When Not to Use Enterprise Information Integration

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This blog entry is co-authored by Mike Ferguson and William McKnight (link) and is being cross-posted on our blogs. Much discussion abounds about when not to use enterprise information integration (EII). This blog looks at some situations that are not particularly well-suited to the use of EII technology as a solution. Please note that these […]

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When to Use Enterprise Information Integration

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This blog entry is co-authored by Mike Ferguson and William McKnight (link) and is being cross-posted on our blogs. This is the first in a series of entries on Enterprise Information Integration (EII). EII is gaining traction for enabling data integration without the need for the physical instantiation of the integration. In other words, EII […]

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BI and Performance Management Trends for 2007

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Greetings all. I hope you have had a good holiday and I wish you all well for 2007. Given that it is this time of year I thought I would add some thoughts on trends in 2007 in the areas of business intelligence and performance management. So here goes! Performance Management Business Intelligence Well, that’s […]

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The Merging of Structured and Unstructured Data Integration

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Informatica’s (http://www.informatica.com) announcement today on it’s intent to acquire ItemField serves to re-enforce the trend that the two worlds of structured and unstructured data are coming together. While we have been using data integration infrastructure software for structured data for some time, most organisations have only tinkered with the world of using data integration software […]

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Unstructured Analytics – A Major New BI Market Emerges

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With more and more unstructured information not only on the public internet but also in the enterprise the need to manage this information and extract knowledge from it is increasingly in demand in commercial enterprises. There are lots of reasons why this is of interest including improving customer satisfaction by identifying customer concerns from customer […]

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