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ISYS 2009 Enterprise Access Suite is an enterprise search software solution that has been designed to provide a cost-effective search, navigation, and discovery solution that works across a wide range of formats, languages, and platforms. The main solutions are ISYS Enterprise Server, ISYS Integration Kit, and ISYS Anywhere. The product has several features relevant to its target market, such as multiple querying mechanisms, e-discovery capabilities, multilingual support, results navigation, and post-que…
Technology Audits - published 19/03/2010 - Sue Clarke
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Hyperwave Collaborative Information Platform (CIM) is an enterprise content management (ECM) portfolio of tightly integrated products that comprises three main components: Hyperwave Document Management (DM), Hyperwave Records Management (RM), and Hyperwave Web Content Management (WCM). It also includes collaboration modules, and Hyperwave Portal, Hyperwave Workflow, and Hyperwave Explorer add-ins. Organizations that do not manage their content adequately cannot ensure that they have no contentious or non…
Technology Audits - published 19/03/2010 - Karthik Balakrishnan, Somak Roy, Sue Clarke
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QlikView from QlikTech is a business intelligence (BI) tool based on in-memory analytics. The concept of in-memory processing was relatively novel when it first emerged more than a decade ago, but advances in hardware such as 64-bit computing and cheaper memory prices are moving in-memory out of its niche status. QlikView’s approach enables faster querying and reporting performance, something reflected in the company’s strong focus on delivering a server that is highly tuned and optimized for performing …
Technology Audits - published 17/03/2010 - Sarah Burnett
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The Kalido Information Engine is a business-model-driven information-management foundation that governs data across the enterprise and automatically feeds information to industry-standard BI platforms and applications. By defining business rules in simple easy-to-understand graphical terms, and providing a way to easily enforce those rules, Kalido enables organizations to get the accurate, consistent information they need to make better decisions. Ovum believes that data governance can offer many benefit…
Technology Audits - published 17/03/2010 - Richard Edwards
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CQ 5.3 is the latest edition of Day Software’s content-management solution that comprises web content management (WCM), digital asset management (DAM), social collaboration, workflow, and portal management. CQ 5.3 delivers over 500 customer-driven enhancements. These include new capabilities for online marketing, including segmentation, targeting, and multivariate testing, new product documentation that is publicly available and searchable by Google on the Web, new functionality for managing, finding, an…
Technology Audits - published 17/03/2010 - Sarah Burnett
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Jaspersoft provides a broad range of BI capabilities, including reporting, in-memory or OLAP-based multi-dimensional analysis, dashboards, and data integration. It comprises the JasperAnalysis OLAP server, the JasperETL extract-transform-load (ETL) tool, the JasperServer interactive and managed reporting server, the JasperReports reporting library, and the iReport graphical report designer. All of these are underpinned by a BI platform that provides support for security and administration, and supports o…
Technology Audits - published 05/03/2010 - Chandranshu Singh, Helena Schwenk
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Vertica is one of a growing band of vendors offering column-based analytic databases for data warehousing. Its Analytic Database is designed specifically for storing and querying large datasets. Vertica’s differentiator is that it combines a columnar database engine with massively parallel processing (MPP) and shared-nothing architecture, aggressive data-compression rates, and high availability. Column-based databases can be slow when it comes to deleting and updating data, and Vertica addresses this by …
Technology Audits - published 24/02/2010 - Sarah Burnett
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Mindbreeze, a business unit of Fabasoft, offers an enterprise search solution that provides search services across file systems (Windows, Linux, and Novell), e-mail platforms (Exchange, Notes/Domino, and Novell GroupWise), Microsoft SharePoint, and Fabasoft’s own applications and Intranet/Internet sites. Mindbreeze also provides an SDK to help integrate with other repositories of structured and unstructured information (such as document management systems and address information repositories), enables IS…
Technology Audits - published 03/02/2010 - Richard Edwards, Somak Roy
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Intelledox Enterprise is a rich Web-based e-forms solution for document composition and document-lifecycle management. The highly scalable product offers large-volume template-based design generation for the delivery of business documents. The solution uses Microsoft Word as the basis of its document template development approach. It is equipped with Wizard-driven tools for designing document layouts and managing the supporting infrastructure that provides the ability to deliver data from corporate busin…
Technology Audits - published 01/02/2010 - Andy Kellett, Karthik Balakrishnan, Somak Roy
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Talend Integration Suite is an enterprise data-integration application that extends the capabilities of the vendor’s open-source product Talend Open Studio. Talend Integration Suite is sold on a subscription licence basis but shares a number of components with Open Studio such as its design studio and the code-generation engine that generates Java and Perl code and native SQL for the source/target platform. Included in the subscription for Talend Integration Suite are additional features such as administ…
Technology Audits - published 01/02/2010 - Chandranshu Singh, Sarah Burnett
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CloudView from French company Exalead is a next-generation search and information access platform designed for enterprise, Web, and OEM use. The offering’s scalable service-oriented architecture provides advanced data-extraction, indexation, and text-analytics features, and it is suited to a wide range of usage scenarios, from traditional Web and enterprise search to search-based applications. By supporting security at the data layer, application layer, and network layer, CloudView provides full complian…
Technology Audits - published 20/01/2010 - Richard Edwards
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Information workers must carry out their tasks and duties in a complex and increasingly regulated world, and so business leaders, and CIOs in particular, must find new ways to empower the beleaguered workforce without transferring that burden to an already overstretched IT department. In most circumstances this means delivering more with less, and with the ‘credit-crunch’ affecting almost every business sector, now rather than later. With over 80% of salary costs now associated with ‘information work’, t…
White Papers - published 04/01/2010 - Richard Edwards
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eGov-Suite, from Fabasoft, is an electronic document and records management (EDRM) solution that incorporates content management and workflow, which is designed to enable development of DRM solutions for public sector organisations. It also provides a strong implementation foundation in terms of operational support. Highly scalable, with comprehensive coverage of functional requirements and impressive integration tools, it is ideally placed to support a wide range of e-Government projects, and has also r…
Technology Audits - published 04/01/2010 - Alan Rodger
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Pentaho BI suite Enterprise Edition offers end-to-end business intelligence functionality including reporting, dashboards, data integration, data analysis, and data mining, encapsulated into loosely coupled modules linked together by the Pentaho BI platform. The Enterprise Edition BI server provides administration, user authentication, security, application diagnostics, and performance monitoring in addition to the core capabilities of the open-source platform. Pentaho’s Analysis module is based on Mondr…
Technology Audits - published 04/01/2010 - Chandranshu Singh, Sarah Burnett
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Oracle’s acquisition of Sun Microsystems for US$7.4 billion has met a stumbling block in the shape of the EU Competition Commission, which has concerns over, of all things, the fate of the MySQL open source database. This is something that doesn’t appear to have worried the US DoJ, which approved the deal after a long investigation.
OpinionWire Articles - published 08/12/2009 - Mike Thompson
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Omniscope, by Visokio, is an end-user tool for data visualisation, analysis, reporting, and information publishing. It enables business users to analyse enterprise data without the need for heavy involvement from SQL-savvy business analysts or the IT department. Omniscope picks up where tools like spreadsheets leave off, by offering 16 different data views, auto-refresh of data sets, and automated multi-tab report/presentation distribution. The product provides comprehensive analysis and visualisation ca…
Technology Audits - published 01/12/2009 - Chandranshu Singh, Richard Edwards
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Crime Profiler is used for mapping, visualisation, creation, editing, and analysis of data with respect to location, and provides a location-centric view of operations. Built on top of MapInfo Professional, it makes use of the Engage 3D visualisation engine. It has the technical features that would be expected such as layer control, surfaces (hotspot maps) and grids, analytics and graphing, temporal analysis, and demographic profiling. Each of these function areas is underpinned by an extensive set of en…
Technology Audits - published 01/12/2009 - Angela Eager
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Sitecore CMS is an extensive Web content management (WCM) platform that enables organisations to design and deliver Web content. The Web site is often the first contact point an individual has with a company and it is therefore imperative that the user experience is positive, which can only be achieved if the content on the Web site is up to date and relevant to the visitor. One of the strengths of the solution is the ability to deliver personalised content to visitors dynamically through its Web Analyti…
Technology Audits - published 01/12/2009 - Karthik Balakrishnan, Somak Roy, Sue Clarke
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Unstructured content accounts for approximately 80% of an organisation’s total data, yet many organisations are still failing to manage it adequately, despite having implemented a Content Management system. This suggests either that insufficient planning has gone into the implementation or that an inappropriate solution has been selected. Defining the objectives for a new solution and planning the implementation are critical; a badly implemented solution can be more damaging to the company than not deployin I?i nknown] = Forms!Add!text29, 5 [Unknown] = Forms!Add!check31,...
Technology Evaluation and Comparison Reports - published 23/11/2009 - Balachandar Ganesh, Sue Clarke
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This week sees the formal unveiling of Microsoft Office 2010, with beta versions available to customers, partners, and third-party developers. When Microsoft Office for Windows was launched back in October 1989 there were already competing offerings on the market, and today is no different. However, today’s knowledge worker wants to use the Web as well as the desktop for office productivity applications.
OpinionWire Articles - published 20/11/2009 - Richard Edwards
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As we approach the end of the decade, the data warehousing market stands out as one that has become much more competitive and dynamic than before thanks to developments such as the low-cost data warehouse appliance. The trend for analytical databases has further increased choice and performance options. These and other more recent innovations are set to keep the data warehousing market dynamic for the foreseeable future.
OpinionWire Articles - published 20/11/2009 - Sarah Burnett
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Recent financial figures published by a number of leading Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) enterprise application vendors show strong double-digit growth despite the global economic slowdown. The Business Intelligence (BI) market has always been closely linked to the enterprise applications market because BI traditionally taps into the vast amounts of data that enterprise applications generate. The increasing volumes of enterprise data on the cloud opens up opportunities for BI to follow suit.
OpinionWire Articles - published 12/11/2009 - Sarah Burnett
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Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is a suite of tools designed to help organisations manage content while enabling information workers to communicate and collaborate electronically. Tightly integrated with familiar desktop productivity applications, SharePoint includes: an enterprise portal; an Enterprise Content Management (ECM) framework which provides Document Management, Records Management, and Web Content Management; workflow; and enterprise search and Business Intelligence. However, the produ…
Technology Audits - published 03/11/2009 - Sue Clarke
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More and more public sector bodies are realising that they need to turn their data into intelligence in order to meet the challenges of budget squeezes and growing demand on their services.
Butler Group Review Articles - published 30/10/2009 - Sarah Burnett
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Through a combination of trial and error and sound design, IT has evolved a number of basic processing patterns that have met current requirements and proven capable of further evolution as requirements change.
Butler Group Review Articles - published 30/10/2009 - Rob Hailstone
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