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. Identity management services
Identity and access management technologies and services are used to increase security by ensuring that applications and the data they contain are not accessed inappropriately. These services also aid productivity by ensuring that those with the...
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4. Financial Intelligence and Business Reporting
This paper compares different approaches to reporting against the JD Edwards (Oracle) EnterpriseOne and World ERP application suites. It should be noted that the general comments made here would be applicable to any ERP environment...
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5. The value of big data in security
By continuously monitoring information flows in real time, organisations will better be able to ward off internal and external threats
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6. 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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7. 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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8. 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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9. 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...
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10. Micro Focus Silk Performer 2012
This paper is a comparison of two performance testing products: Silk Performer from Micro Focus, which is part of the Silk integrated software quality suite and the market-leading HP LoadRunner (originally acquired when HP bought Mercury, and part...
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11. Enhancing security through a trust-based approach
Cyberthreats are becoming ever more insidious and affect organisations of all sizes, spanning all industries. In many cases, the organisation will not know that it has been a victim of an attack as today's threats aim to evade...
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12. 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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13. 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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14. 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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15. 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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