Information Applications are the next phase in the evolution of information technology, created as a response to businesses’ needs for better availability of contextual information. They are a new generation of platforms and tools designed to enable business units as well as IT to quickly and easily design and assemble applications to seek out, integrate and deliver information not only within the enterprise but via the Internet and using mobile devices. This new market category provides organizations with simple ways to search and navigate to a range of information drawn from unstructured as well as structured data, from metrics to documents and other content to text, to satisfy business needs and support decision-making and performance improvement.

Research and Education News:
News: Ventana Research Finds Demand in New Market for Information Applications

Information Applications Benchmark 

Information Platform & Tools:
Actuate - Covered
Adobe - Covered
Endeca - Covered
IBM - Covered
Information Builders - Covered
MarkLogic - Covered
Microsoft - Covered
MicroStrategy - Covered
Oracle - Covered
Splunk - Covered
Teradata - Covered
Stibo Systems - Covered

Information Integrity Tools:
DataFlux - Covered
IBM - Covered
Informatica - Covered
iWay Software - Covered
Kalido - Covered

Information Integration:
Composite Software - Covered
IBM - Covered
Informatica - Covered
iWay Software - Covered
Oracle - Covered
Pervasive - Covered


* Vendors Dropped in 2009