Andy Hayler on IT-Director.com

All aboard the data integration expressor

rss@it-analysis.com (Andy Hayler, Bloor Research) — Sun, 11 May 2008 07:00:00 +0100

expressor is a new entrant to data integration. It offers very high performance using MPP techniques, and a higher level of abstraction than usual in order to reduce the high maintenance costs that plague data integration applications. [Read More...]

Putting Data Quality On the Map

rss@it-analysis.com (Andy Hayler, Bloor Research) — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 07:00:00 +0100

Data enrichment by geocoding allows data quality vendors to clearly set out the business benefits that their technology can bring being basic data cleansing. Group 1's new software (version 5.5) is an excellent example of this, [Read More...]

Gaining Master Data Insight

rss@it-analysis.com (Andy Hayler, Bloor Research) — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 07:00:00 +0100

MDM vendors from a CDI (rather than a PIM) background usually have limited facilities to deal with workflow and data governance. Siperian's new module, involving a tie-up with MicroStrategy, is a positive step in this direction. [Read More...]

From Public To Private

rss@it-analysis.com (Andy Hayler, Bloor Research) — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 07:00:00 +0100

Visionware is an MDM hub technology that until now has concentrated on the UK public sector. Now it is spreading its wings. [Read More...]

A Fast Analytic Database for the Silent Majority

rss@it-analysis.com (Andy Hayler, Bloor Research) — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:00:00 +0100

PacAccel is a fast analytic database appliance which uses a columnar database and in-memory techniques to achieve speed. [Read More...]

Successful Parenting in Data Quality

rss@it-analysis.com (Andy Hayler, Bloor Research) — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 07:00:00 +0100

Dataflux has emerged as one of the leading data quality vendors. Its MDM offering is immature but it has flourished as a data quality vendor, and is an unusually succesful case study of a successful acquisition. [Read More...]

To Boldly Go Beyond Customer Name and Address

rss@it-analysis.com (Andy Hayler, Bloor Research) — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 07:00:00 +0100

Trillium is a market leader in data quality, with 2,000 enterprise customers. It has unusually broad internationalisation capability. It needs to do more to avoid being labelled a customer name and address only player. [Read More...]

The Brits are Coming

rss@it-analysis.com (Andy Hayler, Bloor Research) — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 07:00:00 +0100

Kognitio brings its appliance technology to the US market. It has a solid commercial base and good customers in the UK, so will be an interesting addition to the crowded US appliance market. [Read More...]

Taking a Sideways View

rss@it-analysis.com (Andy Hayler, Bloor Research) — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 10:00:00 +0100

Vertica is another entrant in the appliance market gaining rapid market traction. It does not use proprietary hardware but instead has a column-oriented database and smart compression as the basis for its speed.. [Read More...]

The Data Quality Ball

rss@it-analysis.com (Andy Hayler, Bloor Research) — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 06:55:00 +0100

Group 1's data quality approach and strategy is to offer its matching technology up as an SOA service. In this way it partners with MDM platform vendors rather than pretending to be a full blown MDM vendor in its own right. [Read More...]

Visual Business Modelling

rss@it-analysis.com (Andy Hayler, Bloor Research) — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 07:00:00 +0100

Kalido introduces an intriguing visual business modelling tool alongside its latest data warehouse technology release. [Read More...]

MDM innovation is alive and well and living in France

rss@it-analysis.com (Andy Hayler, Bloor Research) — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 07:00:00 +0100

Give the flurry of acquisitions in the master data management (MDM) market in the last year or so, you may be forgiven for thinking that the market was beginning to mature. However... [Read More...]