Computer Associates Splashes Into the Data Warehousing Market with ...

by M. Reed ... InfoPump was a script-based data movement tool for the portion of the data warehousing market known as Extract/Transform/Load (ETL) tools, and was a market ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/DataWarehousing/1999/09/research_notes/PN_DW_MFR_9_99_1.asp - 18k - 1999-09-01 Summary: Computer Associates DecisionBase is an Extract/Transform/Load tool designed to help in the population and maintenance of data warehouses. First released in March of 1998, the product is geared towards large implementations with the need for metadata management. The current release is 1.9, which is the fo

Datawarehouse Vendors Moving Towards Application Suites

by M. Reed ... data warehousing vendors announced product suites that they claim offer broader integration between business intelligence, data movement, data cleansing and ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/DataWarehousing/1999/09/news_analysis/NA_DW_MFR_9_29_99_1.asp - 11k - 1999-09-29 Summary: During September, two more data warehousing vendors announced product suites that they claim offer broader integration between different data warehousing technologies. BI vendor Cognos announced 'Cognos platform', a tool to build complete 'BI-ready data infrastructures'. Data Movement vendor Ardent Softw

Evoke Software Releases Axio Data Integration Product

by M. Reed ... assist in joint application development (JAD) sessions; and Axio FTM, the "Fixed Target Mapping" module, which assists in building data movement scenarios into ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/DataWarehousing/2000/06/news_analysis/NA_DW_MFR_06_27_00_1.asp - 9k - 2000-06-27 Summary: Evoke Software Corporation has announced the release of Axio , an e-business integration product designed to web-enable multiple different data sources into a unified view of a business. The product has a very intriguing method of metadata scanning, and should have significant market impact.

Ardent Software: Will Informix Merger Affect their Success?

by M. Reed ... Ardent has been consistently successful in the extract/transform/load market, especially since users moved away from scripted data movement tools to a ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/DataWarehousing/2000/04/research_notes/VN_DW_MFR_04_10_00_1.asp - 16k - 2000-04-10 Summary: With Informix s completion of its acquisition of Ardent Software, it remains to be seen how effective this marriage will be, and whether Ardent will be allowed autonomy to continue its success in the extract/transform/load and data integration infrastructure.

Is There Finally a Metadata Exchange Standard on the Horizon?

by M. Reed ... The user then wants to work with a data movement tool, but that tool can not read the BI tool's metadata repository. The user is ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/DataWarehousing/1999/09/news_analysis/NA_DW_MFR_9_28_99_1.asp - 9k - 1999-09-28 Summary: On September 27, a group of vendors including Oracle, IBM, Unisys, NCR, and Hyperion Solutions announced the submission of a metadata interchange standard to the OMG standards body. A common approach to metadata would allow products from different vendors to interact, a problem that has vexed customers f

Oracle Buys Carleton Corporation to Enhance Warehouse Offering

by M. Reed ... The product of this merger became Carleton Pure*Extract (data movement) and Carleton Pure*Integrate (data cleansing and validation). ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/DataWarehousing/1999/11/news_analysis/NA_DW_MFR_11_10_99_3.asp - 7k - 1999-11-10 Summary: 'REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., and MINNETONKA, Minn., Nov. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Oracle Corporation (Nasdaq: ORCL) and Carleton Corporation (Nasdaq: CARL) today announced that the two companies have signed a definitive merger agreement for Oracle to acquire Carleton, an early innovator of data quality and mainfram

The Art And Science Of IT Architecture Design

by J. Dowling ... transactions. Information technology infrastructure is driven by speed, distance and volume requirements for data movement and access. ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/ExecutiveView/2001/01/research_notes/MI_EV_JFD_01_31_01_1.asp - 14k - 2001-01-31 Summary: To assure flexibility and lasting value, information system designs and product selection must be guided by an architectural plan for infrastructure and applications systems. The Art of architecture design is in extracting business requirements; the Science is translating them into technology solutions.

The Art And Science Of IT Architecture Design

by J. Dowling ... transactions. Information technology infrastructure is driven by speed, distance and volume requirements for data movement and access. ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/ExecutiveView/2002/06/research_notes/MI_EV_JFD_06_03_02_1.asp - 14k - 2002-06-03 Summary: To assure flexibility and lasting value, information system designs and product selection must be guided by an architectural plan for infrastructure and applications systems. The Art of architecture design is in extracting business requirements; the Science is translating them into technology solutions.

Informatica Powers Siebel s New eBusiness Analytics

by M. Reed ... Market Impact. Informatica has a major share of the market for data movement tools, and has been moving quickly into the arena of e-business. ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/DataWarehousing/2000/12/news_analysis/NA_DW_MFR_12_19_00_1.asp - 8k - 2000-12-19 Summary: Siebel Systems is incorporating Informatica s data integration platform into Siebel eBusiness Analytics 2000.3. The vendors hope to use the integrated product to consolidate data into a 'comprehensive e-business data warehouse'. Have the vendors found the e-business holy grail?

Informatica Morphs into Enterprise Decision Support Vendor

by M. Reed ... In addition to PowerMart for data movement, the product contains a Global Repository which, via Informatica's MX2 API, allows business intelligence products to ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/DataWarehousing/2000/01/research_notes/VN_DW_MFR_01_00_1.asp - 17k - 2000-01-01 Summary: Informatica Corporation, long an established vendor in the Extract/Transform/Load (ETL) market space, has morphed themselves into a vendor of solutions for the 'e-Business infrastructure'. In conjunction with their contract to build an enterprise data warehouse for the United States Postal Service and th