When it comes to information management, the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. It’s the nature and quality of the integration and the ensuing benefits that count. And it’s entirely appropriate to ask for those benefits to be quantified. So beware the promising sales pitch. To be a smart buyer, look carefully beyond the “market-tectures” to discern the actual benefits of the technologies being offered for information management. It’s worth figuring out how synergies resulting from the integration of previously unintegrated technology will deliver added value.

Research and Education News:
Ventana Research Announces New Research on Governance, Risk and Compliance
New Benchmark Research designed to provide the truth behind GRC (October 28, 2011)

Ventana Research Announces New Benchmark Research on Information Management
Strategic value of information for business is driving the demand for research (October 12, 2011)

 

Data Warehousing:
Aster Data - Covered
Greenplum - Covered
HP- Covered
IBM - Covered
Infobright - Covered
Kognitio  - Covered
Microsoft - Covered
Netezza - Covered
Oracle - Covered
ParAccel - Covered
Teradata - Covered
Vertica - Covered

Data Management Tools:
Appfluent - Covered
DataFlux - Covered
Heiler Software - Covered
IBM - Covered
iWay Software - Covered
Netrics - Dropped in 2010
Oracle - Covered
SAP - Covered
Siperian (Acquired by Informatica) - Covered
Stibo Systems - Covered

Data Quality:
SAP Business Objects - Covered
IBM - Covered
Melissa Data - Covered
Trillium Software - Covered

Hadoop:
Apache - Covered
Cloudera - Covered
GOTO Metrics - Assessing
IBM - Assessing
Informatica - Assessing
Karmasphere - Covered
Pentaho - Covered
Quest Software - Assessing
Talend - Assessing

Information Search:
Alpine Miner - Covered
Datawatch - Covered
Endeca - Covered
Exalead - Covered
Google - Covered
InQuira - Covered
Microsoft - Covered
Oracle - Covered
Recommind - Covered
SAP - Not Covered
Splunk - Covered

Integration Technologies:
Boomi - Assessing
Business Objects - Covered
Cognos - Covered
Composite Software - Covered
DataFlux - Covered
Embarcadero Technologies - Covered
IBM - Covered
Informatica - Covered
Information Builders - Covered
JitterBit - Assessing
Oracle - Covered
Pervasive - Covered
Pitney Bowes - Covered
Progress Software - Covered
SAP - Covered
Syncsort - Covered
Talend - Covered

Spreadsheet Management:
Boardwalktech - Covered
Prodiance - Covered
Systems Modeling - Covered

Text Analytics:
Attensity - Covered
SAS - Assessing

* Vendors Dropped in 2009