Sunday, December 9, 2012

gartner magic quadrant for data integration tools 2012


Informatica, IBM Datastage, SAP, Oracle & SAS-Dataflux are in the Leader's quadrant. Microsoft in the challenger quadrant followed by Syncsort, Talend, Pervasive Software and Information builder.  


Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Gartner: Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends For 2013



ü  Mobile Devices
ü  Mobile Application
ü  Personal Cloud
ü  internet and things
ü  hybrid IT & Cloud Computing
ü  Strategic Big data
ü  Actionable analytics
ü  mainstream In-Memory Computing
ü  integrated Ecosystems
ü  Enterprise app Stores
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The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Cloud Databases, Q4 2012

Forrester conducted product evaluations and interviewed six vendor companies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Caspio, EnterpriseDB, Microsoft, salesforce. com, and Xeround.
Microsoft, two products from Amazon Web Services (AWS) — Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) and Amazon DynamoDB — and salesforce.com’s Database.com as leading the pack due to their breadth of cloud database capabilities and strong product strategy and vision. EnterpriseDB, salesforce.com’s Heroku Postgres, Caspio, and Xeround are close on the heels of the Leaders, offering viable solutions to support most current cloud database requirements.

Wednesday, August 8, 2012

The Hype Cycle for Cloud Computing, 2012 by Gartner


Here are few of the highlights “The Hype Cycle for Cloud Computing, 2012 by Gartner” published in Forbes.
o   The Cloud BPM (bpmPaaS) market is slated to grow 25% year over year, and 40% of companies doing BPM are already using BPM in the cloud.
o   Cloud Email is expected to have a 10% adoption rate in enterprises by 2014, down from the 20% Gartner had forecasted in previous Hype Cycles.
o   Big Data will deliver transformational benefits to enterprises within 2 to 5 years, and by 2015 will enable enterprises adopting this technology to outperform competitors by 20% in every available financial metric.
o   Master Data Management (MDM) Solutions in the Cloud and Hybrid IT are included in this hype cycle for the first time in 2012.
o   PaaS continues to be one of the most misunderstood aspects of cloud platforms.
o   By 2014 the Personal Cloud will have replaced the personal computer as the center of user’s digital lives.
o   Private Cloud Computing is among the highest interest areas across all cloud computing according to Gartner, with 75% of respondents in Gartner polls saying they plan to pursue a strategy in this area by 2014.
o   SaaS is rapidly gaining adoption in enterprises, leading Gartner to forecast more than 50% of enterprises will have some form of SaaS-based application strategy by 2015.
o   More than 50% of all virtualization workloads are based on the x86 architecture.



Monday, July 23, 2012

The Forrester Wave™: Advanced Data Visualization (ADV) Platforms, Q3 2012

Summary: Enterprises find advanced data visualization (ADV) platforms to be essential tools that enable them to monitor business, find patterns, and take action to avoid threats and snatch opportunities. In Forrester’s 29-criteria evaluation of ADV vendors, we found that Tableau Software, IBM, Information Builders, SAS, SAP, Tibco Software, and Oracle led the pack due to the breadth of their ADV business intelligence (BI) functionality offerings. Microsoft, MicroStrategy, Actuate, QlikTech, Panorama Software, SpagoBI, Jaspersoft, and Pentaho were close on the heels of the Leaders, also offering solid functionality to enable business users to effectively visualize and analyze their enterprise data.

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

The Forrester Wave™: Self-Service Business Intelligence Platforms, Q2 2012

Summary: In Forrester’s 31-criteria evaluation of self-service business intelligence (BI) vendors, we found that IBM, Microsoft, SAP, SAS, Tibco Software, and MicroStrategy led the pack due to the breadth of their selfservice BI functionality offerings. Information Builders, Tableau Software, Actuate, Oracle, QlikTech, and Panorama Software were close on the heels of the Leaders, also offering solid functionality to enable business users to self-serve most of their BI requirements.

Thursday, July 5, 2012

ETL Tool Evaluation Criteria

There are various ETL tools in the market such as Informatica, IBM DataStage, AbInitio, SAP BODI, Pentaho Kettel, Microsoft SSIS, Oracle ODI.. etc. Finalizing the righ data integration tool is critical success factor for any Organization.
ETL Tool Evaluation is based on following Parameters
• Architecture
• Metadata Support
• Ease of Support
• Transformations
• Performance /Management
• Data Quality & MDM
• Support for Growth
• Advance Data Transformation
• 3rd Party Compatibility
• License and Pricing
• Vendor Information
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