Data Management and Integration

News Analysis

• Informatica Expands Data Quality With Identity Systems Buy
  24 April 2008
• MIPS Rating for IBM's System z10 EC Processors
  15 April 2008

Featured Research

• Elevating the Focus on Information Management Curbs Instant Legacy Risks in Asia/Pacific
  29 April 2008
• Q&A: Master Data Management and Finance Systems
  22 April 2008
• Key Issues for Cloud-Enabled Application Infrastructure, 2008
  21 April 2008
• Key Issues for Delivering a Data Warehouse Project, 2008
  18 April 2008
• Key Issues for Delivering an Enterprise Metadata Management Project, 2008
  18 April 2008
• IT Modernization: Build Agile Data Centers While Reducing Expenses
  18 April 2008
• Key Issues for Implementing an Enterprisewide Data Quality Improvement Project, 2008
  16 April 2008
• Case Study: Lessons Learned From Implementing a Darwin Information Typing Architecture Publishing System
  16 April 2008
• IT Modernization: The Data Center and AD Conflicts
  9 April 2008
• Open Source in Database Management Systems, 2008
  3 April 2008
• Open Source in Business Activity Monitoring, 2008
  3 April 2008
• Evaluating BPMS Metadata Management Capabilities
  2 April 2008
• Open Source in Data Integration Tools, 2008
  28 March 2008
• Tactical Guideline: How Data Mart Consolidation Can Improve Information Management and Reduce Costs
  28 March 2008
• The Impact of Alternative IT Delivery Models on Data Integration
  27 March 2008
• Enterprise GIS Customers Should Leverage Spatially Enabled Data Integration Tools
  21 March 2008
• Roundup of Master Data Management and Related Research, 1Q08
  18 March 2008

Data Integration

The evolution of data integration tools, technology and deployment trends

• The Top Seven Trends for Master Data Management in 1Q08
  5 March 2008
• Open Source in Data Integration Tools, 2008
  28 March 2008
• Key Issues for Master Data Management, 2008
  28 January 2008
• Best Practices for 'Proofs of Concept' for Data Integration Tools
  25 January 2008
• Use the Gartner MDM Maturity Model to Show the Business Benefits of MDM Investments
  4 January 2008
• Fundamentals of Information Management for the CIO
  29 February 2008
• The Impact of Alternative IT Delivery Models on Data Integration
  27 March 2008
• Enterprise GIS Customers Should Leverage Spatially Enabled Data Integration Tools
  21 March 2008
• Key Issues for Data Management and Integration Initiatives, 2008
  13 March 2008
• Cost Cutting in Data Management and Integration, 2008
  15 February 2008
• FAQ: Data Integration Tools Market Pricing and Licensing Trends
  15 February 2008
• FAQ: Negotiating Pricing, and Terms and Conditions With Data Integration Tools Vendors
  15 February 2008
• Oracle OpenWorld: Major Focus Put on Application Integration Architecture
  14 December 2007
• 10 Best Practices for Customer Data Integration
  5 November 2007
• Master Data Management Summit Shows How to Achieve a 'Single Version of the Truth' About Data
  15 October 2007
• Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools, 2007
  5 October 2007
• The Seven Building Blocks of MDM: A Framework for Success
  11 October 2007
• Data Federation Adoption Increases as Part of Complete Data Integration Strategy
  5 October 2007
• The Benefits (and Challenges) of Deploying Data Integration Tools
  10 August 2007
• Open-Source Won't Kill the Commercial Data Integration Tools Market Yet
  10 August 2007
• The Emerging Vision for Data Services: Implementing Dynamic Optimization
  1 June 2007
• Information-Centric Infrastructure: Application Integration Via Content
  25 May 2007

Data Quality

Best practices for assessing impact and effecting improvement

• Methodologies: Blueprints for Success With Data Quality Improvement
  30 November 2007
• Case Study: Aera Energy's Comprehensive Focus on Data Quality Generates Competitive Advantage
  24 January 2008
• Trust and Compliance Issues Spur Data Quality Investments
  7 September 2007
• Magic Quadrant for Data Quality Tools, 2007
  29 June 2007
• Organizing for Data Quality
  1 June 2007
• Drive Data Quality Improvement From a Foundation of Metrics
  7 May 2007

Database Management Systems

Supporting all critical aspects of business operations

• Quest Software Releases an Enhanced Version of Its Low-Cost Toad Data Modeler
  30 January 2008
• Unlocking the Value of SAP BW by Layering a Third-Party BI Platform
  21 January 2008
• Unlocking the Value of SAP BW by Upgrading to NetWeaver BI
  21 January 2008
• Oracle Delivers Virtualization on the Xen Hypervisor
  27 November 2007
• Cost-Benefit Analysis of DBMS Migrations
  27 July 2007

Data Warehousing Trends

Technology, design, and architecture for successful deployment

• Predicts 2008: Master Data Management
  25 February 2008
• Questions About IBM's Open Infrastructure Offering From the U.S. Data Center Conference
  4 February 2008
• Tactical Guideline: How Data Mart Consolidation Can Improve Information Management and Reduce Costs
  28 March 2008
• Gartner Survey Suggests Extensive Data Center Expansion Plans Are on the Horizon
  11 February 2008
• Toolkit Tutorial: Using the Data Warehouse Model Framework to Manage Scope
  9 November 2007
• Organizations Stick With Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence Choices
  7 September 2007
• Data Warehouse Appliances Are More Than Just Plug-And-Play
  13 July 2007
• Architecture Issues for Real-Time Data Warehousing
  13 July 2007
• Server Evaluation Model Summary: Data Warehouse DBMS Servers, 1H07
  18 June 2007
• Operational Analytics and the Emerging Mission-Critical Data Warehouse
  14 May 2007

Enterprise Information Management

Gaining meaningful information and context from multiple systems

• Key Issues in Enterprise Storage, 2008
  15 April 2008
• Key Issues for Enterprise Information Management Initiatives, 2008
  14 March 2008
• Gartner Defines Enterprise Information Architecture
  20 February 2008
• Value Drivers for Advancing the Strategic Role of Information
  1 February 2008
• State of the Industry and Future Role of Information Management in Asia/Pacific
  9 November 2007
• Safeguarding Information When Using SaaS
  9 November 2007
• Four Dimensions of MDM: Understanding the Complexity
  13 September 2007
• The Role of Master Data Management in the Business Service Repository
  8 August 2007

Metadata Management

Providing meaning, context and leverage of corporate data

• Metadata Business Threats and Opportunities
  13 March 2008
• Tutorial: Metadata Hazards and Insights
  11 February 2008
• Q&A: What Is a Registry/Repository, and Who Should Consider One?
  9 November 2007
• Evaluating IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and SAP MDM Strategies
  4 October 2007
• The Role of Metadata in Master Data Management
  13 September 2007
• webMethods Acquires Cerebra, Bolstering Its Metadata Management
  25 August 2006
• CIOs: Metadata Improves Four Critical IT Activities
  26 May 2006

Magic Quadrants and MarketScopes

Which vendors are leaders, visionaries, challengers or niche players

• Magic Quadrant for Data Warehouse Database Management Systems, 2007
  10 October 2007
• Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools, 2007
  5 October 2007
• Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Content Management, 2007
  21 September 2007
• Magic Quadrant for Data Quality Tools, 2007
  29 June 2007
• Magic Quadrant for Product Information Management, 2Q07
  21 June 2007

Hype Cycles

The wave of the future or just hype? Gartner Hype Cycles show the difference

• Hype Cycle for Data Management, 2007
  2 July 2007
• Hype Cycle for Content Management, 2007
  6 July 2007
• Hype Cycle for Business Intelligence and Performance Management, 2007
  23 July 2007

Vendor Ratings

The products, strategies and viability of specific vendors

• Vendor Focus for Oracle: Product and Service Offering Details
  8 April 2008
• Vendor Rating: Oracle
  8 April 2008
• Cool Vendors in Data Management and Integration, 2008
  26 March 2008
• Cool Vendors in Master Data Management, 2008
  18 March 2008
• Vendor Rating: Business Objects
  28 September 2007