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The Full Spectrum of MDM Offerings

rss@it-analysis.com (Andy Hayler, The Information Difference) — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 06:00:00 +0100

The MDM market may have been consolidating recently (with Informatica's purchase of Heiler) but there is now a new entrant. Pitney Bowes... [Read More...]

That uRIKA moment

rss@it-analysis.com (Andy Hayler, The Information Difference) — Mon, 14 May 2012 06:00:00 +0100

These days big data is a hot topic, but in fact there are many issues around analysing high volume data, depending on the use case [Read More...]

The Keys to the Kingdom

rss@it-analysis.com (Andy Hayler, The Information Difference) — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 07:00:00 +0100

Data governance is a broad area with linkage to master data management. One less trendy but important aspect of data management is data access permissions. Varonis is an example of a vendor making good progress in addressing this niche. [Read More...]

New Survey - How Reliable Is Your Data Warehouse

rss@it-analysis.com (Andy Hayler, The Information Difference) — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 07:00:00 +0100

The Information Difference is conducting a new survey into data quality and data warehouses, looking to understand how reliable people believe that their warehouse data is, amongst other questions. [Read More...]

German Software giant acquires solid MDM foundations

rss@it-analysis.com (Andy Hayler, The Information Difference) — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 07:00:00 +0100

Software AG is the latest platform vendor to add an MDM component, by purchasing Data Foundations. Software AG's strong channel will enable the excellent Data Foundations technology a wider audience. [Read More...]

Trillium Software System� V13 - Lucky for Some

rss@it-analysis.com (Andy Hayler, The Information Difference) — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 07:00:00 +0100

Trillium Software have just released a major version of their software. This includes an improved user interface, more support for data stewards and a series of other enhancements. [Read More...]

An Intelligent Match

rss@it-analysis.com (Andy Hayler, The Information Difference) — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 07:00:00 +0100

Experian QAS has bought Intelligent Search. The matching algorithms used by Intelligent Search enhance Experian's own data quality offering, and raises the question of whether Experian QAS may widen its portfolio with further acquisitions [Read More...]

Dancing with a Giant

rss@it-analysis.com (Andy Hayler, The Information Difference) — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 07:00:00 +0100

Profisee's Maestro product is one of the first examples of an add-on product to Microsoft's recently released master data platform [Read More...]

Microsoft's MDM product appears

rss@it-analysis.com (Andy Hayler, The Information Difference) — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 07:00:00 +0100

Microsoft have now officially released Master Data Services, their MDM product based on acquired Stratature. The initial effort has concentrated on beefing up the platform rather than the user interface, leaving the field open for ISVs. [Read More...]

Building on Solid Foundations

rss@it-analysis.com (Andy Hayler, The Information Difference) — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 07:00:00 +0100

Some MDM vendors who started with specialist customer data integration (CDI) hubs are now proclaiming the multi-domain message; Data Foundations has gone the other way. Always multi-domain, it is now bringing out a specialist CDI hub. [Read More...]

Through the Looking Glass

rss@it-analysis.com (Andy Hayler, The Information Difference) — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 07:00:00 +0100

Winshuttle has prospered by occupying a small but useful niche - providing a familiar Excel front end on to SAP applications. The apparently competitive Duet initiative may even help Winshuttle by raising visibility of the issue. [Read More...]

One Ring To Rule Them All

rss@it-analysis.com (Andy Hayler, The Information Difference) — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 07:00:00 +0100

Kalido's Data Governance Director product is a new entry to the emerging data governance market. It is ahead of its rivals in its broad scope, and launches with solid partners. How fast can Kalido execute before its competitors react? [Read More...]

A Perfect Match

rss@it-analysis.com (Andy Hayler, The Information Difference) — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 09:00:00 +0100

TIBCO has bought Netrics, a data quality company that specialised in matching technology. Netrics has built up OEM relationships with several MDM vendors, but these are likely to continue. [Read More...]

Onwards and Upwards

rss@it-analysis.com (Andy Hayler, The Information Difference) — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 07:00:00 +0100

Vertica 4.0 is a significant new release of its data warehouse technology. Vertica continues to make strong commercial progress, validating the columnar approach for analytics by signing up plenty of paying customers. [Read More...]

Aster Blossoms

rss@it-analysis.com (Andy Hayler, The Information Difference) — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 07:00:00 +0100

Version 4.5 of Aster Data's data warehouse appliance has just been released. It has specialized in near real-time analysis of large data sets, and has some highly credible customers in this challenging niche. [Read More...]

Enterprise Business Modelling Revisited

rss@it-analysis.com (Andy Hayler, The Information Difference) — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:00:00 +0100

Previous enterprise business modelling approaches have floundered, partly due to technical tools disconnected from core applications. Collibra's natural language approach with web services support hopes to succeed where others have failed. [Read More...]

Appliances Are Getting Cheaper

rss@it-analysis.com (Andy Hayler, The Information Difference) — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 09:00:00 +0100

Calpont has emerged from a troubled past with new investors, staff, and a data warehouse appliance that appears to be very cheap indeed. This is still a version 1 product, with several missing features, but the price point is attractive. [Read More...]

Keeping An Open Mind

rss@it-analysis.com (Andy Hayler, The Information Difference) — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 07:00:00 +0100

Today Talend announce general availability of Talend MDM, an open source MDM hub based on the acquired Xtentis technology. Open source MDM will provide pricing pressure to the market, and allow customers to dip their toe into MDM waters. [Read More...]

Oracle sees a silver lining in product data

rss@it-analysis.com (Andy Hayler, The Information Difference) — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 07:00:00 +0100

Oracle buys Silver Creek, ensuring that it has a product data quality solution to complement its PIM hub and other supply chain offerings. There are few product data quality companies, so this makes those others more appealing targets. [Read More...]

Bolt from the blue

rss@it-analysis.com (Andy Hayler, The Information Difference) — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 07:00:00 +0100

IBM's latest MDM release continues the gradual convergence between its two MDM product lines, and further extends the capability of handling multiple data domains. It is still some way to its goal, but at least it is on the right path. [Read More...]

Data governance for the masses

rss@it-analysis.com (Andy Hayler, The Information Difference) — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:00:00 +0100

The new release of Kalido (8.5) has significant enhancements in the area of data governance. Data governance needs to be propagated throughout an organisation, not just dealt with by designated data stewards, and this will help. [Read More...]

Spend, Spend Spend

rss@it-analysis.com (Andy Hayler, The Information Difference) — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 07:00:00 +0100

Rosslyn Analytics has made good commercial progress by focusing exclusively on spend management, notching up some big name clients with proper return-on-investment cases. [Read More...]

Opening Up MDM

rss@it-analysis.com (Andy Hayler, The Information Difference) — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:00:00 +0100

Talend brings out the first open source master data management product, based on technology bought from Amalto. This may bring price pressure to a hitherto proprietary market, while other data integration vendors will likely need to respond [Read More...]

The Appliance of Science

rss@it-analysis.com (Andy Hayler, The Information Difference) — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 14:00:00 +0100

Vertica's new version 3.5 has a much improved storage management system amongst other new features. What is just as interesting is the commercial progress that Vertica is making in terms of new customers. [Read More...]

Would you like chips with that?

rss@it-analysis.com (Andy Hayler, The Information Difference) — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 07:00:00 +0100

Ingres announced a project with Intel to develop an appliance aimed at fast query processing, specifically to take advantage of the Intel chipset. Essentially it is a columnar database appliance tuned for Intel chips. [Read More...]

A Bulldog Puppy Emerges

rss@it-analysis.com (Andy Hayler, The Information Difference) — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 07:05:00 +0100

The plans for Microsoft's entry to the master data management (MDM) market are slowly emerging from the shadows. Based on their Stratature acquisition, but significantly overhauled, the product will appear in beta around the end of 2009. [Read More...]

The Trickle-up effect

rss@it-analysis.com (Andy Hayler, The Information Difference) — Fri, 29 May 2009 07:05:00 +0100

Recently MDM platform vendors have been moving down the functionality stack by adding data quality functionality, but Global IDS has gone the other way, starting with data quality functionality and now adding an MDM repository. [Read More...]

Supplier Master Data - An Emerging Market?

rss@it-analysis.com (Andy Hayler, The Information Difference) — Tue, 12 May 2009 07:00:00 +0100

Most master data management solutions have their roots in either product or customer data, but there are vendors who specialise in supplier data. Companies like CVM Solutions sell data, not just software, and are carving out a niche. [Read More...]

An open and shut case

rss@it-analysis.com (Andy Hayler, The Information Difference) — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 07:00:00 +0100

Ingres moved to an open-source model in 2005. It is showing strong revenue growth and, unlike some other open-source offerings, cannot be accused of being unproven. Migration effort may be significant, but makes sense in certain cases. [Read More...]

An Important Day for Product Data Quality

rss@it-analysis.com (Andy Hayler, The Information Difference) — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 07:00:00 +0100

Oracle will OEM the Silver Creek DataLens technology. This is significant because it validates the product data quality area as a separate, valid space (Oracle already OEM's other DQ technology that deals with addresses). [Read More...]