Data in Motion - What's Changed?

Concerns about reliability, security and data sovereignty have meant that some organisations have switched their applications to private clouds.

This blog aims to provide a whirlwind tour of the most recent trends in data management, and to explain what those trends mean and why they’re important.

What’s the state of Streaming Analytics in 2021, and how has it changed since Bloor's last market overview back in 2018?

Ontotext is introducing SQL support to enable easier access to GraphDB, as well as visual migration support from relational databases.

IBM have announced a new offering which provides an upgrade path for existing Netezza users who have not already migrated away from that platform.

For too long there have been too many BI/analytics vendors. Now there are two fewer.

Each winter you get the reviews of the market by all of the big US-based analyst houses, which is of interest because so many technologies start off in the US and take quite some time to get to EMEA. Over…

Informatica has announced the availability of Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services (IICS), which is an integration platform as a service. One aspect of this is that provides cloud portability.

TIBCO has announced the acquisition of Alpine Data. Last month it acquired Composite Software from Cisco and in the summer, it acquired Statistica. What's going on?

Syncsort has acquired Trillium Software: I admit to not expecting this

Analytics and graphs are appearing in more and more software tools

Another one of my occasional digs at misleading marketing material, this time from CloverETL

Like stock markets users do not like uncertainty and until certitude is returned these are dangerous waters for Informatica

Informatica World announcements

Advizor is an often overlooked competitor to Qlik, Tableau and Spotfire.

The Internet of Things will require distributed stream-based computing: ParStream is a pioneer in this area.

Rocket Software is just about to launch a data preparation/analytic platform.

Datawatch has launched its Managed Analytics Platform, which brings together data preparation and Panopticon.

BackOffice is moving towards a much more tool agnostic (not just SAP) approach and across the spectrum of data integration/governance functions.

An update on Acunu

Kx Systems used to be focused on financial markets but its technology is well suited to the Internet of Things. The company has significant new opportunities.

Informatica is building support for big data query preparation and self-service.

Acunu appears to have gone out of business. Except it hasn't. What is going on and why aren't they telling us?

Purview from Extreme Networks offers a probably unique insight capability sitting on top of your corporate network

Entota, the (SAP) data migration specialist has been acquired by BackOffice Associates.

Vitria enhance its Operational Intelligence capability with a new BAM capability

Latest version of this popular open source BI tool examined

More on the acquisition of Composite Software

Cisco has acquired Composite Software: what does that mean?

New announcements from Informatica

I take a look at Pervasive's DataRush, potentially the most disruptive idea in analytics since Bill Inmon told us to build data warehouses.

Actuate's ActuateOne commercial BI platform and product suite, and the Eclipse BIRT (Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools) open source project, comes of age with the addition of advanced analytics.

Teradata and SAS have jointly launched an appliance. Given their respective positions in the market this is bad news for the competition.

Some thoughts about may happen next year in the information management space

Data Mining is essential to the analysis of Big Data but traditional Data Mining only scales at a great cost, making the ROI less than compelling until now

The data replication market is hotting up, especially for support real-time query processing.

Accountagility's Oryx is s desktop analyics tool that in one tool handles extract, validate, transform and publish capabilities via a point and click interface.

Some thoughts on GIS and spatial analytics

What's happening with analytics and what can we expect.

Partial consolidation is occuring in the CEP market

I always thought CEP was about analytics but most vendors didn't; now it turns out that there a few who agree with me

IBM's information-led transformation is all about making optimal use of information

IBM's recent announcement that it is to acquire SPSS not only has implications in terms of the completeness of IBM's analytics offering but it also has ramifications for the future of data mining...

Oracle has today announced that it is to acquire GoldenGate Software. Somewhat surprisingly, many of the people that I have mentioned GoldenGate to in the past, both users and vendors, have never...

The advent of IBM's System S (which I shall discuss in more detail in a subsequent article) raises interesting questions about the nature of event and stream-based processing. The reason for this...

Aleri has merged with Coral8, although since it is arguable that there is no such thing as a merger—this being just a friendly name for a takeover—and as the new company will be trading...

I recently wrote (see IBM, BEP and CEP) about IBM's release of InfoSphere Streams. I reported that rather than referring to this as a complex event processing (CEP) product they are instead calling...

IBM has just held its first annual analyst's conference on what it calls Business Event Processing (BEP). Now, followers of the complex event processing (CEP) market will know that IBM has renamed...

An update on the CEP (complex event processing) market

Avaya has announced a new CEBP (communications enabled business process) solution. What was formerly iSpheres' Event Processor is part of that solution.

Progress has just announced that it has acquired Apama, whose software will now form part of the ObjectStore division of Progress.