Papers from Bloor Research

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1. Business Process Management
Like most technologies, Business Process Management (BPM) has continued to change and evolve over the years. Since I last did a review of the market for BPMS (Business Process Management, December 2008) and then later BRMS (Business Rules...
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2. Mapping and Modelling Survey
It is now 20 years since the first MS Windows-based modelling tools came to market. Many thousands of licences of modelling tools have been sold since then. They are becoming pervasive in software development and were accepted long ago in the data...
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3. 7 Steps to BPM success
This paper provides the reader with a 7 Step model that seeks to suggest ways in which organisations can maximise their business returns. The model sets out to blend the benefits of non-technology approaches with the more technological...
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4. 7 Steps to Business Architecture
Business Architecture is the glue that links the pieces together as a coherent whole. It is the approach by which you can step forward and deliver the navigation system for business, enabling your business to ask smart questions and get intelligent…
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5. 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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6. 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...
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7. 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...
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8. 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...
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9. Sybase ETL for Sybase IQ
Sybase ETL (extract, transform and load) started life as a general-purpose data integration product. However, today it is a data integration tool that has been specifically optimised to support the loading of data into Sybase IQ.
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10. No Software. No Source Code. No Problem.
The use of complex software is now part of daily business life. Unfortunately cyber criminals are taking advantage of this to spread malware and to attack systems with the aim of stealing information, money and intellectual...
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11. Enabling in-database advanced analytics with Sybase IQ
There is a great deal of discussion right now about advanced analytics, predictive analytics and in-database analytics. What are these? How does advanced analytics (which we take to include, but not be limited to, predictive analytics) differ...
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12. Comparative costs and uses of Data Integration Platforms
Data integration has sometimes been portrayed as a necessary evil, a cost centre, a time sink, or in other unflattering terms. Conversely, some vendors, consultants, pundits and analysts have positioned various integration models and...
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13. Identity Management as a Service
Identity Management (IdM) solutions have been evolving since their establishment in the late 90's with the purpose of simplifying the management of user identities and access rights across an organisation's enterprise. Typically, IdM...
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14. Log & Event Management: LogMatrix
There are three major benefits to be derived from log and event management solutions (sometimes referred to as SIEM, security information and event management). In the first case, these solutions provide real-time identification and alerting...
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15. Log & Event Management: Symantec
There are three major benefits to be derived from log and event management solutions (sometimes referred to as SIEM, security information and event management). In the first case, these solutions provide real-time identification and alerting...
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