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Data Governance (2024)
This paper discusses the trends in the data governance market, including assessing the leading vendors.
IBM Launches Data Product Hub
IBM launches a new data product hub tool, aimed at supporting the lifecycle of data as products and encouraging the sharing of trusted data in an enterprise.
Data Fabric
Bloor’s analysis of the Data Fabric market, assessing the leading vendors and showing you who the innovators, challengers and champions are.
Test Data Management (2024)
This report summarises the state of the test data management space in 2024, as well as the vendors contained therein.
Master Data Governance (2023)
The Bloor data governance market update covers trends in the market and assesses the innovators, challengers and champion vendors.
Master Data Management (2023)
Bloor publishes its annual assessment of the master data management market.
Generative AI Value & Limitations
Generative AI has many use cases across industries as well as some limitations.
IBM Cloud
IBM Cloud is now a major element of the overall IBM operation, with a strong focus on providing cloud operations and services for major enterprises and organisations.
Data Quality (2023)
Bloor has published its Market Update for Data Quality 2023, covering the main trends in the market and assessing the key vendors.
Options for analytic databases and data warehouses (2023)
This Bloor Market Update report is an overview of the current data warehouse database market, assessing the leading vendors.
DevOps Automation and Evolution - The future of DevOps is a vital business concern
The future of DevOps is a vital business concern. A current issue is transforming DevOps agility into real Business agility.
Master Data Management (2022)
This market update is an overview of the Master Data Management (MDM) market in 2022, covering leading vendors, market dynamics and current trends.
Data Quality (2022)
Market Update of the Data Quality Enterprise Software Market in 2022, including data profiling, merge matching, data enrichment, data cleansing, monitoring.
Options for analytic databases and data warehouses (2022)
The data warehouse market has been around for over three decades, but has undergone some rapid change in the last few years.
Enterprise Server 3.0
Interest in cost-effectively modernising and exploiting Enterprise Server 3.0, with AI assistance, is increasing.
Streaming Analytics (2021)
Streaming analytics extracts actionable insights from streaming data in real-time. This report discusses the streaming analytics space and its solutions.
Refactoring Monolithic Systems - An emerging business issue
Business-oriented modernisation of ES-3 (eg IBM Websphere mainframe) applications as microservices using AI tools such as Mono2Micro.
Master Data Management (2021)
This report summarises the current state of the master data management (MDM) market at a high level, assessing the leading vendors in the space.
The Future of Business… using Enterprise Server 3.0 Services
Enterprise Server 3.0 (or Mainframe) modernisation is relevant, cost-effective and avoids waste. David Norfolk investigates.
Test Data Management (2021)
Test data management is an essential part of the testing process. This report discusses the space as a whole and evaluates the solutions therein.
Hybrid IT Infrastructure Management Market Vendor Landscape
In this research paper, Paul Bevan outlines the competitive Hybrid IT Infrastructure Management Market vendor landscape.
(Cloud) Data Management Platforms
This (Cloud) Data Management report compares platform-based approaches that support data integration to/from cloud-based deployments.
IBM Cloud Pak for Data
IBM Cloud Pak for Data places particular emphasis on deploying, developing and managing AI and machine learning models.
Managed Detection and Response Services (2021)
This MDR services update provides insight into how various leading vendors in this market are positioned and discusses the trends being seen.
Managed Detection and Response
This Market Report segments vendors within the still emerging managed detection and response (MDR) services market.
Data Governance (July 2020)
Data governance, as a space, has matured significantly over the past few years. This Market Update examines and competitively evaluates the vendors therein.
IBM Watson Knowledge Catalog
IBM Watson Knowledge Catalog, itself part of IBM Cloud Pak for Data, is a data catalogue and data governance solution.
Options for analytic databases and warehouses (2020)
This is a comparative analysis of products/vendors within the data warehouse and analytics platform space.
IBM Db2 Event Store
IBM Db2 Event Store is an in-memory database built on top of Apache Spark, intended to support both near real-time and deep analytics on historic data.
Remote working, with Social Teams and personalities - A key to being Mutable in practice
This remote working paper is aimed at managers and team members of the effective, resilient, teams needed to manage business continuity in the “new normal”.
Data Assurance
This report is about assuring the quality and provenance of your data from both internal and external perspectives.
Time-Series and Temporal databases and analytics
Time-series databases represent the fastest growing database sector over the last two years.
IBM Informix
IBM Informix is an object-relational database with native support for both time-series and geospatial data.
AnalyticOps
AnalyticOps is about the reduction of friction around the delivery, operationalisation and ongoing monitoring and (change) management of analytic models.
IBM Watson OpenScale
IBM Watson OpenScale is a platform that is specifically targeted at operationalising AI (augmented intelligence) models.
API integration, the right data at the right time - Unlocking valuable data with APIs
This report spotlights the evolution of APIs from EDI to EAI to the API Economy. Companies can add value by opening up their data in a controlled, secure way.
Data Quality (2019)
This document provides a snapshot of the current state of the Data Quality market.
IBM Cloud Pak for Data 1.2
Limited, or no, technological capability with respect to AI is holding many companies back. This paper discusses how IBM Cloud Pak for Data can help.
IBM Test Data Management
This paper discusses and evaluates IBM’s test data management offering.
Test Data Management (2019)
This Market Update discusses the test data management space and evaluates and compares the products therein.
IBM Blockchain as a Service
IBM blockchain as a service development platform & sandbox for enterprise trusted ledger solutions, reducing fraud, removing duplication, saving time and cost.
Predictive and Prescriptive Analytics
Predictive analytics refers to the ability to predict events before they occur, allowing you to take remedial action in advance. Prescriptive analytics extends this concept by either suggesting the actions you should take or automating those actions.
Comparative costs and uses for Data Integration Platforms 4th Edition
The 4th Edition of our research into the uses and costs of data integration tools.
Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
How does ML/AI work, who are the vendors and why you should care?
Enterprise Service Virtualisation
This report discusses the service virtualisation space and evaluates the products therein.
IBM – Rational Test Virtualization Server
This paper discusses and evaluates Rational Test Virtualization Server, IBM’s service virtualisation offering.
Streaming Analytics 2018
This Market Update considers both stream processing platforms upon which you might build analytics as well as streaming analytics platforms per se.
IBM Streams and Streaming Analytics
IBM Streams (previously IBM InfoSphere Streams) is a high performance, low latency platform for analysing and scoring data in real-time. It is a part of the IBM Watson & Cloud Platforms.
IBM Informix – The White Swan
This paper aims to help you sleep well at night (SWAN) and discusses: ease of administration; continuous availability and scalability; and smart triggers.
The Sensitive Data Lifecycle: IBM vs Informatica vs MENTIS
This paper compares the capabilities of IBM, Informatica and MENTIS for the discovery and governance of sensitive data.
The new reality for government
The UK government has little option but to rethink the way it operates by moving beyond digital transformation to digital reinvention.
SQL Engines on Hadoop
There are many SQL on Hadoop engines, but they are suited to different use cases: this report considers which engines are best for which sets of requirements.
Data Governance 2017
This Market Update compares the capabilities of various data governance vendors.
Understanding data in hybrid cloud environments
The first question we address in this paper is what do we really mean when we talk about the hybrid cloud?
Data Masking 2017
This Market Update compares the capabilities of different data masking vendors that provide anonymisation capabilities.
Test Data Management (2017)
This Market Update compares TDM (Test Data Management) products.
IBM Informix on Cloud
This paper discusses the use of the IBM Informix database in the cloud and, more particularly, within hybrid cloud environments.
Graph and RDF databases Market Update 2016
This Market Update discusses the latest trends in this market, along with our assessment of the leading vendors in the market.
Graph and RDF databases 2016
This Market Report discusses the latest trends in this market, along with a detailed assessment of the leading vendors in the market
Streaming Analytics 2016
Streaming analytics enables businesses to respond appropriately and in real-time to context-aware insights delivered from fast data.
IBM DB2 version 11.1 (and the hybrid cloud)
This paper considers the different ways in which databases may be needed to be deployed within Internet of Things (IoT) environments.
IBM Informix and the Internet of Things
This paper discusses the IBM Informix database and its suitability for deployment within Internet of Things (IoT) environments.
Self-service data preparation & cataloguing
There have been significant changes in this market over the last twelve months.
All things Hadoop
Discussing the Open Data Platform and Apache Spark
IBM: enhanced 360° view
IBM is in the vanguard for what it calls an enhanced 360° view and it is clearly well positioned to capitalise on the future growth of this market.
Configuration management and Trust
If you don't know what you have, where it is and how it is configured, how can you trust any of its outcomes?
Creating confidence in Big Data analytics
There has been some significant criticism of the concept of big data recently, notably in the Harvard Business Review criticising the Google Flu Trends...
IBM DB2 with BLU Acceleration onPower Systems: how it compares
We consider the relative merits of IBM DB2 with BLU Acceleration running on Power Systems as compared to HANA, Exadata and SQL Server on x86-based platforms.
Advanced Threat Protection
Advanced targeted threats are today's reality for organisations and traditional technology controls are not up to the task of defending networks.
What is a graph database?
The graph database and graph analytics market is increasingly complex and diverse
Data Profiling and Discovery Market Update 2013
While there are trends towards including more discovery capability and towards supporting NoSQL the vendors are significantly fragmented at present.
Data Governance 2013
The market for data governance is diffuse. Historically, there have been, and remain, several different sectors...
Data Quality (2013)
By data quality we mean both data cleansing (matching, deduplication, error correction, enrichment et al) as well as data profiling and discovery.
In-memory? That’s so yesterday!
DB2 BLU doesn't just in-memory techniques but also L3 cache
Enterprise server 3.0 – zEnterprise BC12
A new z mainframe arrives - and I wonder why it still seems to be a specialist choice for many companies
Reducing the risk of development failure - with cost-effective capture and management of requirements
Requirements management has been around for a long time as a systems engineering discipline, but it's suddenly getting interesting again.
Calling a spade a spade
Preventative maintenance and asset optimisation are not the same thing
IBM JSON
There's been some confusion about how exactly DB2 is supporting JSON: here's the lowdown
IBM PureData System for Operational Analytics vs Oracle Exadata X3
The basic theme of this paper is to provide a comprehensive comparison of IBM's and Oracle's offerings for large-scale traditional data warehousing environments.
Service Virtualisation Market Update
This document represents a snapshot of the current state of the service virtualisation market.
Business Process Management
Since I last did a review of the market for BPMS it has been interesting to note that many of my predictions for what would happen have mostly come true.
Exploring Successful Approaches to Test Data Management
Test Data Management (TDM) is about the provisioning of data for non-production environments.
IBM InfoSphere Data Replication & Federation
IBM’s data integration products provide three methods for delivering data: ETL (extract, transform and load), which provides bulk (batch) data loading functionality; data federation, which supports virtual data delivery; and data replication, which allows incremental updates. The use of ETL…
Mainframe Knowledge Transfer
Mainframe systems are important and the latest mainframes are innovative and powerful tools. This places a premium on knowledge transfer and training.
There’s identity resolution and then there’s identity resolution
Identity Insight from IBM is not a data quality product
IBM Smart Analytics Systems - vs Oracle Exadata X2-2
The basic theme of this paper is to provide a comprehensive comparison of IBM and Oracle's offerings for data warehousing and OLTP.
The importance of an Information Strategy
The idea of an Information Strategy will be critical to your business success and the key to sustaining your competitive advantage over time.
IBM events: not the whole story
A couple of months ago I reported on the announcement of IBM InfoSphere Streams as the company's high end (complex) event processing platform. I also described IBM's approach to event processing...
Princeton Softech testing tools
Princeton Softech was founded in 1989. It specialises in delivering data and program synchronisation solutions to IS professionals who develop and maintain critical business applications. Its software is historically IBM mainframe based although, more recently, its products are currently being…