Papers from Bloor Research

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1. Lower your risk with application data migration
In this paper we will review what Bloor Research has learned over the past six years, since we first published our original Data Migration Survey in 2007. While it was clear in our 2011 survey that matters had improved since 2007, it is now to be...
Published By: Bloor Research

2. Compuware Uniface v9.6
Uniface provides a model-driven, component-based, development environment with support for mobile computing, service-oriented and web application developments. It also offers significant capabilities for leveraging legacy resources and bringing...
Published By: Bloor Research

3. Exploiting the Internet of Things with investigative analytics
There is a wealth of information hidden in the Internet of Things that can help organisations to understand what happened or might happen and why it happened or may happen, and help to point towards what to do about it. However, before we consider...
Published By: Bloor Research

4. FireMon Security Manager Platform
FireMon's Security Manager Platform provides organisations with the enhanced situation awareness that is required for effective decision making, allowing organisations to better plan what actions to take and prioritise efforts for maximum gains.
Published By: Bloor Research

5. Getting ahead in the cloud
Cloud-based applications and services, and software-as-a-service applications in particular, are coming into widespread use by organisations of all sizes. Such applications are used to process and store sensitive information making it imperative...
Published By: Bloor Research

6. The value of big data in security
Volumes of data created and processed by organisations are spiralling rapidly as ever more information-generating devices, including mobiles and industrial control devices connect to networks. According to the McKinsey Global Institute, the amount...
Published By: Bloor Research

7. Uniface Modernisation
Application modernisation is a particularly useful option for bringing legacy Uniface software up-to-date with the latest SOA (Services Oriented Architecture) applications and web services interfaces. You can even add a modern Uniface layer (using...
Published By: Bloor Research

8. Challenges and opportunities in the telecommunications sector
Transformation and consolidation are two of the key challenges, but also opportunities, for telecommunications providers. They must transform from providers of commodity voice services to seek opportunities presented by emerging technologies,...
Published By: Bloor Research

9. Next steps for Data Integration
This paper examines the issues facing data integration tools today and in the near future. We consider why these issues represent significant challenges and what can be done to face them and, indeed, if anything can be done to meet these challenges.
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10. Usage-based billing as a database platform service
Billing is an essential part of the services model and if you can re-purpose database licensing logic to enable billing services and usage analytics - using database accesses, mapped into business activities, as a metric for usage...
Published By: Bloor Research

11. Uses and benefits of SaaS-based Enterprise Social Networking
This survey looked at the business arguments for using an enterprise social networking (ESN) system based on software as a service (SaaS). We also investigated decision makers' views on the comparative qualities of SaaS based systems and those…
Published By: Bloor Research

12. Cluster Computing
In this paper we will describe the nuances of clusterbased technologies and the challenges in making clusters easier and simpler to work with (more like an SMP-based approach). Finally, we will conclude by considering how Waratek, a newcomer to...
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13. The Interactive Medica Life Sciences Application Suite
Interactive Medica's Life Sciences Application Suite offers a range of cloud-based sales and marketing applications that address the key commercial challenges faced by Life Sciences companies today. The Suite combines the cost, flexibility, and...
Published By: Bloor Research

14. Single Customer View in Financial Services
In the UK it is now mandatory for deposit takers (banks, building societies and other institutions) to be able to provide the authorities with a single customer view of all deposits held by the organisation for individual depositors. It is likely...
Published By: Bloor Research

15. EMC Data Domain Replicator
EMC Data Domain has extended the capabilities of its in-line deduplication appliances, which typically reduce data backup storage by around 95%, to gain greater savings when replicating to remote locations over a wide area network (WAN). In this...
Published By: Bloor Research