IBM Moves on Complex Event Processing

Posted by Amanda Dascalakis | January 23, 2008 | Blog

Following on from my blog at the beginning of the year entitled “Predictions for 2008″ which predicted that Complex Event Processing (CEP) would be a hot topic this year, IBM has moved already in to play in this market by their acquisition today of AptSoft. With the growth in SOA and business process management as […]

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Giants Start To Turn Up The Heat on BI & Search

Posted by Amanda Dascalakis | January 14, 2008 | Blog

Microsoft’s announcement that it is intending on acquiring FAST last week is certainly the first major shot fired in the enterprise search battle that could ensue among the software giants. However it is not so much enterprise search that interests me in this context but the investment that a vendor like FAST had made in […]

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Predictions for 2008

Posted by Amanda Dascalakis | January 2, 2008 | Blog

Happy New Year to all of you! It’s that time of year again when predictions are made so I thought I would throw my thoughts into the ring for debate. So here goes: Consolidation in the BI market will continue now that we have seen the software giants make their moves in 2007. Oracle bought […]

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Battle Still Raging For Data Integration Leadership

Posted by Amanda Dascalakis | November 19, 2007 | Blog

Last month both Informatica and IBM, both long regarded as among the leaders in the data integration market, made further announcements to their products in attempts to keep their noses in front of the others in this market. Informatica announced their 8.5 release of PowerCenter and PowerExchange while IBM announced further extensions to their Information […]

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DW Appliance Market Adds a New Player

Posted by Amanda Dascalakis | November 13, 2007 | Blog

TDWI in the US recently, ParAccel became the latest vendor to announce its arrival into the Data Warehouse Appliance market. This market already has players like DatAllegro, Dataupia, GreenPlum , HP, Netezza, and Teradata to name a few. ParAccel’s new Massively Parallel Analytic Database runs on commonity hardware (first available release is Sun but other […]

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