Bloor IM Blog - Blog Archive for March (2011)

There were 5 blog postings during March (2011):

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How come Syncsort is so fast and what does that mean?
Syncsort has always had a reputation for high performance but historically it paid no attention to marketing and not much to sales so it was only hearsay that suggested it was a product worth looking at. That has changed recently with the company...
Philip Howard, Bloor Research | 1st March '11

Accessing archived data
One of the things that concerns companies about archiving, and perhaps puts them off, is how they are going to access the data after it is archived. If the originating application is still in operation then you may be able to use SQL to define and...
Philip Howard, Bloor Research | 3rd March '11

Process, governance and spreadsheets
Talk to almost anybody about information, data or corporate governance and they will tell you that governance is primarily about people and processes. For example, in data governance it’s not so much about data quality per se but about the...
Philip Howard, Bloor Research | 4th March '11

Combining search and BI
The idea behind combining search with business intelligence is that you want the analytic power of the latter but you also want the ease of use and simplicity of search. The question is: how do you get both? Or, more particularly, what is the best...
Philip Howard, Bloor Research | 7th March '11

The lesser-known MDM
Despite recent acquisitions in the MDM market the space is still awash with many smaller players. Not all of these are well known, especially in the UK and Europe, even though they may merit closer attention. One such is Riversand, despite the fact...
Philip Howard, Bloor Research | 7th March '11