community Edition of the product last year but now it is introducing the... [Read More...]

Informatica 9: (r)evolutionary?

Philip Howard, Bloor Research — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 07:00:00 +0100

Informatica 9 is a major release in every sense of the word. This means that there is too much in it to go into all its details in a short article such as this, so I will concentrate on the... [Read More...]

Cadis EDM

Philip Howard, Bloor Research — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 07:00:00 +0100

Cadis Software is a UK-based company (with offices in New York, San Francisco, Hong Kong and Luxembourg) that provides enterprise data management (EDM) solutions for the buy side of capital markets.... [Read More...]

CEP and analytics

Philip Howard, Bloor Research — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 07:00:00 +0100

The first time I wrote about Apama (now Progress Apama), back in May 2002, the first thing that I wrote about it was that the product had been designed to address the need for real-time query... [Read More...]

SnapLogic

Philip Howard, Bloor Research — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 07:00:00 +0100

Data integration tools are a dime a dozen and there are more open source data integration tools that you can shake a fist at. In part, this is because there remains a large untapped market potential... [Read More...]

Confessions of a serial DQ perpetrator

Philip Howard, Bloor Research — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 07:00:00 +0100

For someone who writes regularly about the merits of good quality data it is galling to have to admit that I am now a serial perpetrator of poor quality data. To be specific, the village where I... [Read More...]

Communicating the message

Philip Howard, Bloor Research — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 07:00:00 +0100

Large organisations tend to be like applications. They have a bunch of divisions that do particular things but each tends to be siloed. And most of the communications coming from such companies tends... [Read More...]

RainStor

Philip Howard, Bloor Research — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 07:00:00 +0100

RainStor was previously Clearpace Software. The company was founded by ex-MOD staff who had been working on a way to effectively store data derived from battlefield simulations. As you may imagine... [Read More...]

Spotlights

Philip Howard, Bloor Research — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 07:00:00 +0100

I have recently written and published two spotlight papers. These are generic (i.e. no mention of vendors) papers about matters of concern and/or interest, discussing why these areas are important... [Read More...]

Trends in MDM

Philip Howard, Bloor Research — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 07:00:00 +0100

One of the outcomes of the recession has been that a lot of companies have cut back on long-term projects, especially where ROI may not be clear. And talking to various people it is clear that one of... [Read More...]

Data warehousing update

Philip Howard, Bloor Research — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 07:00:00 +0100

A variety of interesting things have happened in the data warehousing space recently. New releases are always occurring so Aster Data's release of version 4.0 comes as no surprise. More... [Read More...]

Research Agenda

Philip Howard, Bloor Research — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 07:00:00 +0100

It is worth mentioning my research agenda. I am currently working on spreadsheet governance and log and event management (SIEM) as two separate streams. In the New Year I expect to be concentrating... [Read More...]

The IM Blog

Philip Howard, Bloor Research — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:00:00 +0100

This is the IM Blog. Multiple Bloor analysts will be contributing to this blog over time: not just me but also various colleagues such as Gerry Brown, Peter Williams or any of our security team,... [Read More...]

Is data profiling enough?

Philip Howard, Bloor Research — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:00:00 +0100

Data profiling tools do two things: they discover facts about data values and they discover relationships between different data items. As I have commented before they are typically not very good at... [Read More...]

Pervasiveness

Philip Howard, Bloor Research — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:00:00 +0100

The idea of things being pervasive is making a comeback. First, IBM redefined the idea of pervasive BI and now Informatica, with the release of PowerCenter 9, has introduced the idea of pervasive... [Read More...]

Research agenda

Philip Howard, Bloor Research — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:00:00 +0100

Goodbye portability - hello tin

Philip Howard, Bloor Research — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:00:00 +0100

Thirty years ago, if you wanted to license software you bought proprietary software running on a proprietary database or file system that ran on a proprietary operating system running on proprietary... [Read More...]

Pervasiveness and micro-decisions

Philip Howard, Bloor Research — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:00:00 +0100

Unlike Judith Hurwitz (see Can we free process and data?) I was not at IBM's Information On Demand (IOD) conference last week. Partly this is because IBM now runs a European IOD... [Read More...]

Kalido gets busy

Philip Howard, Bloor Research — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 07:05:00 +0100

I once wrote that everybody with an enterprise data warehouse should license Kalido. I don't retract that statement. Not only does it help you to set up your warehouse much more quickly, it... [Read More...]

A different sort of governance

Philip Howard, Bloor Research — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 07:00:00 +0100

Varonis describes itself as providing data governance for unstructured and semi-structured data. By which it means controlling, monitoring and auditing access to spreadsheets, multi-media files,... [Read More...]

And the last shall be first

Philip Howard, Bloor Research — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 07:00:00 +0100

Finsbury Solutions was the last of the leading spreadsheet management vendors to come to the market and, until not very long ago, it was the smallest and least well known. So, how come it is now the... [Read More...]