Analytic Data Warehouses
Published: 1st October 2005 | By: Philip Howard
For environments (complex and unpredictable analytic queries) where a generic approach may not be suitable.
Performance Management - an evaluation and comparison
Published: 1st November 2004 | By: Philip Howard
Corporate Performance Management, sometimes referred to as Business or Enterprise Performance Management (or, more generally, as xPM) encompasses the relationships and processes that exist between strategic planning on the one hand and the tactical and day-to-day implementation of those plans…
Benchmarking Corporate Actions Systems and Information Services
Published: 1st September 2004 | By: Jameel Abdul
Last year’s CityCompass Benchmarking International Systems and Services Corporate Actions (B.I.S.S.) report was conceptually unique. For the first time, potential users of Corporate Actions systems were able to view and compare the responses of seven leading system suppliers to a…
Data Integration 2 - Data Federation and EII
Published: 5th July 2004 | By: Philip Howard
Data Integration is at the heart of all IT installations. Whenever you implement a new application you need to load data into the application’s database, whenever you replace one application with another, you need to migrate the data from one…
Data Integration 1 - Data Movement
Published: 1st June 2004 | By: Philip Howard
Data Integration is at the heart of all IT installations. Whenever you implement a new application you need to load data into the application’s database, whenever you replace one application with another, you need to migrate the data from one…
Live Collaboration
Published: 1st May 2004 | By: Martin Langham
The second part of this report on Collaboration technologies covers real-time collaboration, Instant Messaging and presence management. It covers vendors of audio and web conferencing solutions as well as web conferencing and assess solutions delivered by ASPs as well as…
B.I.S.S. 2003: EAI and Web Services - Real-Time Integration in Financial Services
Published: 1st May 2004 | By: Bob McDowall and Jameel Abdul
EAI and Web Services systems have achieved significant business benefits in a number of commercial verticals but to date remain an enigma within Financial Services. Why? Bloor Research has produced a distinctive report that analyses, Tibco and PolarLake’s systems, two…
Mobile Service Delivery - the foundation for long-term mobile revenues
Published: 7th April 2004 | By: Rob Bamforth
The explosive growth of mobile telecommunications is putting smarter devices into everybody’s pockets and this opens up many new opportunities. New services will guide users to their destinations, offer them relevant information while travelling and alleviate micro-moments of boredom with…
Enterprise Information Portals - an evaluation & comparison
Published: 24th March 2004 | By: Philip Howard
This is the third in our series of reports on Enterprise Information Portals. It discusses the latest trends within the industry, of which the most notable is the inclusion of business process workflow within the portal. Also, the portal products…
Data Quality Products - an evaluation and comparison
Published: 20th February 2004 | By: Philip Howard
Data quality has historically been related to data cleansing software. However, as interest in quality management solutions grows there is an increasing appreciation from quality managers that data profiling and analysis is as much a part of quality assurance as…