Papers from Bloor Research

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1. Safyr
Safyr (pronounced as in 'sapphire' and previously known as Saphir), from Silwood Technology, provides ERP metadata intelligence to organisations that have implemented one or more of SAP, SAP BW, Oracle E-Business Suite, Siebel, PeopleSoft...
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2. Denodo Platform 5.0
Businesses today have the opportunity to make huge gains by leveraging more data than ever before for both analytics and operations to improve customer service, speed products to market, cut costs and more. They could use lots and lots...
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3. Database performance management
It can be argued that the best and perhaps only real true measure of performance for any computer system is how long it takes to respond to a user's request for information or, en masse, how long it takes to respond to all users' requests. Given...
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4. Harnessing big data for security
Volumes of data are expanding rapidly, and effectively harnessing the data volumes generated by organisations today brings both significant gains as well as challenges. In particular, big data security sets bring specialised challenges owing to…
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5. Key considerations for security intelligence in big data
Today, all organisations face threats from targeted, sophisticated attacks by well resourced and motivated criminals who are looking to conduct industrial espionage for the purpose of stealing trade secrets or intellectual property, to disrupt...
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6. Atego Asset Library
One of the first of these (possibly the very first, depending on what you define as an intelligent asset library) has been developed by Atego, which specialises in standards-based development of 'systems of systems'...
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7. Master Data Management
This document provides a snapshot of the current state of the Master Data Management (MDM) market. Master data is data that is shared between computer systems: data such as 'customer',...
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8. Service Virtualisation
This document represents a snapshot of the current state of the service virtualisation market. This space is still emerging but it represents a technology that will help to bring more rigour to development processes through the rapid provisioning of…
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9. Data Masking
In this paper we shall discuss why it is important, why you should consider using a tool for data masking, rather than attempting to do it manually, and what features you should look for when selecting a data masking product.
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10. Data profiling: the business case
This paper discusses the benefits of automating the discovery of data quality issues through the use of data profiling technology. While a certain amount of technical discussion will be necessary, the emphasis is on benefits to the...
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11. Exploring Successful Approaches to Test Data Management
Test Data Management (TDM) is about the provisioning of data for non-production environments, especially for test purposes but also for development, training, quality assurance, demonstrations or other activities. Test data has always been required.
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12. uRiKA
uRiKA can be viewed as a new class of a product: a 'graph warehouse', purpose built for relationship analytics, focused on the discovery of relationships (and patterns within those relationships) that were not previously...
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13. 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...
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14. The economics of cloud managed integration
In this paper we will consider what is required to enable cloud-managed integration from a technical perspective. Much of the base functionality needed will be similar to that required of any data integration environment but we will not dwell on...
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15. Data profiling: the business case
This paper discusses the benefits of automating the discovery of data quality issues through the use of data profiling technology. While a certain amount of technical discussion will be necessary, the emphasis is on benefits to the...
Published By: Bloor Research